President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Monday pledged more jobs for Egyptians to help dissuade them from making dangerous voyages to Europe after more than 160 migrants died when a boat…
continue readingIndia said it was time for the international community to identify countries that promote terrorism and isolate them, in a thinly veiled denouncement of archrival Pakistan. …
continue readingA Russian voyager whose record-breaking around-the-world balloon flight capped a career of extremes is urging people to be more adventurous. Fyodor Konyukhov, who has also rowed across oceans and climbed…
continue readingVoters in Azerbaijan went to the polls on September 26 in a referendum on the constitutional powers of the president. The measures are widely expected to be approved, despite international…
continue readingThe Russian Defense Ministry has released new radar data it says shows the missile that downed a Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine in 2014 was not fired from territory controlled…
continue readingProtesters in Moscow have forced the closure of an exhibition by controversial American photographer Jock Sturges. Activists threw what was said to be urine on some photos which depicted nude…
continue readingThe head of Russia’s soccer-fan association is taking heat for hooligan fan violence that has tainted the country’s image as it prepares to host the 2018 World Cup. …
continue readingIranian authorities have freed Iranian-Canadian professor Homa Hoodfar from prison. …
continue readingHuman Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Pakistan’s police of carrying out extrajudicial killings, torture, and arbitrary arrests, and called on the government to implement reforms to its forces. …
continue readingThe formal peace agreement between the Colombian government and the rebel group FARC that will be signed in the port city of Cartagena on Monday, ending the longest running conflict…
continue readingMeet Michel Elefteriades, producer, nightlife big shot, and a man in search of utopias in Lebanon, a country beset by challenges. With old wounds barely healed from its Civil War…
continue readingA formal peace agreement between the Colombian government and the rebel group FARC will be signed in the port city of Cartagena on Monday, ending the longest running conflict in…
continue readingHouston police say several people have been shot at a strip mall in the southwest of the city and that officers shot the gunman. Police said via Twitter Monday…
continue readingIslamic extremists have killed eight soldiers and wounded 17 in two attacks in northeastern Nigeria, the country’s military said Monday. The attacks bring the official toll to 10 troops…
continue readingTajikistan says China plans to finance and build several outposts for Tajik border guards along the Tajik-Afghan border. …
continue readingA global rights defender has called for Pakistan to overhaul its Colonial-era police system, alleging it is filled with “disgruntled” and “corrupt” officers who commit abuses with impunity. The…
continue readingRussia says it is not losing hope for reaching a political resolution to the crisis in Syria, but that statements made by U.S. and British envoys at the United Nations…
continue readingFormer South Sudan First Vice President Riek Machar has called for an armed struggle against the government of President Salva Kiir — a move that could mark a renewal of the…
continue readingIranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly told former President Mahmud Ahmadinejad not to run for president in an election scheduled for next year. …
continue readingRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Western powers were “not coping” with their obligations on regulating the civil war in Syria. …
continue readingAfghanistan’s ambassador to Islamabad has released a statement confirming the killing of a top Pakistani Taliban commander in Afghanistan. Hazrat Omer Zakhilwal said in a statement Monday “The killing of…
continue readingJapan warned China Monday about sending fighter jets over a disputed territory that both countries claim in the East China Sea. On Sunday, China sent warplanes to the skies over…
continue readingJournalist Indira Sinanović is running for the municipal council in the Bosnian city of Zenica. If elected in the October 2 vote, she’ll be the first woman who wears the…
continue readingSome of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL’s broadcast region and beyond for the 39th week of 2016. …
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