KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan announced a pay rise of nearly 40 percent for police and military recruits on Saturday, as Western countries aim to increase the size and quality of Afghan security forces so their own troops can...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Russia's domestic intelligence service said on Saturday that a bomb was behind the derailment of an express train overnight that left scores dead and nearly 100 injured.
The central banks of Iran and Belarus have signed three cooperation deals in an effort to increase economic interaction, reported Press TV. The governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mahmoud Bahmani, says the agreements would...
interview Nouakchott — Mauritania formally adopted the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2001, but in the eight years since, it has had limited effect on the status of women. Human rights lawyer...