Uzbek police have conducted dozens of raids targeting religious extremists and terrorists, arrested suspects, and warned the public to avoid "extremist ideologies" on social media. Some say the measures reflect Tashkent's anxiety in the aftermath of last month's terrorist attack near Moscow.
Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian economist, will serve as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a second five-year term, the Washington-based fund said on April 13.
A university law student who has been a supporter of Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement is still missing several days after her arrest by security forces, the second time she has been detained since unrest broke out in September 2022.
A video seen by the Associated Press shows commandos raiding a ship near the Strait of Hormuz by helicopter on April 13, an attack a Middle East defense official anonymously attributed to Iran amid wider tensions between Tehran and the West.
Washington and London has prohibited metal-trading exchanges from accepting new aluminum, copper, and nickel produced by Russia and barred the import of the metals to the United States and Britain.
The Belarusian dissident rock band Nizkiz and its three members have been declared extremists and sentenced to 2 1/2 years of restrictions on their freedom of movement after being convicted on criminal charges of violating public order.
The late Bosnian tycoon Slobodan Stankovic and his engineering company have been removed from the U.S. blacklist of sanctioned individuals.
Unidentified gunmen have killed 11 people in separate incidents on the same highway in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province.
Authorities in the Russian city of Orenburg called on thousands of residents to evacuate immediately on April 12 due to rapidly rising floodwaters after major rivers burst their banks due to a historic deluge of melting snow.
