Month: April 2018

A key whistleblower in the doping scandal that has engulfed Russian Olympic sports since 2016 has filed a countersuit against three athletes who earlier sued him for libel and a Russian oligarch who financed their legal action. …

A twin bomb attack in Kabul that killed at least nine journalists was the worst attack on Afghan reporters since the U.S. invasion of 2001. The deaths have stunned the country’s journalism community, and those who have worked there over the years. …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled what he said was “new and conclusive proof” of a “secret nuclear weapons program that Iran has been hiding for years from the international community.” According to Netanyahu’s April 30 presentation in Tel Aviv, Israel has obtained a secret archive proving that Iran continued taking steps to develop …

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Syrian state media say an overnight missile attack in the country’s northern region has killed 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Iranians. …

French news agency AFP has confirmed that one of its photographers, Shah Marai, was among those killed in two back-to-back blasts in Kabul Monday morning. The Afghan Ministry of Public Health said at least 21 people were killed and 40 wounded in the suicide attacks in one of Kabul’s high security neighborhoods. The Interior Ministry …

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The European Union has defended a 30 million euro project to train the Myanmar Police, after a police witness in a case against two local journalists told a court this month that a senior police commander had ordered their entrapment. Police Captain Moe Yan Naing said that he and other officers had been threatened with …

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Two explosions have rocked central Kabul near the country’s intelligence agency, killing at least 21 people, including a journalist for the French news agency AFP, Afghan officials say. …

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to neighboring North Korea this week, following a historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. China said Wang will visit May 2 and 3 at the invitation of his North Korea counterpart. The brief statement Monday did not include any …

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Tens of thousands of supporters in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore greeted popular opposition lawmaker Imran Khan as the country’s political parties launched their campaigns for the upcoming national elections. …

Syria’s army says it has captured a series of villages from U.S.-backed Kurdish forces to the east of the Euphrates River near the border with Iraq. …

With many loyalists of former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev falling by the wayside, the latest Majlis podcast looks at the changes that the new president, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, has been making to the country’s government. …

Fighting in northern Myanmar between government forces and the rebel Kachin Independence Army, or KIA, has forced more than 4,000 people to flee their homes. Col Naw Bu, a KIA spokesman, said the fighting will become “more intense” because the army is sending more troops to the area. Aid organizations have requested access to the …

Read more “Rebel, Miltary Clashes in Myanmar Force Thousands to Flee”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has strongly criticized Iran during his first diplomatic trip to the Middle East where he was briefing U.S. allies about President Donald Trump’s threat to quit the Iran nuclear deal. …

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to shut down the government later this year if Congress does not approve enough funding for border security, including money to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Last month, Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that keeps the government open until the end of September. Speaking …

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from Seoul and the United States to observe when North Korea shuts down its nuclear test site in May, South Korean officials said Sunday. South Korean presidential press secretary Yoon Young-chan, also quoted Kim as saying: “The United States, though inherently hostile to …

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