More than 70,000 signatures have been gathered by January 28 on a petition launched by Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai that urges a Syria donors’ conference to give millions of dollars to educational purposes.
Merchants in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, are outraged over a municipal campaign to dismantle illegal shops after two traders are electrocuted in a demolition. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Four police officers have been killed in an attack in southwestern Pakistan.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry says representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and the United States will meet in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, next month to discuss how to resume stalled peace process between Kabul and the Taliban.
Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman says the country could deport between 60,000 and 80,000 asylum seekers in coming years.
International watchdog Human Rights Watch has warned the world's governments not to sacrifice rights protection in the name of fighting terrorism or coping with refugee problems.
Rising tension between Russia and the United States, continuing tensions between Pakistan and India, and North Korea's recent nuclear test were among the developments that prompted prominent scientists on January 26 to warn that a global nuclear cataclysm could still occur.
The worst year in global freedom in a decade saw Russia and China cracking down more due to "fear of social unrest" and particularly bad rankings for Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Belarus, the rights monitor Freedom House reports.
She is a teacher bringing education to some of Pakistan's most vulnerable children. Thousands of kids live in the slums of the country's capital, Islamabad, without any access to education. But one woman, Chand Bibi, is on a courageous mission to change that. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Shahid Afridi, the captain of Pakistan's Twenty20 cricket team, visited the school where 144 people were killed in a Taliban attack in 2014. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
The Pakistani university where a splinter group of the Taliban gunned down 21 students and teachers last week will remain closed indefinitely until security is beefed up.
Police say a group of five thieves have stabbed a Pakistani man to death on the Greek-Macedonian border.
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