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Pakistan: 17-year-old social media creator shot dead in Islamabad residence

A 17-year-old content creator was shot dead in Pakistan's Islamabad city, with police suspecting it to be a case of honour killing, media reports said.

China's colonial boarding schools are eroding Tibetan identity, reveals new report

The Tibet Action Institute (TAI) has released a report where it accused Tibetan children are face abuse, neglect, indoctrination, and identity erasure in the Chinese government’s ne ...

UN says Gaza is the ‘hungriest place on earth’

Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office O ...

Bangladesh apex court acquits Islamist leader ATM Azharul Islam facing death sentence for 1971 war crimes

The Bangladeshi Supreme Court has acquitted Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, who was facing a death sentence for a war crimes case related to the 1971 Liberation War against Paki ...

UN says 427 Rohingyas died in two separate shipwrecks in May

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday expressed a grave concern over reports that two boats carrying Rohingya refugees sank off the coast of Myanmar earlier this month, leaving 427 peop ...

Release Panchen Lama immediately: Marco Rubio directs China

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday asked China to immediately release Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, who was allegedly abducted by China 30 years ago.

US Senators demand China to release 11th Panchen Lama

U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently demanded that China immediately release Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, t ...

Bangladesh: Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das shown arrested in four more cases

Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das has been shown arrested by a Chittagong court in four more cases filed with Kotwali Police Station over clashes, vandalism and attacks on cops on the cour ...

Bangladesh: Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das shown arrested in lawyer murder case

A Bangladeshi court on Monday showed Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das as arrested in the murder case related to the death of Advocate Saiful Islam Alif.