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Source link www.rferl.org Listen to the Talking China In Eurasia podcast Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | YouTube Welcome back to the China In Eurasia Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China's resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here's what I'm ...

Source link www.rferl.org Pakistan issued an ultimatum to the estimated 1.7 million undocumented Afghans living in the country: leave or face arrest and forcible expulsion after November 1. One of them is Samina Hafizi, an Afghan writer and former journalist who lives with her mother and five siblings in ...

Source link www.rferl.org Beekeeping became much more than a hobby when the industry was reborn in Afghanistan over the past two decades. For many Afghan farmers, honey became their lifeblood. But with the decline of the Afghan economy, the sweet commodity has become a luxury item as cash-strapped customers ...

Source link www.rferl.org Lost status and a desperate existence in Iran are driving thousands of former Afghan troops -- many of them elite commandos trained by the United States -- to consider fighting as mercenaries in Ukraine and other battlefields. Many ex-Afghan security personnel accuse the United States of ...

Source link www.rferl.org After a dramatic August that saw the Taliban take power in Afghanistan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is set to meet on September 16 in Tajikistan for a summit that will grapple with the region’s increasingly uncertain security situation. The Eurasian security bloc -- which consists ...

Source link www.rferl.org Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Russia remain near the top on the list of countries where the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says "impunity" in cases of murdered journalists is "entrenched." The New York-based watchdog's 2020 Global Impunity Index highlighted a total of 12 countries where "journalists are ...

Source link www.rferl.org Afghanistan’s long battle to eradicate the crippling polio virus has been thwarted by conflict, migration, and myths over the vaccine.But the war-torn nation of around 30 million people has faced a new hurdle: the coronavirus pandemic.Polio vaccination drives in Afghanistan, which has the world’s deadliest ongoing ...