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Three condemned to die for 'China's 9/11' mass stabbing
Sep 12, 2014 (AFP)
Three men were condemned to death Friday and a pregnant woman given life in prison for a mass stabbing that killed 31 people in China, a court said, an attack a...
Chinese president's Pakistan visit postponed due to protests
Sep 06, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan's foreign ministry Saturday said Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit scheduled for this month had been postponed due to anti-government protests...
Time pressing on Afghan troop accords: NATO head
Sep 04, 2014 (AFP)
Time is pressing for Afghanistan, without a new president since June elections, to sign accords allowing NATO to carry out its post-2014 military training missi...
Pakistan anti-PM protesters storm state TV
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
Hundreds of protesters trying to topple Pakistan's government briefly seized the state broadcaster on Monday, intensifying the fortnight-long political crisis t...
Turkish army warns over 'red lines' in Kurdish peace talks
Aug 31, 2014 (AFP)
Turkey's army chief has warned that the army will do whatever is necessary if its "red lines" are not respected in peace talks with Kurdish rebels. His comments...
Pakistan border ceasefire violations 'provocative': India
Aug 30, 2014 (AFP)
India on Saturday branded a string of ceasefire violations along its frontier with rival Pakistan as "serious" and "provocative" and said they were hindering be...
No option but army role to end Pakistan crisis: minister
Aug 29, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan's interior minister said Friday the intransigence of anti-government protest movements had left no alternative but mediation by the army to end a two-w...
Uighur entrepreneur confronts prejudice in China
Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)
Ambitious and apolitical, self-described "good Uighur" entrepreneur Abdulhabir Muhammad initially conceals his proud ethnic identity from his Chinese clients. "...
Pakistan army chief mediates political crisis: opposition
Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif is mediating in a fortnight-long political crisis that has paralysed the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, ...
One dead in attack on NATO supply tankers in Pakistan
Aug 25, 2014 (AFP)
Gunmen in northwest Pakistan opened fire on tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Monday, killing a driver and wounding two others, officials ...
Kurdish rebels abduct 3 Chinese in southeast Turkey: report
Aug 25, 2014 (AFP)
Kurdish militants abducted three Chinese workers in Turkey's southeast after the rebels attacked the thermal energy plant where they work, state media said Mond...
Two soldiers, 4 rebels killed in Indian Kashmir clashes: army
Aug 24, 2014 (AFP)
India's army clashed with suspected militants in Indian Kashmir near the disputed border with Pakistan, leaving two soldiers and four rebels dead, a military of...
Facing new flight, Turkish Kurds in Iraq long for home
Aug 23, 2014 (AFP)
Families who once fled a Turkish crackdown on Kurdish rebels in the 1990s now languish in a mosque in northern Iraq after escaping from brutal jihadists, longin...
Pakistan's Khan calls off talks to end protest impasse
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan Thursday called off talks with the government aimed at ending protests seeking the fall of the prime minister, which ...
Pakistan's envoy to India defends decision to meet Kashmiri separatists
Aug 20, 2014 (AFP)
Pakistan's top envoy to India on Wednesday defended his decision to meet Kashmiri separatists, a move that prompted an angry New Delhi to cancel high-level talk...
Pakistan anti-government protesters blockade parliament
Aug 20, 2014 (AFP)
Protesters demanding the fall of the Pakistani government blockaded parliament and key ministries Wednesday in the latest round of a week-long political drama t...
Turkey seeks talks with Iraq-based Kurdish rebels: deputy PM
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
Turkey wants to hold direct talks with Kurdish rebels based in Iraq to help revive stalled peace talks, a senior Turkish official said Tuesday. The military hea...
Yazidi fleeing Iraq jihadists has quintuplets: UN
Aug 18, 2014 (AFP)
A Yazidi refugee fleeing the jihadist offensive in Iraq has given birth to quintuplets in northeast Syria, an official with the UN refugee agency said on Monday...
PKK conflict with Turkey 'coming to an end', says Kurdish leader
Aug 16, 2014 (AFP)
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's 30-year conflict with Turkey is coming to an end, the group's jailed leader said on Saturday, hailing the start of a new ...
'Far fewer' stranded on Iraq mountain than thought: US
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
The United States said Wednesday its troops found "far fewer" Yazidi refugees marooned on a northern Iraqi mountain than expected, making an evacuation mission ...
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