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Pakistan on January 23 reopened the Torkham border crossing with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, a critical access route for trade and transportation between the two countries, after a 10-day closure prompted by Islamabad's imposing of a requirement for passports and visas for Afghan drivers.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on January 23 he had sent a letter inviting his Swedish counterpart to come to discuss his country's NATO accession bid.
The Prosecutor-General's Office of Belarus said on January 23 that it had launched an investigation of Syarhey Dubavets, the self-exiled author of a rubric of RFE/RL's Belarus Service, known locally as Radio Svaboda.
NATO has signed a 1.1 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) contract for 155 mm artillery ammunition, the alliance said, with part of the shells to be supplied to Ukraine after complaints a shortage of munitions was hampering its war efforts.