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The director of a major Russian laboratory has denied his institute is the source of a smallpox vaccine that is thought to have wiped out thousands of sheep in Central Asia.
Authorities in Uzbekistan and neighboring Kyrgyzstan are investigating a rash of sheep deaths that they say appear to have been caused by a tainted vaccine.
Syria's internal opposition has called on both the government and armed rebels to stop violence immediately at a rare meeting in Damascus.
No representatives of the political opposition in Belarus were elected to parliament in the September 23 legislative elections, according to preliminary results posted by the Central Election Commission.
Afghanistan has banned all newspapers from Pakistan in a move the Interior Ministry says is aimed to block the Taliban from influencing public opinion through the press.
Belarus's Central Election Commission has announced that the country's parliamentary elections are valid, as voter turnout passed the required 50 percent.
A Pakistani government minister is offering a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of a film denigrating Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
The U.S. Senate has rejected by a vote of 81 to 10 a proposal to suspend foreign aid to the governments of Pakistan, Egypt, and Libya in response to recent attacks on U.S. interests in those countries.
At least three people have been killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi when protesters took over several Islamist militia bases.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the torture and ill treatment of inmates at a prison and juvenile detention facility in Georgia.
The United States says the last of the 33,000 “surge” troops ordered into Afghanistan by President Barack Obama nearly three years ago have withdrawn from the country.
Washington says relations with Ukraine are "on hold' due to Kyiv's prosecution of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other leaders of the Orange Revolution.
Germany summoned the Belarusian ambassador on September 20 after Minsk denied visas to two European election observers who were planning to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections in Belarus.
President Almazbek Atambaev says that cooperation with "the great nation of Russia" is crucial for Kyrgyzstan.
Graphic videos apparently showing the abuse of prison inmates have sent shock waves across Georgia. In an exclusive interview, the former prison guard who leaked the videos tells RFE/RL that he was "waiting for this moment" to lift the government's "mask of criminal actions" and denies allegations that he was paid by the opposition.
Russia says it is turning its back on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from the country following what it says were attempts by the mission to influence Russian politics and elections.
Members of the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN have paraded topless through Paris to celebrate the opening of what they describe as their new "training camp" in the French capital.
President Basher al-Assad has told visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi that the war engulfing his country threatens not just Syria, but also Iran and Lebanon's Shi'ite Hizballah movement.
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