The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says some elements of the Taliban are showing interest in peace talks.
Ukraine's Naftogaz company has begun the process of trying to recover the billions of dollars it is owed by Russia's giant state-controlled gas monopoly, Gazprom, due to an arbitration-court verdict.
Officials in Moscow have rejected allegations by Ukraine that the Kremlin was behind the killing of a dissident Russian journalist in Kyiv.
The United States has condemned Syria's decision to recognize the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries.
An attack on Afghanistan's Interior Ministry in Kabul has been repelled with one policeman and all of the attackers being killed in the incident in what appears to be the latest in a series of militant attacks in the city.
British-American financier Bill Browder says he has been arrested in Madrid on a Russia Interpol arrest warrant.
The Pakistani and Indian militaries say they have agreed to deescalate tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed region of Kashmir, where exchanges of fire between the two neighbors have killed dozens of civilians and soldiers since the beginning of the year.
Kyrgyz authorities are investigating the brutal stabbing of a 20-year-old woman by a man who had abducted her hours earlier as part of a longstanding but illegal Kyrgyz practice known as "bride kidnapping."
Russia has rejected calls at the United Nations to accept responsibility for the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine after an investigation found that a Russian army missile caused the explosion that killed all 298 people on board.
Police in Kyiv say Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who fled his country to escape what he called "political harassment," has been shot dead in a killing Ukraine's prime minister blamed on Moscow.
A UN report says violence against Afghan women, including honor killings, often goes unpunished despite state efforts to prosecute such crimes.
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