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Convoy plucks women, children from last IS holdout in Syria
AFP, Published on 20/02/2019
» NEAR BAGHOUZ (SYRIA) - A convoy of trucks evacuated dozens of people including women and children from the Islamic State group's last Syria redoubt Wednesday, bringing US-backed forces closer to retaking the last sliver of the "caliphate".
In eastern Syria, the infants of a dying IS 'caliphate'
AFP, Published on 12/02/2019
» NEAR BAGHOUZ (SYRIA) - They were born in a "state" that no longer exists, most to fathers who are dead and mothers whose countries don't want them back. These are the children pouring out of Baghouz.
China rights record in spotlight at UN review
AFP, Published on 06/11/2018
» GENEVA - China's mass detainment of ethnic Uighurs and its crackdown on civil liberties will likely figure high on the agenda Tuesday when countries meet at the UN in Geneva to review Beijing's rights record.
China rolls out PR push on Muslim internments
AFP, Published on 16/10/2018
» BEIJING: China on Tuesday issued an ardent defence of the alleged mass internment of minorities in its far west Xinjiang region, with a regional official insisting that authorities are preventing terrorism through "vocational education" centres.
Merkel's Bavarian allies face threat of poll debacle
AFP, Published on 14/10/2018
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's arch-conservative CSU allies were bracing for heavy losses as the southern state of Bavaria went to the polls Sunday.
Second Swiss canton votes for 'burqa ban'
AFP, Published on 23/09/2018
» GENEVA: A second Swiss canton will introduce a regional "burqa ban", after voters in St. Gallen emphatically voted Sunday to prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces.
Swiss region overwhelmingly votes for 'burqa ban'
AFP, Published on 23/09/2018
» GENEVA: A second Swiss canton will introduce a regional "burqa ban", after voters in St. Gallen overwhelmingly voted Sunday to prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces.
First woman fined in Denmark for wearing full-face veil
AFP, Published on 04/08/2018
» STOCKHOLM - A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new controversial law banning full-face Islamic veils in public places, media reported.
Denmark bans Islamic full-face veil in public spaces
AFP, Published on 31/05/2018
» STOCKHOLM: Denmark on Thursday became the latest European country to ban the Islamic full-face veil in public spaces in a move slammed by human rights campaigners as "a violation of women's rights".