Uzbekistan declares a state of emergency as violence erupts in its northwest autonomous region over draft constitution amendments Massive protests engulfed northwest Uzbekistan on Friday over the Central Asian nation’s plan to revoke key rights from its autonomous region, Karakalpakstan, amid constitutional changes. The standoff between police and protesters turned violent, with videos on social... 

Footage emerging late this week from an annual military exercise hosted by Russia and involving China, India, and Pakistan has drawn the attention of western military experts who say it’s definitely “upped the ante this year” given the number of foreign forces and the sheer size of the drills, and especially given it’s the first time Russia’s historic political and economic rival China has... 

Stockholm authorities have confirmed that four people have died and 15 are injured, following the truck attack that took place outside Ahlens department store in the city. Swedish police have also confirmed two people has been arrested, local media report. Police said that the first person was arrested in a Northern Stockholm suburb and resembles the picture and description they issued earlier Friday,... 

In early November Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told reporter John Pilger in an exclusive interview that it wasn’t Russia who hacked into the DNC and Clinton staff emails. Assange went on to say he “felt sorry” for Hillary Clinton. Today former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, who is a close associate of Julian Assange, said he has met the DNC leaker and he’s not Russian. Via Craig... 

A Muslim woman dressed all in black and holding what is thought to be a child’s severed head has been arrested near a metro station in Moscow. She was shouting, “I am a terrorist,” and reportedly threatened to blow herself up. According to LifeNews, the victim was a girl, identified as Nastya M. After the murder, the female suspect went to a metro station, where she was stopped by a local police... 

The Aral Sea in 1989 (left), and now (2014) Once the fourth-biggest lake in the world, the eastern basin of the Aral Sea in central Asia is now completely dry. It is the result of a Soviet-era project to divert rivers for agriculture and a lack of rainfall at its source. “This is the first time the eastern basin has completely dried in modern times,” Philip Micklin, an Aral Sea expert from Western... 

Firefighters try to extinguish a burning NATO supply oil tanker following an attack by gunmen on the outskirts of Quetta, June 19, 2011. A bomb explosion has destroyed 22 US-led NATO trucks carrying supplies for US-led forces in Afghanistan’s Samangan Province, an Afghan official says. The incident took place on Wednesday after a magnetic bomb placed in a parking lot exploded, setting the supply... 

The building of the US Embassy in the Uzbek capital Tashkent. Uzbekistan has expelled eight American nationals from the Central Asian country on charges of making “unlawful” attempts to convert local Uzbeks to Christianity. Under the guise of businessmen or English language teachers, the eight US nationals “carried out unlawful missionary activity to attract Uzbek students” to Christianity,... 

The Russians were less likely to register marriages with foreigners. However, experts still managed to calculate who among the inhabitants of Earth like most Russians. It turned out that the palm went to residents of neighboring Ukraine. At least , evidenced by the RF Ministry of Justice data presented in the State Duma on Monday at a roundtable on international marriages. According to State Duma...