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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the last of the 33,000 “surge” troops ordered into Afghanistan by President Barack Obama nearly three years ago have withdrawn from the country.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.
The French satirical weekly "Charlie Hebdo" has published a series of cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will end its activities in Russia following a decision by Moscow, according to U.S. officials.
The NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan has said that a decision to curtail joint operations with Afghan forces is a "temporary" response to a "current threat."
Afghan militants have claimed responsibility for a suicide car-bomb attack near the international airport in Kabul that killed 12 people, including at least eight foreigners.
Thousands of demonstrators have marched through Beirut's Shi'ite suburbs to protest a film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad.
Iran's nuclear chief has said that "terrorists and saboteurs" may have infiltrated the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in an effort to derail Tehran's nuclear program.
United Nations human rights investigators have drawn up a new list of individuals and units suspected of committing war crimes in Syria.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement that it was sending a team to Afghanistan's Laghman Province to investigate civilian casualties as a result of a NATO air strike.
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