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Tens of thousands of opposition supporters protested in the city of Karachi late on Sunday as part of a campaign to oust Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, who they accuse of being installed by the military in a rigged 2018 election.Nine major opposition parties formed a joint platform called ...

Late one night in June, social worker Yu Miu-po received a text message from a 16-year-old girl who left Hong Kong for Pakistan in March with her parents and siblings, when Covid-19 infections were severe.Born and raised in Hong Kong, she complained that her father was forcing her and ...

China, Cuba and Russia on Tuesday were elected to the UN Human Rights Council despite vehement opposition from activists and organisations who say the countries’ governments are among the worst offenders of human rights globally.The United Nations General Assembly elected 15 new members to the 47-nation council. Seats are ...

Five months into a stand-off on their disputed Himalayan border, India and China may need to face an uncomfortable new reality – that the ‘roof of the world’ could become a permanently contested militarised zone much like disputed Kashmir, an area once dubbed by former US president Bill Clinton ...

After endlessly swiping through profiles with no photos on dating apps, Muhammad Ali Shah still has not found the one – or really anyone – to get serious with in Pakistan.In the ultraconservative Islamic republic, where arranged marriages are the norm, he says many women choose to stay anonymous, ...

Pakistan’s telecom regulator blocked TikTok on Friday for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, another blow to the social media app that has come under increasing scrutiny as its popularity has surged across the globe.The ban comes in view of “complaints from different segments of the society ...

ANKARA Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic and other news in Turkey and around the world.Coronavirus and other developments in TurkeyTurkey reported 1,429 cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,182 recoveries over the past 24 hours, the country's Health Ministry ...

World leaders and politicians are reacting today to the news that President Donald Trump and Melania Trump have coronavirus. Here's what some of them are saying:British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who contracted Covid-19 in the springIndian Prime Minister Narendra ModiGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel“Chancellor #Merkel: I send all my best wishes to ...

More than a dozen countries are signed on to host final phase trials of Chinese-made experimental Covid-19 vaccines, potentially putting China at the fore of national plans to immunise populations.Across countries including Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Russia, ...

A campaign by opposition politicians in Pakistan to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan and the official in charge of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Islamabad may cause some disruption but is unlikely to derail the multibillion-dollar scheme, analysts say.Opposition party leaders on Sunday launched a joint campaign to ...