Reports say some influential OPEC members were likely to call for a larger-than-expected reduction in oil output by the group as the global spread of coronavirus and related effects slow economies and depress international demand for oil
Tumso Abdurakhmanov lives in hiding in an unidentified European country
Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 after sending in troops and staging a referendum deemed illegitimate by at least 100 countries
The talks come as the signatories try to rescue the landmark 2015 accord, which has been faltering since US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018 and enforced crippling sanctions on Iran
Demonstrations that began last November over fuel price hike turned political as young and working-class protesters demanded clerical leaders step down
Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur says a total of 15 new confirmed cases had been reported across the country, bringing overall figure to 43
Journalist Ivan Golunov was arrested June 6 in Moscow on charges of an attempted drug sale, just as he was preparing to publish an investigative piece about corruption in the country’s funeral industry
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead near the Kremlin in central Moscow Feb. 27, 2015
A Syrian army offensive, backed by Russian air support, has triggered the biggest wave of refugees in the nine-year conflict
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said last week that he had 'impressed upon' Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that a complete and independent investigation into the shooting down of the airliner had to be carried out
ISNA quoted an official in the country's Health Ministry, Kiyanoush Jahanpour, as saying that 'some suspected cases of the new coronavirus were found' over the past two days
Reporters Without Borders says journalists in Armenia are being subjected to defamation suits and attacks on their right to protect their sources
The New York-based watchdog said that two recent cases highlight the Afghan authorities’ failure to prosecute such cases
February 21 elections widely seen as contest between hard-liners and conservatives after most pro-reform and moderate candidates were disqualified
At least 10 journalists have been targeted by the intelligence arm of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) over the past two weeks, CHRI said in a statement on February 11
Calling the behavior 'coordinated' and 'inauthentic,' Facebook’s head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said both operations were acting on 'behalf of a government or foreign actor'
The call was issued after Russian military courts earlier this month handed down 'harsh' guilty verdicts in three 'deeply flawed' terrorism cases in which the defendants claimed that they were detained incommunicado, tortured, and received other 'ill-treatment to extract confessions'
Iran’s president uses his speech marking the 41th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution to encourage Iranian voters to participate in upcoming parliamentary elections
US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)report found that 2,214 people have been killed in largely US-led projects to rebuild country
The presidential decrees on relieving Andriy Bohdan from his duties and appointing Andriy Yermak were signed on Tuesday and posted on the presidential website
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