Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections got off to a chaotic start on October 20, with polling stations hit by logistical problems as several minor incidents of violence were reported across the country.
U.S. prosecutors charged a Russian woman with conspiring to interfere in U.S. elections, in what appeared to be the first such charges related to next month’s key congressional elections.
Saudi Arabia early on October 20 acknowledged for the first time the death of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its consulate in Istanbul, saying he died as a result of a violent "fist fight," Saudi state-run media are reporting.
News reports say the United States is moving toward withdrawing from a bedrock Cold War-era arms control treaty that it has accused Russia of violating.
U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies issued another warning about foreign interference -- by Russia, China, Iran, and others -- in the upcoming congressional elections and other elections in the future.
Parliamentary elections in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar will be delayed by one week following the assassination of the powerful provincial police commander, Afghan officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev have launched the construction of a nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan's western region of Navoiy, which Moscow estimates will cost $11 billion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his country will only use its nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack on the country.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has told his Iranian counterpart that security forces are searching for 14 Iranian border guards who Tehran says were abducted by militants this week.
European Union leaders are calling for a new sanctions regime that would slap penalties on those found responsible for cyberattacks on the bloc’s member states.
The police chief and intelligence head of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar have been killed in a shooting attack, officials say, in a major blow to the West-backed government in Kabul.
A bombing targeting a NATO convoy near Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, has killed at least two civilians and wounded several alliance soldiers, Afghan and NATO officials say.
Turkish investigators have searched the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul for a second time as part of an investigation into missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Authorities have declared an emergency on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and Russia sent National Guard troops to protect schools and the bridge connecting with Russia after a teenager's shooting rampage killed as many as 20 people at a college in Kerch.
Iran's foreign minister charged that the latest round of U.S. sanctions is violating the human rights of Iranians and said that "the U.S. addiction to sanctions is out of control."
Italy's deputy prime minister says his nation will oppose a renewal of European Union sanctions against Russia, but he suggested Rome is not ready to break with the rest of the EU and veto a rollover of the sanctions.
An accused pedophile and killer of eight children has been executed in Pakistan after his appeals were rejected by the courts, officials said.
The U.S. military has confirmed that a California-based airman was killed in the crash of a two-seat Ukrainian fighter jet during a joint exercise with NATO air forces in Ukraine.
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