Afghan farmers have lost income of more than $1 billion from opium sales after the Taliban outlawed poppy cultivation, according to a report from the UN drugs agency on November 5.
South Korea's top spy agency believes North Korea has sent more than 1 million artillery shells to Russia since August for use in the war on Ukraine, according to lawmaker Yoo Sang-bum, who attended a closed-door intelligence briefing on November 1.
Israel’s ambassador to Moscow says some passengers had to hide in the terminal during a weekend riot at an airport in Makhachkala in Daghestan in southern Russia before being flown by helicopter to safety.
A Dutch court convicted a Russian businessman of exporting computer chips and other electronic products to the Russian arms and defense industry in violation of European Union sanctions and sentenced him to 18 months in jail.
People younger than 18 have been barred from visiting this year's World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest, after Hungary's right-wing populist government determined that some of its photos violate a contentious law restricting LGBT content.
UN experts have demanded the Taliban immediately release two women's rights defenders who have been in detention for more than a month.
The new Slovak government has announced a big deployment of police and armed forces along the border with Hungary to prevent migrants entering the country.
UN agencies have reported a sharp increase in Afghans returning home since Pakistan launched a crackdown on people living in the country illegally.
Police in North Macedonia on October 28 said they found 77 migrants in the country’s south and arrested seven Pakistanis suspected of human trafficking.
Two Pakistani soldiers and one militant were killed in a roadside bomb explosion and in a separate shoot-out during an overnight military operation against militant activity in the northwest along the border with Afghanistan, the military said on October 28.
Serbian police have arrested six people and seized automatic weapons after a shooting between migrants near the country's tense border with Hungary killed three people and injured one.
Authoritarian Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka has invited Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to visit Belarus, which has faced increasing isolation over the government's crackdown on dissent and its support of Russia's war with Ukraine.
The White House said on October 26 that Russia is executing soldiers who fail to follow orders and threatening entire units with death if they retreat from Ukrainian artillery fire.
Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan has submitted to parliament a protocol approving Sweden's admission into NATO, marking an important step for that country's bid for alliance membership.
Spain has confiscated 11 ancient artifacts worth around $60 million stolen from Ukraine after the suspected thieves were caught trying to sell them in Madrid.
The United Nations' World Food Program has appealed for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan.
Leaders from the European Union and the Western Balkans will hold a summit in Albania's capital on October 16 to discuss the path to membership in the bloc for the six countries of the region.
Pakistani security forces killed six militants and wounded eight others in a shoot-out during an overnight raid in the country's northwest, the military said on October 15.
Noted Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were stabbed to death in their home by an unknown assailant, state media reported on October 15.
Gunmen shot and killed six construction workers overnight in the volatile southwestern Balochistan Province, Pakistani police said on October 14.
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