Angry protesters in major cities reacted after police arrested Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan leader Saad Rizvi for threatening to hold protests if the government did not expel French ambassador over depictions of Prophet Muhammad.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urges countries not to repeat deadly mistakes of the past in Syria and to take action to stop the junta’s “slaughter of its people” in Myanmar.
Top diplomats of both sides, Mevlut Cavusoglu and Antony Blinken, discuss regional and bilateral issues as well as upcoming Istanbul meeting on Afghanistan.
Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan party leader Saad Hussain Rizvi was detained after threatening the government with protests if it did not expel France's ambassador over depictions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
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Rehman campaigned at personal risk for amendments to country’s controversial blasphemy laws that domestic and international rights groups say are often used to intimidate religious minorities.
Activists protesting Myanmar’s coup call on public for passive acts of defiance over upcoming new year holiday in a bid to maintain momentum for a movement that has seen more than 700 people killed in clashes with junta.
Officials said that around 70% of the structures in the coastal town of Kalbarri in Western Australia state had sustained damage when the category three storm made landfall. Around 30% of that damage was "significant.
Turkey's communications director said that the visit to Aghdam made clear the magnitude of the Karabakh victory, but was saddened to see the ruined cities.
Kyrgyz presidents will now be able to run for office for a second time, reversing the single-term limit imposed on leaders during an overhaul of the basic law in 2010.
"This [the Molotov newsletter] is our response to those who slow down the flow of information –– and that's a threat to us," thirty-year-old Lynn Thant, not his real name, says.
South Korea had previously suspended AstraZeneca's vaccine after Europe began reviewing cases of blood clotting in adults.
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