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Source link www.rferl.org Anwar Gargash, a senior official in the United Arab Emirates, said a resumption of hostilities in the Iran war would be “catastrophic” for the Middle East, which has been embroiled in the US-Israeli conflict with the Islamic republic.In an interview with RFE/RL on May 22 at ...

Source link www.rferl.org WASHINGTON -- A US district judge on May 30 granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL)’s third request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and ordered the agency to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding.Judge Royce Lamberth ...

Source link www.rferl.org BANNU, Pakistan -- Journalist Gohar Wazir was shopping for groceries at a market in northwestern Pakistan when five men forced him into a vehicle at gunpoint.The abductors blindfolded Wazir and whisked him away to a hideout some 40 minutes away from the city of Bannu. For ...

Washington / islamabad —  The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the Afghan Taliban’s decision to ban FM transmissions of two U.S.-funded news media and urged an immediate resumption of their broadcasts. The Islamist Taliban government’s ban went into effect December 1. A day earlier, the Taliban’s Ministry of ...

ISLAMABAD —  The Islamist Taliban government has defended banning FM radio broadcasts from two U.S.-funded news media, including the Voice of America, in Afghanistan, alleging they were offending local laws. The ban on VOA and Azadi Radio, an Afghan extension of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, went into ...

Source link www.rferl.org Four construction workers have been shot dead in Pakistan’s volatile North Waziristan tribal area, police said on November 27. The men, who worked for the Frontier Works Organization (FWO), an engineering branch of the Pakistani military, came under attack near the town of Mirali on November ...

Source link www.rferl.org Pope Francis has for the first time publicly named Uyghurs, a major indigenous ethnic group in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, among a list of the world's persecuted peoples amid reports of widespread human rights abuses in the region. "I think often of persecuted peoples: the ...

Source link www.rferl.org Before he was president-elect, before he was vice president, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate, representing the state of Delaware. For many of those years, he served on the chamber’s Foreign Relations Committee, including two stints as its chairman. That gave ...

Source link www.rferl.org In just 43 days, Azerbaijan has won back its territory around the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh -- seven districts of mountains and foothills that were occupied by Armenian separatists since Baku’s humiliating battlefield failures of the early 1990s. Analysts say three factors explain why Azerbaijan was ...

Source link www.rferl.org Russian President Vladimir Putin has said "attempts to exert foreign pressure" in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova are "unacceptable." Opening an online summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on November 10, Putin said that Belarus was "under pressure from external forces." Mass protests in Belarus demanding ...