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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is currently serving a prison sentence, is aiming for a prestigious new role — Chancellor of Oxford University. Despite being incarcerated for more than a year on charges he says are politically motivated, Khan is reported to have submitted his application for the position. The chancellor role is...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s transitional government has decided to cancel all diplomatic passports, including one with which former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took refuge in neighboring India following an August 5 student-led revolution. The Ministry of Home Affairs has confirmed that diplomatic or red passports that are allocated ...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan has invited Armenia to the 29th UN climate change conference (COP29) to be held in Baku in November. “We have the infrastructure to host approximately 40,000 guests in one day. Invitations were sent to all the heads of states in the world. More than 50 heads of states and governments […]
The Chinese government has sentenced seven brothers from a prominent Uyghur family to prison terms between nine and 17 years. The Obulqasim brothers were active in construction and trade in Chinese occupied Eastern Turkistan or Xinjiang. Chinese authorities detained them for charitable work and overseas activities they deemed suspicious. Their...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has conducted “successful” training launch of surface-to-surface ballistic missile Shaheen-II, the military said. “The training launch was aimed at training of troops, validating various technical parameters and performance evaluation of different sub-systems incorporated for improved accuracy ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh will maintain support for its immense Rohingya refugee population, Nobel laureate and new leader Muhammad Yunus said Sunday in his first major policy address. Yunus, 84, returned from Europe this month after a student-led revolution to take up the monumental task of steering democratic reforms in a coun...
ANKARA (AA) – Afghanistan and Uzbekistan on Saturday inked a string of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) worth $2.5 billion, state media reported. Some 35 agreements in energy, agriculture, and manufacturing sectors were signed by Uzbekistan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economi...
ANKARA (AA) – A drone attack that killed over 200 fleeing Rohingya Muslims near the Bangladesh border on Monday has forced hundreds to return to their hometowns, while thousands are still taking shelter in paddy fields awaiting to cross into neighboring Bangladesh, according to a rights group. Risking their lives, a few hundred have move...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A UN fact-finding team will visit Bangladesh next week to set up a probe of hundreds of deaths during recent student-led protests which led the prime minister to step down, UN officials have announced. An independent inquiry commission will be funded and led by the UN, said Gwyn Lewis, the UN […]
More than 13,000 Rohingya Muslims and hundreds of other residents have been forced to flee Maungdaw township in western Burma due to escalating clashes between the military and the Arakan Army. The Arakan Army, which seeks control of Rakhine state, has driven more than 15,000 people from their homes since Aug. 7. Many of the […]
