Russian investigators on May 8 charged a man suspected of carrying out a car bombing that wounded a prominent Russian nationalist writer with terrorist offenses.
A wildfire has spread to a gunpowder depot in Russia's Ural Mountains, setting it ablaze and forcing the evacuation of a small village in the Sverdlovsk region, local officials said late on May 6.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino urged Kyrgyzstan on May 5 to build a national football stadium to host international games and address the lack of infrastructure.
A drone attack on the Ilsky oil refinery in southern Russia, the second in as many days, has caused a fire, TASS news agency reported on May 5.
An alleged drone attack set ablaze product-storage facilities at one of the largest oil refineries in southern Russia, but emergency services extinguished the fire just over two hours later, and the plant was working normally, TASS news agency reported.
The United States has noted "with disappointment" Turkey's announcement that it would suspend Armenian airline overflight permission, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on May 3.
Russian former Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin is fighting British sanctions imposed following the invasion of Ukraine in a bid to resurrect his racing career.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has hailed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for achieving "victory" in the country's 12-year-long civil war.
The deputy defense ministers of Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey will meet in Istanbul on May 5 to discuss a deal that allows the exports of Ukrainian grains on the Black Sea, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying.
The United Nations will stay in Afghanistan to deliver aid to millions of desperate Afghans despite the Taliban's restrictions on its female staff, but funding is drying up, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on May 2.
Tinder owner Match Group has said it will quit Russia by June 30, citing the need to protect human rights, one of many Western firms to leave since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine last year.
Russia on May 2 summoned Poland's charge d'affaires to protest what it called the "seizure" of its embassy school building in Warsaw last week.
Russia's Veronika Kudermetova said she will remove the logo of Russian sponsor Tatneft from her outfit so she can compete at Wimbledon this year.
A UN Security Council committee late on May 1 agreed to allow the Taliban administration's foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan next week to meet with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China, diplomats said.
Russia’s Olympic Committee has complained that a recommendation that would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to competition only as neutral participants was “excessive and discriminatory.”
Fuminori Tsuchiko uses donations from Japan to run a free cafe for residents of Ukraine's war-hit city of Kharkiv.
A United Nations committee said on April 28 it was deeply concerned about human rights violations by Russian forces and private military companies in Ukraine, including enforced disappearances, torture, rape, and extrajudicial executions.
Pope Francis arrived in Hungary on April 28 at the start of a three-day trip where the war in Ukraine, migration, and Europe's Christian roots are expected to top the agenda in his public addresses and talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has invited Pope Francis to visit Ukraine and asked for help in repatriating thousands of children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied land since Moscow's invasion.
The Kremlin said on April 27 it welcomed anything that could bring an end to the Ukraine conflict closer when asked what it thought of a phone call the day before between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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