Final results from the first round of Moldova's presidential election show a pro-Russian front-runner with a strong lead over a pro-European candidate before the Nov. 13 runoff.
South Sudan's government says eight people have been accused of rape and eight others accused of looting in a July rampage at a hotel popular with foreigners, but it is not clear how many are soldiers.
Russia's foreign minister accused other countries involved in Syrian peace negotiations of having "sabotaged" the process with continued backing of militant groups intent on toppling President Bashar Assad.
Turkey's state-run news agency says Korkut Ozal, a former Turkish government minister and brother of Turkey's late president Turgut Ozal, has died at 87.
German authorities have conducted raids in three states against asylum-seekers, primarily from Chechnya, suspected of having formed a criminal organization.
A closely watched survey is suggesting the manufacturing sector across the 19-country eurozone has started the final quarter of the year strongly, expanding at its fastest clip in nearly three years.
A Pakistani government spokesman says police have released nearly 2,000 opposition party supporters of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan who were detained ahead of planned anti-government protests.
Leaders of liberal Jewish movements in the United States and Israel have rallied for equal prayer rights at a Jewish holy site despite a plea from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to push the matter publicly.
Thousands of South Africans are demonstrating for the resignation of President Jacob Zuma, who has been enmeshed in scandals that critics say are undermining the country's democracy.
A court in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan has sentenced a man to death for killing 10 people in an Islamic extremist attack in the country's largest city earlier this year.
South Korea's biggest political scandal in years includes a bucket of animal slop, an attack with heavy construction equipment on a government building, an abandoned Prada shoe and allegations that a Korean Rasputin has been running the highest office in the land.
French authorities have begun busing underage migrants out of Calais to processing centers around France, amid tensions around the closure of Calais' vast migrant camp.