The president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, has finally inaugurated Afghanistan’s new members of parliament. This comes after the vote took place over six months. The reason for the delay was caused by violent attacks, that included bombings, on voting polling stations. Currently, thirty three seats are still vacant in the lower house of the Afghan parliament after ongoing claims of… Read more »
In the simulation, I played a minor role as a negotiator but my main role was behind the scenes; conducting research and developing a strategy that our group, Association for Refugees and Minorities (ARM), would use to try to reach our goals. I feel like thoroughly researching the topic and coming up with a tactic beforehand greatly helped our group… Read more »
India‘s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has filed nomination papers in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state, hoping to hold onto the seat for the second time in the ongoing general elections. Modi prayed at a temple before arriving at the election office in the north Indian city, flanked by Amit Shah, president of his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and several state chief… Read more »
Islamabad, Pakistan – Unidentified gunmen have killed at least one polio vaccination worker in the southwestern Pakistani area of Chaman, government officials say, bringing the death toll from a drive this week to eradicate the virus to at least three. Gunmen opened fire on a team of vaccination workers in the remote village of Sultan Zai, about 100km northwest of the… Read more »
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has inaugurated the country’s new parliament, though dozens of seats remained empty amid ongoing claims of election fraud. The parliament’s first session on Thursday came six months after a vote that was marred by a string of deadly bombings and attacks on polling stations across the country. In his opening speech, Ghani called for the protection of human rights and expressed regret over… Read more »
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifdoes not believe US President Donald Trump wants war with Iran, but he has told Reuters news agency that Trump could be lured into a conflict. “I don’t think he wants war,” Zarif said in an interview at the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York on Wednesday. “But that doesn’t exclude him being basically lured into one.” The… Read more »
Taliban fighters have encircled a government compound in the Afghan providence of Baghis. There are roughly two thousand Taliban fighters currently circling the compound that has over six hundred Afghanis inside. Most of the Afghanis inside are Afghan military forces along with Afghan security forces. The Afghans inside are starting to run out of crucial supplies such as food, ammunition,… Read more »
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