As Russia’s influence grows in the Western Balkans and war rages in Ukraine, the leaders of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina have said joining NATO would help preserve regional security. For Bosnia and Kosovo, having experienced mass killings committed by Serb forces in the 1990s under the adm...
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has recalled Ukraine’s ambassadors to Morocco and Georgia, suggesting the diplomats had not done enough to convince those countries to punish Russia for its invasion last month. “With all due respect, if there won’t be weapons, won’t be sanctions, won’t be ...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked political turmoil many miles away in Georgia, with citizens seemingly at odds with their government’s actions. On February 24, the day the Russian invasion was announced, thousands of Georgians took to the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, to protest i...
Ukraine’s president has urged the UN Security Council to ensure its members adhere to the rules of international law or shut its doors, as he accused Russian troops of committing “the most terrible war crimes” since World War Two. In a passionate address to the UN’s most powerful body on ...
He is currently serving a four-month term of administrative detention ordered by an Israeli military court in March on the claim he is a “threat to security”. Administrative detention allows Israel to imprison people without charge or trial for an indefinite amount of time. The complaint, fil...
Imran Khan has survived a move to oust him as Pakistan’s prime minister, getting a reprieve when the deputy speaker of Parliament blocked a no-confidence motion as unconstitutional. Khan, whose fate was not immediately clear, later advised the country’s president to dissolve Parliament, leadi...
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chairman of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), said, “We are ready for the fresh elections but we cannot allow violation of the rules and the constitution.” Khan, a former cricketer who took office in 2018, blames Washington for an alleged conspiracy to t...
The 37-year-old, who has lived in the US city of New York for some 15 years, has been steadily gaining global attention for her work that fuses ancient Sufi traditions with folk, jazz and minimalism. Born to Pakistani parents in Saudi Arabia, Aftab spent her teenage years in Lahore before relocat...
In this case, the lower house of parliament would be restored and the vote against Khan could go ahead. If Khan lost that vote, which he would be expected to, the opposition could nominate its own prime minister and hold power until August 2023, by which date fresh elections have to be held. The ...
Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s Supreme Court has adjourned without ruling on the legality of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve parliament and call new elections. A five-judge bench of Pakistan’s top court is hearing multiple petitions challenging Khan’s dissolution of parli...
