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Myanmar urged to free 100 prisoners
Amnesty International urges Myanmar to free nearly 100 “prisoners of conscience” before November polls.

Amnesty International urges Myanmar to free nearly 100 “prisoners of conscience” before November polls.

The European Union (EU) is to decide on measures to speed up the deportation of asylum seekers.

India says it is ready to pay a second trench of outstanding oil dues to Iran on the due date.

Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are meant to demonstrate that it will not accept the diktats of the US, a political analyst and activist says.

FIFA’s ethics committee provisionally suspends the global soccer body’s President Sepp Blatter and his possible successor, Michel Platini, for 90 days.

Takfiri Daesh militants reportedly abduct 200 people in Iraq’s embattled northern province of Kirkuk.

EU ministers discuss a text warning countries they must send more migrants back to their countries of origin.

Indonesia agrees to get international help to combat forest fires.

Some 160 Saudi-led forces are reportedly killed and 378 others injured in Yemen’s Ma’rib Province over the past two days.

One person is killed and 31 are injured in clashes between protesting miners and police in Nicaragua.

Iran says it welcomes China’s investments in the development of Chabahar port in Sistant-and-Baluchestan province.

NATO says it is ready to defend Turkey against “threats” on its southern border, where Russian jets mistakenly entered Turkish airspace.

Yemen’s Houthi movement expresses conditional support for a UN-brokered peace plan.

The US is “untouchable” when it comes to violations of the Geneva Conventions, an American political analyst says.

Brazilian President Dilma Roussef loses a court battle over budgetary practices.

Russia says it has launched over 100 air assaults at Daesh positions across Syria over the past week.

The UN calls on Mexico to stop using army personnel on the streets to carry out law enforcement duties.

Hillary Clinton's private server was the target of cyber attacks originated in China, Germany and South Korea.