Sheikh Hasina wanted for her alleged role in enforced disappearances, says chief persecutor -DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) A Bangladeshi court has issued a second arrest warrant for exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, this time for her alleged role in enforced disappearances, the chief prosecutor says. The International Crimes Tribunal, estab...
The Taliban-led Afghanistan administration has started giving land to Afghan refugees who have returned from Pakistan and Iran. This initiative involves distributing agricultural and residential plots as part of a broader scheme to help these repatriates reintegrate. Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban’s representative, said the program aims to provid...
In Russia’s remote Magadan region, Tajik migrants have reported being forced to work under slave-like conditions on a cattle farm. A group of 10, tricked by a promise of well-paid jobs, now find themselves without pay and stripped of their passports by their employer, who allegedly refuses to return them. These migrants, including two with [&h...
President Joe Biden recently signed the 2025 defense spending bill, endorsing $895 billion in funding and extending the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act for another five years. Key measures in the act include monitoring human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang and imposing sanctions on Chinese officials linked to “genocide” against Uy...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Beijing dismissed as “false” the claims that the US Treasury was breached in a “major cybersecurity incident,” state media reported. “These unfounded accusations (are) lacking evidence,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters in Beijing. Mao’s comments came in response to a report by US-bas...
ANKARA (AA) – South Korean authorities declared 177 passengers and crew dead, two missing, and two rescued after a plane crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday. Earlier, officials of the Jeolla Fire Department, while briefing passengers’ families at the airport, said that “out of the 181 passengers, most are presumed dead,...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least five people were killed and three injured in a border clash between Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to local media reports. The Afghan Defense Ministry confirmed the clash in a statement posted on X, claiming that its forces conducted attacks inside Pakistani territory targeting “miscreants’ hideouts.&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council has voiced grave concern about the situation in Afghanistan. “The members of the Security Council are deeply concerned with the continuing negative impact of the Taliban’s policies and practices that restrict the enjoyment by women and girls of their human rights and fundamental freedoms on...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran’s foreign minister has announced the beginning of a new chapter in the strategic partnership between Iran and China. According to Iran’s official news agency IRNA, Abbas Araghchi stressed the importance of China’s achievements as a developing country, which he said “offers hope to other nations facing similar cha...
Bangladesh says it will not allow more Rohingya refugees into the country, citing 60,000 arrivals over the past two years. Home Affairs Adviser retired Lt. Gen. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said Bangladesh no longer will allow any more Rohingya to enter under any circumstances. With more than 1.2 million Rohingya already in camps in Cox’s Bazar, [&...
