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The collapse of Ukraine’s NATO-trained and armed military’s much-vaunted summer counteroffensive has caused morale to plummet among the troops, with Ukraine’s top commander recently outlining his fears about the conflict with Russia degenerating into WWI-style trench warfare.

The U.S. Treasury Department has announced sanctions on two companies for allegedly violating a price cap on Russian oil agreed last year by Western countries.

The Bulgarian government faces a vote of no-confidence in parliament on October 13 over plans for a transition to cleaner energy and other policies in the energy sector that have sparked angry protests from miners and other workers.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended the Russian Olympic Committee over its decision to incorporate sports bodies in eastern Ukrainian areas that it occupies.

Relatives of Armita Garavand say the Iranian teen remains in a coma after reportedly being assaulted by the morality police for not wearing the mandatory hijab earlier this month.

Authorities in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan have launched a probe against Fail Alsynov, the former leader of the banned Bashqort group, accusing him of inciting hatred.

A court in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, started a hearing on October 12 into a complaint against RFE/RL's Kazakh Service, known locally as Radio Azattyq.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the United Nations and international donors to press Pakistan to end abuses and protect Afghan asylum seekers, saying the forcible deportation would put them “at grave risk of being returned to persecution and other abuse.”

Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram on October 12 that all 59 people killed in a suspected Russian missile strike on a grocery store and cafe in the Kharkiv region last week had been identified.

Armenia has asked the International Court of Justice to take measures to protect the rights of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh to ensure Azerbaijan does not "ethnically cleanse" the breakaway region after Baku launched a lightning offensive last month.