The United States has said that it is "disturbed" by the alleged abduction of an Azerbaijani journalist critical of Baku who says he was forcefully returned from Georgia to Azerbaijan, where he was taken into custody.
Several people have been killed in three explosions in Kabul near the funeral of an Afghan senator's son, one of five victims of deadly clashes between police and protesters a day earlier, witnesses and a security official say.
Washington regards North Korea's accelerated push to acquire a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening the United States and other countries as a "clear and present danger," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says.
Authorities in Afghanistan say four people have been killed amid confrontations between police and protesters demanding the resignation of President Ashraf Ghani's government two days after a deadly truck-bomb blast in Kabul.
Iraqi forces have taken one of the four remaining districts under control of the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in west Mosul, military officials say.
Fears for Western hostages being held by the Taliban arose on June 2 after the Taliban threatened retaliation if the Afghan government executes Taliban prisoners in revenge for this week's devastating truck bombing in Kabul.
While many world leaders on June 2 said they fear a bleaker future following the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate change agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin was more upbeat about it.
A Kurdish rebel group claims it downed a military helicopter that crashed this week in southeastern Turkey, killing all 13 personnel on board.
Authorities in Afghanistan say at least two people have been killed amid confrontations between police and protesters demanding the resignation of President Ashraf Ghani's government, two days after a deadly truck-bomb blast in Kabul.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal is "very regrettable."
Afghan security forces have fired into the air near a crowd of protesters demanding the resignation of President Ashraf Ghani's government, two days after a massive truck bomb blast killed at least 90 people in Kabul.
A Chechen man whom Russian authorities accuse of plotting to kill President Vladimir Putin was shot and wounded in Kyiv in what Ukrainian police say was an assassination attempt.
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