Fighting in Slovyansk killed dozens of people on Monday as pro-Russian forces shot down a third helicopter with anti-aircraft missiles.
UN says focus is on assisting some 4,000 displaced people from the devastating landslide.
"There were more than 1,000 families living in that village. A total of 2,100 people...are trapped," a Badakhshan spokesman said.
Three people were killed and 79 wounded in a bomb and knife attack at a train station in the far western region of China on Wednesday.
Regardless of outcome, the U.S. and the West look forward to a more engaged post-Karzai relationship.
Veterans groups and others continue to call for Obama to intervene in Phoenix, where some vets may have been victimized by a secret waiting list.
The White House will soon provide Congress a secretive dossier on about 50 non-Afghan detainees in a U.S. military prison north of Kabul.
There's a belief among White House officials that Afghan security forces have become strong enough to contain the Taliban-led insurgency.
Western powers watch results closely; memories remain of flawed 2009 voting procedures.
After the recent Fort Hood shootings, experts point to massive overprescription of dangerous drug cocktails.
David Michod's next film, “The Rover,” starring Guy Pearce and “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson, is slated for a June 13 release.
Before social media, the worst thing your kid could do was prank call 911. Now, they can threaten an airplane with the click of a button.
Suspicion fell on Boko Haram, though there was no immediate claim of responsibility from slamists who are mainly active in the northeast.
Why the discrepancy?
The latest action is a broadening of its decision to suspend cooperation with Moscow over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
It will take six weeks for results to be declared in the race to succeed President Hamid Karzai.
With only isolated attacks on polling stations, voting was largely peaceful in Afghanistan's presidential election on Saturday.
The U.S. wants its European allies to spend more money for the military. There is just one problem: The Europeans don't have it.
A Taliban attack last month on a hotel in Kabul had killed eight people, including an Agence France-Presse journalist and his family.
Looking for federal contracts? Then you have new affirmative action quotas to contend with regarding veterans and the disabled.
After killing three people and injuring more than a dozen others, the gunman, identified as Spc. Ivan Lopez, was confronted by a military police officer before he shot himself.
India, the world's largest democracy, has very few women in positions of political power.
