The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging Azerbaijan to "immediately release" journalist Nicat Amiraslanov, who was sentenced this week to 30 days in prison on charges of resisting police.
Gunmen have abducted a Chinese couple in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, officials say.
Kazakh lawmakers have given preliminary approval to controversial bills that would ban independent candidates from running in presidential elections and enable the authorities to strip "terrorists" of their citizenship.
Afghan authorities have arrested eight people, including the son of a lawmaker, after a rock-throwing crowd forced a plane to return abruptly to Kabul to pick up two lawmakers who had missed their flight.
A court in Moscow has sentenced a man who took part in an antigovernment protest on March 26 to 18 months in prison after convicting him of attacking a police officer.
Russian lawmakers have given preliminary approval to a bill that that would enable courts to imprison people convicted of using the Internet to encourage minors to commit suicide.
A visit by German lawmakers to Turkey this week has been cancelled due to "extreme pressure" from Ankara, a deputy parliament speaker says.
The head of Russia's renowned Bolshoi Theater has sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin criticizing the treatment of a prominent director who was subjected to searches and questioning in an embezzlement investigation.
Ukrainian law enforcement agents have arrested 23 former high-ranking tax-administration officials suspected of helping the government of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych to defraud the state of nearly 97 billion hryvnyas ($4 billion) in what authorities called the largest-ever operation of its kind here.
U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived in Brussels where he is scheduled to meet Belgian and European Union leaders and attend a NATO meeting.
Long-serving Uzbek Central Bank chief Fayzulla Mullajonov has died at the age of 67.
Less than a year after he called NATO "obsolete," U.S. President Donald Trump heads to the alliance's new billion-dollar, state-of-the-art headquarters for a May 25 meeting that members hope will show it is more relevant than ever.
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