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A sweep of the cross-country skiing sprint races by Norwegians Ola Vigen Hattestad and countrywoman Maiken Caspersen Falla helped shoot Norway to the top of the Winter Olympics medal table on February 11.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have gathered in Tehran to mark the 35th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamists to power.
Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, says those responsible for the use of excessive force against antigovernment protesters in Ukraine should be brought to justice.
An international rights watchdog has called on Afghan presidential candidates to make human rights a "central focus" of their campaigns in the April election.
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Turkish officials say a pilot tricked a Ukrainian hijacker who ordered an Istanbul-bound passenger plane to fly to Sochi as the Winter Olympics were opening on February 7.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared the 2014 Winter Olympics officially open at a ceremony in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland denies Russian claims that Ukrainian antigovernment militants are trained at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.
While some Olympians say they'll use Sochi to condemn Russian legislation prohibiting homosexual "propaganda," others, including a number of gay athletes, have vowed to keep their political views to themselves.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is in Sochi, where he is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics later on February 7.
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution deploring human rights violations in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniester.
Six members of a prominent Russian female punk protest group have criticized a concert staged in New York by Amnesty International at which Pussy Riot received top billing.
In a speech to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned attacks and discrimination against homosexuals.
EU lawmakers have called for the introduction of targeted measures such as travel sanctions and asset and property freezes on any Ukrainian officials, lawmakers, and their business sponsors found to be responsible for the deadly crackdown on antigovernment demonstrators in Ukraine.
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai has been nominated for the World Children's Prize for her work promoting education rights for girls in the face of Taliban threats.
Dmytro Bulatov, the Ukrainian antigovernment activist who says he was abducted and tortured, told reporters he had been subjected to such unbearable pain during his captivity that he had asked his abductors to kill him.
Freedom House has condemned the execution in Iran of acclaimed poet and activist Hashem Shaabani.
A scheduled live television interview with Iranian President Hassan Rohani was delayed by more than an hour on February 5 after what the official IRNA news agency said was a block by the state broadcasting chief.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Iraqi authorities subject many jailed women in the country to torture and ill-treatment.
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