A family member says the head of Central African Republic's armed forces has been shot dead and his teenage son injured in an attack near a district police station in the capital.
The Russian military said Tuesday it had beefed up its forces in Syria with state-of-the-art air defense missiles, an announcement that follows Washington's move to suspend contacts with Russia over Syria.
The British Health Secretary has promised to increase the number of medical students in Britain in a bid to make the country more self-sufficient in doctors.
Hungary's prime minister announced Tuesday he will propose amendments to the constitution banning the mass settlement of migrants without parliament's approval.
Libyan officials say several rockets fired from areas held by the Islamic State group have landed in Benghazi's city center, killing three civilians and wounding more than a dozen.
Fierce gunbattles raged for a second day on Tuesday in Afghanistan's embattled northern city of Kunduz while in the country's south, insurgents killed 12 policemen at checkpoints around the Helmand provincial capital and seized another district they had attacked a day earlier.
A U.S. Republican congressman who supports Donald Trump has endorsed the right-wing candidate leading in popularity polls in the race to become Austria's next president, saying the Austrian's anti-immigration views have been heard internationally.
Pakistani police say gunmen have killed four women in an attack on a bus carrying members of the country's Shiite minority in the southwestern city of Quetta.
The United Arab Emirates' main state oil company is combining two major offshore divisions as it streamlines its operations amid a slump in oil prices.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visited a synagogue in the Manila metropolis Tuesday to personally apologize to the Jewish community for making a "terribly wrong" comparison between his anti-drug campaign and Hitler and the Holocaust in a recent speech.