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Police and protesters clash in Tbilisi after PM suspends Georgia's EU bid
Nov 29, 2024 (UPI)
Protesters damaged buildings, roads and surveillance cameras, set fires and erected barricades on the central Rustaveli Avenue. Authorities said officers were p...
Turkmen leader publishes book honouring own achievements
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, already a prolific writer, said he penned the book while on vacation and that it contained the "fruit" of his own research on the Ce...
Kazakhstan to boost territorial defence amid Ukraine escalation concerns
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
Kazakhstan is part of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a mutual defence alliance, though Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised c...
China says one citizen dead, four injured in attack near Tajik-Afghan border
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
"On November 18 Beijing time, the camp of a private Chinese enterprise in the border area between Tajikistan and Afghanistan was attacked (located on the Tajiki...
Pakistan separatists kill 7 soldiers in border post attack
Nov 16, 2024 (AFP)
"Around 40 to 50 armed terrorists attacked a border post manned by the Frontier Corps Balochistan in Kalat district, killing seven soldiers and wounding 15 othe...
Taliban score successes with embassy closures, COP attendance
Nov 13, 2024 (AFP)
The embassy of Afghanistan in London closed on September 27, following the mission in Oslo which shut down on September 12. Both were run by staff loyal to the ...
Taliban eye aid at their first UN climate talks since 2021 takeover
Nov 11, 2024 (AFP)
Heading a three-person team, former Taliban negotiator Matiul Haq Khalis stood out in the bustling halls of the conference in Azerbaijan's capital where delegat...
Two Chinese nationals wounded in Pakistan's largest city
Nov 05, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing is a crucial ally for cash-strapped Pakistan but Chinese-funded infrastructure projects have sparked resentment and its nationals are routinely targeted...
Iran kills four after deadly attack in southeast: state media
Nov 05, 2024 (AFP)
On October 26, jihadists from the Pakistani-based Jaish al-Adl group killed 10 police officers in Taftan county, Sistan-Baluchistan province -- one of the deadl...
Three suspected rebels killed in Indian Kashmir clashes
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between rivals India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947 and is home to a long-running insu...
Indian troops kill two suspected militants in Kashmir
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between rivals India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947 and is home to a long-running insu...
Iraqi Kurdistan ruling party wins delayed election
Oct 30, 2024 (AFP)
The Kurdistan Democratic Party, led by the influential Barzani family, took 39 places in the 100-seat parliament in the October 20 vote, according to the commis...
Turkey to pursue campaign against Kurdish group in Iraq, Syria
Oct 29, 2024 (AFP)
"We are preventing the terrorists who live on our borders from breathing," said Erdogan. "Until the establishment of a country and a region without terror, we w...
Iran kills four after deadly attack in southeast: report
Oct 27, 2024 (AFP)
Ten police officers were killed in Sistan-Baluchistan province on Saturday in an attack claimed by the Pakistani-based Sunni jihadist group Jaish al-Adl -- Arab...
Five killed in Turkish strikes on PKK allies: Iraqi local sources
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
The strikes came after a Syria war monitor said Turkish drone strikes had killed 27 civilians in Syria in a 24-hour military escalation, after an attack on Wedn...
Kurdish-led Syria force says Turkish strikes kill 12 civilians
Oct 24, 2024 (AFP)
"Over the past hours... a new wave of (Turkish) attacks on northern and eastern Syria" killed "12 civilians, including two children", and wounded 25 others, a s...
Family-controlled party far ahead in Iraqi Kurdistan vote count
Oct 21, 2024 (AFP)
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the largest party in the outgoing parliament, has received more than 800,000 votes so far in the preliminary count after S...
Infighting and inflation ahead of Iraqi Kurdistan vote
Oct 16, 2024 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdistan is seen as a relative oasis of stability in the turbulent Middle East and has historically been attractive to foreign investors thanks to its cl...
Chinese premier inaugurates Pakistan airport in volatile region
Oct 15, 2024 (AFP)
While Li did not travel to Balochistan, he "virtually" inaugurated Gwadar Airport at a ceremony held Monday in the capital Islamabad, some 2,000 kilometres (1,2...
Blast kills two Chinese workers in Pakistan's biggest city
Oct 07, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing is a crucial ally for cash-strapped Pakistan but Chinese-funded infrastructure projects have sparked resentment and its nationals are routinely targeted...
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