Thousands of people are attempting to flee Irpin, Ukraine’s second largest city, to Kyiv, the country’s capital, which is nearly 25 kilometres distant. To halt oncoming Russian tanks, Ukrainian forces blew up bridges near the city
Uyghur professor and translator has been serving a 10-year sentence in a prison in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region for separatism and promoting Western culture, a former Uyghur classmate of the man and a village official confirmed to RFA this month, more than four years after his detention
For years, Pakistan’s agricultural business model has remained unchanged. A young female entrepreneur, on the other hand, is aiming to change the multibillion-dollar sector that is dominated by men by eliminating the middleman entirely
On March 6, police detained tens of thousands of anti-war protesters across Russia during protests against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Over 4,800 people were held in at least 59 different Russian cities, according to the independent protest-monitoring organisation OVD-Info
Russian air raids and shelling have spared Zaporizhzhya so far, but highly ravaged towns further south, such as Mariupol or Melitopol, are not far away, and Russian soldiers are advancing north
Hundreds of thousands of people are leaving the nation as Russia continues its bombardment of Ukrainian cities
Yevheniy Sakun, a Ukrainian cameraman, was killed when Russia shelled a TV tower in Kyiv. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, his killing highlights the dangers that journalists face
Nearly 800 Uyghurs are being held in a detention camp in Manas county in northwestern China’s Xinjiang, said an official from the area who previously worked at the facility
RFE/RL’s Maryan Kushnir witnessed the aftermath of an attack in Borodyanka, a town northwest of Kiev in the Kyiv area. His footage from March 2 shows extensive damage in residential areas, with some structures still engulfed in flames and others reduced to rubble
Police in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi are investigating the case of a woman locked in an iron cage in Jia county, amid ongoing public anger over the trafficking of women and girls in the wake of the chaining of a woman in Jiangsu