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China warns US of a 'price' for Uighur bill
Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)
The legislation adds to tensions between the two superpowers just as they are locked in negotiations to finalise a "phase one" deal to resolve their protracted ...
Former head of Xinjiang jailed for life over graft
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
It is among the most high-profile cases in President Xi Jinping's sweeping campaign against corruption in the ruling Communist Party, which critics have compare...
Months after abrupt halt, Trump gives blessing for Taliban deal
Nov 29, 2019 (AFP)
Chief among the questions is how to address the soaring violence in Afghanistan -- which the Taliban sees as leverage but which Trump has hinted that the insurg...
Court grants Pakistan's top general more time in power
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
General Qamar Javed Bajwa has served three years in his role, arguably the highest authority in the country, and in August Prime Minister Imran Khan asked him t...
China defends Xinjiang crackdown after criticism from European leaders
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
The French foreign ministry on Wednesday called on China to "put an end to mass arbitrary detentions" in Xinjiang. German chancellor Angela Merkel on the same d...
Court to decide fate of Pakistan's top general
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
General Qamar Javed Bajwa has served three years in his role, arguably the highest authority in the country, and in August Prime Minister Imran Khan asked him t...
TikTok apologises for removing viral Xinjiang clip
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
In a post that has now been seen 1.6 million times, Feroza Aziz begins talking about eyelash curling but quickly switches to decrying China's mass detention of ...
New leak reveals how China runs Xinjiang camps
Nov 25, 2019 (AFP)
Obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and published by 17 media outlets worldwide on Sunday, the documents show the stric...
Pentagon identifies soldiers killed in Afghan chopper crash
Nov 24, 2019 (UPI)
The Department of Defense said Chief Warrant Officer 2 David C. Knadle, 33, from Tarrant, Texas, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kirk T. Fuchingami JR., 25, from Ke...
Leaked documents show operations of prison camps in China's Xinjiang
Nov 24, 2019 (AFP)
The documents, obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and published by 17 media outlets worldwide, show the strict protoco...
China defends Xinjiang crackdown after massive document leak
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
Over 400 pages of internal papers obtained by the New York Times showed that President Xi Jinping ordered officials to act with "absolutely no mercy" against se...
Six killed as avalanche buries Indian patrol on disputed glacier
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
The disaster was the latest on the Siachen Glacier at more than 5,000 metres (16,500 feet) that is claimed by India and rival Pakistan. Hundreds of troops from ...
Explosive prose: translation of Pakistani satire hits bookstores
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
The former fighter pilot turned journalist, novelist and librettist is best known for the 2008 novel which chronicles the final days of hardline dictator Genera...
Leaked China documents reveal 'no mercy' in Xinjiang: NYT
Nov 17, 2019 (AFP)
Human rights groups and outside experts say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been rounded up in a network of internment cam...
Uighur researchers say China running more camps than known
Nov 12, 2019 (AFP)
The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a Washington-based group that seeks independence for the mostly Muslim region known to China as Xinjiang, gave t...
World Bank scales back Uighur school project in China
Nov 11, 2019 (AFP)
The World Bank launched a review of the program in late August after Foreign Policy magazine reported that a school that benefited from a tranche of the $50 mil...
Iraqi Kurds boycott Turkish goods after Syria assault
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
From pomegranates to plastic buckets, yoghurt and beauty products, Iraq imports more than $8 billion worth of Turkish goods a year through its autonomous Kurdis...
CIA-backed Afghan militias kill with impunity, rights group says
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
The secretive militias, whose support from America's Central Intelligence Agency continues a tradition stemming from the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s, have lo...
UN members split on China's Uighur rights record
Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)
But China's allies countered with a statement of their own that won even broader support, with some 54 nations backing a Belarus text that heaped effusive prais...
US welcomes proposed intra-Afghan talks in China
Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)
The Taliban last week said that China invited a delegation to talks in Beijing, the second such meeting after a dialogue in Qatar in July that was co-arranged w...
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