The wife of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has died at a clinic in London after battling cancer for more than a year, her family said. She was 68.
Russia has begun massive military exercises across its central and eastern regions, starting weeklong war games the Defense Ministry says will involve some 300,000 personnel -- twice as many as the biggest Soviet maneuvers of the Cold War era.
The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials if they go ahead with an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.
Taliban militants have reportedly killed dozens of Afghan security forces in fresh attacks on several government targets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, discussing North Korea's nuclear program and other issues in the first of several planned meetings with visiting Asian leaders.
Authorities in Iran have detained two artists in connection with a production of Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry will meet counterparts from Saudi Arabia and Russia starting on Monday.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader that killed at least seven people.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif issued a Jewish New Year greeting to Jews in Iran and around the world on Twitter amid a time of heightened tensions between Iran and Israel.
Thousands of anti-Kremlin demonstrators have taken to the streets in Russia to protest the government's plan to raise the retirement age in rallies coinciding with regional and local elections nationwide, triggering tense confrontations with police and resulting in hundreds of detentions, according to a rights-monitoring group.
Police in Germany have detained two Afghan suspects in the death of a German man in the eastern city of Kothen.
At least 11 members of an Iranian Kurdish rebel group have been killed in a rocket assault on their headquarters in Iraqi Kurdistan, an attack Kurdish forces blamed on Iran.
Britain will catch two men accused of using the Novichok nerve agent in the English town of Salisbury if they ever step out of Russia, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said.
Afghan authorities say a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a procession in Kabul commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, injuring at least two people.
Lithuania is urging U.S. retail giant Walmart to stop selling clothing with Soviet hammer and sickle symbols, which it says insults victims of Soviet-era persecution.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has been urged by other political leaders to resign over the outbreak of deadly unrest in the southern port city of Basra.
A group of pro-Kremlin nationalist activists attacked two volunteers who were guarding a makeshift memorial on the Moscow bridge where former First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov was shot dead.
Two Armenian children who were scheduled to be deported from the Netherlands have gone into hiding, a Dutch government spokesman said.
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