A UN report says violence against Afghan women, including honor killings, often goes unpunished despite state efforts to prosecute such crimes.
Russia's communications regulator said it has asked U.S. cell phone giant Apple to help it block the popular messaging service Telegram in Russia.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman plans to travel to Moscow to meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on May 31.
Former Pakistani chief justice Nasir-ul-Mulk has been chosen to act as the interim prime minister until parliamentary elections are held in two months.
Amid heightened tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, senior military and intelligence officials from the two neighbors have agreed to enhance joint efforts to fight against terrorism, the Pakistani military says.
Two police officers and two militants were killed in a shootout in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say.
Russia has relocated up to 1 million people to the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea, according to Mustafa Dzhemilev, the long-time leader of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's envoy for Crimean Tatar affairs.
Afghanistan has launched the registration of candidates for long-delayed parliamentary and district elections scheduled for this year.
Afghan and Pakistani security officials are meeting in Islamabad amid heightened tensions between the two neighbors.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to accelerate efforts to seek a World War II peace treaty and to reach an agreement over a disputed island chain.
Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom says it has signed a protocol with the Turkish government on land-based part of the transit leg of the TurkStream gas pipeline.
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