Opinion: The Taliban should release its other detainees
Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. His forthcoming paperback is “The Cost…
Sri Lankan President declares state of emergency following violent protests over economic crisis
The state of emergency came into effect on April 1, according to an official gazette issued Friday, and allows authorities to arrest and imprison suspects without warrants. Rajapaksa said the…
Viktor Orban, the EU leader who can’t quit Putin, faces a united front in Hungary’s election
Now, everything has changed. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine later that same month has upended the race, recasting its protagonists and rewriting their pitches. It has left Orban, widely regarded as…
Nigeria train attack: Survivor of train ambushed by armed gang reveals harrowing details
Musa Bashir Usman was one of more than 300 people traveling on a train from Nigeria’s capital Abuja to the northern city of Kaduna when it was targeted by an…
Japanese ‘killing stone,’ said to contain an evil spirit, has split in two
CNN — An evil fox spirit is on the loose after breaking free from her rock prison – that is, if you believe in Japanese mythology. A Sessho-seki, or “killing…
Hostage survivor testifies in trial of ISIS member accused in deaths of several Americans
During the second day of trial, Italian aid worker Federico Motka told the jury how he was captured, imprisoned and tortured by the terror cell alongside other hostages who were…
Khashoggi: Turkish prosecutor requests transfer of trial to Saudi Arabia
Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul four years ago triggered a global outcry and put pressure on Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A…
China economy: PMI data shows worst contraction since start of pandemic
The official manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 49.5 from 50.2 in February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday, while the non-manufacturing PMI eased to 48.4…
Cheng Lei: Australian TV host set to stand trial in China for allegedly supplying state secrets overseas
Cheng Lei, a former business anchor of China’s state broadcaster CGTN, is accused of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, a charge that carries a possible sentence of between five years…
Germany issues ‘early warning’ of possible gas shortages as Russia threatens
Moscow said last week that it wanted to be paid in rubles, rather than US dollars or euros as per existing gas supply contracts, and threatened to cut off supplies…