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US Senate votes to ban products from China's Xinjiang
Jul 15, 2021 (AFP)
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which cleared the upper chamber by unanimous consent late Wednesday, is intended to bar the import of products made thro...
China weighs risk and reward in a Taliban-led Afghanistan
Jul 15, 2021 (AFP)
China abhors a power vacuum, especially on its borders, and maintaining stability after decades of war in its western neighbour will be Beijing's paramount cons...
US to evacuate Afghan interpreters as Taliban seize border town
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
In what the White House dubbed Operation Allies Refuge, the interpreters and their families are likely to be taken first to US overseas military bases or possib...
China says bus blast that killed 12 in Pakistan was 'bombing'
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
The bus was carrying around 40 Chinese engineers, surveyors and mechanical staff to a hydropower dam construction site in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Islamabad...
Taliban say do not want to fight inside Afghanistan's cities
Jul 13, 2021 (AFP)
The hardline Islamist group has swept through much of the north as foreign troops complete their withdrawal, and the Afghan government now holds little more tha...
Taliban advances in Afghanistan as U.S. withdrawal 95% complete
Jul 13, 2021 (UPI)
U.S. Central Command said in a press release that the "orderly and responsible withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan" was still underway, with less than 5%...
Kyrgyzstan says 6 dead, 2 children missing in landslides
Jul 13, 2021 (AFP)
Fatal landsides affect mountainous Central Asia every year around springtime, blocking roads in a region lacking transport infrastructure and forcing families t...
Afghanistan to rush troops to border as Taliban extend gains
Jul 10, 2021 (AFP)
As US troops continued their withdrawal, the Taliban said its fighters had seized two crossings in western Afghanistan -- completing an arc of territory from th...
Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
Hours after President Joe Biden issued a staunch defence of the US withdrawal, the Taliban said its fighters had seized the two crossings in western Afghanistan...
UK lawmakers demand action over China's alleged Xinjiang abuses
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
In a report following a months-long inquiry, parliament's foreign affairs committee recommended exploring the feasibility of an International Criminal Court pro...
Blinken meets Uyghur internment camp survivors
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
America's top diplomat met seven survivors, advocates and relatives of people still detained in Xinjiang, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a readout...
Afghan troops struggle to replace Americans at key base
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
The sprawling military complex was at one point home to tens of thousands of US and allied soldiers, and one of the most important sites to prosecute the two-de...
US pullout nears completion as Afghan forces battle Taliban
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
Hundreds of commandos were deployed to counter the insurgents' blistering offensive in the north, a day after more than 1,000 government troops fled into neighb...
Blinken meets with Uyghur internment camp survivors
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
America's top diplomat met with seven survivors, advocates and relatives of people still detained in Xinjiang, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a re...
French launch probe into fashion groups over Uyghur labour
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
Magistrates at the national anti-terror prosecutor's office in Paris are probing claims the multinational companies are complicit in crimes against humanity, th...
Italy completes troop pull-out from Afghanistan
Jun 30, 2021 (AFP)
Members of the US-backed alliance agreed in April to wrap up their 9,600-strong mission in Afghanistan after US President Joe Biden made the call to end Washing...
Germany completes troop pull-out from Afghanistan: minister
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
The announcement of the pull-out of German troops, whose presence there was second only to the US forces, came as the US aims to complete its own withdrawal by ...
US commmander warns Taliban to stop Afghan offensive or face air strikes
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
Fighting has surged across the rugged countryside since early May when the US military began its final withdrawal of troops, with the Taliban claiming to have r...
US withdrawal from Afghanistan more than 50% complete
Jun 29, 2021 (UPI)
The Department of Defense has withdrawn about 896 C-17 loads of material out of Afghanistan, including nearly 15,943 pieces of equipment identified for disposit...
Reagan carrier in Middle East to assist with Afghanistan drawdown
Jun 25, 2021 (UPI)
The aircraft carrier, its Carrier Air Wing of aircraft, Commander Task Force 50, the guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh and guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey e...
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