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.
A shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines has reached North Macedonia. Western diplomats observed the arrival of the vaccines at Skopje International Airport on March 28. It is the first COVID-19 vaccine delivery that the Western Balkan country has received under an international vaccine-sharing program.
Bulgaria's Sofia Opera continues to stage performances for the public under strict hygiene rules, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. A small audience of up to 250 people is allowed to watch performances from the balconies, with the orchestra spread across most of the main seating level.
At least seven members of Afghanistan's persecuted Hazara ethnic group were murdered in the country's restive east, officials said on March 4, in the latest attack to target the largely Shi'ite minority.
A few thousand opposition supporters rallied in the capital of Armenia on February 27 demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's resignation over his handling of last year's war with Azerbaijan which many see as a national humiliation and his attempt to fire the chief of the general staff. (AFP)
An Afghan judge was shot dead in an ambush in the eastern city of Jalalabad on February 3, police said, the third court official killed in less than a month.
President-elect Joe Biden's pick for his top diplomat said on January 19 he would undertake a review of a deal with Afghanistan's Taliban and that the United States needed means to prevent any resurgence of terrorism.
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