Ukraine's military says that two of its soldiers were killed and four were wounded amid multiple cease-fire violations by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine on October 17.
Pakistani officials say a bomb attack on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta has killed at least six members of the country's security forces and one civilian.
A Moscow court has extended the house arrest for renowned theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, whose detention on fraud charges stunned the Russian artistic world and elicited support internationally.
Prosecutors in Tajikistan say authorities have drawn up a registry of more than 300 LGBT people in the Central Asian nation, a move purportedly aimed at protecting sexual minorities and halting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Afghan officials say two separate suicide and gun attacks on government forces have left at least 71 people dead.
Ukraine's main security agency has claimed it averted potential violence planned during a protest in front of the country's parliament, an action organized by controversial firebrand politician Mikheil Saakashvili.
A prominent Uzbek human rights advocate, Ganihon Mamathonov, has been released after spending eight years in prison.
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has called a leading contender in the race to succeed him a "flunky" of a foreign country, lashing out amid tension ahead of an October 15 vote in the Central Asian country.
Kyrgyz authorities say Kazakhstan has tightened control along the border between the Central Asian neighbors amid tension over the October 15 presidential election in Kyrgyzstan.
Police have scuffled with Georgian opposition activists who were protesting against the Tbilisi city council's move to give a plot of land to a construction company linked to billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the Georgian Dream party.
The family of an Iranian-British woman serving a five-year prison sentence in Tehran for allegedly plotting to topple Iran's clerical establishment says a new case has been opened against her.
The president of Kosovo has accused the international community of failing to keep the promises made to the country in exchange for setting up a Netherlands-based war crimes tribunal.
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