Residents of some 25 countries enjoy a visa-free regime with Russia. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Citizens of most of the post-Soviet states can visit Russia without a visa. Countries like Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belaru ...

Kabul [Afghanistan], January 29 (ANI): Widespread protests swept Afghanistan after the Holy Quran was desecrated in parts of Europe like Sweden and the Netherlands. Numerous people condemned the action as they gathered in Kabul and calle ...

Washington [US], January 29 (ANI): The Memphis Police Department announced on Saturday the deactivation of the ‘Scorpion Unit’ to which the police officers belonged who reportedly were involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29- ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians, including plans to beef up Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank in response to a pair of shooting attacks that k ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], January 27 (ANI): Two persons were arrested in connection with a rape case of a thirteen-year-old girl by intoxicanting her drink in the state capital Bhopal, a police officer said on Friday. The incide ...

WASHINGTON D.C.: In December 2022, US existing home sales declined to a 12-year low, but lower mortgage rates raised cautious optimism about the steady recovery of housing market. Now, a report from the National Association of Realtors ...

I’m Steve Gutterman, the editor of RFE/RL’s Russia/Ukraine/Belarus Desk. Welcome to The Week In Russia, in which I dissect the key developments in Russian politics and society over the previous week and look at what’s ahead. To receive ...

New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said on Wednesday that all the 46 Government Mental Healthcare Institutions across the country are in deplorable conditions and depict pathetic handling by ...

A maker of abortion pills and a doctor have filed lawsuits challenging state restrictions on the medication, in the first lawsuits of their kind since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion. In a ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii: The casket bearing Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawananakoa, long considered the last Hawaiian princess, has gone on public viewing in the Lolani Palace in downtown Honolulu. The casket, handcrafted from a 165-year-old ko ...

The way the Calgary Flames see it, they’ve turned a corner and are looking like the team they were supposed to be. Calgary’s home clash with the cellar-dwelling Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday is an opportunity to prove it. The Flames ...

Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 26 (ANI): Three people of a family were injured in Dhuliya Ganj area here when back portion of about five to six houses collapsed during excavation work of an inn, a senior official said Thursday. ...