Shavkat Mirziyaev has been sworn in as president of Uzbekistan, becoming the second person to hold the post since Central Asia's most populous country gained independence in the collapse of the Soviet Union 25 years ago.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has enacted an amnesty for tens of thousands of people who are behind bars in the Central Asian nation.
Officials say the death toll from two bomb explosions in Istanbul has risen to 38 with another 166 wounded as Turkey declared a national day of mourning.
Polls have opened in Kyrgyzstan for a constitutional referendum that could shift key powers from the president to the prime minister and effectively outlaw same-sex marriage.
U.S. President Barack Obama warned that the United States will not be able to wipe out terrorism through increased military might in a veiled shot at his successor Donald Trump.
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.
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