Trump has demanded European countries contribute more to NATO and has pressed allies Asia and Middle East to rely less on U.S military might and spend more on their own security. . ..…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide. . ..…
“There’s this fairly widespread false narrative that Hindus are being converted to Christianity en masse by bad Christian actors across the country, and that India — either the government or the population — needs to do something to put a stop to this,” explained William Stark, who manages cases..…
Asia Times could not independently confirm the judge’s claims. . Khanakorn’s statement also alleged that outside intervention and political bias in court proceedings was not confined to the Deep South and is prevalent across the country. ..…
Evidence for this could already be seen Moscow's in Montenegro, the participation of Serbian mercenaries in the Donbas conflict, and the training of Serbian youth by members of Russian private military company E.N.O.T. ..…
FamilySearch wants to help all people find in discovering their ancestors, and we hope that providing digitized copy of these records to Catholic church will facilitate better accessibility to the collection for more people, said Ann Harrison, FamilySearch for Asia Pacific area... ..…
The center of gravity of the world is shifting from West by which I mean, above all, East Asia and China.. ..…
Georgios Spanoudakis migrated to Lesvos in 1922, fleeing from Aliaga after Asia Minor Catastrophe and the persecution of Greeks by Turks. ... Most of the items which have survived over the years came from Asia Minor, and were installed by Spanoudakis family.. ..…
Low- and middle-income regions of western and sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have rates of blindness that are eight times higher than in all high-income countries. ..…
In September, about 20 civil society organizations from Myanmar launched an Asia-wide campaign and petition drive at the Asian People’s Forum at Thammasat University in Bangkok. . ..…
According to John McBeth, writing Asia Times, civic leaders demanding that he reverse KPK bill that his support is from his minister, Yasonna Laoly. ..…
Maria Tam, a member both of the Hong Kong SAR Basic Law Committee and of China’s National People’s Congress, praises the book’s analysis of the ultra-sensitive interpretation of the Basic Law, saying “the common law system has remained unaffected, its judicial independence remaining the best in..…
A historic trading post, the city of Kashgar is central to China's 'One Belt, One Road Initiative', which is President Xi Jinping's signature foreign and economic policy involving massive infrastructure spending linking China to Asia, the Middle East and beyond . . ..…
Due to the presence of ISIS forces Afghanistan, the security of Central Asia remains priority on Iran agenda. Iran- Central Asia Strategy should include in its objectives the challenges of foreign fighters and radicalization, drug trafficking and organized crime, and conflicts that..…
I skip over the war against Iraq (space limits), which Obama continued from George Bush period, to come to the “Pivot to Asia”. . “The Asia Pivot was symbolically introduced by Hillary Clinton on a U.S. naval destroyer in Manila Bay, the location for America’s original pivot in the..…
Most of that is in the Caucuses or from immigration from Central Asia or Azerbaijan. . . ..…
This article has been republished from East Asia Forum under a Creative Commons license. . . . . ..…
And, if so, that the magistrates receive their power of governing the church from the people, undeniably it follows that a people, as a people, naturally consider (of what nature or nation soever in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America), have fundamentally and originally, as men, a power to govern the..…