German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he told Chinese President Xi Jinping in talks on November 4 that he wanted Beijing to use its "influence" on Moscow to stop the war in Ukraine.
A senior U.S. official has vowed continued support for Ukraine while on a two-day visit to the country.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 80 injured, including children, as a result of missile strikes in Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzya on October 9.
In the war-ravaged city of Mykolayiv, actors have reopened their theater in the safety of an underground bunker.
Ukrainian singer Tina Karol has bought an apartment for the family of Yehor Kravtsov, a 9-year-old boy who kept a diary during the siege of Mariupol by Russian troops. The singer's manager contacted the family and offered to help after seeing a Current Time video about the boy.
At least one person was reported killed in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on August 14 after a strong blast hit a fireworks storage area. The pyrotechnics were kept at the city's popular Surmalu market. Authorities expect that people could be trapped under the rubble.
A project launched by former Prime Minister Imran Khan to plant 10 billion trees in Pakistan has dramatically transformed some areas of the country.
Ukrainian farmers wearing flak jackets have begun the 2022 harvest as parts of the world await grain from the “breadbasket” of Europe.
A private research university, Central European University, has organized courses for Ukrainian students who were forced to interrupt their studies due to the war. The Invisible University started as an online program with summer courses now being held at CEU's Budapest campus.
Efforts to reach communities in Afghanistan affected by the June 22 earthquake are being hampered by bad roads and heavy rain. The magnitude-6.1 quake is known to have killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500. The epicenter was 160 kilometers southeast of Kabul near the Pakistani border.
Eight-year-old Yegor Kravtsov kept a secret diary in Mariupol as Ukrainian forces put up an increasingly desperate defense against Russian troops. He has now fled with his mother and sister to Zaporizhzhya, where his diary remains a precious if harrowing insight into life under the Russian siege.
Ukrainian farmers are being forced to work at gunpoint and some have had their farms confiscated, according to reports from inside Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian forces. Meanwhile, farmers on Ukrainian-held land are wearing bulletproof vests and helmets to protect themselves as they work.
Some of Ukraine's top classical musicians are touring Europe as part of a cultural mission that the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra says is part of "fighting Russia’s aggression in every possible way."
Every day, more evidence emerges of atrocities in Ukrainian communities that have been occupied by Russian forces. In the village of Buzova, near Kyiv, a mother was overcome with grief when she found the body of her son in a well.
Russian forces have been accused of committing atrocities in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital.
An Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber who killed 64 people at a Shi'ite mosque in northwest Pakistan last week was an Afghan exile who returned home to train for the attack, police said on March 9.
At least three people were killed and 18 others injured in a bomb blast on March 2 in Pakistan's troubled southwestern province of Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, officials said.
The Taliban's chief spokesman on March 1 rowed back comments he made suggesting Afghans would be barred from leaving the country, saying he had been misunderstood.
The Taliban has clamped down on Afghans leaving the country as the militants continue a massive security sweep, going house-to-house across the capital on February 28 in a "clearing operation."
The Netherlands has evacuated 294 Afghan citizens who arrived in neighboring Pakistan over the past few days and will be flown soon to a Dutch destination, the Foreign Ministry said on February 23.
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