Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
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