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: October 2021
In Hungary, A Young Afghan Immigrant...
Jan Mersa Mohammad was a small child when his family left Afghanistan’s conflict, walking and sailing part of the way to Europe. Jan, now 14 and living in Budapest, feels at ease in his new country and aspires to be a professional soccer player
Death of Detained Uyghur Imam Underscores...
A Uyghur imam who survived 15 years in prison for separatism in northwestern China’s Xinjiang only to die during a two-year stint in an internment camp, raises questions of torture and highlights the abusive nature of the camp system that has drawn accusations of genocide, said Uyghurs with knowledge of the case
After the Syrian Constitutional Committee Closed,a...
After the sixth round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee’s sixth round in Geneva, UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen briefs reporters
California’s New Laws: What Locals Think
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a series of laws in recent weeks that have provoked debate and appear to be part of America’s “culture wars”
Thousands of Afghan Refugees Are Expected...
In the coming months, more than 50,000 Afghan refugees now residing on US military bases will be relocated around the country. California and Texas will see far more people
India COVID-19 Vaccine Program
India has administered one billion doses of the Covid 19 vaccine, a significant achievement for an immunisation campaign that had been struggling to get off the ground earlier this year
Nigerian Protesters Mark End SARS Anniversary
Nigerian activists met this week to mark the one-year anniversary of major public rallies against police brutality last year. Many victims of police brutality
Dread Among Tibetans As ‘Butcher of...
The newly appointed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) boss in Tibet, a hardline apparatchik under multiple international sanctions for severe human rights abuses in neighboring Xinjiang, is expected to apply to Tibet’s Buddhists the same harsh policies carried out against the Muslims in Xinjiang, Tibetans and experts said
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
United Nations Security Council is briefed by Secretary-General António Guterres on women, peace, and security.Raychelle Omamo, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Security Council’s President for the month of October
Conversation with a Taliban Footsoldier on...
What do ordinary Taliban members believe about running a country after fighting an insurgency for two decades? This month, VOA’s Ayesha Tanzeem spoke with ordinary Taliban footsoldiers on the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital