The US has rejected a Russian proposal to send diplomats to monitor the upcoming presidential elections and some states have even threatened to bring criminal charges against any that appear at ballot stations, Russian election officials reported Thursday. Sources in the Central Elections Commission have told Izvestia daily that its ...
A suspected mastermind of a 2009 attack on the Pakistan army headquarters near the capital Islamabad has been killed in a security forces operation in northwest Pakistan, local media reported Wednesday. Local TV channel Express News, quoting an unnamed senior security official, reported that Akbar Ali, a senior Pakistani Taliban ...