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India's Modi congratulates new Pakistan PM Sharif
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
Sharif was officially sworn in Monday as prime minister for a second time after a poll marred by claims of widespread vote rigging. The 72-year-old's army-backe...
UN rights chief says China violating 'fundamental rights' in Xinjiang, Tibet
Mar 04, 2024 (AFP)
Turk, who has been criticised for not challenging China strongly enough over human rights, also asked Beijing to release rights defenders arrested under the "va...
Polls for Iraq Kurd parliament further delayed to June
Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)
The elections have been delayed several times because of differences between the two main parties in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the...
Two PKK-linked fighters killed in Iraq strike blamed on Turkey
Feb 29, 2024 (AFP)
The fighters were members of the Sinjar Resistance Units, a group founded among the district's Yazidi community in response to a brutal occupation by the Islami...
French defence minister visits Armenia amid Azerbaijan tensions
Feb 22, 2024 (AFP)
Lecornu's trip comes after French President Emmanuel Macron expressed concern about a "risk of escalation" between Armenia and Azerbaijan as he received Armenia...
Baghdad to pay Iraqi Kurdistan public servants, court rules
Feb 21, 2024 (AFP)
Civil servants have taken the regional and national authorities to court and demonstrated over unpaid salaries in Kurdistan, where officials have long accused B...
Turkey detains six suspected of spying on Uyghurs
Feb 20, 2024 (AFP)
A seventh person was wanted but remained at large, the reports said, without specifying the suspects' nationalities. The seven are accused of collecting informa...
Pressure mounts on VW to exit China's Xinjiang region
Feb 15, 2024 (AFP)
The Handelsblatt financial daily reported that forced labour may have been used to build a test track in Turpan, Xinjiang in 2019. VW said it had seen no eviden...
China urges firms not to be 'blinded by lies' over Xinjiang rights record
Feb 15, 2024 (AFP)
Rights campaigners have for years accused Beijing of a crackdown against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, including through forced labour and de...
Pakistan must move from 'anarchy and polarisation' after election: army chief
Feb 10, 2024 (AFP)
The military looms large over Pakistan's political landscape, with generals having run the country for nearly half its history since partition from India in 194...
BASF to speed up exit from Xinjiang ventures after Uyghur abuse reports
Feb 09, 2024 (AFP)
Staff from Markor, with which BASF was working in the region, were alleged to have been involved in rights abuses of the members of the mostly Muslim group, bro...
Climate change an afterthought in Pakistan election
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
Pakistan was ravaged by monsoon floods two years ago that left a third of the country submerged, turning climate change into an international rallying cry for t...
BASF implicated in Uyghur rights abuses: reports
Feb 02, 2024 (AFP)
Staff at a joint venture in the northwestern Xinjiang region, Xinjiang Markor Chemical Industry, were alleged to have been involved in rights abuses, public bro...
Though U.N. says Al-Qaeda growing in Afghanistan, Taliban disputes report
Feb 01, 2024 (UPI)
The report, compiled by a U.N. sanctions team created to monitor Al-Qaeda, said the Taliban has provided support and protection for the terror group since recla...
China quietly expanding influence in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Jan 31, 2024 (AFP)
Top-level meetings between officials, new mineral deals, and the upgrading of transport routes between the two countries are regularly championed by Taliban gov...
Pakistan and Iran agree to 'de-escalate' after trading air strikes
Jan 19, 2024 (AFP)
The rare military actions in the porous border region of Baluchistan -- split between the two nations -- had stoked regional tensions already enflamed by the Is...
Calls for calm after Iran, Pakistan trade strikes on militants
Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)
The rare military action across the porous border between the heavily armed neighbours has further stoked tensions already enflamed by the Israel-Hamas war. Pak...
Pakistan recalls ambassador after Iran air strike kills two children
Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)
Iranian news agency Mehrnews said the "missile and drone" attack targeted the Jaish al-Adl group's headquarters in Pakistan, calling it "another decisive step t...
Pakistan says Iran launched deadly air strike on its territory
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
Pakistan denounced the strike, near the nations' shared border late on Tuesday, as "completely unacceptable", saying it was unprovoked. Iranian news agency Mehr...
Turkey strikes Kurdish militants in Iraq, Syria
Jan 16, 2024 (UPI)
From about 10 p.m. Monday, Turkish war planes struck 23 targets in Metina, Gara, Hakurk and Qandil in northern Iraq and in unspecified regions of Syria. Caves, ...
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