Prior to the Taliban takeover, 80% of the Afghan government's budget was funded by the U.S. and other Western donors.

Russian opposition activists accused Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google of removing a protest-voting app from their Russian stores Friday under pressure from authorities as parliamentary elections got underway.

A woman this year claimed that she was sexually assaulted in 2005, and the district attorney's office said the statute of limitations had expired.

The Justice Department moved on Thursday to block a bankruptcy plan that grants broad legal immunity to the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, whose drug OxyContin has been at the heart of the nation’s opioid epidemic.

The Indian student was stopped from entering exam centre after a teacher objected to her clothes.