Born in the small town of Palu on Sulawesi, west of Borneo and more than 2,000 kilometers from Jakarta, he was a “mischievous” student. “My father, of Bugis descent, and my mother ...

9:35pm That will be all from us for tonight. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and we will be back again when Afghanistan look to seal the series on Saturday. Until then, this is goodbye from ...

VIENNA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban ...

An immigrant who fled Afghanistan when the Taliban took power has appeared in court after being accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl walking her dog. Gulahmad Oryakhail, 21, who was allowed ...

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If you are going to war in Finland’s Arctic, you’ll need skis and tanks, of course, but you may also need newspapers. The ...

Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women. It’s the latest restriction on women following morality laws that ban them from raising their voices, ...

The move comes after a series of so-called “virtue” or “morality” laws were implemented in Afghanistan in August, laid out in a 114-page document that covered vast aspects of everyday ...

Laws included the ban on women reading or singing in public. In 2022, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan said that Taliban restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls ...

Mayor Hadianto Rasyid of Palu City (Indonesia) presented his vision towards building resilience in the city followed by the devastating earthquake in 2018. The Mayor stressed the importance of taking ...

An Afghani woman who fled to the United States with her husband and two children will soon be hauled to Sweden to face a murder charge. The Swedish government has been urging the United States to ...

The Taliban has banned women in Afghanistan from hearing each other’s voices in what experts say is its latest step toward erasing “women entirely from public life and society”. The country ...