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Afghanistan's Taliban Wednesday urged Pakistan to review its plans to expel Afghan immigrants, rejecting charges the displaced community is involved in the security problems facing the neighboring country.

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A senior UN human rights official on Wednesday called on authorities in Liberia to take all necessary measures to ensure that the upcoming elections can take place in a fully inclusive manner.

The spread of violence from Port-au-Prince to Artibonite, Haiti's main rice-growing region, is exacerbating an already critical humanitarian emergency, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.

Niger's military-appointed Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine on Tuesday accused France of plotting to assassinate ministers and other public figures in the country.

Norway will increase defense budget by approximately 20% in 2024 compared to the current year's budget, Norwegian Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum said in an interview, published on Wednesday.

The Russian peacekeeping force is monitoring the situation around the clock, as well as patrolling along routes in the settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Moldovan authorities on October 4 reinforced a ban on members of an outlawed Russia-backed party taking part in upcoming local elections, in effect reversing the Constitutional Court's decision a day earlier that had scrapped the interdiction.

A Belgrade court on October 4 ordered the release of Milan Radoicic, the top official of the main ethnic Serb political party in Kosovo, who had been detained in Serbia a day earlier for his involvement in a deadly confrontation with Kosovar police late last month.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has said he plans to attend European Union talks scheduled for October 5 in Granada, Spain, despite reports that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has decided not to take part in the meeting where discussions over a peace deal were expected.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on October 4 said he and Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev both "affirmed our commitment to the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity" during a telephone conservation.

However close the eggs thrown by Tajik opposition activists in Berlin came to President Emomali Rahmon's car -- and some may well have been on target - the authorities' reaction has been swift. and some may well have been on target - the authorities' reaction has been swift.

The secretive daughter of Tajikistan's president has quietly built a health-care empire that benefits from government largesse, state promotion, and lobbying from her husband, an ambassador for the Central Asian nation, an investigation by RFE/RL's Tajik Service has found.

A slashed, deflated basketball lay on the doorstep of the family home of Nedim Salaharevic in Vlasenica, a village in Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

After a public uproar - and apparent input from his father - new Prime Minister Hun Manet this week reversed a government plan to introduce new taxes and raise existing taxes.

The Philippines said Wednesday it was investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three Filipino fishermen after a foreign ship struck and sank their boat in the country's exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.

RAAF aircrew have built confidence sharing knowledge and developing tactics with their Indonesian counterparts.

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University of Hong Kong president and U.S. citizen Zhang Xiang has denied allegations of 'mismanagement' linked to a donation of 10 million yuan from a U.S.-sanctioned company, saying the claims are part of an 'organized' smear campaign against him.

In a push to prevent public demonstrations in Hong Kong, police and university authorities have stopped students from staging a vigil to commemorate the Umbrella Movement and even arrested a man for holding white flowers in public over the past week.