Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have spoken by telephone for the first time since Pompeo was sworn into office on April 26.
The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says some elements of the Taliban are showing interest in peace talks.
Ukraine's Naftogaz company has begun the process of trying to recover the billions of dollars it is owed by Russia's giant state-controlled gas monopoly, Gazprom, due to an arbitration-court verdict.
Officials in Moscow have rejected allegations by Ukraine that the Kremlin was behind the killing of a dissident Russian journalist in Kyiv.
An attack on Afghanistan's Interior Ministry in Kabul has been repelled with one policeman and all of the attackers being killed in the incident in what appears to be the latest in a series of militant attacks in the city.
The Pakistani and Indian militaries say they have agreed to deescalate tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed region of Kashmir, where exchanges of fire between the two neighbors have killed dozens of civilians and soldiers since the beginning of the year.
Kyrgyz authorities are investigating the brutal stabbing of a 20-year-old woman by a man who had abducted her hours earlier as part of a longstanding but illegal Kyrgyz practice known as "bride kidnapping."
Russia has rejected calls at the United Nations to accept responsibility for the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine after an investigation found that a Russian army missile caused the explosion that killed all 298 people on board.
Police in Kyiv say Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who fled his country to escape what he called "political harassment," has been shot dead in a killing Ukraine's prime minister blamed on Moscow.
An Iranian man has set himself on fire at a German regional government office where he had sought help after receiving notice that his asylum request had been rejected.
A UN report says violence against Afghan women, including honor killings, often goes unpunished despite state efforts to prosecute such crimes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will seek support from European powers for his position that Iran should be denied any military presence in Syria.
Russia's communications regulator said it has asked U.S. cell phone giant Apple to help it block the popular messaging service Telegram in Russia.
India will keep trading with Iran and Venezuela despite the threat of penalties for violating U.S. sanctions recently announced against the two countries, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has said.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman plans to travel to Moscow to meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on May 31.
Former Pakistani chief justice Nasir-ul-Mulk has been chosen to act as the interim prime minister until parliamentary elections are held in two months.
Amid heightened tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, senior military and intelligence officials from the two neighbors have agreed to enhance joint efforts to fight against terrorism, the Pakistani military says.
Two police officers and two militants were killed in a shootout in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say.
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