Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has fired Deputy Prime Minister Zoyyir Mirzaev after an RFE/RL report revealed he had humiliated farmers on a recent agricultural inspection trip.
Four workers have been injured and one remains missing after Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, suffered damage when a floating dry dock sank while the vessel was leaving it, officials say.
The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen has sent more than 10,000 new troops towards a vital rebel-held port city ahead of a new assault, Yemeni government officials said Tuesday.
Police in Moscow and St. Petersburg have detained at least 68 people taking part in unauthorized protests against a criminal case filed against 10 Russians accused of extremism.
The Russian Navy plans to test missiles in international waters off Norway's coast this week, Norwegian and NATO officials say, as the Western military alliance conducts its largest military exercise since the end of the Cold War.
German prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old former officer in Afghanistan's military with war crimes, alleging he played a role in the abuse of prisoners.
Angela Merkel has told her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) that she will step down as Germany's chancellor at the end of her current term in 2021 and will not seek reelection as a CDU lawmaker.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has detained a man who was found carrying half a million dollars' worth of gold in his backpack in the Sakha-Yakutia region.
Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor, Saud al-Mojeb, is discussing the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Istanbul's chief prosecutor, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency says.
Several dozen protesters have reportedly been detained in Russia's St. Petersburg.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow was drafting responses to a list of questions recently presented by the United States concerning a key nuclear-arms agreement.
A Syrian rights monitor group says at least 68 members of a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led force have been killed in a major assault by Islamic State (IS) militants in the east of the country.
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