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.
The United States says it has information indicating that North Korea has delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia for use in Ukraine in violation of UN Security Council resolutions.
NATO will hold a major nuclear exercise next week, the alliance's chief said on October 12, an announcement that came after Russia warned it would pull out of a global nuclear test-ban agreement.
Congress must pass more funding quickly for the United States to be able to give both Israel and Ukraine the weapons and munitions they both need, a top Pentagon official said on October 9.
Forcibly deporting Afghans from Pakistan could lead to severe human rights violations -- including the separation of families and deportation of minors, the UN warned on October 7.
Authorities in Cyprus on October 6 said they had arrested a Russian journalist for “security reasons,” prompting the Russian Foreign Ministry to demand a formal apology.
A day after pledging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy their unwavering support, EU leaders on October 6 will face one of their worst political headaches on a key commitment -- how and when to welcome debt-laden and battered Ukraine into the bloc.
Bangladesh on October 5 received the first uranium shipment from Russia to fuel the country's only nuclear power plant, still under construction by Moscow.
Dozens of people, inclduing a 6-year-old child, were killed in a Russian attack that hit a grocery store in a village in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine on October 5, according to Ukrainian officials.
The international Red Cross called for the ouster of the head of the Belarusian Red Cross, who stirred international outrage for boasting it was actively ferrying Ukrainian children from Russian-controlled areas to Belarus.
The United States has transferred to Ukraine 1.1 million rounds of small-arms ammunition it seized from Iran, U.S. Central Command said on October 4.
A Russian-born Swedish businessman was acquitted of collecting information for Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU, for almost a decade.
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