Headlines- On Monday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that airstrikes on Iran have started for the third night in a row.
- On Monday, the UAE Ministry of Defense announced that two Iranian tankers had attacked two national tankers. One Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured, including four critically, by cruise missiles in the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz in Omani territorial waters.
- Despite unleashing fresh attacks on Iran and reimposing a blockade of Iranian ports, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that an deal with Tehran to end the Middle East war was still possible.
- IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said in a statement on Monday that Iran will "continue to exercise our sovereignty and management over the Strait of Hormuz."
- A constitutional amendment was passed by the Hungarian parliament to oust Orban ally President Tamas Sulyok.
Year: 2021
Afghans Rescued from Taliban Say They...
Afghan officials said this week they have managed to secure the release of 43 detainees from the Taliban’s custody in a military operation in Baghlan province. Some of the detainees
ONG Aid in Action Detected Extreme...
Records of people going hungry in Camarate, in the municipality of Loures, north of Lisbon, led the ONG Aid in Action and the Camarate Schools Group to respond to requests for help and support, which was made public through their partners, and will allow the delivery of food aid cards to around sixty families in Portugal
DRC Violence: Displaced Children
The lives and futures of more than three million displaced children are at risk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) while the world is looking the other way, according to a report released today by the UN Children’s Fund
Mass Protests in Thailand Against Military...
With mass protests taking place in Myanmar against the coup, migrant workers in neighboring Thailand are also voicing their outrage over the military takeover back home
‘Push Corporations to be More Transparent...
Amelia Pang is an award-winning investigative journalist of mixed Chinese and Uyghur descent who was born and raised in the U.S. Although her maternal grandmother was raised according to Uyghur traditions in the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), her mother learned little of her Uyghur heritage or language due to forced assimilation policies that promoted Mandarin Chinese education and the study of majority Han Chinese culture
Daily News Digest
The bells of Belgrade’s St. Sava Temple rang as Serbian Orthodox Church officials gathered in the crypt on February 18 to elect a new patriarch…Members of Pakistan’s Baluch minority held a sit-in protest in Islamabad on February 18, accusing the government of detaining their relatives illegally
Afghan Government Says It Won’t Tolerate...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb–e Islami (Islamic Party), has threatened to stage a large protest to topple the Afghan government if the 2016 peace agreement that they both signed is not fully implemented
Two Uyghur Students Dead, Four Injured...
Two Uyghur high school students who were sent to pick cotton as part of a forced labor scheme in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) died last autumn in a dormitory fire, according to official sources in the region, where forced labor practices have sparked an increasing global outcry
First Day of Vaccine Roll-Out Programme...
South Africa kick-started its first phase of the vaccination rollout programme using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Wednesday
Violence and Protests: seven States of...
Seven Sudanese states have declared a state of emergency. They are Sennar, South Darfur, West Darfur, North Darfur and East Darfur, as well as the states of North Kordofan and West Kordofan, which denounced the deterioration of living conditions, the rise of inflation and lack of subsistence food