KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Afghan officials in eastern Nangarhar province said five civilians, including three children, were killed by a NATO air strike.
MOSCOW, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A Kremlin official chided the Netherlands Saturday for purportedly failing to take steps to rein in a ship belonging to the environmental group Greenpeace.
TRIPOLI, Libya, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- At least 15 Libyan soldiers were killed and five others were wounded Saturday in an attack on a military checkpoint southeast of Tripoli, Libya, officials said.
SEBESTIA, West Bank, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Two West Bank border crossing guards were injured Saturday, neither seriously, when a car sped through a checkpoint ant hit them, officials said.
MOSCOW, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- One person was killed and 12 injured after a fire in a high-rise apartment building in Moscow Saturday, emergency officials said.
FLORENCE, Italy, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A previously discredited mafia convict testified again in the Italian retrial of Amanda Knox and her ex-lover, saying Meredith Kercher's murder was mob-related.
LAMPEDUSA, India, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Rescuers attempting to save migrants whose boat sank off the coast of an Italian island say they have given up hope of finding anyone else alive.
BALI, Indonesia, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday the U.S. government shutdown due to "political silliness" put's the nation's global reputation is at risk.
NADOR, Morocco, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A teenage couple in Morocco were arrested after a picture of them kissing outside their high school wound up in the newspaper, a human rights activist said.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority security forces have been carrying out a series of raids in refugee camps in the Jenin area aimed at extremist groups, officials said.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Irish voters decided. by a narrow margin, to retain the upper house of the country's legislature, officials said Saturday.
LONDON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A British watchdog group says much of the money given to help Syrian refugees may be funneled instead to terrorist groups.
MOSCOW, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- About 700,000 volunteers from across Russia were expected to take part Saturday in a massive project to plant trees, officials said.
ASSISI, Italy, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Pope Francis, visiting the Italian birthplace of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, called on the Catholic Church to do more to serve the poor.
GUATEMALA CITY, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said Mexican authorities turned over an alleged drug baron wanted in the slayings of eight police officers in June.
