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Syria talks collapse: Damascus rejects Kurdish decentralization
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News – Damascus Talks between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) have ended without progress, a senior Kurdish official told Shafaq News, citing Damascus’s continued rejection...
June 2025 Science Breakthroughs: HIV Prevention, Cancer, Space & Nature
Mezha
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June 30, 2025
In June, scientists presented a series of exciting discoveries covering various aspects of nature and medicine. From butterflies navigating by the stars to the role of fatherhood in baboon life, as well as new insights into orcas caring for one...
FFD4 Must Deliver for the World’s Most Vulnerable Nations
Inter Press Service
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July 1, 2025
Aid, Climate Action, Climate Change, Conferences, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Education, Environment, Global, Headlines, Health, Poverty & SDGs, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion OHRLLS Office...
New Trump Tariffs Target Kazakhstan With 25% Rate
The Diplomat
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July 8, 2025
In a July 7 executive order, U.S. President Donald Trump effectively kicked back his deadline to review the early April “reciprocal tariffs” to August 1, while also announcing that new tariff rates had been set for a group of 14 countries — with...
Relations between Central Asia’s nations and Afghanistan are warming
Asia Plus
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15:07, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus Eurasianet reports that relations between the five Central Asian countries and Afghanistan are warming as plans move ahead for new rail links, increased trade and creating opportunities for ordinary Afghans. The...
BNP stands by cancer-stricken footballer Rituparna Chakma
Bangladesh Post
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A BNP delegation has met Bhujopati Chakma, the cancer-stricken mother of 'Golden Girl' footballer Rituparna Chakma, under the direction of Tarique Rahman, acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and main sponsor of 'Amra BNP...
Iran’s “Look East” strategy in the Central Asian region is bearing fruit, despite the ongoing tussle with “Israel”
Al Mayadeen
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July 5, 2025
Iran is leveraging its strategic location and "Look East" policy to deepen trade and transit ties with Central Asia, aiming to bypass Western sanctions and emerge as a vital regional connector. Prior to the unjustifiable and unwarranted blitz by...
Tarique Rahman stands by footballer Ritu Porna Chakma's cancer-stricken mother
Bangladesh Sangsbad Sangstha
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Tarique Rahman stands by footballer Ritu Porna Chakma's cancer-stricken mother A delegation of 'Amra BNP Paribar' met Ritu Porna Chakma's mother Bhujopati Chakma today. Photo: BSS DHAKA, July 9, 2025 (BSS) - BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman has...
Central Asian States Reconnect with Afghanistan
Oil Price
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July 8, 2025
Relations between the five Central Asian countries and Afghanistan are warming as plans move ahead for new rail links, increased trade and creating opportunities for ordinary Afghans. Central Asian states are prioritizing bringing Afghanistan back...
India abstains from UN resolution on Afghanistan
The Federal
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July 8, 2025
United Nations, Jul 8 (PTI) India has abstained in the UN General Assembly on a draft resolution on Afghanistan, noting that a “business as usual” approach is unlikely to deliver outcomes that the global community envisions for the Afghan people....
Behind Bars, Beyond Justice: Torture Persists in Central Asia – Joint NGO Statement on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
International Partnership for Human Rights
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On the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we, —civil society actors across Central Asia and Europe – the Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia...
Indomitable women footballers point to persistent cracks in the system
Daily Star
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July 8, 2025
The Bangladesh women's football team, led by Afeida Khandokar and guided by Peter Butler, has once again shown the nation what belief, resilience, and unity can achieve. These young women have defied logic and surpassed every expectation in Yangon...
India abstains in UNGA on draft resolution on Afghanistan
Orissa Post
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July 8, 2025
United Nations: India has abstained in the UN General Assembly on a draft resolution on Afghanistan, noting that a “business as usual” approach is unlikely to deliver outcomes that the global community envisions for the Afghan people. The...
Türkiye’s emergence as an international education hub
Sabah
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July 8, 2025
Education has always been one of the most powerful tools not only for personal development but also for cultural transmission, social transformation and international interaction. Over the past three decades, rapid advancements in digitalization,...
Regional Cooperation End of Exercise
DVIDS - Georgia
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June 27, 2025
JOINT BASE CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES 06.26.2025 U.S. forces conducted a joint exercise, including land navigation, unmanned aerial systems, patrolling and medical evacuation during Regional Cooperation 25, at Camp Edwards, Mass, June...
Rome, Venice and 19 other Italian cities on heat alert
Bangladesh Post
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During his childhood, Adilbek Kozybakov’s mother always kept a jar of sturgeon caviar in the fridge. Each day, she would spoon it on small pieces of bread and butter for him and his siblings. Caviar would keep them in good health, she believed. It...
Azerbaijan and Afghanistan explore expansion of trade corridors via Baku Port
Ariana News
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July 7, 2025
Azerbaijan Railways Chairman Rovshan Rustamov met this week with Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Baku to discuss the expansion of cargo transportation routes between South Asia, the Caucasus, and...
China signs landmark treaty with Central Asian countries
Friends of Socialist China
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June 22, 2025
The Second China-Central Asia Summit, held on June 17 in the Kazakh capital Astana, saw China conclude a Treaty of Permanent Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation with its five neighboring countries, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the...
The US Aimed at Iran But Might Have Hit Central Asia
The Diplomat
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July 2, 2025
The U.S. and Israeli attacks last month on Iran to “obliterate” its nuclear program may have hit another target: Central Asia’s interests in accesses the large Iranian market and use Iran’s transport links to trade with the wider world. Iran’s...
‘The Caspian Sea is shrinking. It is visible with the naked eye’
Yahoo News
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Aktau, Kazakhstan – During his childhood, Adilbek Kozybakov’s mother always kept a jar of sturgeon caviar in the fridge. Each day, she would spoon it on small pieces of bread and butter for him and his siblings. Caviar would keep them in good...