A new study has warned that major Chinese investments in Pakistani infrastructure, energy, and industry could stir unrest because of the effects on locals along the corridor’s routes as most of its profits are expected to flow to outsiders.
In a new report, the U.S. State Department says Belarus, Iran, Russia, and Turkmenistan remain among the worst offenders of human trafficking and forced labor.
Official actions bespeak concern over potential demonstrations, although listening to Kazakh officials one might think the country's president was so beloved there could be no reason to believe any challenge could threaten the current regime.
The Turkish election board has declared incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan the outright winner of the country's pivotal presidential election, avoiding the need for a runoff and providing him with sweeping new powers as president.
According to early results, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party were ahead in Turkey's parliamentary and presidential elections, which are seen as a test of his grip on power after more than 15 years of increasingly authoritarian rule.
Polls have opened in Turkey for presidential and parliamentary elections that will test President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s grip on power after more than 15 years of increasingly authoritarian rule.
In better days, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's public absence might not have been a problem. But these are bad times, and his country can use all the friends it can get. (The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
A successful Turkmen college student in Turkey was asked by the Turkmen Embassy to speak in parliament but has instead been sentenced to a long prison term. (The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
The UN human rights chief has called for an international investigation into possible rights violations in Kashmir, the disputed region divided between India and Pakistan.
Iran is applauding an Afghan-born immigrant for her scientific contributions, including a pollution-monitoring device that is expected to be used in a major underground tunnel in the Iranian capital.
The top Islamic official in Tajikistan has declared boxing and fighting sports "without rules" to be "haram" -- forbidden under Islamic law.
United Nations agencies in Kyrgyzstan have expressed concern over the brutal killing of a 20-year-old woman by her abductor, and urged the Central Asian country to take "all appropriate measures" to stop illegal practices such as bride kidnapping as well as child and forced marriage.
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