The crew of a Panamanian-flagged tanker seized by Iran last year has been sentenced to a total 22 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court of Bandar Abbas.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on October 16 said support for Ukraine remained a "top priority" for the United States and Europe, calling it crucial to underpin Ukraine's military battle against Russia's invasion.
A teacher was killed in a knife attack in a school in the northern French city of Arras on October 13 and the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office.
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into why an exiled Russian television journalist who staged a high-profile protest against the war in Ukraine was suddenly taken ill, a spokesperson for the Paris tribunal prosecutor's office said on October 12.
Finland can't rule out the possibility that a "state actor" was involved in damaging a Baltic Sea gas pipeline and a parallel telecoms cable, the Finnish Security Intelligence Service said as NATO ministers sat down for talks on the incident.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman discussed the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 11 in a phone call, Iranian state media reported.
Belgium, where most frozen Russian central bank assets are held, expects to collect 2.3 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in taxes on the assets and use them to help reconstruct Ukraine, a spokesperson for Belgium's prime minister said on October 11.
Slovakia's former Prime Minister Robert Fico reached a deal on October 11 with center-left and nationalist parties to form a new government that is expected to scale back the country's support for Ukraine.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the war in Israel on October 10, with the Kremlin saying the focus of their phone call was on an immediate cease-fire and a resumption of talks.
Germany unveiled on October 10 fresh support package for Ukraine worth around 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion), its Defense Ministry said.
Russia's ban on gasoline exports and cross-border sales of diesel by railway remains in place, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak said on October 9.
Rail traffic along the North Korea-Russia border spiked this week to its highest level in years, suggesting arms supply by Pyongyang to Moscow after their leaders discussed deeper military cooperation, a U.S. think tank said on October 6.
Germany will send around 150 soldiers to Kosovo in April 2024, a spokesperson for the Defense Ministry said in Berlin on October 6, confirming a report by news magazine Der Spiegel.
Sweden will send Ukraine a new military support package worth 2.2 billion crowns ($199 million), consisting mainly of ammunition and spare parts to earlier donated systems, Defense Minister Pal Jonson said on October 6.
German police and customs officers searched several properties in southern Germany, which a source familiar with the matter said belonged to a Russian national targeted by European Union sanctions over Ukraine.
Dozens of people, inclduing a 6-year-old child, were killed in a Russian attack that hit a grocery store in a village in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine on October 5, according to Ukrainian officials.
World soccer governing body FIFA on October 4 said it had lifted Russia's ban from international soccer by allowing under-17 girls and boys teams from the country to take part in tournaments.
Ukraine's economy is adapting well to the wartime environment following Russia's invasion and growth will continue next year, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said on October 4.
Artyom Sheikin, a member of the Russian parliament's Federation Council, said on October 3 that the country’s Roskomnadzor media watchdog plans to block virtual private networks (VPNs) across the country as of March 1, 2024.
Russia blamed a malfunction in an on-board control unit for causing its lunar lander to crash into the moon in August.
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