Polio worker shot as Pakistan holds countrywide vaccination drive
More than 100,000 health workers stepping up drive to eliminate polio in Pakistan despite militant threats
Despite threats, thousands join drive to end polio in Pakistan, a last bastion of the disease
Efforts to eliminate polio in Pakistan difficult as workers face attacks by militants who say health teams are Western spies
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan hit record high - U.N.
At least 3,545 noncombatants died and another 7,457 were injured by fighting last year
Unknown dead fill Lesbos cemetery for refugees drowned at sea
Locals conclude that entire families have drowned in the same shipwreck, leaving no survivors to identify the victims
Uzbek rights group says U.S. move endangers labour activists
Human rights groups say Tashkent is concealing a state-orchestrated forced labour system in the cotton industry
Turkey, Germany to seek NATO help monitoring migrant flow from Syria
More than 900,000 people fleeing Syria, Afghanistan and other war-torn countries arrived in Greece from Turkey last year
Twenty-three migrants drown as boat capsizes near Turkey, coast guard says
Coast guard has deployed boats and helicopters to search for 13 more passengers