Members of the Shi’ite minorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan have commemorated Ashura, the holiest celebration in their religious calendar, amid heightened security measures against possible sectarian attacks.
New Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is visiting the United Arab Emirates after a stay in Saudi Arabia on his first official overseas trip, officials say.
A Pakistani court has suspended the prison sentences that had been previously handed to ousted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter, and son-in-law in a corruption case.
The chief executive of Denmark’s biggest bank is resigning amid allegations that its Estonian affiliate was at the center of a major money-laundering scandal.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Ukrainian government not to access any data from the cell phone of RFE/RL investigative reporter Natalya Sedletska.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said his administration was considering a request for a permanent U.S. military presence in Poland.
Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency says its officers have arrested at least 26 suspected members of the extremist group Islamic State (IS), accusing them of plotting attacks on members of the Shi'ite minority.
President Donald Trump's administration has proposed sharply cutting the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year to 30,000.
More than 1,000 far-right demonstrators marched against Germany’s immigration policies in the eastern town of Koethen, monitored by a similar number of police officers and about 500 counterprotesters.
The Russian military has made a new claim about the downing of a passenger jet over the war zone in eastern Ukraine in 2014, asserting that the missile that brought Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 down was sent to Soviet Ukraine after it was made in 1986 and never returned to Russia.
Taliban attacks across two western Afghan provinces have left at least 12 Afghan police officers dead, officials say.
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has met with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to discuss peace and security between the two neighbors.
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