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Most of the health facilities in Afghanistan's isolated Uruzgan Province have closed due to threats from the Taliban, local officials said.
The United States on September 25 said it is "deeply troubled" by the conviction of RFE/RL journalist Mykola Semena by a court in Russia-occupied Crimea last week.
Ukraine's president has signed into law a controversial bill that makes Ukrainian the required language of study in state schools from the fifth grade on.
The White House has denied an assertion by North Korea's foreign minister that the United States declared war on it, calling the claim "absurd."
Envoys of the Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region have opened up a new representative office in the southern French city of Marseille.
Amnesty International has accused a Ukrainian state-owned company of trying to violate a UN embargo on arms sales to South Sudan, saying the company sought to supply the African country with thousands of machine guns, mortars, and other weapons.
Police in the Russian city of Perm have refused to launch an investigation into a local food shop over a sign emphasizing in vulgar language that homosexuals are "not allowed" inside.
Russian civil society activists are urging European Union member states to investigate crimes allegedly committed by Chechen authorities on gay men.
A top Russian Foreign Ministry official has asserted the United States is to blame for the death of a Russian general killed in eastern Syria over the weekend.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the governor of the Samara Oblast, Nikolai Merkushkin, amid speculation that a shake-up of regional leaders is imminent ahead of a presidential election in March.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has returned to Islamabad after a month in London, arriving in the capital a day before his scheduled appearance at an accountability court over corruption allegations that led to his disqualification from office for life.
Agents of the Russian state have committed serious human rights abuses, including torture, since Russia occupied and seized control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, a UN human rights report says.
Vote counting was under way after a large voter turnout for a referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region that came despite warnings from the United Nations, the United States, Turkey, and Iran that the ballot would fuel tensions in the region.
President Donald Trump has issued new restrictions on people trying to enter the United States from eight nations, including Iran, to replace his expiring travel ban.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes the United States would not strike North Korea because it knows Pyongyang possesses nuclear weapons.
The U.S. Supreme Court on September 25 signaled that it may dismiss a constitutional challenge to President Donald Trump's travel ban after he expanded it to cover two countries without Muslim majorities.
Afghan security officials say at least three civilians were wounded on September 24 when a suicide car bomber attacked a Danish military convoy from the NATO-led international mission in Kabul.
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