A bomb attack in Afghanistan’s Maidan Wardak province just west of the capital Kabul has claimed the lives of five people, according to a statement by security forces, Anadolu Agency reported. ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held separate meetings Saturday with German, Russian and French leaders ahead of a four-way Syria summit to be held in Istanbul, according to Anadolu Agency. Erdogan's closed-door meetings with Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has busted a cell of the Islamic State terror group, outlawed in Russia, which had conspired to carry out high-profile terrorist attacks in Moscow, the FSB press service said in a statement, TASS reported ...

An explosion at a firecracker factory in northern India Friday killed eight people just days before the big Indian festival of Diwali, police said, AFP reported. Firework use hits a peak across India during the festival, although the Supreme Court ...

Ford Motor is recalling 1.46 million Ford Focus cars in North America to fix a defect that could lead to stalling, according to USA TODAY. The recall affects the 2012 through 2018 model-year Focus with 2-liter GDI and 2-liter GTDI ...

The number of people killed in the Kuban flood caused by heavy rains has reached six, Krasnodar Region Minister for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations Sergei Kapustin told TASS. "The total number [of people killed in the flood] has reached six," he ...

At least 14 children were injured on Friday in a knife attack at a kindergarten in China's southwestern city of Chongqing, according to Euronews. A 39-year-old woman, identified only by her surname Liu, attacked the children at the gate of the kindergarten with a kitchen ...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is set to take part in a plenary session of the 1st Forum of Regions of Belarus and Ukraine in Gomel on 26 October, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader ...

Floods have left two people dead and two others injured along with one missing in the Tuapse district of the Krasnodar Region, parts of which were hammered by severe storms, Municipal District Head Anatoly Rusin told TASS on Thursday ...

Moscow and Rome are exploring options of connecting Italy to the TurkStream gas pipeline, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after talks with Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte, TASS reported ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Wednesday its 20-Year Air Passenger Forecast shows that China will displace the United States as the world's largest aviation market in the mid-2020s, according to Xinhua news agency ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Beijing Thursday afternoon for an official visit to China, according to Xinhua. At the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang ...

A PKK terrorist who illegally crossed to Bulgaria has been handed over to Turkish officials from the Kapikule border crossing in western Edirne province, security sources said on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reported. The man, identified by officials as Hakki Goren, was allegedly planning ...

Japan confirmed Wednesday freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda has been released after more than three years of captivity in Syria and is now in Turkey, and will be coming home as soon as possible, Kyodo news agency reported ...

Nasa believes it has fixed a malfunction with the Hubble telescope which threatened to limit the orbiting observatory's performance, according to BBC. Earlier this month, one of Hubble's gyros - needed to point the spacecraft ...

The Oct. 2 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was "premeditated", Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, according to Anadolu Agency. Speaking during his Justice and Development (AK) Party's group meeting at parliament ...

Croatia's former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Monday was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for bribery and unjustified profits in the 90s wars, Anadolu Agency reported. A court in Croatian capital Zagreb found Sanader guilty ...

Vietnam's rubber stamp National Assembly elected Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as the country's president on Tuesday, consolidating his influence as the most powerful man in the Southeast Asian nation, according to The Associated Press ...

The U.K., France and Germany have condemned the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggy in a joint statement issued on Sunday, according to Anadolu Agency. The statement by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt ...