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Source link www.rferl.org Opposition leaders in Pakistan have vowed to topple the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan within weeks. The promise was made at an October 16 gathering of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in the Pakistani city of Gujranwala, which marked the first rally by the broad ...

Source link www.rferl.org A French official has identified an 18-year-old ethnic Chechen man from Moscow as the attacker who beheaded a schoolteacher in a Paris suburb and who was shot and killed by police shortly after. Anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard made the announcement on October 17, one day after ...

Source link www.rferl.org A U.S. guided-missile destroyer came to the aid of an Iranian-flagged vessel in distress in the Arabian Sea, an international maritime coalition said on October 16. The dhow broke down due to a motor problem and launched a distress call to the USS Winston S. Churchill ...

Source link www.rferl.org Pakistani officials say several armed men have attacked a convoy transporting four armored vehicles for the NATO forces in Afghanistan and set them alight. The October 16 attack happened on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police official Zaheer Afridi told RFE/RL. Afridi ...

Source link www.rferl.org Opposition supporters are gathering in the Pakistani city of Gujranwala to kick start an effort by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliance to topple the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The PDM, a broad alliance of at least nine opposition parties, is holding its first ...

Source link www.rferl.org DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Pakistani officials say eight of its soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks in the country’s northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Six troops died after their vehicles struck two roadside bombs in the Shaktoi area of the South Waziristan district ...

Source link www.rferl.org Hundreds of government employees in Pakistan demanded pay rises as they demonstrated in the capital, Islamabad, on October 14. They want a 200-percent pay hike to keep pace with soaring consumer prices. Source link Copyright (c) 2019. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the ...

Source link www.rferl.org Nearly as quickly as the deadly fighting burst out around Azerbaijan's breakaway region late last month, the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides' Twitter defenders were out in force and tagging with a vengeance.Take Anush Ghavalyan.To the casual Twitter user, she's simply "a woman from #Artsakh (#NagornoKarabakh)." It's ...

Source link www.rferl.org A sit-in protest by residents of Pakistan’s remote North Waziristan tribal district continued for a second consecutive day on October 14 as they demanded the release of all the locals allegedly detained by security forces following a roadside bombing last month. Dozens of women who started ...

Source link www.rferl.org Internet freedom has declined for the 10th consecutive year as governments around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic as a "cover" to expand online surveillance, crack down on dissent, and build new technological systems to control society, Freedom House says in a new report. The ...