The death toll from a massive landslide earlier this week that buried a fleet of trucks waiting to cross from Pakistan into Afghanistan has risen to eight, officials said.
Hungary's government has widened its temporary ban on the imports of Ukrainian agricultural products to include honey, wine, bread, sugar, and a range of meat and vegetable products.
Moscow said on April 18 it had summoned the U.S., British, and Canadian ambassadors for "gross interference" in Russia's domestic affairs.
Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) leading economic powers have warned that those helping Russia wage war in Ukraine would face "severe costs."
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has cast doubt on efforts to bring about peace in his country's war with Russia, saying during a visit to Iraq that Moscow "wants war."
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has urged Beijing to ask "the Russian aggressor to stop the war" in Ukraine, saying "no other country has more influence on Russia than China."
Countries must do more to avert the costly consequences of growing global trade fragmentation and help avert a "second Cold War," the International Monetary Fund's managing director said on April 13.
Iran saw a “dramatic surge” in executions in 2022, human rights groups reported on April 13.
South Africa said on April 12 that an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war was a "spanner in the works" ahead of a BRICS summit in the country in August.
Switzerland insisted on April 11 that it was clamping down on Russian assets parked in the country, after other countries accused the Swiss of not going far enough.
The United Nations is being forced into making an "appalling choice" on whether to continue operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban government banned women from working for the organization, the UN Mission in Afghanistan said on April 11.
Kazakhstan on April 11 said it had begun international arbitration court proceedings against energy majors including ExxonMobil and Shell over $16.5 billion in costs deducted from the revenues from two oil fields.
South Korea on April 11 said a "significant portion" of leaked U.S. intelligence documents indicating concerns in Seoul about arms supplies to Ukraine are fake.
Iran's parliament has adopted proposals to toughen penalties for perpetrators of violence against women, and the changes could be voted into law within months, state media reported on April 10.
Rescuers pulled a 46-year-old woman from the rubble early on April 9 after Russian missiles struck the city of Zaporizhzhya. The woman's 11-year-old daughter and 50-year-old husband were killed in the attack.
A Ukrainian minister will visit India from April 9 in the first face-to-face talks between the two countries since Russia's invasion of its European neighbor last year.
Top diplomats from Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing on April 6, pledging to work together to bring "security and stability" to their turbulent region following a surprise China-brokered deal.
Russian border patrol officers detained the pilot of a Ukrainian light aircraft that crashed in the southern Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, Russian state media said on April 5.
Russia's second-largest bank VTB, one of the first banks to be excluded from the SWIFT global payments system over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, reported a loss of 612.6 billion rubles ($7.7 billion) for 2022 on April 5.
A fire ripped through the camp of a Chinese company managing the construction of a remote hydropower dam in northwestern Pakistan on April 4, officials said.
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