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Migrant deportation blocked because he doesn't want to shave his beard
Daily Express
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June 25, 2025
An asylum seeker has been allowed to stay in the UK because he doesn't want to shave his beard. The unnamed migrant, from Tajikistan, won an appeal after arguing he would have had to shave his beard off if he was deported. He also said he could be...
Central Asia and Beijing after the Astana summit
Asia News
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June 26, 2025
At the second Forum held in Kazakhstan after the one in Xi'an in 2023, China and the five countries in the region signed 58 trade agreements with investments of over billion. Among the priorities are transport routes and energy, but also the...
Turkish Airlines, airBaltic Add New Routes to Partnership
Rus Tourism News
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June 26, 2025
airBaltic and Turkish Airlines have announced an expansion of their existing codeshare agreement, adding new destinations that connect key cities across Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. The move is set to provide travelers with greater...
Tajikistan launches strategic energy infrastructure in GBAO to expand regional grid and strengthen cross-border connectivity
Asia Plus
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15:24, june 26Author: Press release by Pamir Energy In a major advancement for energy connectivity and resilience in Tajikistan’s Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), the Government of Tajikistan on June 26 inaugurated and broke ground on...
airBaltic adds more routes to codeshare with Turkish Airlines
LARA
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June 26, 2025
airBaltic has expanded its codeshare agreement with Turkish Airlines by adding several new destinations to the shared network, with the aim to attract higher passenger numbers and create a smoother experience. The initial codeshare agreement was...
Turkish Airlines and airBaltic Expand Codeshare Partnership
Breaking Travel News
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June 26, 2025
Turkish Airlines, the national flag carrier of Türkiye, and Latvian airline airBaltic have expanded their existing codeshare agreement, adding several new destinations to their shared network. Since 2023, the two airlines have jointly operated...
Application that will provide QR codes for migrants to enter Russia launched
APA
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Russia has launched a new RuID application that foreigners can use to apply for entry into the country, the Russian Ministry of Digital Development announced this on its Telegram channel, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports. It was stated that the...
Russian ministry launches multilanguage app for foreigners entry
TASS
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June 26, 2025
MOSCOW, June 26. /TASS/. The Russian Ministry of Digital Development has launched the ruID, a new multimedia app for foreigners that can be used in particular to submit an application for entry to Russia. "The new multilanguage mobile app for...
Migrant-funded dreams: How Kyrgyzstan is growing on foreign wages
Malay Mail
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June 26, 2025
BATKEN (Kyrgyzstan), June 26 — In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall and women’s sports centre — construction mostly funded by Kyrgyz emigrants sending money home from...
Xi and Putin discuss crisis engendered by Israeli aggression against Iran
Friends of Socialist China
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June 23, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the crisis engendered by the Israeli aggression against Iran on the afternoon of June 19,2025. In the approximately one-hour...
Sydney’s Iranian community is usually divided. That changed when the bombs fell
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 26, 2025
Rostami describes a political and religious wrangling occurring in the community, with people’s positions on the Iranian government being challenged by this month’s conflict. “There are critics of the regime turning up at protests against the war...
Migrant 'allowed to stay in UK because he does not want to be made to shave off his beard'
LBC
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25 June 2025, 14:44 In Tajikistan (file image) beards are unofficially banned and hundreds of thousands of men have been arrested and forcibly shaved. Picture: Getty An asylum seeker has been allowed to remain in the UK because he would have had...
How “Russian Money” Is Proving To Be A Lifeline For Ex-Soviet States Like Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan & Tajikistan
The Eurasian Times
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June 26, 2025
In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall, and women’s sports centre — construction mostly funded by Kyrgyz emigrants sending money home from Russia. The project in Batken is...
LCCI demands withdrawal of raise in withholding tax on logistic services
The Nation
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June 26, 2025
LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and Pakistan Goods Transporters Association have urged the federal government to withdraw the increase in withholding tax on logistic services announced in the federal budget 2025-26,...
Migrant Money From Russia A Lifeline For Central Asia
International Business Times
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June 26, 2025
In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall and women's sports centre -- construction mostly funded by Kyrgyz emigrants sending money home from Russia. The project in Batken is...
Govt urged to withdraw WHT increase on logistic services
Business Recorder
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June 26, 2025
LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Pakistan Goods Transporters Association have jointly urged the federal government to withdraw the increase in withholding tax on logistic services announced in the federal budget 2025–26...
Tajikistan become green energy producing country by 2032
AzerNews
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June 25, 2025
By Alimat Aliyeva Tajikistan possesses vast hydropower resources, along with significant untapped potential for solar and wind energy. According to recent analyses, the economically viable potential for solar energy in the country is estimated at...
“The nuclear program is just a pretext”: What does Israel want, and can Iran defend itself?
Asia Plus
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16:42, june 24Author: Asia-Plus As the Israel-Iran conflict intensifies, experts weigh in on the real motives behind the war and the risks of a broader regional catastrophe. The escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, which erupted on June 13...
‘Irregularities’ in Lesco affairs persist despite FIA probe
Dawn
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June 25, 2025
LAHORE: Issues related to over-billing the electricity consumers, wrongful electrification of a housing society and transfers and postings in the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) on “political grounds” could not be addressed despite a probe...
Fortifying goodwill, protecting gains
Business Recorder
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June 25, 2025
Abigail Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams (a founding father and the sixth president of the USA) wrote to him at the height of the revolution, “It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are...