Health Official Says Sexual Transmission Of HIV Rising In Iran
A senior official in Iran's Health Ministry says sexual transmission of HIV is on the rise in the country, in part, because of taboos about discussing sex.
A senior official in Iran's Health Ministry says sexual transmission of HIV is on the rise in the country, in part, because of taboos about discussing sex.
Hopes for an end to the protracted standoff between pro-government and opposition forces in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia have proven premature.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says that NATO and Russia remain at loggerheads over Ukraine but are considering a proposal to lessen the risk of accidental military confrontations in Baltic airspace.
The latest foray into pop culture by a sitting head of state has been announced in Central Asia, a region where comfortably ensconced leaders seem eager to showcase their vigor and talent by bursting into song or dancing at public events.
Pakistan's military says that the mastermind of a 2014 attack on a Pakistani school that killed about 150 people, mainly children, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan.
The U.S. State Department has named two Russians allied to the Islamic State (IS) group as "specially designated global terrorists," including a Chechen militant tied to deadly attacks in Moscow.
After spending seven years in hiding, Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic was arrested in July 2011. He was the last Serbian fugitive sought by the UN tribunal in The Hague. His arrest was seen as the closure of a horrific chapter in Balkan history.
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in Kyrgyzstan, what remains of the once-thriving ethnic German community in the Central Asian republic? (RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service)
On July 13, a Montenegrin naval officer who chose to take his own life rather than obey an order to bombard Croatian cities in 1991 was posthumously awarded a high-level decoration by President Filip Vujanovic.
Many hundreds of Afghans lined up in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, to register for assistance to return to their home country. Pakistan has begun tightening restrictions on Afghans living there without documents. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell has been detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and denied entry despite having a visa to enter Russia.
Russia's politically charged imprisonment of Crimean film director Oleh Sentsov has outraged critics as a perceived effort to suppress dissent on the Ukrainian peninsula following its forceful annexation by Moscow in 2014. Mike Downey, a film producer and the deputy head of the European Film Academy, talks about why the case remains important to people across Europe.
Global celebrity philosopher Slavoj Zizek says that the left has failed to address recent crises in the West with valid alternatives. In a wide-ranging interview with RFE/RL in Ljubljana, the radical left-wing Slovenian said that democratic capitalism is being overtaken by a more authoritarian version. He also criticised rich Arab countries, saying they had done nothing to help solve the refugee crisis in recent years. (RFE/RL's Georgian Service/GPB weekly TV program Red Zone)
At least seven people have been killed and 11 wounded by a suicide car bomb that exploded north of Baghdad.
Dozens of young Afghans have protested in the capital and demanded government action to end the plague of acid attacks on women in Afghanistan's conservative, male-dominated society.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has expressed concern over the decision by Russian authorities to publish what they called an updated "list of terrorists and extremists," which includes journalists and activists.
The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Azerbaijan are expected to hold talks in Baku early next month.
At least nine people have died and dozens of others were injured when a bus crashed in Russia's Daghestan region.
NATO and Russia on July 13 hold their first talks since the alliance agreed at a summit in Warsaw to beef up its presence in eastern Europe due to fears raised by Moscow's aggression in Ukraine.
An American pastor has appealed a court ruling in Russia's Volga region fining him and ordering his deportation allegedly for planning to conduct a same-sex marriage.
Pakistani police were searching for a Christian man who faces a blasphemy charge for allegedly sending a sacrilegious poem via mobile phone to a Muslim friend.
Supporters in Ukraine and beyond are marking Oleh Sentsov’s 40th birthday on July 13 -- the third consecutive birthday the Crimean film director is spending behind bars in Russia, which convicted him of conspiring to commit terrorism on the annexed peninsula.
India and Pakistan traded charges and the United Nations called for restraint on July 12 as the death toll from clashes between protesters and police in the disputed Kashmir region rose to at least 32.
The U.S. House on July 13 will vote on Republican legislation to undercut President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran nearly a year after the deal was announced.
Iran summoned the French ambassador in Tehran on July 12 to protest a demonstration held in Paris by Iranians in exile who seek the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.