Qarchak Prison, located southeast of Tehran, is Iran's largest women's detention center. Calls to close the facility have ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin last week signed a decree that appears to target the assets of foreign companies that ...

Ukrainian forces are continuing to keep Russian forces from advancing into Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region. But the frontline city is under constant bombardment, which has cut off power supplies ...

Some of the last remaining residents of Kostyantynivka live in bombed-out buildings and cook over open fires in the absence ...

A European initiative that aims to give exiled opponents of the Kremlin and Russia’s war against Ukraine a stronger voice has ...

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