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Kabul’s mannequins, hooded and masked under Taliban rules

Monday 16-01-2023 02:11 PM

Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags. The ...

UK looks clumsy and powerless in wake of Iran’s execution of Alireza Akbari

Sunday 15-01-2023 05:27 PM

Britain’s relationship with Iran has a fraught, unedifying history, dating back to the 18th-century imperial tussle between England, Napoleonic France, and tsarist Russia for control of Persia. ...

UN: Afghan bank’s cash remarks ‘misleading, unhelpful’

Sunday 15-01-2023 05:03 PM

The U.N. criticized Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled central bank for making “misleading and unhelpful” remarks about cash destined for humanitarian work. It comes amid growing tension between the ...

Police: Ex-Afghan female lawmaker, guard shot dead at home

Sunday 15-01-2023 04:14 PM

A former Afghan female lawmaker and her bodyguard have been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in the capital, Kabul, police said Sunday. Mursal Nabizada was among the few female ...

Iran and Syria set to renew long-term economic agreement

Sunday 15-01-2023 04:05 PM

Syria and key ally Iran agreed Saturday to renew an economic strategic arrangement between the two countries as Damascus prepares to welcome Iran’s president in the near future. Since ...

Turkey’s Approval of NATO Expansion Could Take Months

Sunday 15-01-2023 03:58 PM

The Turkish government is unlikely to seek parliamentary approval for Ankara to back Sweden and Finland’s entrance to NATO before Turkey’s national election later this year, a top aide to ...

Is Turkey a Crucial or Corrosive NATO Ally?

Sunday 15-01-2023 03:42 PM

Emma Ashford: Hey, Matt! Happy new year to you. It’s our first column of the new year, and we’ve already got a lot to sink our teeth into: an attempted insurrection in Brazil, a change of military ...

We don’t have a problem with men, so why do the Taliban have a problem with us?

Sunday 15-01-2023 03:08 PM

The days are so hard for me that I can’t count the minutes or I would lose my mind. My name is Mahsheed Barzz, I am almost 20, and, like most Afghan girls and women, I am a prisoner in my ...

New COP28 president wants renewable energy generation to triple by 2030

Sunday 15-01-2023 02:28 PM

The new president of COP28 has called for a tripling of renewable energy generation by 2030 while highlighting the need for oil and gas from the “least carbon intensive producers”, following his ...

China Reports Nearly 60,000 Covid-Linked Deaths Since Lifting Restrictions

Sunday 15-01-2023 02:16 PM

China said on Saturday that it had recorded nearly 60,000 fatalities linked to the coronavirus in the month since the country lifted its strict “zero Covid” policy, accelerating an outbreak that ...

Cooperation on Climate Is Emerging in the Middle East

Sunday 15-01-2023 01:38 PM

In December 2020, the Israeli company Watergen signed a partnership agreement with the Abu Dhabi-based multinational firm Al Dahra to install their fresh water production devices in the United ...

Wagner v Mozart: US group strikes wrong note in Ukraine

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:58 PM

The Mozart Group, an independent American ex-military organisation founded to help Ukraine fight the Russians, is suffering from a distinct lack of harmony. A spat of angry tweets from the ...

Kyiv tries to rally West before ‘500,000 Russians’ go to front

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:49 PM

President Putin could mobilise up to half a million extra troops for his war against Ukraine as he seeks to wrestle back the initiative with a multipronged spring offensive. Western allies ...

How Western Goods Reach Russia: A Long Line of Trucks Through Georgia

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:35 PM

Each day, a caravan of trucks stretches for miles along a mountain highway in Georgia, near the border with Russia. Each day, the line seems to get longer. The trucks wait for days with ...

Police: Militants kill 3 officers in restive NW Pakistan

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:08 PM

Militants shot and killed three police officers on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said, the latest violence in the restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan. ...