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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on April 20 that Tajikistan had bought Mexico's presidential plane for $92 million, adding that the money will be used to build two hospitals in poor Mexican regions.
Tajik authorities have detained another brother of Tolib Ayombekov, the jailed informal leader of Tajikistan's volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region (GBAO).
For Afghan women struggling with the pressures of living in Tajikistan as refugees, the Ariana Learning Center is a source of hope and healing. Located in the city of Vahdat, some 20 kilometers east of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, the center offers training courses and provides counseling.
Tajik prosecutors have brought new charges against prominent opposition lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov, who is serving a 28-year prison term.
A group of seven international rights organizations have called on Dushanbe to immediately and unconditionally release lawyer Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov, who is serving 16 years in prison related to his human rights activities in Tajikistan.
A son of Tajik opposition politician Shamsiddin Saidov, who was recently extradited to Tajikistan from Germany, has been sentenced to seven years in prison in Dushanbe after a trial Human Rights Watch (HRW) called unfair.
The Taliban-led Afghan government's foreign office has claimed a delegation traveled to an Afghan consulate in Khorugh, the capital of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan region, although no Tajik official sources confirmed any such visit on March 25.
A pair of earthquakes rocked Tajikistan overnight, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said, shaking buildings in Dushanbe.
Tajik opposition activist Nizomiddin Nasriddinov was detained in Belarus -- at Dushanbe's request -- while entering the country in early January and will be extradited to Tajikistan, where he may face arbitrary arrest and torture, Enira Bronitskaya of Human Constanta rights group said on March 14.
Tajik journalist Khurshed Fozilov, who was arrested last week in the Central Asian country's northeastern city of Panjakent, has been charged with public calls to forcibly change Tajikistan's constitutional order.
A group of Tajik migrants working for a Russian company in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol claim their employers failed to pay them the full amount of wages they were promised in their contracts.
Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security has detained journalist Khurshed Fozilov on unspecified charges in the northeastern city of Panjakent, his mother says.
A son of Tajik opposition politician Shamsiddin Saidov has been extradited to Tajikistan from Germany and is currently in a detention center in Dushanbe.
A strong earthquake in Tajikistan's eastern district of Murghob early on February 23 was felt as far away as Dushanbe, the capital, and other parts of the Central Asian nation.
A notorious Islamic State recruiter from Tajikistan, Parviz Saidrahmonov (aka Abu Dovud), was sentenced to 21 years in prison in November on terrorism charges in Dushanbe, Tajik Supreme Court officials said on February 16.
Avalanches caused by heavy snow have killed at least 17 people in Tajikistan's eastern Gorno-Badakhshan region.
Due to a recent cold snap in areas of Tajikistan, the birds of Khatlon Province have been struggling to fly. In such harsh conditions, they can get stuck in the snow and freeze. A local farmer has taken it upon himself to save the birds by letting them live in his greenhouse.
Sextuplets born in Tajikistan's northern Sughd region on January 11 have died within a day of their birth, maternity clinic officials told RFE/RL.
A song by Tajik rapper Suhrob Soliev about a Tajik man sent to fight in Ukraine with the Russian Army has become popular on social media. The song is based on a conversation with a real Tajik soldier who contacted the rapper from a hospital. The injured soldier was later killed in action.
Umeda Ghanieva, 14, and her sister Amina, 16, from Kulob in southern Tajikistan, have already won several boxing competitions. Just a year ago, the sisters and their widowed mother were collecting scrap metal to survive, but can now pursue their passion.
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