The Afghan government on Friday delayed October 20 parliamentary elections by one week in Kandahar province after the provincial police chief and intelligence chief were assassinated by the Taliban.

The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday decided to recommend to Governor Banwarilal Purohit the release of seven convicts serving life term for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Fisheries Minister D. Jayakumar said.

Political party leaders in Tamil Nadu on Thursday welcomed a Supreme Court order asking the Governor to decide on the mercy petition of A.G. Perarivalan, serving life term for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has once again compared the RSS with the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist organisation, and said both were banned after the assassination of the top leaders of India and Egypt -- Mahatma Gandhi and Anwar Sadat, respectively.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made shocking allegations on political parties by saying that they are planning an assassination on her.

The youngest Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Wednesday returned to Pakistan six years after she was shot in head by one of the Taliban militants. Her assassination was attempted for an effort to promote education for girls.

Scores of suspected Russian diplomats have been expelled by various governments across the world, the US is the latest to oust nearly 60 officials tagged as Russian spies in an unprecedented response to a nerve agent attack.

A Pakistani court is set to announce its verdict in the murder case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday after about a decade, officials said.

A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was killed on Wednesday morning in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, police said. The deceased Raja Valmiki was member of the state executive.

US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen says rapper Snoop Dogg should apologise for his new video in which he parodies an assassination of Trump.