The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' intelligence committee issued a statement on February 14 that referred to a "serious national security threat," which sources quoted in U.S. news reports said was related to Russia.
The United States on February 14 said it had imposed sanctions on an Iranian subsidiary of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), two entities based in the United Arab Emirates, one based in Turkey, and three individuals for smuggling U.S. technology.
Russian citizens living in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be able to vote in the Russian presidential election next month, the country’s Council of Ministers said on February 14.
The UN secretary-general’s envoy for Afghanistan met on February 14 in Bishkek with EU and Central Asian officials to discuss joint efforts to assist people in Taliban-led Afghanistan ahead of a more formal international meeting scheduled to take place on February 18-19 in Doha, Qatar.
Two explosions at gas pipelines that officials are calling "sabotage and terrorist acts" have disrupted gas supplies to offices and industries across three provinces in Iran.
Former lawmaker Mohsin Dawar was shot and wounded when he protested the results of the election in northwestern Pakistan. He is among scores of candidates who are challenging the results of the disputed February 8 general elections, which were marred by widespread allegations of vote rigging.
Armenian Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian resigned on February 14 two weeks after one of his deputies and several other subordinates were arrested on corruption charges that he denies.
The press secretary of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny said on February 14 that the outspoken Kremlin critic was again placed in a punitive solitary confinement cell for unspecified reasons just three days after he served a previous 10-day solitary confinement term.
The Operativnyye Svodki (Operative Data) Telegram channel close to Russian law enforcement structures said on February 14 that police detained a former member of the Yabloko opposition party, Mikhail Sharygin, on extremism charges in the city of Nizhny Novgorod a day earlier.
Self-exiled Belarusian writer Sasha Filipenka told the Novaya gazeta Europe website on February 13 that his father had been officially informed that a criminal case was launched against him on unspecified charges.
A Russian court on February 14 sentenced a 67-year-old woman to 10 years in prison for setting a fire at a military recruitment center in St. Petersburg.
The three Baltic nations have taken diplomatic steps to protest against Russia on February 14 a day after Moscow confirmed senior lawmakers and officials from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were placed on Russia's "wanted list" for destroying Soviet-era monuments.
Pakistan's two main political parties that joined forces to oust Imran Khan as prime minister in 2022 said they would form a new coalition to rule the country, after an election last week failed to produce a decisive winner.
Russian shelling killed at least three people, including a child, and wounded 12 others early on February 14 in the city of Selydove in the eastern Donetsk region, the local council reported, adding that four of the wounded were also children.
The Chinese company that owns a copper mine in eastern Serbia said on February 13 that it was forced to temporarily suspend production at the mine because of a blockade by villagers on the road leading to the mine.
