Media freedom throughout the world declined last year to its lowest point in almost a decade, according to a new report from Freedom House, a U.S.-based democracy-monitoring organization.
A number of girls appear to have been poisoned at a school in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Three NATO soldiers killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand have been identified as British.
Pakistan has closed its main border crossing with Afghanistan along the highway linking Kabul and Islamabad.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has confirmed his office received money from the U.S. government.
The international coalition in Afghanistan says a cargo plane crashed on April 29 at Bagram Airfield, about 60 kilometers north of Kabul.
Authorities in Pakistan say a suicide bomber struck in the northwestern city of Peshawar on April 29, killing at least eight people, including the diplomat son of an influential Afghan cleric as well as another diplomat, and injuring at least 45 others in an attack on one of the busiest roads in the city. The attack appeared aimed at the convoy of a city official who had passed by shortly before the explosion. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Alliance officials said there was no insurgent activity when the plane went down in the province of Zabul.
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have declared the start of their annual spring offensive, saying they will carry out attacks nationwide as foreign troops prepare to withdraw.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov is warning that Afghanistan will face new challenges because of the country's "degrading political and military situation."
Afghan officials say 45 people have been killed in a road incident near the southern city of Kandahar.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said Afghan female police officers suffer from widespread sexual harassment in their workplace.
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