Oleksiy Arestovych is the former presidential advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy but more recently has fallen out of favour, fled the country, and intends to run against the president in the next elections, slated for later this year. The split at the top of Ukrainian politics has grown wider as Oleksiy Arestovych, a former presidential advisor and …

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Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala on December 30, saying she was detained for violating the laws of the Islamic Republic, but gave no more details, according to state-run IRNA. Sala, 29, a correspondent and reporter for the Italian newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast company Chora Media, was detained on December 19 while reporting in Tehran, the capital of Iran. The ...

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Ukraine appears to have averted a disastrous default on its debt and has secured a last-minute “comprehensive restructuring” of its ...

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who shot to prominence after running in Belarus' disputed presidential election in 2020 and then fleeing into exile, sat ...