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A legal complaint called on December 11 for Swiss authorities to arrest Iran's president during a potential upcoming visit and charge him with crimes against humanity connected to a 1988 purge of dissidents.
Upwards of 300 million people are classified by the UN as international migrants. That’s some 3.6 percent of the global population on the move and chasing hope. RFE/RL’s language services have come together to mark International Migrants Day on December 18 with a special series of stories.
The European Union on December 11 said it has imposed sanctions on six individuals and five entities it says are involved in Iran's “development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used in Russia's illegal war of aggression."
A potential global economic downturn and climate change threaten to make life increasingly more difficult for the region's outsized, Soviet-legacy cotton industry. But farmers also suspect they are getting a raw deal from profit takers further up the food chain.
A blast that killed 46 miners has left a global steel giant and its host government desperate to part ways as soon as possible. But it has also left many Kazakhs unsure which party is more to blame for an investment project where industrial accidents and awful pollution became normalized over time.