Asia/Middle East

PRESS RELEASE TOKYO, Japan, November 28, 2025/ — African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) has successfully closed its second Samurai bond transaction, securing a total of JPY 81.8 billion (approx. USD 527 million) through Regular and Retail Samurai Bonds offerings. The execution surpasses the Bank’s 2024 debut issuance size, attracting orders from more than 100 institutional

By RFE/RL’s Tajik Service DUSHANBE — Three Chinese citizens working for a gold-extraction company in southern Tajikistan have been killed in an attack — the second in a year — that Tajik authorities say was carried out from across the border with Afghanistan. Tajikistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on November 27 that the assault targeted a compound belonging

PRESS RELEASE JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, November 27, 2025/ — The Islamic Development Bank Institute (https://IsDBInstitute.org/) is pleased to announce the launch of a Competition of the IsDBI eBook Reader App Review. The Reader offers the access to the Institute’s extensive collection of publications in Islamic economics and finance on its online bookstore (https://IsDBInstitute.org/publication). We invite

By BGraham Strahle The quizzically named ‘Born in Vienna’ concerts might have had one guessing at the start. With a title such as this, thoughts of Johann Strauss waltzes were circulating in the mind, conjuring up visions perhaps of Vienna’s much televised New Year’s Day concerts. But no, this three-part concert series was rather weightier

By Alexey Maishev In occupied parts of Ukraine, Russia has been busy creating, rebuilding, and demolishing a large number of monuments. According to Ukrainian historian Yurii Latysh, this activity fits a clear ideological pattern. Meduza examines Latysh’s findings, which he presented in a recent article for Novaya Gazeta Europe.  Russia is rapidly and deliberately reshaping the memorial landscape in Ukraine’s occupied territories, restoring Soviet monuments and erecting new