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Ukraine and a trio of other affected countries on January 6 announced their abandonment of a two-year effort to negotiate with Tehran over reparations for a passenger airliner mistakenly shot down by Iran's military in January 2020.

A statue erected to honor top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani has been torched by unknown assailants hours after it was unveiled in southwestern Iran, domestic media reported on January 6. 

From Tashkent to Moscow, leaders are watching anxiously as Kazakhstan is engulfed by protests and violence. With the decision to call in troops from the CSTO, a new chapter in President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev's bid to hold onto power has been opened.

As anti-government protests spread throughout Kazakhstan with reports of security officials joining the demonstrators or being disarmed, President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev declared that “terrorist groups” with foreign training were behind the unrest. He used this pretext to request help from the CSTO.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke on January 6 with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu and discussed "risk reduction near Ukraine’s borders," the Pentagon said in a brief statement.

Russian soldiers have deployed to the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali to train Malian forces at a base vacated by French troops last month, Mali's army spokesperson said on January 6. 

Iranian authorities have prevented a prominent Iranian sociologist from leaving the country to begin a one-year research program at Yale University. 

Sandwich Bar head chef Mousa Bukhari talks about following recipes, complicated ingredients and guilty pleasure food cravings.

A Vladivostok photographer is documenting the haunting phenomenon of North Korean fishing vessels drifting onto Russia's Primorsky Krai coastline.

A rocket attacked has rocked an Iraqi military base that houses U.S. soldiers near the airport in Baghdad amid heightened tensions around the anniversary of the 2020 killing of a top Iranian general and a senior Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike.