Kazakh police forcibly detained a teenage girl in the capital, Nur-Sultan, on September 21 when she was “going to the store” with her mother and two younger sisters. It appeared that riot police officers believed the girl was participating in an unsanctioned rally and dragged her to a police van, despite her mother’s remonstrations
Fifty aquatic warblers have been relocated from a Belarusian nature reserve to Lithuania in an attempt to boost the rare bird’s numbers. RFE/RL shot unique footage of the pioneering attempt to relocate the long-distance migratory bird from one country to another
Massive wildfires are burning across Siberia. In the Irkutsk region, a lack of equipment and manpower to fight the blazes has left locals feeling abandoned by Moscow. They blame authorities for negligence and corruption
The son of revered Afghan resistance fighter Ahmad Shah Masud says he wants to make his late father’s goal of creating a moderate Afghan state a reality. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan, Ahmad Masud warned against any peace deal with the Taliban and explained why he’s following in his slain father’s political footsteps to fight the group’s extremist ideology
Immigrants, including sex workers, in Botswana could get a lifeline as the southern African country’s cabinet is due to decide on offering free Anti-Retroviral (ARV) treatment to foreigners….On the other hand, Women’s soccer has enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years — and has now arrived in rural Kyrgyzstan
Weekend News from Lakki Marwat district of Pakistan and Serbian Capital Belgrade
Afghan boys in rural areas are often impelled to marry because of long-held local or tribal traditions — customs on the inheritance rights of widows, the settlement of blood feuds, or prearranged agreements between families to exchange their children for marriage
Authorities in Dushanbe believe Shafiev and his associates are training their Tajik recruits in Afghanistan and sending them back to Tajikistan to create a terrorist sleeper cell
Each candidate has entered the race on tickets that include first- and second- vice presidential running mates. These are often the result of political horse-trading that can forge unlikely unions
Former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev was detained on August 8 after an earlier police operation to seize him ended in failure and resulted in the death of a member of the security forces. Atambaev has been accused of corruption and abuse of power while in office