Iran has sentenced four women's rights activists to six months in jail, including one who was awarded a $75,000 human rights prize in Sweden this year. It was the latest sign of a clampdown on activists working to change legislation which they say discriminates against women in the Islamic Republic.
Police blocked streets in the capital of Russia's volatile Ingushetia region today to prevent new protests over the death of an opposition leader, which the United States has called on Moscow to investigate.
BRUSSELS -- European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said that Serbia could be granted the status of EU candidate in 2009, later than the target initially set by Belgrade of the end of this year.
KYIV -- Some members of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine have said the party would quit the governing coalition, raising the prospect of snap elections barely nine months after the government was formed.
Washington urges Russian authorities to hold to account those responsible for the shooting death of Magomed Yevloyev, who died in police custody.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan on September 3 for the first leg of a trip to show that Washington stands by its allies in the region after Russia's military intervention in Georgia.
The U.S. military has disputed the toll of 96 civilians the Afghan government and United Nations said were killed in an air strike last month, saying only five to seven civilians had died.
The United States' "carte blanche" support for Georgia's leaders helped provoke the conflict there and should now be scrapped, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said today.
The commander of British forces in Afghanistan lauded the successful delivery of a turbine to Helmand Province today, calling it the "end of the beginning" of the campaign against the Taliban.
UN rights body implores Iran to stay death sentences handed down for all convicts accused of committing crimes as minors.
Iran's parliament indefinitely delays a vote on a bill women's rights activists say would encourage polygamy.
Pakistani Taliban says abductions will continue until the government stops attacking militants.
Moscow is now more isolated and less trusted than it was before its intervention in Georgia, says Britain's Foreign Secretary.
Police in the southern Russian region break up an antigovernment protest, two days after an opposition leader dies in custody.
The decision at an emergency summit in Brussels came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hailed Moscow's military intervention over the breakaway South Ossetia conflict as setting a new standard for defending its national interests.
More than a million Georgians across the former Soviet republic have protested against Russian military action and the Kremlin's backing for the country's two separatist regions.
Russia wants an international police presence in "security zones" along the line separating Georgia from its breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.
U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed more than 220 suspected Taliban militants in an operation in southern Afghanistan last week, the U.S. military said, the biggest recent toll of insurgent deaths.
The U.S. military hands over Iraq's western Al-Anbar Governorate to Iraqi security forces on September 1, less than two years after the region was all but lost to a Sunni Arab insurgency.
A new flashpoint has emerged in the Iraqi government's tense relationship with minority Kurds as Kurdish and Iraqi government forces vie for control of an ethnically mixed town, officials have said.
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