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Police in Pakistan's northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have arrested four men suspected in the "honor" killing of a girl who had posted a photo of herself together with a boy on Facebook.

A court in Astana on November 29 sentenced the chairman of Kazakhstan’s unregistered Algha Kazakhstan (Forward Kazakhstan) party, Marat Zhylanbaev, to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of taking part in a banned group's activities and financing an extremist group.

Maria Zakharova also commented on Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s statement that Russia poses a threat to the country

The chief of the Public Monitoring Group in Russia's Far East said that the former mayor of Vladivostok, Oleg Gumenyuk, who is serving a 12-year prison term for bribe-taking, was not allowed to join Russian armed forces involved in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine for unspecified reasons.

Turkey has told Sweden that it expects to ratify its long-delayed accession to the NATO military alliance within weeks, Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on November 29.

Espanola, a military unit within the Redut network, is hiring women as fighters in its assault detachments, the media outlet iStories reported on November 28.

Moscow, Nov 29 (Prensa Latina) Moscow will not ignore Moldova's decision to join the sanctions against Russia, reported the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova.

Police in Moldova say they have identified one of the perpetrators of a series of spray-painted Stars of David that appeared last month on buildings in Paris as being a Moldovan citizen who was acting on orders from fugitive businessman Ilan Shor in order to "denigrate the Republic of Moldova." 

Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service said that Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen who is serving a 16-year espionage sentence, was assaulted by another inmate, an attack prison officials said was sparked by "political differences" but that Whelan's family said was likely due to anti-American sentiment.

A Russian-installed court in Ukraine's occupied Crimea on November 29 sentenced Yuriy Lomenko, former mayor of the city of Simeyiz, to 16 years in prison for espionage.