China has demolished the Rebiya Kadeer Trade Center, once a prominent building symbolizing Uyghur entrepreneurship and identity in Urumqi in Chinese-occupied East Turkistan. Satellite images confirm the site is now rubble. Built in 1990, the seven-story center housed more than 600 shops, conference halls, and classrooms. It played a key role ...
An Afghan minister in the Taliban-led administration was killed, along with six others, in an explosion on Wednesday. Afghanistan’s local media reported acting Refugees and Repatriation Minister Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani was killed inside his ministry building in the capital Kabul. Haqqani’s nephew, Anas Haqqani, told reporters the ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly invited his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to participate in his presidential inauguration next month. Sources revealed that Trump extended the invitation to Xi in early November, shortly after the election, but it remains unclear whether the Chinese president has accepted, CB...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Indian revenue authorities in the occupied Kashmir have ordered that power and water supply for 409 Muslim Rohingya refugee families be cut off. This is part of an ongoing crackdown aimed at eventually deporting them to their troubled homeland in Myanmar. A revenue document outlines the private properti...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has named former Senator David Perdue to serve as ambassador to China. Trump highlighted Perdue’s “valuable expertise to help build our relationship with China,” citing his decades-long business career as a key asset. “As a Fortune 500 CEO, ...
Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, has appealed for international intervention to establish a safe zone for the Rohingya. His appeal comes amid fresh threats issued by the Arakan Army in Myanmar’s Rakhine State against the Rohingya. Despite long standing persecution by Burma’s military, the Arakan Army, an ethnic Buddhist...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has rescinded his earlier decision to impose martial law, a move that had originally been enacted for the first time in 45 years. The White House responded to the reversal with relief, emphasizing the importance of democracy in the U.S.-South Korea alliance. The decision followed a parliamentary rejection o...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesian fishermen rescued 116 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, on Saturday after their boat sank off the coast of Aceh province, according to a local daily. Jakarta Globe reported that the group had fled Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, hoping to reach Indonesia or Malaysia. “They look very wea...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi camps have expressed support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s decision to seek an arrest warrant for Burma’s military leader over crimes committed against their community. The chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, had on Wednesday filed for an arres...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called Israeli war on Gaza “heartbreaking,” according to local media. “It is heartbreaking that many times more bombs were dropped on Gaza than on Tokyo in massive US air raids during World War II,” NHK news quoted Ishiba as saying. Ishiba’s remarks came after receiving information [&h...
