George Glezmann was abducted while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist in December 2022. His release was brokered by US and Qatari negotiators.A US citizen who had been detained in Afghanistan by the Taliban for over two years has been released, the US State...

The German bank's move to downsize comes due to falling profits. Deutsche Bank also plans to close several of its branches.Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, plans to cut around 2,000 jobs in its retail banking division this year, the group's chief executive, Christian Sewing,...

The controversial amendments were backed by general-turned-president Prabowo Subianto. Rights groups are concerned the law will take the Southeast Asian country back to the days of its brutal dictatorship.Indonesia's parliament has passed revisions to the country's military law that critics say will expand the...

Farmers protested on highways in northern India, camped out due to a long-standing dispute over crop price guarantees.Police in India's northern state of Punjab detained hundreds of farmers who have been protesting for over a year for better crop prices. Authorities also used bulldozers...

The Turkish president's main political rival, Ekrem Imamoglu, was set to be nominated as his party's presidential candidate. The opposition CHP has called his detention an "attempted coup."Turkish authorities have detained President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's chief political rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, as part...

The president accused the Rivers State governor of being unable to control vandals and militants in the region. The suspension marks the first declaration of emergency rule since 2013.Nigerian President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State and suspended the state...