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Pakistan's Khan blasts media 'double standard' over Hong Kong protests
Oct 11, 2019 (AFP)
Khan, who returned this week from a trip to Beijing, also told a crowd of roughly 300 people at a rally in Islamabad that Hong Kong "is a part of China, but thi...
China slams 'sinister intentions' of US visa curbs on Xinjiang
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
The United States has stepped up its criticism of China's treatment of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in the western region, where rights group say ...
Xinjiang: The making of China's far west police state
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
Upwards of one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the region are held in re-education camps, according to estimates cited by a UN panel in 2018. And for...
Xinjiang: The making of China's farwest police state
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
Upwards of one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the region are held in re-education camps, according to estimates cited by a UN panel in 2018. And for...
US curbs China officials' visas, demands end to Uighur 'repression'
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
The one-two punch by President Donald Trump's administration marks the most forceful attempt by a foreign power to address what some rights groups call a histor...
Even in death, Uighurs feel long reach of Chinese state
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
In just two years, dozens of cemeteries have been destroyed in the northwest region, according to an AFP investigation with satellite imagery analysts Earthrise...
Turkish air strikes hit northeast Syria near border: monitor
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
In the Ras al-Ain border region, an AFP correspondent heard loud explosions and saw clouds of white smoke towering overhead. The journalist said Turkish artille...
US blacklists 28 Chinese entities over abuses in Xinjiang
Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the move, which bars the named entities from purchasing US products, saying the United States "cannot and will not t...
India admits friendly fire downed helicopter in Kashmir clash
Oct 04, 2019 (AFP)
"A court of inquiry was completed and it was our mistake that our missile hit our chopper," said the head of the Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Bhada...
Pakistani Kashmir leader sees hope in US, China response to India
Oct 01, 2019 (AFP)
Sardar Masood Khan was visiting Washington to meet lawmakers, media and experts after India on August 5 rescinded autonomy on its side and sharply curtailed ord...
Uighur in Belgium fears for family after asylum snag
Oct 01, 2019 (AFP)
Abdulhamid Tursun's case has raised controversy in Belgium, where rights groups accuse the Belgian authorities of having effectively "delivered up" his relative...
For Uighur refugees, freedom means losing family
Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)
Like other Uighur refugees from northwest China, Rasul, 35, who now lives in Istanbul, knows that making contact with relatives back home risks them coming unde...
Afghan officials investigate reports 40 civilians killed in airstrike
Sep 23, 2019 (AFP)
The allegations stem from an overnight skirmish in Musa Qala district, less than a week after a drone killed at least nine civilians in Nangarhar province east ...
U.S. soldiers injured after Afghan police officer fires at NATO convoy
Sep 23, 2019 (UPI)
The NATO troops fired back, killing the Afghan Civil Order Police officer, in what has been described as a "green on blue" attack, in which a member of the Afgh...
Beijing gives support to US-Taliban talks
Sep 23, 2019 (AFP)
Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China "hopes that the United States and the Afghan Taliban will maintain the momentum of negotiations". Geng also sa...
For Kurdish Iraq's women entrepreneurs, persistence pays off
Sep 23, 2019 (AFP)
Lingering societal prejudice, family pressures and an under-developed private sector have constrained women from breaking into the Iraqi workforce, including in...
Two Turkish soldiers killed in northern Iraq
Sep 23, 2019 (AFP)
The soldiers died after an improvised explosive device (IED) "placed by PKK separatist terrorists exploded as a supply convoy was passing", the ministry said. T...
Dozens detained as Kazakhs protest against former president, China
Sep 21, 2019 (AFP)
An AFP correspondent saw around three dozen people apprehended by police and bundled into vans in the centre of Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city. Kazakhstan's ...
Two dozen held in Kazakhstan ahead of rally: civic group
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
The informal movement Oyan, Qazaqstan ("Wake Up, Kazakhstan") said 24 people were sentenced to between two and 15 days in police detention, five had been fined ...
US envoy to Afghanistan to testify before lawmakers
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
The House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee issued a subpoena to force Zalmay Khalilzad to appear after it complained about being kept in the dark o...
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