The top diplomats of longtime rivals China and Japan opened talks in Beijing on Sunday to discuss a slew of thorny issues ranging from the release of a Japanese businessman detained on suspicion of espionage in China and a lingering territorial row. Japan’s Foreign Minister...
Paris, Brussels (21/04 – 50)Pamiri Muslims in Tajikistan, who mostly are followers of the Ismaili branch of Shi’ism, celebrate Eid ul Fitr on Saturday. Residing in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in southeastern Tajikistan, the Ismaili Pamiris welcomed Eid-ul Fitr...
A Ukrainian grandmother has been reunited with her family in Scotland after spending almost a year in Russian-occupied territory. Galyna Kartavtseva fled her home country through the border with Crimea and on to Latvia following the death of her husband in February. The 70-year-old, who...
Pizza Hut Taiwan has come up with yet another type of pizza in celebration of April Fool’s Day. On Saturday morning (April 1), the restaurant chain announced the “Zero Damage Pizza” over social media. In reference to all the “specialty” pizzas it had presented in the past, it wrote in a...
Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon recently was in New York to speak with the UN Secretary General and King of the Netherlands. Whilst the Tajik opposition members violently opposed and urged Western politicians not to meet with the autocrat who holds hundreds of political prisoners in...
