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A Bavarian court has handed a 10-year prison sentence to a German woman who allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl to die of thirst.

The snap parliamentary elections on October 10 were, by and large, peaceful, with no major incidents and little excitement.

Presidency.gov.krd | London, UK

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani was warmly received by Mr. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, at 10 Downing Street in London on Friday.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani arrived in London on Wednesday for a three day trip where he will discuss security and cooperation between the Kurdistan Region and the UK.

Rudaw.net |  Layal Shakir

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Two Kurds originally from Turkey and northeastern Syria (Rojava) won seats in Norway’s parliamentary elections on Monday.

Rudaw.net | Layal Shakir

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The female Kurdish mayor of Raqqa, the one-time de facto capital of the so-called caliphate of the Islamic State group (ISIS), was a recipient of an international mayoral award on Tuesday. 

We are deeply saddened to announce the death of two eminent personalities of the Kurdish world: Mrs. Ferda Cemil Pacha, on August 31 in Istanbul and Professor Nadir Nadirov, on August 24 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Rudaw.net | Karwan Faidhi Dri

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The United States Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned a Turkish-backed Syrian militia group accused of assassinating Kurdish female politician Hevrin Khalaf in 2019. The head of her party said the sanctions are a step towards bringing her killers to justice.

al-monitor.com | By Adam Lucente | July 22, 2021

Democratic and Republican senators voiced heavy criticism of the Turkish government to a State Department official during a Wednesday hearing. The lawmakers accused Ankara of abusing the international police system, being an “aggressor” toward Greece, and much more.

reuters.com | By Daren Butter | June 21, 2021

ISTANBUL, June 21 (Reuters) - Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Monday accepted an indictment filed by a top prosecutor seeking a ban on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) for alleged ties to militants, state media said, opening the way for a case to close parliament’s third-largest party.