Afghan government officials, Taliban extremists, and U.S. officials are in the Qatari capital, Doha, for the negotiations that opened on September 12 designed to bring permanent cease-fire, ensure the rights of women and minorities, etc. (Reuters)
Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, in a virtual appearance before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on September 8, urged international pressure, including sanctions on President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his government. (Council of Europe)
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya addressed an informal session of the UN Security Council on September 4 hosted by Estonia. She called for a special UN Human Rights Commission session over the violent crackdown by the government of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. (Reuters)
Welfare organization Four Paws is working to determine whether Kavaan the elephant is safe to make the move to Cambodia from Islamabad’s zoo, which has long been criticized for poor conditions.
The mother of a Belarusian man who died after being detained by security officials is demanding a criminal inquiry into his death. Alyaksandr Vikhor, 25, died in a hospital in Homel.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on August 31 called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper to provide witnesses for a hearing on Afghanistan policy and threatened to issue subpoenas if their departments did not comply.
A Belarusian protester has proposed to his girlfriend during ongoing demonstrations against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The moment was captured on camera with crowds cheering them. Mass protests began after Lukashenka declared a landslide victory in an August 9 election widely seen as rigged.
Wrapped in white-red-white national flags the march participants on August 29 chanted slogans demanding President Aleksandr Lukashenka to step down and violent postelection crackdown perpetrators to be brought to justice as 17 journalists from foreign media were stripped of accreditations. (Reuters)
On August 29, locals in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk have held yet another protest against the July arrest of the region’s popular former governor, Sergei Furgal, the suspected August 20 poisoning of Aleksei Navalny, expressed support for anti-Lukashenka movement in Belarus. (Reuters)
Torrential rain lashed the Pakistani city of Karachi on August 27, causing widespread flooding. People were seen wading through knee-high water as cars were submerged and houses inundated.
Pakistan urged the Taliban on August 25 to start talks soon with the Afghan government to end decades of conflict, telling visiting officials of the group that an intra-Afghan dialogue could help ensure regional stability.
Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya spoke in an interview from Vilnius, Lithuania, where she moved for safety reasons following the August 9 presidential elections that sparked strikes and protests against the incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka. (Reuters)
Russian anti-corruption campaigner and opposition figure Aleksei Navalny was transferred to Berlin for treatment and diagnosis from a hospital in Omsk, Russia, by a medical jet on August 22 following urgent requests by his family after a suspected poisoning attempt two days earlier. (Reuters)
The Pakistani Taliban have brought two splinter groups back into their fold, they announced in a statement, days after the army said anti-militant operations nationwide had brought "hard-earned success".
Pakistan's army chief has arrived in Saudi Arabia on August 17 amid a row between the two countries that has threatened Riyadh's financial lifeline to Islamabad.
Protests have continued in Belarus for a second night after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed he had been reelected for a sixth term. The results are widely seen as falsified. At least one protester died in Minsk overnight amid clashes between riot police and demonstrators.
Faisal Khan, a 15-year-old Pakistani, beams for selfies with lawyers and police. Thousands hail him in the streets as a "holy warrior."
The coronavirus has cast a shadow over this Eid, with fears of another spike in infections prompting authorities to warn people to minimise movement, avoid cattle markets and refrain from public gatherings to witness the slaughter of sacrificial animals.
Real-life strategies inspired Nashra Balagamwala to create the board game "Arranged!" where players take the role of teenage girls trying to escape an 'auntie', which features in Gamemaster, a documentary about aspiring game designers released this month.
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