NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN – FEBRUARY 23: Disabled Afghans carried out a protest on Friday, Feb 23, against the US President Joe Biden’s executive order to seize half of $7 billion in assets held in US financial institutions. Protestors who lost their limbs during incidents of violence in the country’s eastern province of Nangarh...
An Indian actor has been arrested for criticizing a judge now hearing challenges to a hijab ban in schools. Chetan Kumar, a Kannada-language film actor, was arrested in the state of Karnataka for his social media comments on how High Court Justice Krishna Dixit questioned the behavior of a rape victim in a previous ruling. […]
India dispatched wheat to Afghanistan on Tuesday to help alleviate food shortages after Pakistan gave permission to allow the shipments across their shared border. Senior Indian government officials flagged off the first convoy of 50 trucks carrying 2,500 metric tons of wheat donated by India to Afghanistan at Attari in the northern state of P...
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday declared his country’s readiness to supply natural gas to the world, including Europe. Raisi said his country has been able to boost its natural gas production and carry out significant projects in the oil and gas sectors by banking on domestic expertise and resources. He said sanctions imp...
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin can still avoid a war of choice after Moscow ordered troops to move into eastern Ukraine. Austin said the US will continue to work closely with Kyiv before heading to a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at the Pentagon. “Russia’s...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the Minsk Agreement on the Ukrainian settlement ceased to exist when Russia recognized Ukraine’s breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Putin said Russia had struggled for eight years for the implementation of the accord while...
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE: An Israeli court on Tuesday suspended the eviction order against a Palestinian family, who lived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of the occupied East Jerusalem. The decision was welcomed by the family that would otherwise be evicted in March. Recent provocative acts of certain Jewish groups in the region are believed to...
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – A total of 18 foreign nationals remain under arrest in Kazakhstan for allegedly being involved in the deadly unrest that swept the country last month, the country’s human rights commissioner said on Tuesday. Speaking at a news meeting, Elvira Azimova said that foreign nationals, 14 Uzbek, two Russian and two...
Bangladesh marked its Language Martyrs’ Day on February 21 and the International Mother Language Day with somber ceremonies to honor the sacrifices of people killed in the country’s 1952 Language Movement. The movement was launched after the government of the then-West Pakistan (present day Pakistan), which jointly held constitutional powers o...
The Indian state where Muslim girls with hijab are being banned from entering schools has now turned violent against Muslims. On Sunday at least 20 people were injured and around 50 vehicles torched during a funeral procession. A Hindu extremist, who police say, was an active Bajrang Dal militia member involved in attacks targeting Muslims [&h...
