The United States had no involvement in an air strike on Iran's consular annex building in the Syrian capital, Damascus, that Tehran blamed on Israel, the White House said on April 2.
Authorities in Belarus have arrested a well-known activist on charges punishable by up to four years in prison, the Vyasna human rights group said on April 2.
Almost 16,000 people in Kazakhstan have been evacuated in massive flooding that has directed public anger toward officials -- who have admitted they were unprepared for such a large-scale catastrophe. In the long term, experts say, the country must find ways to direct precious meltwater for use during increasingly drought-struck summer months.
Kazakhstan has been hit by major flooding with local emergencies declared across the Central Asian state. Almost 16,000 people have been evacuated and at least 1,400 homes flooded.
The suspected Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in Syria may be a game changer, analysts say. Tehran has refrained from directly engaging Israel despite losing more than a dozen officers since the Gaza War began, instead exercising what is being dubbed “strategic patience.”
Tehran residents against a city plan to construct a mosque within a historic park in the north of the Iranian capital have launched a protest, citing environmental concerns over the project.
A lawyer for several survivors and relatives of victims of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall entertainment center near Moscow said many have filed lawsuits against the venue's owners, accusing them of fire safety violations.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has slammed a Russian court ruling to extend the pretrial detention of RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until June 5, calling the country’s crackdown on independent media “unacceptable.”
Police in Russia's Komi Republic on April 2 detained activist Dmitry Makhov for using a picture of the historical flag of Belarus online.
A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Kazakhstan after large-scale flooding forced the evacuation of nearly 16,000 people. The floods were caused by abrupt warm weather that led to a mass snowmelt.
Tehran has vowed revenge after several people, including a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), were killed in an air strike on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus over the weekend that has been attributed to Israel.
Kazakh Deputy Emergency Minister Bauyrzhan Syzdyqov said on April 2 that more than 15,700 people, including almost 6,200 children, have been evacuated across the nation amid unprecedented floods caused by abrupt warm weather that led to a mass snowmelt.
Police in Russia's Far Eastern region of Amur on April 2 detained the chief engineer of a mine where 13 miners were trapped following a landslide last month and were declared dead two weeks later.
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has signed into law a controversial bill that allows authorities to register organizations as "foreign representatives," legislation critics say mirrors a repressive Russian law on "foreign agents."
Drones struck industrial facilities, including drone-production sites, in Russia’s Tatarstan region on April 2, injuring seven people, local officials said, in what appears to be the deepest such strike inside Russia.
The arrest in recent days of a former Austrian intelligence officer on serious allegations of spying for Russia suggests that Vienna needs to boost its security to thwart Russian infiltration, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said.
A Moscow court has ordered two months' pretrial detention for a suspected accomplice of the perpetrators of the March 22 terror attack on the Crocus City Hall near the Russian capital, which killed 144 people.
