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Manipur, India – Samim Sahni was sitting outside her brick house last week, hunched over a radio along with a dozen of her neighbours, listening to the 7.30pm news broadcast when they heard a bullet whiz by. The 25-year-old mother of two children – a seven-year-old son and a ...

Security forces were called to a northwestern Pakistani district on the border of Afghanistan after at least 16 people were reported dead following heavy gun fire. Source link

The two factions battling for supremacy in Sudan have agreed to a seven-day truce starting May 4, a statement from South Sudan's foreign ministry in Juba said Tuesday. The ministry said the deal had been brokered by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir in a phone conversation. It follows weeks of fighting that has ...

A sizeable splinter within the military-led establishment is demanding that Imran Khan, as its former creation, deserves a second stint in power. Fractures have cascaded downwards and split the superior judiciary, bureaucracy police and the general public.A hapless prime minister recently admitted that anarchy reigns. Punjab’s heavyweights – Pakistan ...

MOSCOW The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers called Wednesday on Afghan sides to stop violence and start peace talks about the future of the country.In a joint statement following a meeting in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, the SCO foreign ministers condemned the violence and terrorist attacks causing civilian ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Frustrated by a stalled peace process and escalating violence, the U.S. has presented an eight-page draft peace agreement to Afghanistan’s warring sides for review. The U.S. told the parties to come to Turkey in the coming weeks ready to move on it, according to Afghans ...

Kashmir’s most senior political leaders have come together to announce an alliance against the central Indian government of Narendra Modi, denouncing his decision more than a year ago to strip the region of its special status and autonomy. The meeting included all regional parties of the former state of Jammu ...