Headlines- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran says they still have "decisive control" over the Strait of Hormuz.
- US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez had reached an agreement for the US to take control of Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
- Three militants were killed in an attack on Friday in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military.
- After protests against migrants who have remained in the North African enclave after a major inflow, Ceuta residents clashed with police, prompting Spain's interior minister to call for calm on Friday.
- At least 584 people killed and another 1,300 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
- In China and Nepal, there are more than 2,400 missing people, 558 people are reported missing in Tibet.
Year: 2020
Memories Of Pripyat: A Chernobyl Engineer...
Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union inaugurated the town of Pripyat, built to house workers of the Chernobyl power plant. One nuclear engineer
Nigerian Youth Hold Vigil for Student...
Nigerian youth have held a vigil for a student killed last month by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province, a breakaway Boko Haram group. The militants released a video showing the gruesome execution of 22-year-old Ropvil Daciya, who the group kidnapped on January 9 while he was travelling from his hometown of Jos to Maiduguri
UN Security Council President Briefs Press...
Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of February, speaks to reporters ahead of Security Council consultations on Myanmar and other matters
Flu Scare: Chinese Americans Worry About...
As public health officials grapple with the coronavirus, some Chinese Americans worry that there will be a backlash against their community as fears of the illness turn into fear of Chinese people
Urgent Need to Tackle the High...
indigenous peoples also often experience poor working conditions and discrimination. Tomei said the biggest challenge to improving the living and working conditions of indigenous peoples is “the extremely high incidence of poverty and extreme poverty among them.”
Bangladesh: Dhaka Elections Not Fair, Opposition...
Awami officials and the Bangladesh Election Commission rejected the criticism, saying that the introduction of electronic voting machines for the first time in the city polls made it impossible to manipulate the vote
China Clamps Down on Independent Reporting...
Government censors have also deleted accounts belonging to medical imaging experts Zhang Bo and Zhang Xiaochun of Wuhan University’s Zhongnan Hospital after they posted a request for diagnosis to be made through CT scans rather than genetic tests of the virus
Braving The Icy Cold For Kyrgyz...
Gold prospectors in a village on the Naryn River in central Kyrgyzstan must wade through icy water in the middle of winter in the hope of finding a few shiny flakes of gold to help feed and clothe their families
In Myanmar, Betel Quid Chewing Remains...
As World Cancer Day is being observed on Feb. 4, health authorities are warning of the dangers of betel quid chewing. It’s a risky but popular habit in many Asian countries. One of them is Myanmar where more than half of the men chew it. Dave Grunebaum has more on this tradition and its dangers