A United Nations human rights expert visited the vicinity of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday as part of her investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard and her team of experts toured around the consulate but did not enter, saying they were waiting for permission from Saudi officials […]
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Afghan president Ashraf Ghani called on the Taliban to “enter serious talks” with the government in Kabul on Monday, following unprecedented marathon negotiations between the insurgents and the US in Qatar last week. “I call on the Taliban to… show their Afghan will, and accept Afghans’ demand for peace, and enter serious talks with the […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MOREChinese state-run media on Monday decried the sacking of Canada’s ambassador to Beijing, who was fired after he suggested it would be “great” for Ottawa to release a detained Huawei executive. The former envoy, John McCallum, had raised eyebrows over a series of remarks regarding the case of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, whose arrest […]
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An Indian politician who posted a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a begging bowl on Facebook has been arrested, police said on Monday, in the latest example of what critics say is a clampdown on free speech. It follows more than a dozen similar arrests last year in a clampdown on those attacking […]
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Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighbourhoods with iron ore waste. The confirmed death toll rose to 58, with up to 300 people still missing, authorities said. In an ominous sign, nobody was […]
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A United Nations human rights expert has arrived in Turkey for a week-long visit over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard and her team of experts on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary killings, met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara on Monday. Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency said they are also […]
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Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion, sealing the fate of another attorney swept up in a 2015 crackdown. Wang, 42, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, disappeared in the sweep — known as the “709” clampdown […]
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Britain’s Telegraph newspaper has apologised and paid damages to US First Lady Melania Trump after publishing an article it says contains many false statements. The newspaper said Saturday it apologises “unreservedly” to Mrs Trump and her family for any embarrassment caused by the content of a cover story published Jan 19 in the newspaper’s weekly magazine supplement. […]
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A military base deep inside Saudi Arabia appears to be testing and possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles, experts and satellite images suggest, evidence of the type of weapons programme it has long criticised its arch-rival Iran for possessing. Further raising the stakes for any such programme are comments by Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin […]
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Muslims in the southern Philippines overwhelmingly approved in a referendum the creation of a new autonomous region in hopes of ending nearly half a century of unrest, election officials said. The Commission on Elections announced late on Friday that the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is deemed ratified following a referendum on Monday. It […]
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