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China sanctions US, Canadian citizens in Xinjiang row

Mar 28, 2021 (AFP)

At least one million Uyghurs and people from other mostly Muslim groups have been held in camps in the northwestern region, according to rights groups, who accu...

Biden sees Afghan withdrawal this year but not by May deadline

Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)

"It is going to be hard to meet the May 1 deadline in terms of tactical reasons. It's hard to get those troops out," Biden said in his first press conference si...

Facebook says cyber spies in China targeted Uyghurs

Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)

A group of well-resourced hackers in China targeted hundreds of Uyghur activists, journalists, and dissidents living abroad, trying to trick them into clicking ...

China accuses EU of 'hypocrisy'; Invites Italian MPs to Xinjiang

Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)

France, Germany and other EU nations called in Chinese ambassadors to protest against sanctions imposed by Beijing targeting their citizens, including five memb...

Blinken leaves NATO allies waiting on US Afghan decision

Mar 23, 2021 (AFP)

Alliance foreign ministers held talks in Brussels on the future of NATO's 9,600-strong mission as time ticks down to a May 1 withdrawal deadline agreed between ...

EU nations rebuke China envoys over retaliatory sanctions

Mar 23, 2021 (AFP)

France also rebuked the Chinese envoy for "unacceptable" behaviour after he posted a series of tweets targeting French lawmakers and a researcher. The diplomati...

NATO chief says 'all options open' on Afghan withdrawal

Mar 22, 2021 (AFP)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Brussels for two-days of meetings with NATO foreign ministers, looking to shore up ties on his first official...

New Pentagon chief in surprise Afghan visit weeks before US withdrawal

Mar 21, 2021 (AFP)

New US President Joe Biden said last week the May 1 deadline agreed by predecessor Donald Trump would be "tough" to meet -- prompting outrage from the insurgent...

Armenia PM defies ruling to reinstate military chief

Mar 18, 2021 (AFP)

Pashinyan pushed out the army's chief of staff Onik Gasparyan last month, accusing him of staging a coup after he called for Pashinyan to resign. But a court on...

EU agrees sanctions over Uighurs; Kazakhs take Xinjiang protest doorstep of China

Mar 17, 2021 (AFP)

Ambassadors from the 27 countries gave the green light for the measures as part of a package of human rights sanctions that will also see individuals in Russia,...

EU visit to Xinjiang stalls over access to jailed Uighur: diplomat

Mar 17, 2021 (AFP)

Since 2019, China says it has invited foreign diplomats and UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to visit Xinjiang, where rights groups allege more than one ...

U.S. airstrikes hit Taliban targets in Afghanistan

Mar 17, 2021 (UPI)

Attacks in the Zharay, Spin Boldak and Kandahar districts of the country's southern Kandahar province came in the past 48 hours, a Twitter statement on Wednesda...

Kyrgyzstan repatriates children of jihadists in Iraq

Mar 16, 2021 (AFP)

Images showed the children holding balloons and stuffed animals after touching down at the capital Bishkek's Manas airport early Tuesday. Scores of women from C...

China envoy warns EU off Xinjiang sanctions

Mar 16, 2021 (AFP)

"I want to emphasise that sanctions are confrontation. Sanctions based on lies could be interpreted as deliberately undermining China's security and development...

Chinese pressure upends Uighur refuge in Turkey

Mar 11, 2021 (AFP)

But Turkey is increasingly dependent on Chinese investments and coronavirus vaccines, and the 46-year-old fears being sent back to a region where China has deta...

Pakistan blocks TikTok after court ban for immoral content

Mar 11, 2021 (AFP)

Wildly popular among young Pakistanis, the Chinese-owned app was briefly banned last year on the same grounds by the ultra conservative Islamic country's teleco...

China committing genocide against Uighurs: report

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

The report from Washington-based think tank Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy offers an independent analysis of what legal responsibility Beijing could...

India's evictions of forest dwellers fuels Kashmir fears

Mar 08, 2021 (AFP)

As India steps up its efforts to assert control over the fractious Himalayan region, communities living in remote woodlands say they've been banished from their...

Uighur women march in Istanbul against China camps

Mar 08, 2021 (AFP)

The protesters chanted "stop the genocide" and "close the camps" as they marched within a few hundred metre's of China's walled-off consulate in Istanbul. "Rape...

Uighur author tells of imprisonment and China attacks

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

But the ferocity with which Beijing has lashed out at the 54-year-old author exceeded her worst expectations. Branded "a terrorist," "a separatist" and "a liar"...