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Xi visits Uzbekistan ahead of meeting with Putin
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
"Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived here (in Samarkand) Wednesday evening to pay a state visit to Uzbekistan and attend the 22nd meeting of the Council of Hea...
Xi vows backing for Kazakhstan in first trip since pandemic
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
Their highly-anticipated meeting comes as Russia suffers serious setbacks in Ukraine, but China has stood firm in its support of Putin and their "no limits" fri...
China on offensive at UN rights council over Xinjiang
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing has made no secret of its displeasure with the long-delayed UN report, which warns of possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. At the UN Human Righ...
Syria Kurds seek UN help after three die of cholera
Sep 10, 2022 (AFP)
Health authorities warned of "a large number of cholera cases in Raqa province and the western countryside of Deir Ezzor province". Cholera is generally contrac...
China warns UN cooperation 'in danger' after Xinjiang report
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
"We cannot conduct cooperation as if nothing happened, when we were hurt by this exercise," ambassador Chen Xu told reporters in a virtual briefing organised by...
Swiss summon Chinese ambassador after UN report on Xinjiang: official
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
Switzerland had "summoned China's ambassador to Bern to convey to him Switzerland's concerns following the publication of the... report on the situation in Xinj...
Iran sentences to death two gay rights activists
Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)
The two women, Zahra Sedighi Hamedani, 31, and Elham Chubdar, 24, were sentenced to death by the court in the northwestern town of Urmia, the Hengaw Kurdish rig...
'Genocide' in Xinjiang? Why UN report steers clear
Sep 03, 2022 (AFP)
As the fall-out from the report continues to reverberate on Saturday, some countries are considering how they can take the findings further. The crime of genoci...
US says UN report shows Xinjiang 'genocide' as China irate
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stood by the human rights report on the western region of Xinjiang and called on China to follow the text's recommendation...
China slams UN report alleging litany of rights abuses in Xinjiang
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
The landmark report detailed a string of rights violations including torture and forced labour against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-western re...
The Uyghurs in Xinjiang: China's Muslim minority
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
Here is a rundown on the region and the people who live there: - Where is Xinjiang? - The vast region of Xinjiang lies in China's far west and makes up around o...
UN rights chief leaving with China report still unreleased
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
A long line of country representatives took the floor at a UN rights council to praise how Bachelet had handled the challenges of the past four years. But while...
Not clear when Xinjiang report will be published: UN rights chief
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
"I had fully intended for it to be released before the end of my mandate, and we ... have received substantial input from the government that we will need to ca...
Long road to UN rights chief's Xinjiang report
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
Less than a week before she is due to step down, the former Chilean president acknowledged Thursday that she had been under "tremendous pressure" over a long-de...
UN rights chief admits 'tremendous pressure' over Xinjiang report
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
Michelle Bachelet has repeatedly vowed to publish a report on the rights situation in Xinjiang, where Beijing stands accused of detaining more than one million ...
Rival Iranian Kurdish parties reunite after 16-year split
Aug 22, 2022 (AFP)
Negotiations between the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iran -- both banned in the Islamic republic -- "led to the p...
Forced labour, possible 'enslavement' in China's Xinjiang: UN expert
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing has been accused of detaining over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, as well as carrying out forced sterilisation of women and ...
17 dead in Turkish raids on Syria border posts: monitor
Aug 16, 2022 (AFP)
"Seventeen fighters were killed in Turkish air strikes that hit several Syrian regime outposts... near the Turkish border," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rig...
Kurdish Iraqi farmer sprouts online advice, green awareness
Aug 09, 2022 (AFP)
The moustachioed 50-year-old with almost half a million Facebook followers posts weekly videos on topics such as protecting fruit trees, dealing with insects an...
Iraq Kurd protesters tear-gassed, MPs detained: AFP, official
Aug 06, 2022 (AFP)
The opposition New Generation party had called for demonstrations in Sulaimaniyah and other cities in the country's north in protest against deteriorating livin...
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