Eastern Europe

at least seven people were killed and dozens wounded. With a preliminary magnitude of 6.4, the quake was the second in the region in 24 hours and tremors across the Balkans

Ice Hotel was the first hotel in the world to be built in 1990. At about 23 Degrees Fahrenheit, the indoor temperature is preserved.

Aware of the history of persecution, the Waldensian Church members have taken the lead in bringing refugees from Syria to Italy.

Volodymyr Zelensky told us of his meeting with U.S. policy, They roped us in but I think we did do it with dignity.

Police detained several people, including a photo photographer, as women-led protests flared up again in Warsaw and elsewhere in Poland on Monday.

Despite protesting against him for months, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko was able to stick to power due to an all-pervasive defense apparatus.

Kosovo 's president, a rebel commander in Kosovo's struggle for freedom against Serbia, resigned Thursday to face accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity at a Dutch special international court.

Poland's general, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, accused demonstrators of pursuing nation destruction and called on supporters to "defend Poland."

Kyrgyzstan 's president said he wouldn't be remembered as a tyrant "who shed blood and fired at his own people."

Ultimately, women who orchestrated the political movement and ongoing demonstrations against President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko could be defeated. Yet society is never the same.

The journalist's self-immolation, Irina Slavina, 47, a long-time Kremlin critic, came a day after Nizhny Novgorod 's hometown authorities raided her flat.

More than a million Armenians died under the persecution of the Ottoman empire, which is modern day Turkey, during 1915. The world say the mass murder was carried out in order to annihilate the Christian Armenian people.

A local war over a mountainous land of little strategic value is taking on greater importance because of its potential to draw in bigger powers like Russia and Turkey.

Kolesnikova burnished her status as a hero to the protesters by ripping up her passport to avoid forced deportation to Ukraine earlier this month.

The cult’s leader, Sergei Torop who goes by the name of Vissarion, and two of his assistants were put on a helicopter and taken into custody.

Zelenskiy would get almost 32% backing if a presidential ballot were held in mid-September according to a poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.

After more than a month of protests, there is still no clear end game in sight for either side, with Mr. Lukashenko and his foes both insisting they can prevail.