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A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial detention of Darya Trepova, the woman suspected in the assassination of a prominent Russian war blogger at a St. Petersburg cafe in early April.

The new Fiji government appears to be having second thoughts about its recent decision to allow the Taiwan representative office there to revert to its former name, which includes the words "Republic of China (ROC)," the foreign ministry in Taipei indicated on Thursday.

A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday slammed Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities for pushing a so-called trade initiative with the United States and yielding to its undue demand.

China has slammed the United States for having plans to reach a trade deal with Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), warning Washington against making any official interaction with the self-ruled island.

Lawmakers in Kazakhstan are poised to scrap an article in the Criminal Code that envisions prosecution for insulting former President Nursultan Nazarbaev as President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev continues to distance himself from his predecessor.

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Iran and Iraq are discussing new measures to expand their trade ties, a senior Iranian official has said, amid signs that the two countries will ease restrictions at borders to help boost shipments.

The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says enemies will no longer have a place in the region as they escaped "in humiliation" due to sacrifices made by martyrs.

The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has said that the country's economic indicators have risen during the past two years despite illegal sanctions imposed by the United States.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS group of emerging economies can have a huge influence on the establishment of a new world order.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said the Islamic Republic is a principal player in the West Asia region with a great deal of influence on regional developments.

The United States remains committed to exposing and disrupting plots by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to carry out violence abroad.

The United States has imposed new sanctions on members of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as well as individuals and entities it claims to be affiliates of the country's elite military force.

A hacking group has released a batch of what it claims are classified Iranian government documents, some of which revealed new details of an attack early this year on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran.

In 1988, Hossein Mortazavi Zanjani was the head of Tehran's notorious Evin prison, where hundreds of political prisoners were secretly executed following an order by the founder of the Islamic republic, Ruhollah Khomeini.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) says at least 142 people were executed in Iran in May, the highest monthly total in eight years, amid a brutal crackdown on dissent that the Norway-based watchdog says is aimed at spreading "societal fear."

Iran carried out 142 executions in May, marking the highest number of people put to death in one month in the country since 2015, a rights group said Thursday.

Following the Wednesday beating of a journalist in Iran by the bodyguards of Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the country's first supreme leader, Iranian reporters are saying that such violent harassment is par for the course with the poor state of media freedom in Iran.