The Taliban has suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN said, right before a September immunization campaign was due to start.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group claimed responsibility for the weekend bombing that killed two police officials in restive southwestern Pakistan, officials said on September 16.
Iran has sent a research satellite into orbit with a rocket built by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' aerospace division, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on September 14.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on September 13 accused six British diplomats of spying and said a decision has been made to withdraw their accreditation.
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American blasted off on September 11 for an express trip to the International Space Station.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump clashed over how to end Russia's war in Ukraine in their first face-to-face debate before November's U.S. presidential election.
The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies said on September 7 that Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of war as they urged Kyiv's allies not to be held back by Russian threats of escalation.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said the use of U.S.-donated weapons for long-range strikes on Russian territory would not turn the tide of the war in Ukraine's favor. Austin spoke on September 6 after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Romania, Hungary, Georgia, and Azerbaijan launched a joint venture on September 3 to install a power line under the Black Sea aimed at bringing more renewable energy into the European Union from the eastern Caucasus.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on September 3 banned Russian athlete Tatyana Tomashova, a two-time world champion, for 10 years.
A new report by experts shared exclusively with the Associated Press suggests one of Tehran's most advanced missiles is far less accurate than previously thought.
A mudslide triggered by heavy monsoon rain hit a house in a remote part of northwestern Pakistan, killing 12 people, mostly children, rescue officials said on August 30.
Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said on August 29.
The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top UN official warned on August 25.
Russia’s Supreme Court on August 20 extended the pretrial detention of three lawyers who once represented slain Russian opposition politician, Aleksei Navalny, and are now facing charges of extremism.
U.S. intelligence officials said August 19 they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American politics.
One of Russia’s most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing plumes of ash 5 kilometers into the sky over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East.
Olympic javelin gold medalist Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan received $359,000 from the government on August 13 as the country continues to celebrate his record-breaking throw at the Paris Games.
A man accused of stabbing an 11-year-old girl in London’s bustling theater district was charged August 13 with attempted murder.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on August 12 that it was investigating a hack of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
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