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The Taliban leadership is deeply divided over girls' education beyond Class 6, raising fears of girls’ education in Afghanistan under the new rule that has largely stripped women of their basic rights. Just recently, the Taliban banned women from flying unaccompanied. Rights groups say there are deep divisions within the Taliban's Supreme...

The White House announced plans on Sunday to raise $200 billion for solar projects in Angola, an undersea telecommunications cable linking the Far East with France via Egypt, and nuclear power production in Romania as part of a huge G7 infrastructure plan designed to compete with China's massive Belt and Road initiative. The proposals were unveiled on the first day...

As Beijing seeks to avoid further censure over its policies against the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities, calls grow for tougher action. Diplomats and human rights advocates are stepping up pressure on the United Nations to act over China’s treatment of the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups, as Beijing tries to...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court is looking into the legality of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s unexpected move over the weekend to block a parliamentary vote against him and then call for a snap general election. The deputy speaker of parliament, a member of Khan’s party, threw out the no-confidence motion that Khan had widely been expected to lose, ruling that...

The explosions took place at the all-boys Abdul Rahim Shahid high school and the nearby Mumtaz Education Centre, both located in the Dasht-e-Barchi area,  a predominantly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood in western Kabul. The attack at the Abdul Rahim Shahid high school reportedly occurred as students were coming out of their morning classes, according to...

Up to 180 media outlets out of 475 have been closed in Afghanistan in the past seven months following the takeover by the Taliban in August this year, local media reported. On Tuesday, Afghanistan's National House of Journalists in its latest survey said Afghan media outlets have been affected the most after the Taliban...

Hong Kong (CNN) Black box data recovered from a China Eastern flight that crashed in March suggests someone in the cockpit intentionally downed the plane, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a preliminary assessment from United States officials. The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when it nosedived from 29,000 feet mid air into the...

Pakistan’s rupee is poised for its biggest monthly decline in more than two years as deteriorating finances and uncertainty over the International Monetary Fund’s bailout plan weigh on the currency. The rupee has declined about 7% in May, the steepest drop since March 2020, as the country negotiates a bailout package with the IMF...

NEW DELHI —  China has dispatched a military ship to Sri Lanka's port city of Hambantota in the midst of the rapidly changing political situation in the island nation. The move has raised questions about whether China is trying to establish a strong military presence on Sri Lanka's Indian Ocean coast.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned of the effects of terrorism in Afghanistan, blaming it on a power vacuum. Guterres who spoke at the Munich Security conference said terrorists were exploiting power vacuums and subverting fragile states. "The risks of terrorism spillover out of Afghanistan, as well as the...