The United States is pushing for a quick vote by the United Nations Security Council on extending the authority of an inspection team charged with determining who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, putting itself at odds with Russia.
Afghan officials say at least 25 soldiers have been killed and 20 others injured in a Taliban attack on an army camp in the southern province of Kandahar.
A court in the northeastern U.S. city of Boston has found a 28-year-old man guilty of conspiring to behead a conservative blogger over a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest.
U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions insisted he answered truthfully when he earlier said that he had no contacts with "anyone connected to the Russian government" about the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, although he acknowledged he had meetings with the Russian ambassador at the time.
Iraqi government forces say they have taken control of areas previously held by Kurdish forces in the provinces of Nineveh and Diyala.
Several thousand people took to the streets of Catalonia on October 17 after a judge ordered the detention of two separatist leaders amid tensions over the region's referendum on independence from Spain.
U.S.-backed forces say they took “full control” of the city of Raqqa, long the extremist group Islamic State’s main stronghold in Syria, following heavy fighting against a few dozen militants remaining in the city.
Afghan officials say two separate suicide and gun attacks on government forces have left at least 35 people dead.
Afghan officials say suicide bombers and gunmen have launched an attack on a police training center in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens of others.
Negotiators from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States met in Oman on October 16 to try to find ways of reviving peace talks with the Afghan Taliban.
Missile strikes by a suspected U.S. drone hit a militant compound in the Kurram tribal region close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late on October 16, killing 20 extremists, intelligence officials said.
Pakistan has deported the Turkish former director of the PakTurk chain of private schools along with his family, his former colleagues and a lawyer have said.
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