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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has nominated caretaker Defense Minister Nicolae Ciuca, a 54-year-old retired army general, as prime minister designate in the latest push to end a two-month long political stalemate.

A high-level delegation of European officials led by the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrel, is holding talks in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, with foreign ministers from Central Asia over the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. 

Former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian is being prosecuted in a new corruption case, officials and his lawyer say.

The arrested former leader of a regional organization for jailed opposition activist Aleksei Navalny in Russia's Bashkortostan has been transferred to a detention center in the Moscow region.

ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) — Funeral services are scheduled for a Georgia firefighter and his...

Armenia has accused Azerbaijan's armed forces of killing one of its soldiers along the countries' border just days after the two South Caucasus nations engaged in the worst fighting since they fought a 44-day war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region a year ago.

Germany has again rejected a proposal by Alyaksandr Lukashenka that it take in some 2,000 migrants currently in the former Soviet republic after Belarus's strongman accused European officials of failing to engage with Minsk on solving the problem and warning it could lead to armed conflict.

Amnesty International says two Iranian university students detained without trial for more than 1 1/2 years are at risk of being convicted in “grossly unfair” trial on charges they deny.

Amid what might be close elections in which Budapest’s warm ties with China are at issue, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government is suddenly trying not to appear overtly pro-Beijing.

Former Russian security officer Aleksandr Litvinenko died in London 15 years ago of radiation poisoning. His widow has been working ever since to make sure his life and murder are not forgotten.