Officials: Sudan's military agrees to reinstate ousted PM

Military and government officials say a deal has been reached between Sudan’s military and civilian leaders to reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was deposed in a coup last month

Lawyer: Czech model freed in Pakistan following acquittal

A Czech model sentenced in 2019 to eight years in prison on charges of attempting to smuggle heroin from Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates has been released from prison following her acquittal earlier this month

US defense chief vows to counter Iran in visit to Bahrain

America’s top defense official has vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to counter its “dangerous use” of suicide drones in the wider Mideast

Yazidi family abandons EU dream, reluctantly returns to Iraq

Hundreds of Iraqis have returned home after abandoning their journey to reach the European Union through Belarus, after they got stopped at the Polish border in a standoff that turned tense

Pakistan again lifts ban, fourth so far, on China's TikTok

Pakistan’s media regulating authority has again lifted a ban on the popular Chinese video-sharing service TikTok, this time after four months

Pakistan drops draft on chemical castration for rapists

A lawmaker from Pakistan's ruling party says the government dropped a controversial clause allowing for chemical castration of convicted rapists from a proposed bill, after a council of clerics said such a punishment was against Islam

Key aid group says Afghanistan's most pressing need is cash

Afghanistan is facing a looming humanitarian crisis as aid organizations struggle with ways to pay doctors, nurses and others on the ground because there is currently no way to transfer salaries to bank accounts there

India Farm Laws

Modi vows to repeal India farm laws after prolonged protests

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his government will withdraw the controversial agriculture laws that prompted yearlong protests from tens of thousands of farmers and posed a significant political challenge to his administration

Iraqi migrants caught in border crisis in Belarus fly home

Hundreds of Iraqis have returned home from Belarus after abandoning their hopes of reaching the European Union in a repatriation that follows more than a week of tensions at Poland’s eastern border, where thousands of migrants were stuck in a cold and soggy forest