India’s Top Court Probes Spying Charges Against Government

India's top court on Wednesday established a committee of experts to look into accusations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government used Israeli military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists and activists.The Supreme Court or...
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UNHCR Welcomes Pakistan Easing Restrictions at Afghan Border Crossings

The U.N. refugee agency says it welcomes recent steps by Pakistan to ease restrictions at official border points with neighboring Afghanistan. The agency says this enables smoother movement of goods into troubled Afghanistan, and keep people from turni...
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China, Russia Working Together on Security Threats in Central Asia

Eyes in Beijing and Moscow are trained on Central Asia, prompted by the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.The security threat in Afghanistan and the desire to shut off Central Asia from other powers, such as the U.S., is motivating Beijing and Moscow to ...
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Blinken Orders Review of US Withdrawal From Afghanistan

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he had ordered a full-scale review of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in August as the U.S. ended its two-decade fight against terrorism there.In a hastily arranged airlift, the U.S. a...
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Khalilzad: Ghani’s ‘Intransigence,’ Afghan Elite’s ‘Selfishness’ Led to Collapse

Zalmay Khalilzad, the senior U.S. official who led the negotiations with the Taliban, blamed, for the most part, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s “intransigence,” the Afghan elite’s “selfishness” and Afghan soldiers’ lack of will to fight for the ...
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Taliban officials discuss TAPI construction with Turkmen Ambassador to Kabul again

Acting Minister of Mines and Oil of the Taliban, Mohammad Isa Akhund, met in Kabul with the Ambassador of Turkmenistan, Khoja Ovezov . Deputy Minister of Information and Culture Zabiullah Mujahid announced this on October 27 on his Twitter. .“During th...
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Berdymukhamedov again came to the monument under construction to Makhtumkuli. Its opening is delayed by a year

On October 26, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov inspected the construction of the cultural and park complex Makhtumkuli Fraghi, in the center of which a monument to the poet is being built, on the southwestern outskirts of Ashgabat, the state inform...
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Representatives of the ports of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan discussed work during the pandemic

On October 26, by video link, a meeting was held between representatives of the International Seaport of Turkmenbashi and CJSC "Baku International Sea Trade Port" Report.az reports . The parties considered the issues of coordinating the work of ports i...
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Iran offers Turkmenistan to pay off gas debt by barter

On October 26-28, a Turkmen delegation headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov is visiting Iran.Iranian media write that the minister will take part in the 16th annual meeting of the Joint Economic and Cultural Commission a...
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HRW Appeals to Turkish Government to Stop Deportation of Turkmen Activists

The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch published an appeal to the Turkish government demanding that it refuse deportation to Turkmenistan and immediately release the Turkmen activists detained in Istanbul.In the period from 18 t...
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