China’s HNA Group is buying an approximately 25 percent stake in hotel operator Hilton from Blackstone affiliates in a deal worth about $6.5 billion. HNA will have a stake in…
continue readingEgypt’s interior minister warned Monday that the country faced “unprecedented challenges” that required a decisive response by security forces, accusing the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood of inciting chaos and stoking fears…
continue readingIraqi and Kurdish forces pushed closer towards Mosul as part of an operation to retake the northern city from the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. …
continue readingAn Iranian Koran reciter known for appearing at state events has been accused of sexually abusing his students. …
continue readingAn Uzbek woman who was filmed waving the severed head of a young girl outside a Moscow metro station in February has pleaded guilty to murder. …
continue readingA court in Russia’s North Caucasus has sentenced a Daghestani Islamic cleric to prison on terrorism charges. …
continue readingIranian President Hassan Rohani says Turkey must get permission from the Iraqi government to take part in the operation to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS)…
continue readingDoctors reported a large fall in polio cases amid improved security in northwest Pakistan (RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal) …
continue readingWASHINGTON — A freelance video journalist covering the battle against the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Mosul, Iraq for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was critically injured in a…
continue readingPakistani police say gunmen have shot dead an intelligence officer in the country’s volatile northwest. …
continue readingAmerica’s top diplomat for Asia said Monday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial remarks and a ‘real climate of uncertainty’ about his government’s intentions have sparked distress in the U.S.…
continue readingThe trial of a Kazakh citizen suspected of fighting alongside Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine started in Kazakhstan on October 24. …
continue readingMoscow supports the idea of creating an armed Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) police mission in eastern Ukraine but cast doubt that such a force could be…
continue readingThe World Meteorological Organization reports the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere has reached a record high this year, driven in part by the powerful El Nino event,…
continue readingTom Hayden was long past his heyday of political rebellion and the Chicago 7 trial when he died on Sunday at age 76. But in American culture, he remained an…
continue readingCross border firing between India and Pakistan in the contested region of Kashmir has killed at least three people, including two children. Indian police sources said a young boy was…
continue readingThe Foreign Affairs Committee of the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament has approved legislation suspending a Russia-U.S. agreement on the disposal of plutonium. …
continue readingIraqi forces shelled areas outside of Mosul Monday, as their offensive to retake the country’s second-largest city from Islamic State militants entered its second week. The attacks were focused near…
continue readingTwo Pakistani civilians and an Indian soldier have been killed in cross-border firing in the disputed region of Kashmir, officials from the two sides say. …
continue readingKazakhstan says Ashgabat has suspended visa-free travel for Kazakhs living close to the Turkmen border. …
continue readingThe coastal city of Mumbai, where India’s popular Bollywood industry is based, is far away from the mountainous region of Kashmir, where cross border firing between the Indian and Pakistani…
continue readingBefore the war, there were 37 schoolchildren in the village of Orlovske in southeastern Ukraine. Now there’s only one. Most families have fled the fighting just a few kilometers away,…
continue readingIraq’s parliament has passed a law forbidding the import, production or selling of alcoholic beverages in a surprise move that angered many in the country’s Christian community who rely on…
continue readingWhen the Taliban attacked Kunduz in early October, the Afghan city did not technically fall to them like last year, but it took the government nine days to clear them…
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