Relatives of a Christian mother who faces becoming the first person to be executed for blasphemy in Pakistan have expressed hope that the Supreme Court will set her free.
Afghan officials say at least 12 people have been killed -- including civilians and members of the Afghan security forces -- by a bomb that exploded at an election campaign rally for a woman who is running for parliament in the northeast of the country.
An American evangelical pastor held for two years in Turkey was expected to arrive in the United States on October 13, a day after a Turkish court ordered his release, despite sentencing him to three years in prison on terrorism-related charges.
The U.S. envoy on an Afghanistan peace initiative has met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul, a day after he held talks in Qatar with Taliban leaders.
Pakistan has released a leading campaigner for women's rights and Pashtun rights after detaining her for nearly nine hours in Islamabad, activists said.
The chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's Athlete Committee has said in a BBC interview that she was "bullied" by some WADA officials over her opposition to reinstating Russia's anti-doping authority.
Pakistan has sacked a senior judge who accused the country's powerful spy agency of manipulating elections in July.
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton has announced he will be traveling to Russia and three Caucasus nations later this month for talks with senior officials.
Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to release a Pashtun rights activist who was detained immediately after her arrival in the country.
The head of Russia's Roskosmos space agency says the crew of a Soyuz mission that made an emergency landing in an aborted launch on October 11 has been scheduled to go on another space mission in the spring of 2019.
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