China deployed hundreds of police and made arrests in a mostly Muslim southwestern town after clashes erupted over the planned partial demolition of a mosque, said witnesses. The town of Nagu, Yunnan...More
Turkey 's economy is in a double bind: analysts see its current policies leading to imminent peril and the prescriptions incurring massive pain. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan campaigned round the...More
Leaders around the world expressed their regards to Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he won another term. The opposition, meanwhile, had criticised the vote as "unfair". German Chancellor Olaf Scholz...More
A leading German politician has sharply criticised the wave of support for incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan among the country's large expatriate Turkish population, in the wake of the...More
Australia offered Narendra Modi a rock-star welcome on Tuesday, during a visit by the Indian leader that was heavy on praise and light on his domestic controversies. Modi hosted a 12,000-strong...More
Indonesia and Iran signed a trade agreement on Tuesday in Jakarta, where President Joko Widodo hosted his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi. Tehran is aiming to boost its international trade ties to...More
Trade unions and anti-racism groups have criticised an initiative by the French interior ministry to check on the number of Muslim children who skipped school last month to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr. The...More
Transgender activists in Pakistan said they plan to appeal to the highest court in the land an Islamic court's ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their rights. The Transgender Persons (...More
A renewed visit by Israel 's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to a contested religious site in Jerusalem on Sunday sparked fierce criticism from Palestinians and their Arab allies...More
Activists in Lebanon protested on Sunday at a beach in the coastal city of Sidon after a woman said she was harassed there over her allegedly indecent bathing suit , it was reported. Defying a...More
A G20 tourism meeting was set to begin on Monday amid high security in Indian-administered Kashmir , with China and Pakistan condemning holding the event in the disputed territory. Muslim-majority...More
In a Moroccan oasis town on the edge of the Sahara, nomads in turbans and tunics are thwacking a camel-wool ball across the desert in a traditional pastime: sand hockey. Similar in many ways to field...More
Rohingya families in cyclone-hit Myanmar buried loved ones outside shattered villages and searched the seashore for the missing, expecting little help from a government that denies their identity...More
India's opposition Congress party won power in a key state on Saturday, partial election results showed, defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's ruling BJP a year ahead of national polls. It ousted...More
One month since Sudan's conflict erupted, its capital is a desolate war zone where terrorised families huddle in their homes as gun battles rage in the dusty, deserted streets outside. Across...More
Calm returned to Gaza on Sunday as a fragile ceasefire largely held, leaving Palestinians and Israelis to count the cost of five days of cross-border fire that killed dozens. Fishermen took to their...More
Turkey braced on Monday for its first election run-off after a night of high drama showed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan edging ahead of his secular rival, but failing to secure a first-round win...More
Israel's military launched further strikes on Gaza on Friday after militants fired rockets from the territory, on the fourth day of fighting which has killed dozens of Palestinians and one in Israel...More
Sudan 's warring factions early on Friday committed to protect civilians and the movement of humanitarian aid, but did not agree to a ceasefire and remain far apart, U.S. officials said. After a week...More
The man challenging Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey's presidential elections this weekend received a boost on Thursday when a small party candidate abruptly withdrew and a closely-watched poll gave...More
The head of the Church of England on Wednesday condemned a British government bill that would dramatically curb migrants' ability to seek asylum in the UK , calling the policy "isolationist, morally...More
Tunisia's small Jewish community was in shock and mourning on Wednesday after a bloody shooting rampage in which a police officer killed five people outside Africa's oldest synagogue. The shooting on...More
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was remanded in custody for eight days on Wednesday by an anti-graft court as violent nationwide protests over his arrest erupted for a second day. Khan was...More
Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, in a first response to ongoing Israeli airstrikes that have killed 19 Palestinians, including three senior...More
China on Wednesday called on Afghanistan to reform its radical policies excluding women from education and public life and "adopt a more resolute attitude in combating terrorism." The comments from...More
A week before key elections in Turkey , President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu a "drunk," while a leading German politician of Turkish decent says the opposition...More
Fighting could be heard in south Khartoum on Sunday as envoys from Sudan 's warring parties met in Saudi Arabia for talks that international mediators hope will bring an end to a three-week-old...More
The Arab League on Sunday welcomed back Syria's government , ending a more than decade-long suspension and securing the return of President Bashar al-Assad ( pictured above ) to the Arab fold after...More
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will suspend food aid to over 200,000 Palestinians from next month due to a "severe" shortage of funds, the group's senior official for the Palestinian...More
The Syrian refugee unhooked some laundry drying in the baking sun and made a wish for this month's Turkish election : "May Erdogan win". A mother from Kurdish-majority Kobane in Syria's northwest,...More
A court in Istanbul on Wednesday handed Turkish pop singer Gulsen ( pictured above ) a 10-month suspended sentence after convicting her of "inciting hatred and enmity" over a joke about Turkey's...More
Visiting Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday hailed Syria's Bashar al-Assad for overcoming sanctions and achieving "victory" in the country's 12-year-long civil war, in which Tehran has been...More
German troops have started to withdraw from Mali as Berlin aims to wind up by May next year a mission that has been hampered by disputes with the ruling military junta in Bamako and the arrival of...More
Rabbi Nicky Liss won't be watching King Charles III's coronation. He'll be doing something he considers more important: praying for the monarch on the Jewish Sabbath. On Saturday, he will join rabbis...More
The United Nations warned on Monday that the conflict in Sudan could force 800,000 people to flee the country as battles between rival military factions persisted in the capital despite a supposed...More
Gaza militants fired rockets on Tuesday after the death in Israeli custody of a leading Palestinian figure in the Islamic Jihad group , who had been on hunger strike for nearly three months. The...More
The youth organisation of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is being monitored as a confirmed case of right-wing extremism, upgraded from a suspected case, the domestic intelligence service...More
The German government is examining whether asylum procedures can be carried out in countries outside the EU , Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper...More
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Thursday calling on Taliban authorities to "swiftly reverse" all r estrictive measures against women , condemning in particular its ban on Afghan women...More
Brandishing a bolt-action rifle, civil servant Sanjeet Kumar is one of 5,000 Kashmir villagers who have joined all-Hindu militia units armed and trained by Indian forces to fight off rebel attacks...More
Voting in Turkey 's presidential and parliamentary elections on 14 May started on Thursday for Turks living abroad, with the largest diaspora of 1.5 million to cast their votes in Germany. Voting...More
Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Turkish President Erdogan's leadership ahead of a key election in the NATO country. Recep Tayyip Erdogan , 69, suspended all campaigning for Turkey's...More
Ibrahim Mohamed turned in his hospital bed to find the patient next to him had died, but fighting that had erupted in Sudan's capital hours earlier meant the body could not be moved. Battles since 15...More
People across Turkey marked the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Sunday by commemorating the victims of the devastating earthquakes that struck the Turkish-Syrian border region over two...More
At a weekend school in the U.S. state of Virginia, language classes serve a dual purpose for young Uighurs – cultural preservation, and access to vocabulary to discuss the plight of relatives in...More
At least 350 people have died and thousands have been wounded in Sudan since fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF erupted last weekend. Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support...More
Large parts of the Muslim world marked the end of the fasting month of Ramadan at sundown on Thursday and ushered in the holiday of Eid ul-Fitr , but the festivities were overshadowed by raging...More
Bangladeshi garment worker Sumi Akhter feared for her safety, but was told to start her shift or risk forfeiting her wages. An hour later she was pinned down under rubble and clinging to life. Akhter...More
More than 80 people were killed and hundreds injured in a crush at a charity distribution event in war-torn Yemen on Thursday, Houthi officials said after one of the deadliest stampedes in a decade...More
Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran's last shah, called on Wednesday during a visit to Israel for "maximum" international backing for the protest movement that rocked the Islamic Republic following Mahsa...More
Turki finally summoned the courage last year to come out as gay , but his family's refusal to accept him forced the 20-year-old to seek safety – and freedom – outside conservative Saudi Arabia . Soon...More
Thousands of residents fled Sudan 's capital on Wednesday as fighting between the army and paramilitaries, which has killed around 200 people, raged for a fifth day after a 24-hour truce collapsed...More
Nestling in the Karakoram range in remote Baltistan on the Indo-Pakistan border lies the historic and storied village of Turtuk, once an important stopover on the ancient Silk Road. By Sugato Mukherjee
