Indian security forces in Kashmir blocked medical care for injured protesters by firing on ambulances and holding up emergency vehicles, a health rights group said on December 6.
Turkmen authorities have arrested an RFE/RL contributor on charges of possessing chewing tobacco, days after one RFE/RL correspondent was threatened with arrest and another was physically injured in a series of violent attacks.
A Kazakh citizen has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison after being found guilty of inciting separatism via the Internet.
A court in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aqtobe has convicted 29 men in a high-profile terrorism trial.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 has struck northeastern Tajikistan on the border with China, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Bulgaria's prime minister says some 300 migrants have been arrested following a riot in the country's largest refugee camp that left two dozen police injured.
At least two people have been killed and 16 others injured when a car exploded outside a government building in the southern Turkish city of Adana, officials say.
The number of casualties from landmines and similar explosives rose sharply last year to the highest level in a decade, a monitoring group said in a report issued on November 22.
The Pentagon has notified Congress that it plans to stop buying Russian Mi17 helicopters for Afghanistan and will start buying American helicopters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has traveled to Uzbekistan for talks with senior officials.
A correspondent for RFE/RL's Turkmen service has been attacked for a second time within a month following an assault that rights activists say was aimed at attempting to silence her reporting.
Pakistan says seven of its soldiers have been killed by Indian shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir.
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