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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Kyrgyz authorities to allow the opposition Aprel (April) television channel to resume broadcasting, calling its closure last week a violation of press freedom.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has used a speech marking the country’s Independence Day to accuse India of planning military action in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will spend the country's August 14 Independence Day in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Pakistan on August 13 called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council following India's decision to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy, which Islamabad says threatens international peace and could lead to ethnic cleansing and genocide in the Muslim-majority region.
A Moscow court has rescinded a decision by the city's election commission to bar a Russian opposition candidate from running in a municipal election next month.
Measles outbreaks are continuing to spread around the globe, with Ukraine among the nations reporting the highest number of new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Russia's Defense Ministry claims that Russian Su-27 warplanes forced away a NATO F-18 jet after it approached an aircraft carrying Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over international waters.
Weightlifting’s world governing body says it has provisionally suspended five Russian weightlifters, citing "compelling evidence" that they had violated anti-doping rules.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged the Iranian authorities to immediately release Nooshin Jafari, a photojournalist and culture reporter who was detained 10 days ago on unspecified charges.
The Lviv Tank Plant has become the second Ukrainian factory to start manufacturing the modernized model of T-64 tanks.
U.S. envoy to North Korea Stephen Biegun is President Donald Trump’s likely choice to be the next ambassador to Russia, Vox News and Reuters reported, citing sources familiar with the matter inside the White House.
Jury selection started on August 12 at the U.S. District Court in the trial of former White House counsel Greg Craig, who is accused of misleading authorities in relation to the work he performed for the benefit of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
He may rule with an iron fist at home, but for Western commentators, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is comedy gold, something some leading entertainers made the most of when the Turkmen president recently disappeared from public view.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused the United States and its allies of turning the Persian Gulf into a "tinderbox ready to blow up" by “pouring weapons” into the region, Al Jazeera reported.
Indian security forces have maintained tight restrictions across Indian-administered Kashmir during the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha, fearing protests against the revocation of the Himalayan region's special status a week ago.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says his government is drafting a “comprehensive package to end the decades of neglect” in the southern metropolis of Karachi.
The casualty toll from two waves of explosions at a Russian ammunition depot in Siberia has risen to one dead and 32 injured.
Russia's National Guard is distancing itself from video footage that shows a uniformed officer punch a detained female protester in the stomach during an August 10 demonstration in Moscow.
U.S. and Taliban negotiators will consult their leaders following an eighth round of peace talks to end the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan, the Taliban say.
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