A Pakistani court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death on February 24 for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over violence against women in the deeply patriarchal nation.
Concern is rising among many Hungarians living near the Ukrainian border as fears over a Russian attack on Ukraine have grown. RFE/RL spoke to people in the Hungarian villages of Zahony and Gemzse and asked them how hostilities might affect the border region.
In Afghanistan's Panjshir Province, former police officers and soldiers scrape together a living by digging emeralds out of the frigid Hindu Kush Mountains.
The first Ukrainian troops have been given training with NLAW (new-generation light anti-tank weapons) delivered by Britain to boost Kyiv's defenses as Russia continues to mass forces on the border.
Video showed protesters storming City Hall in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, on January 5. After overwhelming police, they stripped them of their riot gear and made piles of shields and batons next to the building.
Kazakh police used stun grenades in the early hours of January 5 as hundreds of protesters tried to storm the mayor's office in the country's biggest city, Almaty. (AP, AFP, Reuters)
The humanitarian situation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was discussed at a December 19 extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
A Moscow trade show pitching glitzy funeral options takes on grim significance as hundreds of Russians die each day from COVID-19.
More than 20 million people in Uzbekistan are eligible to vote in a presidential election, in which incumbent President Shavkat Mirziyoev is widely expected to win a second term of office given the absence of opposition candidates.
Hundreds of Afghan women have been leading protests in several cities across the country demanding the protection of rights for women and denouncing what they say is Pakistan's support for the Taliban takeover. At a Kabul protest on September 7, Taliban gunmen fired in the air.
Thousands of Montenegrins blocked the roads to Cetinje, a former capital of Montenegro, before the inauguration of Metropolitan Joanikije as the leader of the Montenegrin branch of the Serbian Orthodox Church on September 5. Hundreds clashed with the police in Cetinje.
Romania will soon conduct a census of its brown bear population using DNA for the first time, with tensions high between villagers fearing further attacks and conservationists warning against looser hunting laws.
The Defense ministries of Britain and Belgium have released footage from ongoing evacuations of Afghan contractors and their families. The British video shows evacuees walking toward a plane in Kabul on August 21. The Belgian video from the same day captures the arrival of 34 Afghans in Belgium.
Current Time freelance reporter Liza Karimi describes life on the streets of Taliban-controlled Kabul, three days after the militants first entered the Afghan capital. She says many people -- especially women -- remain fearful, despite Taliban reassurances.
Macedonian firefighters, supported by their Austrian, Bulgarian, and Slovenian colleagues, battle a wildfire near the town of Berova in the east of North Macedonia on August 6. (AFP)
Thousands of Hungarians rallied on June 5 against the government's plan to build a campus for a Chinese university in the capital, Budapest. It was the first major rally after lockdown measures in Hungary. The demonstration was addressed by Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony.
Hundreds of supporters of the Belarusian democratic opposition answered exiled presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya's call to join a rally on May 29 in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius. The date marked the first anniversary of the arrest of her husband, vlogger Syarhey Tsikhanouski.
Belarusian opposition supporters held a rally in central Warsaw on May 29, almost a week after Raman Pratasevich and his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, were arrested after a commercial airliner they were on was forced to land in Minsk. (AFP)
Thousands of Armenians marched in Yerevan on April 23 to commemorate WWI-era mass killings of their kin by Ottoman forces, the bloodletting which U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly set to recognize as genocide. (AFP)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on April 19 pleaded with a radical Islamist group to end its violent campaign to oust the French ambassador, saying the unrest was harming the nation.
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