Kazakhstan's parliament has given preliminary approval to legislation that would amend the Central Asian country's constitution, curtailing some presidential powers and redistributing them to government ministers and lawmakers.
An Uzbek court has upheld an additional five-year prison sentence for Agzam Farmonov, a long-jailed human rights activist whose 2006 extortion conviction was widely seen as politically motivated.
Al-Qaeda confirmed on March 2 that a U.S.-led coalition drone strike killed its No. 2 leader, Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, in Syria.
Hundreds of grieving relatives and friends of a 32-year-old engineer from Hyderabad, India have been mourning his death after he was murdered in an apparently racially motivated shooting in the U.S. state of Kansas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon have agreed to bolster their joint efforts to secure the Tajik-Afghan border.
Russian President Vladimir Putin began a two-day, three-nation tour of Central Asia on February 27, seeking to shore up ties with Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Kazakhstan has said a new round of talks on the Syria conflict backed by Russia, Turkey, and Iran and endorsed by the United Nations will go ahead after a day's delay.
Pakistan is forcing hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees back to their homeland, which is still wracked by violence and poverty, a human rights group said.
Four suspected militants and two Indian Army soldiers have been killed in a gunbattle in Indian-controlled Kashmir, army officials have said.
Serbian authorities said they have imposed restrictions on migrants in a camp near Belgrade after three men allegedly attacked a woman and her children near the refugee center.
Pakistan authorities said they have ordered the house arrest of a leading figure who allegedly was behind the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have called on U.S. President Donald Trump to continue his country's "long tradition" of offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution.
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