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  • Myanmar Leader's Silence on Rohingya Disappoints, Angers

    Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, has been critical of Aung San Suu Kyi’s stance on the Rohingya “She is fighting alone and under great restraints,” global policy analyst Tej Parikh wrote in Foreign she controls the immigration ministry, she is the de facto head of the government, and she is also foreign

  • Syria Will Stain Obama’s Legacy Forever

    > <v:imagedata src="file://localhost/Users/vanessacardenas/Library/Group%20Containers/UBF8T346G9.<mark>Office</mark> But now evidence suggests that the Russian president played a direct role in hacking Democratic Party <mark>officials</mark> Indeed, Obama, entering <mark>office</mark> after Bush’s ruinous adventurism, made the avoidance of another quagmire Obama’s Syria legacy won’t be the only factor shaping how posterity regards his <mark>foreign</mark> policy. Image credits: Getty Images/<mark>Foreign</mark> Policy illustrations George Ourfalian/ AFP Abd Doumany/ AFP

  • Myanmar Genocide Designation Tests Biden

    Biden has made fostering democracy and protecting human rights pillars of his foreign policy , and in But State Department officials who oversee East Asia policy fear that it could turn other Burmese against In its final days in office, the Trump administration issued a genocide declaration on behalf of ethnic It almost certainly would increase pressure on other nations and foreign companies that have even indirectly state-owned oil and gas industry amid a lobbying push by California-based Chevron , which is one of three foreign

  • Four civilians killed in Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan

    In Paktia, an official said jets had bombed the Afghan Armed Forces' 203 Mansouri Corps, which is controlled Taliban officials denied that their government had launched drones against Pakistan that day. During a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly earlier this week, Pakistan's Foreign Minister

  • At Least 50 Migrants Found Dead in Truck in Texas

    Law enforcement officers work at the scene where people were found dead inside a tractor-trailer in San Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said on Tuesday that at least 22 Mexican, seven Guatemalan Officers arrived to find a body on the ground outside the trailer and a partially opened gate to the popular smuggling corridor because of the large volume of truck traffic, Jack Staton, a former senior official

  • Western powers clash with China over Xinjiang at UN

    US, UK and Germany urge China to allow UN ‘immediate, unfettered’ access to region amid concerns over allow immediate, meaningful and unfettered access to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and her Office Ravina Shamdasani, the deputy spokesperson for the UN Human Rights office, said Bachelet – who has expressed with the Chinese authorities on the modalities for such a visit,” she said, adding that Bachelet’s office Daniel Nadel, a senior official in the State Department’s Office of International Freedom, said the population

  • Why Is the US Reopening Talks With Myanmar’s Junta?

    The talks follow a September meeting in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, where US officials discussed the and Research Michael Vance led the latest talks in Tokyo, accompanied by more than a dozen American officials Japan’s Foreign Ministry said it had been communicating with both sides as necessary but declined to Japan’s acting envoy to Myanmar met the government’s foreign minister earlier this month in their first

  • Mozambique's Islamist insurgency: UN warns of rising violence in Cabo Delgado

    A senior UN refugee agency official visiting Cabo Delgado described the situation there as "really dire Meanwhile, foreign criticism of Mozambique's handling of the crisis is also becoming sharper. And in Brussels, the European Union's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell Fontelles also offered a sharp assessment The Mozambican government has largely sought to frame the conflict as the result of foreign jihadists

  • U.S. Says China's Repression of Uighurs is Genocide

    Foreign policy officials and experts across the political spectrum in the United States say China will To deflect criticism from U.S. officials, Chinese officials have also taken to underlining some of the Biden takes office. Biden, a critic of China’s human rights record during his decades in office, has used forceful language articles on the camps and a sophisticated high-tech surveillance system in Xinjiang in 2017, well before foreign

  • Holocaust Memorial Day: Jewish figures condemn Uighur persecution

    Gulshan Abbas was officially sentenced on terrorism-related charges, but relatives say she was jailed ‘One cannot stand silently by’ Jonathan Wittenberg, the senior rabbi of Masorti Judaism in the UK, said Critics of Xinjiang’s internment camps, including the UK government, say inmates at the network of facilities Chinese officials have long insisted that mass “education and training” is necessary in Xinjiang in order At the time of publication, the Chinese embassy in the UK had not responded to Al Jazeera’s request for

  • Saudi Arabia executes dissident journalist Turki al-Jasser

    Jeed Basyouni, who leads the Middle East and North African death penalty team for the UK-based organisation Carlos Martínez de la Serna, chief program officer for the Committee to Protect Journalists , said Jasser Sa’ad al-Faqih , a Saudi dissident based in the UK, said Jasser’s execution was “graver” than Khashoggi

  • Jamaica celebrates reparations case referral to appealS

    be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; he would act on the advice of government officials “We were engaging, not with a foreign state, but with our head of state. It is a legal petition.

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