Pakistan has issued sweeping financial sanctions against Afghanistan’s Taliban, just as the rebel group is in the midst of a US peace process in the neighboring country. The orders, which were made public on Friday, identified dozens of individuals, including Taliban chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and several members …
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South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has told the country’s lawmakers that Kim Jong Un’s decision to hand over more power to his younger sister further reinforces the argument that she is now the ‘de-facto second in command’. ‘s, but does not take into account the fact that Kim Jong …
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The satellite image of the American imaging company Planet Labs, first posted on the social media accounts of Radio Free Asia, shows what appears to be a nuclear propulsion subotype Type 093 entering a tunnel to an underground key at Yulin Naval Base. It immediately made comparisons to what could …
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Ardern opted for the second path. When New Zealand reported only 28 cases, Ardern closed borders to foreigners, and when there were 102 cases, it announced a nationwide lockdown. In fact, Ardern offered New Zealanders a deal: deal with some of the toughest rules in the world, and in return, …
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Indian and Chinese officials are holding talks to try to resolve a months-long standoff along its controversial border, where the two countries deployed tens of thousands of soldiers. More than a dozen rounds of talks so far have failed to break the border stalemate. Experts say India’s stripping part of …
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