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At Least 32 Killed In Fighting In Nagorno-Karabakh

Intense fighting has been reported in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan, with both sides reporting heavy casualties. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which has been mediating the conflict, expressed "grave concern" about developments.

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A Dangerous Gold Rush In The Kyrgyz Mountainsi
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March 30, 2016
In Kyrgyzstan's Naryn region, hundreds of miners toil underground in brutal cold in search of tiny quantities of gold. Their mine is one of many operating illegally in the region, without safety regulations or guaranteed pay. (Adilet Bektursunov, Aibek Kulchumanov, Toktosun Shaambetov, RFE/RL's Current Time TV)

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Five Sentenced For Beating Azerbaijani Journalist To Deathi
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April 01, 2016
A court in Baku sentenced five defendants to prison for beating to death a journalist last August after the victim had criticized a professional soccer player on social media. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
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Video Five Sentenced For Beating Azerbaijani Journalist To Death

A court in Baku sentenced five defendants to prison for beating to death a journalist last August after the victim had criticized a professional soccer player on social media. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
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Video OSCE's Steinmeier Meets Tajik President

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister and the chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, met with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in Dushanbe on April 1 at the end of a Central Asian tour. (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)
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Video Islamabad Protest Ends After Talks With Government

Islamists who had occupied a high security zone in front of Pakistan's federal parliament since March 27 ended their protest after talks with government officials. The demonstrators in Islamabad had demanded the enforcement of Sharia law in the country.
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Video Sikhs Reopen Pakistani Place Of Worship

The Sikh minority in the Pakistani city of Peshawar reopened a gurdwara, or place of worship, which had been closed for seven decades. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
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Video Pakistan Deploys More Forces To Deal With Protesters In Capital

Fresh troops have been deployed in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to dislodge protesters. Supporters of convicted murderer Mumtaz Qadri demonstrated for a fourth day. They are angry Qadri was executed last month for killing a provincial governor. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
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Video Afghan Cricket Team Comes Home To Hero's Welcome

Afghanistan's national cricket team came home to a hero's welcome after an outstanding performance at the World T20 cricket tournament in India. (RFE/RL’s Afghan Service)
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Video Afghan And Pakistani Artists Make Music Together

Musicians from Afghanistan and Pakistan came together to build closer ties between their countries. Performers from both nations shared the same stage at a cultural festival in the Pakistani city of Karachi. (RFE/RL'S Radio Mashaal)
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Video Supporters Of Governor's Assassin Arrested After Clashes In Pakistan

Supporters of a Pakistani governor's assassin were arrested in Islamabad following demonstrations.
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Video Moldovans March For Unification With Romania

Frustrated with corruption and economic turmoil, thousands of Moldovans marched through the streets of Chisinau on March 27 to demand their country be reunited with Romania. (RFE/RL's Moldovan Service)
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Video Syrians Remain Stuck On Macedonia-Serbia Border

More than 200 Syrian refugees remain trapped on Macedonia's border with Serbia after the closing of the so-called "Balkan route". For more than 20 days, they have lived in small camping tents, in cold, wet, and muddy conditions.
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Video Heavy Rain Causes Fatal Mudslides In Pakistan

Four laborers became the latest casualties in Pakistan, where two weeks of heavy rain has led to around 80 deaths. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
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Video Pakistani Hindus Celebrate Holi

It's that time of year again... Hindus in Pakistan have been throwing colored powder at each other to celebrate Holi. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
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Video Ukrainian Journalist Buried 16 Years After Killing

Relatives of Heorhiy Gongadze say questions still need to be answered about who ordered his killing and why, 16 years after his headless corpse was found in a wood near Kyiv.
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Video Bosnia War Victims Depart For Hague Ahead Of Karadzic Verdict

Members of an association of Bosnian war victims departed for The Hague, where the UN war crimes tribunal is due to deliver its verdict in the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Thursday.
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Video Protesters Allege Kosovar Prime Minister Threatened Journalist

Journalists in Kosovo protested after allegations the country's prime minister threatened one of their colleagues -- for breaking the story about his brother claiming asylum in Germany. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
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Video Ukrainian Pilot Savchenko 'Does Not Acknowledge Verdict'

Demonstrators gathered outside a court in southern Russia as a judge began delivering the verdict in the case of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, who is charged with complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists. Savchenko's lawyer said she refuses to acknowledge the verdict.
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Video Azerbaijan Welcomes New Year With Norouz Festivities

Residents of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, gathered to watch dance performances and carnival acts during the holiday of Norouz, the Persian New Year, on March 21. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
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Video Crowds Celebrate Norouz In Kabul

Large crowds took part in festivities in Afghanistan's capital to mark Norouz, the new year on the Persian calendar. Participants in the celebrations raised a prayer pole symbolizing the seventh-century Caliph Ali at the Karte Sakhi mosque. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
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Video Crimean Tatars March In Prague On Second Anniversary Of Annexation

Members of the Crimean Tatar community marched in the Czech capital, Prague, on March 19 to mark the second anniversary of Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine. The Crimean Tatar minority has been strongly critical of the annexation.
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Video Ukraine Takes Down Largest Remaining Lenin Statue

A city in Ukraine bid good riddance to the country's largest remaining statue of Vladimir Lenin. It took a crane to lift the 20 meter-tall, 40-ton statue of the Soviet leader from its pedestal in the city of Zaporizhzhya. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
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Video Pakistani Rangers Injured In Karachi Attack

Three security personnel were injured, one seriously, in an attack on a check point in Pakistan's commercial hub of Karachi. The March 18 attack with a small homemade explosive was the third of its type on the paramilitary Ranger Force in the city since last week.
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Video Afghan Activists Relive The Killing Of Farkhunda Malikzada

A human rights group in Kabul staged a reenactment of the brutal beating of Farkhunda Malikzada, who was killed by an angry mob one year ago. The 27-year-old student of Islamic law was pummeled to death and her body was burned after she was falsely accused of destroying a copy of the Koran.
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Video Iraqi Troops Reportedly Prepare For Offensive To Recapture Mosul

Iraqi troops and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reportedly have been preparing for an offensive to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. On March 16, the soldiers took part in training about 40 kilometers from the city. (RFE/RL's Radio Farda)
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Video Journalist Jailed For Treason Released In Azerbaijan

An Azerbaijani court ordered the release of prominent journalist Rauf Mirqadirov on March 17. Mirqadirov had been found guilty of spying for Armenia late last year in a case that has been widely criticized as politically motivated. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
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Video Russia-Backed Separatists Issue Passports In Donetsk

Separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region began handing out their own passports on March 16. Separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko said that the document has been recognized by Russia and the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Video Prince Charles Lands In Belgrade On Balkan Tour

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived in Belgrade on March 16 as part of their six-day tour of the Balkans. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and other officials received the couple at the capital's airport. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
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Video Artists Support Fellow Peace Activists Outside Moscow Court

Supporters of artists arrested at a recent antiwar protest in Moscow staged an open air creative meeting. On March 16, members of the "No Peace" movement sketched and painted outside the court house where hearings on their fellow artists were taking place. (RFE/RL's Russian Service)
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Video Pakistani Bus Attack Kills Civil Service Commuters In Peshawar

At least 15 people were killed and more than 20 injured in an explosion on a bus in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Police said that a bomb had been planted on a bus carrying provincial civil service workers. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)

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Video Border Camp Hardly A Home For Syrians In Lebanon

The vast majority of people fleeing Syria's civil war have ended up in neighboring countries like Lebanon. Many have been in refugee camps for several years now, but it is hardly a place to call home. (RFE/RL's Radio Farda)

Video The Woman Behind Kabul's Joyful Orphanage

Music and laughter can be heard pouring out of an orphanage in Kabul. In a country torn apart by three decades of war, Andeisha Farid is trying to nurture a new generation in Afghanistan with education, culture, and joy.

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March 31, 2016

Czech Republic Honors Klose, Pechacek, RFE/RL For Defending Freedom

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka honors longtime RFE/RL executives for their "work for democracy, human rights and freedom,” thanks RFE/RL “for being a stable point of objectivity in the cosmos of disinformation.”
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March 18, 2016

RFE/RL Condemns Pressure Tactics Against Moscow Bureau

On March 18, RFE/RL's Moscow bureau administrator was approached at her home by two unknown men identifying themselves as journalists with Russia's NTV channel and seeking personal information.
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March 17, 2016

In Azerbaijan, No Pardon For Ismayilova

RFE/RL reacted with dismay that investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, a leading contributor to its Azerbaijani Service, was not among the several political prisoners pardoned and released from prison today in Azerbaijan.
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