Turkish lawyer Ibrahim Ergin said that Mubashir Ahmed was deported to Uzbekistan. He was supposed to be deported urgently on May 9, but was sent to Edirne due to public outcry. "He was kept under intelligence control at the Migration Office in Edirne, and then returned to Istanbul on Saturday. In the meantime, he was bypassed by the legal system and illegally transferred to Uzbekistan," the human rights activist said in a statement. According to lawyer Ibrahim Ergin, it is not permissible to return a person who came to his country of origin seeking safety and asylum to his country of origin, both legally, religiously and conscientiously.

Police officers in the Kyrgyz city of Osh conducted raids as part of a campaign to enforce a new law. Nearly 300 Muslim women were forced to remove their veils and given verbal warnings. The country had previously passed a law banning women from wearing the veil, with fines of 20,000 soms (about $230) set for violations starting February 1.

The United States and China have agreed to reduce their export tariffs for 90 days following talks in Switzerland. Under the deal, China reduced its tariffs on the United States from 125 percent to 10 percent, while the United States reduced its tariffs on China from 145 percent to 30 percent.

After more than 40 years of armed struggle, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has announced its decision to dissolve itself and lay down its arms. The decision was made at a party congress in northern Iraq as part of a peace initiative with Turkey.

The US and Qatari governments are in talks to provide Donald Trump with a luxury Boeing 747 jet belonging to the Qatari royal family for temporary use. The plane could also be donated to Trump's presidential library when his term ends.

Uzbekistan Airways has warned that due to air traffic restrictions at the Pakistan-India border, there will be forced changes to the flight schedule on routes between Tashkent and Delhi, Mumbai, Lahore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Phuket. In some cases, flight times may increase by an average of 1.5 hours or more.

Direct peace talks between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, are scheduled to be held in Istanbul on May 15, 2025. This meeting will be the first direct communication between the leaders of the two countries since the talks in March 2022.

The deal, signed directly between Hamas and the United States - Israel was not involved - calls for a 70-day ceasefire, the opening of borders, and the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza in exchange for the Palestinian resistance movement's release of an American prisoner of war and 10 other Jews.

In an article titled "This Israeli Government Is Not Our Ally," New York Times (NYT) columnist Thomas Friedman argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting his own interests above those of Israel and the United States.

India has a larger army and more military equipment than Pakistan. But does this mean that the Indian army is stronger? How do the armies of these two countries compare in terms of military power?