A Hungarian delegation led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban attended a public funeral ceremony held for Mikhail Gorbachev on September 3 in Moscow. Thousands of people lined up outside the city's House of the Unions to lay flowers at the open coffin of the last Soviet leader.
Opposition candidates in Russia's upcoming general election led a September 4 rally in downtown Moscow in support of media freedom. They protested against a controversial law obliging some media outlets to label themselves as "foreign agents" to Russian audiences.
U.S. President Donald Trump called the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers "a disaster," and warned that if Iran restarts its nuclear program, "they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before." Trump made the comments at the start of a White House meeting with Fren
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on March 29, her first trip to her home country since she was shot in the head by Taliban militants in 2012 for advocating for girls' education. Yousafzai spoke emotionally about her return in an appearance on national television.
Britons have voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. Following are answers to key questions on what will happen next in Britain's relations with the bloc.
The United States has used warships to ferry relief supplies to Georgia after the brief but intense war with Russia in early August, in part to send a signal to Moscow.
Hu said China respected Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and called for further diplomacy, reinforcing the Communist leadership's line toward the long-festering dispute, according to Xinhua news agency.
Members of the two-chamber parliament and four provincial assemblies were voting for a replacement for Pervez Musharraf, who resigned last month.
Thousands of Shi'a demonstrated against the U.S. presence in Iraq, heeding orders from anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for a peaceful show of force on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
At least five people have been killed in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, in a stepped-up campaign against militants near the Afghan border.
A U.S.-led coalition air strike has killed a woman and child and eight Taliban fighters in western Afghanistan, a top Afghan Army official said.
The flagship of the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet has dropped anchor off Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti, where Russian troops have been patrolling since last month's war with Georgia.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is to discuss the Georgia crisis with the leaders of Ukrainian, which is deeply divided over NATO membership and distracted by a domestic political crisis.
BRUSSELS -- NATO and Afghanistan have agreed to coordinate more closely to avoid civilian casualties in operations against militants, an alliance spokesman said.
KARALETI, Georgia -- International military monitors on September 4 entered a Russian buffer zone inside Georgia for the first time since fighting broke out last month over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
President Viktor Yushchenko's party rejects a call by the prime minister to return to the ruling coalition, moving the country closer to early elections.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul will visit Armenia at the weekend for a soccer match, the president's office said on September 3, in a major diplomatic step for the two states which have no diplomatic ties.
A spokesman says NATO states back a U.S. call to show the alliance is prepared to defend its Baltic members from any attack after Russia's intervention in Georgia.
SOCHI, Russia -- Russia will keep pushing for a deal between ex-Soviet Moldova and its breakaway Transdniester region, the Kremlin has said, in a drive to shore up its reputation after last month's war with Georgia.
The IMF offers to lend Georgia $750 million to soften the impact of its war with Russia.
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