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Maryya Kalesnikava, a leading opposition activist in Belarus who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in September, has been transferred to a penal colony for women in Homel, a town 300 kilometers southeast of the capital, Minsk.

Patriarch Porfirije, the head of the influential Serbian Orthodox Church, has tested positive for COVID-19 amid a surge in coronavirus infections in the Balkan nation after massive New Year celebrations that included open-air concerts and relaxed antivirus rules.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman says she has briefed officials from NATO after holding talks with Russia in an attempt to remain united with allies during a week of high-level diplomacy prompted by Moscow's demands for a security deal and its threatening military buildup near Ukraine.

Deepening poverty in Iran is forcing some citizens in the capital to sleep in public buses during the cold winter nights. The number of homeless people in Iran has increased in recent years amid soaring unemployment and living costs.

If a pothole damages your car.. you may not be at fault!

Two Belarusian cross-country skiers say they have been barred from competition after sports officials in the tightly controlled country accused them of supporting the country's political opposition.

In the wake of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's order to extinguish the flaming Darvaza gas crater, photographer Amos Chapple recalls visiting the site before it became one of Turkmenistan's most famous tourist destinations.

World tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic has been released from a quarantine hotel in Melbourne after an Australian judge reinstated his visa, which had been canceled last week because the unvaccinated Serb player violated Australia's strict COVID-19 requirements. 

The Internet has resumed in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, after a five-day blackout prompted by deadly unrest centered on the commercial center of 1.8 million people.

Norwegian chemical firm Yara International has announced it is gradually reducing its imports of potash fertilizer from Belarus as a result of international sanctions on the regime of authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.