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UN aid programmes in Afghanistan under threat after decision to bar women from agencies and charities, foreign ministers warnMajor world powers have called on the Taliban to urgently reverse a “reckless and dangerous” decision to ban women from working…
Read MoreSecurity council’s rare display of unity adds pressure after most aid groups in Afghanistan suspend servicesFaint hopes exist that the Taliban may relax its ban on all women working for the non-governmental aid agencies in Afghanistan after the UN secu…
Read MoreConsular staff wanted for questioning by police over beating up of activists recalled to BeijingChina’s consul general in Manchester and five other diplomats have returned home and will escape questioning by police for their role in the beating up of a…
Read MoreChinese leader will see widespread demonstrations against zero-Covid policy as threat to CCP’s authorityJust five weeks after being elected to a historic third term, President Xi Jinping suddenly faces cracks in the facade of unchallenged authority tha…
Read MoreGovernment watchdog says £3.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan governmentThe UK’s £3.5bn aid to Afghanistan between 2000 and 2020 was implicated in corruption and human rights abuses and failed to achieve its primar…
Read MoreCountry firing close to South Korean waters in response to Washington-Seoul drills, as it also sells missiles to Russia In an overcrowded diplomatic nuclear space, the last thing the west needed to hear was that North Korea was back in business. It fir…
Read MoreCommission to focus on detention of journalist and political leader Zhanbolat Mamai after nationwide protestsThe state of human rights in the vast, mineral-rich central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan, including the continued detention of opposition leade…
Read MoreDisagreements have opened up about strategy when China is also seen as an existential threatWestern powers in the G7 group of nations are failing to coordinate their China strategies, senior western officials admit, adding that the need to do so has be…
Read MoreResult not to debate its own damning report shows many states are unwilling to take sides in power struggle between China and westIn a display of raw Chinese political power, the UN has voted to turn its back on a report written by its own human rights…
Read MoreBattle over influence at Human Rights Council, with Beijing warning of ‘politicisation of human rights’Western powers are weighing the risk of a potential defeat if they table a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council calling for an independent commi…
Read MoreAs world leaders prepare for a meeting of UN general assembly, the raging war of narratives shows no sign of abatingRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesUntil one short week ago, the geopolitical balance in Ukraine could be likened to Zugzwang, a word de…
Read MoreOne year since the Taliban regained power, charities say urgent action needed to address economic crisisOne year on from the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, a group of 32 Afghan and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are urging the …
Read MoreKelly Wu-Chiao Hsieh called for operations to uphold the ‘median line’ in the Taiwan Strait in response to China’s military exercisesThe US and its allies should jointly respond to China’s live ammunition drills designed to intimidate Taiwan by holding…
Read MoreOfficials say they can not provide hope of resettlement for Afghans who worked for UK civilian schemesThe UK Foreign Office has admitted a catalogue of errors over its handling of Britain’s exit from Afghanistan, but has shut the door on many Afghans w…
Read MoreExclusive: Contractors at ‘high risk’ of Taliban reprisals still have no idea how to get out of country safelyMore than 180 British Council contractors left trapped in Afghanistan have been given immediate permission by the UK government to apply onlin…
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