Headlines- On Monday at 14:00 GMT, the US military says it would start blockading Iranian ports, preventing ships from entering or leaving Iran from passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
- In the southern town of Biyyada, Hezbollah claims that its men have attacked Israeli soldiers with "a swarm of attack drones."
- US President Donald Trump's threat to block the Strait of Hormuz was deemed "ridiculous" by Iran's navy chief, Shahram Irani.
- Any military ships approaching the Strait of Hormuz "will be considered a violation of the ceasefire and will be met with severe force," according to a statement released on Sunday by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
- The speaker of Iran's parliament Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf is leading the delegation that has arrived to Pakistan for talks with the United States.
- Nawaf Salam, the prime minister of Lebanon, stated that he was working to ensure the withdrawal of Israeli forces and to put an end to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
- Viktor Orban, the longtime prime minister of Hungary, has conceded defeat to Peter Magyar in the country's legislative election.
Month: May 2021
Uyghur Advocate Calls For US to...
Lawmakers must act to cut U.S. ties to forced labor and expedite asylum for Uyghur refugees, and Washington should push the global community to end what it has designated a genocide in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), witnesses told a Congressional hearing Thursday
The General Assembly Holds Informal Discussion...
Mr. Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives, the nominee for the position of President of the General Assembly for the seventy-sixth session, conducts an informal interactive dialogue with the General Assembly
Self-Defense Classes Are Designed to Prevent...
In Los Angeles, a group of Asian Americans and their allies is offering free self-defense courses
Bull Fighting in Spain
Spain has resumed bullfights as the COVID-19 embargo lifts, reigniting a raging political controversy between right-wingers who support the sport and leftists who condemn it as animal cruelty.
RSF Claims Olivier Dubois, a French...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Malian and French governments to do everything possible to secure the release of the journalist who claims to have been abducted by an armed Islamist group
As COVID Rages in India, the...
As India fights a devastating outbreak of COVID-19, the Indian diaspora in the United States is watching in panic
Tibetan Political Detainee Died in 2019,...
A Tibetan father of six died under unclear circumstances after his release from a course of political reeducation in detention Tibet’s Nagchu prefecture two years ago, RFA has learned
For May, UN Secretary-General Meets...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Zhang Jun, China’s Permanent Representative to the UN and the Security Council’s President
Tapid International Response to the ...
Amnesty International said on May 4 that African and other world leaders must speak up and do more to stop the vicious tide of human rights and international humanitarian law abuses in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which has been raging for six months
Infertility in Kenya is Still a...
Joyce Kago, 57, was divorced three times because she couldn’t have children, leaving her lonely and unable to make ends meet