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Afghan rulers urged to reverse ban on women aid workers

Saturday 14-01-2023 03:46 PM

A strong majority of the U.N. Security Council urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers Friday to immediately reverse all “oppressive” restrictions on girls and women including the latest ban on women ...

Iran hangs former defense ministry official over spy claim

Saturday 14-01-2023 03:25 PM

Iran said Saturday it had executed a dual Iranian-British national who once held a high-ranking position in the country’s defense ministry despite international warnings to halt his death ...

Crowd attacks Syrian rebel figure over reconciliation push

Saturday 14-01-2023 02:55 PM

Angry protesters in Syria’s rebel-held enclave rallied Friday against reconciliation attempts between Turkey and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and scuffled with a local Syrian ...

Moscow Says It Has Seized Ukrainian Town of Soledar

Saturday 14-01-2023 02:40 PM

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Moscow’s forces had completed the capture of Soledar overnight, as Ukrainian officials said battles were continuing for control of the eastern town. In its ...

Biden Administration to Ask Congress to Approve F-16 Sale to Turkey

Saturday 14-01-2023 02:15 PM

The Biden administration is preparing to seek congressional approval for a $20 billion sale of new F-16 jet fighters to Turkey along with a separate sale of next-generation F-35 warplanes to ...

South Korean President Says Country Could Develop Nuclear Weapons

Friday 13-01-2023 04:09 PM

South Korean President Yoon Suk -yeol said the country could develop its own nuclear weapons or ask the U.S. to redeploy them on the Korean Peninsula if the threat from North Korea grows, in the ...

U.N. to Post Inspectors to All of Ukraine’s Nuclear Plants

Friday 13-01-2023 03:52 PM

The head of the United Nations atomic agency plans to visit Ukraine next week to deploy international inspectors at all of the war-torn country’s nuclear plants, significantly expanding the ...

Russia claims its forces control Soledar town

Friday 13-01-2023 03:36 PM

Russia has declared that its forces now control the salt-mining town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, after a long and intense battle. Announcing its first significant victory after six ...

Cash-strapped Taliban cannot afford to turn their back on opium trade

Friday 13-01-2023 02:54 PM

In Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province, Habibullah sat and listened to a recording of drug dealers rattling off opium prices, one after another, reminiscent of traders on the stock market. ...

Islamic State suicide bomber ‘targeted Chinese diplomats’ in Kabul attack

Friday 13-01-2023 02:34 PM

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s capital yesterday that appears to have targeted Chinese diplomats. Police said the explosion outside ...

‘Burying Us Alive’: Afghan Women Devastated by Suspension of Aid Under Taliban Law

Friday 13-01-2023 01:36 PM

For years before the Taliban seized power and the economy collapsed, Jamila and her four children had clung to the edge of survival. After her husband died trying to cross the Iranian border five ...

Netanyahu Surges Ahead With Judicial Overhaul, Prompting Fury in Israel

Friday 13-01-2023 01:16 PM

The leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, said he feared the government’s plan could lead to the collapse of Israel’s democracy. A former defense minister, Benny Gantz, warned of civil war. A ...

British-Iranian man appears in heavily edited confession aired on Iranian TV

Friday 13-01-2023 12:48 PM

Alireza Akbari, the British-Iranian dual national sentenced to death for allegedly spying for MI6, gave his British handlers reports on Iran’s nuclear programme and efforts to evade western ...

Turkey Is Sending Cold War-Era Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

Wednesday 11-01-2023 09:36 PM

Turkey began sending Ukraine a form of U.S.-designed, artillery-fired cluster bomb in late 2022 after months of Kyiv pleading with the Biden administration for the munitions, current and former ...

Taliban hails Afghanistan's first ‘supercar’

Wednesday 11-01-2023 09:01 PM

Afghanistans Taliban rulers have hailed the unveiling of the countrys first ‘supercar’. A sleek, black sports car took to the snowy streets of the capital after a five-year building ...