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After days of clashes between police and Imran Khan’s supporters, authorities stormed into the former prime minister’s home in Lahore once Khan had left for Islamabad to appear in court. Police had attempted to arrest Khan on Tuesday as he faces charge…
Police and supporters fought pitched battles outside Imran Khan’s home, as the former prime minister claimed he was willing to give a surety bond to appear in court on 18 March. It is the second time in recent weeks that police have been dispatched to …
China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters that the US, UK and Australia ‘are walking further down the path of error and danger’. The comments were made in a press conference in response to the Aukus partners’ announcement of a mu…
Indonesia’s Merapi volcano erupted, spewing hot clouds into the sky, on Saturday. The eruption of the volcano, located in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta region, generated a lava flow 1.5km long and a cloud of ash up to seven kilometres across.Re…
Photographer Sam Biddle engages with members of the Uyghur diaspora who are reclaiming their identity and broadening the public’s perception, from the singular narrative of persecution to include the thousands of years of rich Uyghur history and cultur…
Hindu spring festival sees millions hurl coloured powder at each other in a kaleidoscopic celebration of the end of winter and the triumph of good over evil Continue reading…
Japan’s H3 rocket, branded a possible competitor to SpaceX’s Falcon 9, self-destructed after liftoff when its second-stage engine apparently failed. It is the second H3 failure for Japan’s space agency, Jaxa, after the rocket failed to leave the launch…
China’s new foreign minister, Qin Gang, has warned that the US and China are heading towards inevitable conflict if Washington does not change its approach. In his first media appearance as foreign minister, Qin held a press conference to outline his f…
A fire tore through a refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving thousands homeless, officials said. The blaze erupted at Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar, a south-eastern border district where more than 1 million Rohin…
Delhi audience laughs as Russian foreign minister says Ukraine war ‘was launched against us’ – video
Sergei Lavrov’s description of Russian invasion as ‘the war, which we are trying to stop, and which was launched against us using the Ukrainian people’ was met with laughter at the Raisina Dialogue conference in India. The foreign minister said Moscow …
Emmanuel Macron has said China’s engagement in peace in Ukraine is a ‘good thing’.The French president told reporters that he would visit China in early April, in part to seek Beijing’s help with ending the warRussia-Ukraine wa…
Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed some elements of a Chinese proposal for a ceasefire in Russia’s war on Ukraine, but said only the country where a war is being fought can be the initiator of a peace plan.Zelenskiy said during a press conference i…
China’s government has called for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, and urged all parties to avoid nuclear escalation and to end attacks on civilians in a 12-point position paper released on Friday, the first anniversary …
UN marks one year of Ukraine war with vote as Germany and China clash over supply of weapons – video
The United Nations overwhelmingly isolated Russia by calling for a ‘comprehensive, just and lasting peace’, demanding Russia withdraw its troops from Ukraine and stop fighting. Marking one year since Moscow’s invasion, the resolution was adopted w…
CCTV footage shows a large part of an open-pit coalmine in the town of Alxa League collapsing, killing at least five people and injuring six others. Almost 50 people were missing after miners and trucks appeared to be swallowed up at the mine, where ev…