A spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says Russia’s decision to bar opposition politician Aleksei Navalny from the 2018 presidential election "casts serious doubt on political pluralism in Russia" and and on the prospects for democratic elections in the country.
Officials in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region say a commander of the Afghan Haqqani Network, a militant group that is fighting against Afghan government and U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan, has been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike.
The British Royal Navy said it escorted a Russian warship through the North Sea near British territorial waters.
Russia's Central Election Commission has rejected anticorruption activist and opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's bid to run against President Vladimir Putin in the presidential election in March, saying he was ineligible because of a past criminal conviction.
Russian anticorruption activist and opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has submitted documents needed to be registered as a presidential candidate to the country’s Central Election Commission.
A suicide bomber blew himself up near Afghanistan's national intelligence agency compound in Kabul early on December 25, killing at least six civilians, security officials say.
Konstantin Kosachyov, the chairman of the Russian Federation Council's International Relations Committee, says Moscow has to keep pressure on both North Korea and the United States in the search for a solution to halt Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.
The United States says it has decided to provide Ukraine with “enhanced defensive capabilities” to help it "deter further aggression" as it battles Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
The UN Security Council has unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea in response to last month's launch of a ballistic missile that Pyongyang says is capable of reaching anywhere on the U.S. mainland.
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