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Hayden Hicks climbed into the cab of his truck Friday morning knowing he had another busy 12 hour day ahead of him.

The United States has restored sanctions waivers to Iran to allow international nuclear cooperation projects, as indirect talks between Tehran and Washington aimed at salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal enter a critical phase.

In a flurry of overnight notifications, Russian media-monitoring agency Roskomnadzor threatened to block eight RFE/RL websites unless they immediately pulled down articles tied to corruption investigations by jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.

U.S. troops have begun to arrive in Europe as part of President Joe Biden's move to reinforce NATO amid concern over a Russia military buildup near Ukraine.

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who is considered a friend of President Vladimir Putin, is expected to replace former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev's son-in-law Timur Kulibaev on the board of directors of Russian energy giant Gazprom.

In recent weeks, the authorities in Chechnya have carried out a wave of abductions of relatives of opposition bloggers and activists. Kremlin-installed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's opponents attribute the crackdown to the growing popularity and influence of the Telegram channel 1ADAT.

The European Union has put together a "robust and comprehensive" set of sanctions against Moscow if Russia invades Ukraine, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on February 4, as a flurry of intense diplomacy prompted by Russia's actions over Ukraine continues.

Ties between Beijing and Moscow are flourishing as President Xi Jinping welcomes his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to China. But what lives under the surface of their fast-changing relationship?

Belarusian businessman Alyaksandr Vasilevich has left a courtroom a free man in a tax evasion case that many activists say was politically motivated because of his support for an opposition politician.

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