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The first-ever public bus service for the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar has been launched by the local government. The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), which uses hyrbrid buses, was completed at a cost of more than $400 million
The recent assassinations of tribal leaders in eastern Syria have triggered a new campaign by U.S.-backed forces to hunt down Islamic State sleeper cells in the region
Turkey is seeking to save its vital tourism sector amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the easing of restrictions as part of the government’s return to normalcy is leading to a surge in infections
The annual Great Migration of wildlife across Tanzania and Kenya usually attracts thousands of tourists on safari, bringing income to trades that depend on them — such as souvenir makers. But, as the COVID-19 pandemic has dropped tourism numbers, Kenya’s craftsmen and women are suffering. In Narok, Kenya, women who specialize in beadwork for tourists have seen their incomes drop to a fraction of what they were last year
Anxious relatives gather at the walls of Belarusian jails, while inside there are reports of beatings and humiliations. Thousands of people have been detained amid days of protests against the alleged rigging of the August 9 presidential election
Have you ever wondered where Washington, D.C., gets its singular good looks? A commission made up of experts in the arts has a say about almost every public building, monument and space in America’s capital city
Belarus witnessed a third night of postelection protests on August 11 after top presidential challenger Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya left for Lithuania amid a widening government crackdown on the opposition. Riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun grenades to disperse protesters. Security forces also beat people with batons and attacked cars that blared their horns in protest in the capital, Minsk
Like in other countries, the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is plunging many people in Spain into poverty
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has left her country, apparently under duress, amid a wave of protests against the alleged falsification of the country’s recent presidential election. Western governments have criticized both the election itself and a crackdown by security forces that has seen thousands of people detained, dozens injured, and at least one killed
A photographer captured the moment a couple’s wedding photos were interrupted by the explosion that ripped through Lebanon’s capital Beirut, Tuesday, August 4