The deputy director and two other top executives of Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation have been arrested on suspicions of attempted fraud, investigators say.
Pakistan's 21-member cabinet has been sworn in, a day after newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed in a televised speech that his government would cut spending, end corruption, and repatriate public funds.
U.S. President Donald Trump has denounced an investigation into ties between Russia and his 2016 election campaign, calling the probe "McCarthyism at its WORST!"
Iraq's Supreme Court has ratified the results of general elections in May that were marred by allegations of fraud, its spokesman says.
The jailed leader of Russia's opposition Levy Front (Left Front) movement, Sergei Udaltsov, has been hospitalized, observers and his social media channels say.
The Taliban has seized a district center in the northern Afghan province of Faryab, officials say, days after the militants captured a military base in the same province.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that a newly established Iran Action Group in the U.S. State Department aims to overthrow Iran’s clerical establishment, but it would fail.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Iran's authorities to immediately release prominent lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, saying her arrest and the new charges against her reveal the "grave degree the Iranian judiciary is criminalizing human rights activism."
A Russian woman who has been charged in the United States with acting as an unregistered agent for the Russian government has been transferred from a jail in Washington, D.C., to another one in Alexandria, Virginia, her attorney and jail officials say.
The first of an expected 2 million Muslims on August 19 began celebrating the hajj in Saudi Arabia, one of the five pillars of the world's fastest-growing religion.
The Kremlin says German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a “very serious and detailed" three-hour discussion during their meeting outside of Berlin, including an exchange of views on Ukraine, Syria, Iran, and a crucial pipeline project.
Iran's defense minister says the country will continue to focus efforts on developing missile capabilities and will next week unveil a new fighter jet amid U.S. efforts to curb Tehran’s weapons programs and regional influence.
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