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Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Withdraw Military Units From Border After Deadly Armed Clashes May 03, 2021 07:42 GMT Share share Print BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have completed withdrawal of their military units from the border following deadly clashes last week, the Kyrgyz Border Service said on May 3. The national-security chiefs of the two Central Asian neighbors agreed to the pullback in a crisis meeting on May 1. The Kyrgyz Border Service said that after the withdrawal of the military un...

British officials on May 3 suggested the leaked reports were "disinformation" and sought to avoid linking a 400 million-pound ($550 million) historical debt to prerevolutionary Iran to Zaghari-Ratcliffes case. "Its incumbent on Iran unconditionally to release those who are held arbitrarily and, in our view, unlawfully, and the reports, Im afraid, are not yet accurate in terms of the suggestion of her imminent release," Raab said on May 3. The U.S. State Department on May 2 rejected as "not true...

Orthodox Christians Mark Second Easter Holiday Under Pandemic Restrictions May 02, 2021 08:20 GMT Updated May 02, 2021 09:53 GMT Share share Print Orthodox Christians around the world are observing the holiday of Easter for the second time under conditions of the global pandemic. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on May 2 expressed his hope that the coronavirus would be eliminated, and the pandemic ended. "This Easter is special and its special nature lies in the hope that the bane of the pande...

Baha'is say officials at a cemetery in the Iranian capital have pressured them to bury their dead at a space containing mass graves of political prisoners executed in the late 1980s, in what Baha'is say is the continuation of state pressure and persecution of its members in Iran.

Published March 29, 2019 • Updated on March 29, 2019 at 9:19 pm Keevonna Cante Wilson, 24, was arrested back in September after surveillance cameras captured her repeatedly kicking and abusing a small dog at the Artech Condominiums in Aventura. Wilson was sentenced Friday to four years of probation, said her attorney, Robert Resnick. She must also write a letter to the court addressing the animal abuse and pay $2,700 to cover the costs of veterinary services to take care of the injured d...

Fifteen people were thought to have been killed on the Tajik side and 90 more injured, according to RFE/RLs Tajik Service, although Tajik authorities did not disclose casualty figures. The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry said in a statement on May 2 that "the situation in all districts and villages of Batken Province on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border is stable and calm." The violence followed a dispute over the installation of surveillance cameras at a water-distribution point near Tajikistans Vorukh exclave...

Embattled Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has apologized for comments he made in a recording that was leaked last week in which he criticized the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the powerful late General Qasem Soleimani.

U.S., U,K., and Iranian officials have all dismissed or otherwise downplayed unconfirmed reports out of Iran that suggested deals had been struck to swap prisoners against the backdrop of high-profile nuclear talks over Iran's nuclear activities.

No media source currently available 0:00 0:03:41 0:00 Tajikistan, an authoritarian state with tight control over the flow of information, said that nine of its citizens were wounded. Two of them were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, officials said. However, an RFE/RL correspondent based in the area Both sides blamed each other for the escalation. Earlier on May 1, Japarov signed a decree to declare a two-day period of nationwide mourningfor victims of the violence, during which national...

Ukraines Naftogaz Supervisory Board Resigns After CEOs Controversial Dismissal May 01, 2021 11:51 GMT Share share Print The supervisory board of Ukraines state-owned oil and gas company Naftogaz is resigning following the governments decision to replace the firms CEO – a move that has raised concerns among Kyiv’s Western backers. On April 28, the government announced the dismissal of Andriy Kobolyev, Naftogaz’s chief since 2014, citing the "unsatisfactory" results of the company’s oper...