Headlines
  • The military claims that projectiles are being intercepted as the Houthis in Yemen launch a missile barrage at Saudi Arabian cities. At least four people are injured in Riyadh, the country's capital, as shrapnel falls on Dhahran.
  • According to the Saudi Ministry of Energy, an attack on the Saudi Aramco building in Dhahran resulted in a minor fire, but there were no fatalities or injuries reported.
  • On Tuesday, a Las Vegas court sentenced Duane "Keffe D" Davis to 40 years to life in prison for his involvement in the more than 30-year-old murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur.
  • The Vatican said on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV had surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung after receiving a lung cancer diagnosis.
  • A Pennsylvania woman is accused of fatally stabbing her husband and 3-year-old son at a family resort in the Poconos before attempting suicide.
  • In support of the protesting high school students, tens of thousands of people gathered throughout France on Tuesday.

Year: 2021

August 7, 2021

China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy Could Be...

China’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy depicts the country as an aggressive, rising superpower. The name is derived from the Chinese blockbuster Wolf Warrior film franchise, the first instalment of which was released in 2015

August 6, 2021

Kenya Develops an Emergency App to...

As crime rates in Kenya shot up during the pandemic, a Kenyan developer who was a crime victim himself created a mobile application to help people alert police about emergencies. The application has been so successful that Kenya’s police force has adopted it

Anniversary of the Beirut Explosion

Little progress has been made in the probe a year after the Devastating  explosion in Beirut’s port, and no one has been held accountable. The blast has become a symbol of both defeat and resistance in Lebanon, which is wracked by various problems

Interview: ‘They Will Turn You Into...

Veteran Chinese journalist Chang Ping fled China a decade ago, and now makes a living as a writer in Germany. A former senior editor at the once cutting-edge Southern Weekend newspaper in the southern city of Guangzhou, Chang spoke to RFA about ever-widening controls on press freedom and public expression under the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and shared his warning to the journalists of Hong Kong

Activists Claim That a Russian Defamation...

Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club in England, and Russia’s state-owned oil major Rosneft have both filed defamation lawsuits against the author of a book about President Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. Activists claim the lawsuit jeopardises press freedom

August 5, 2021

Fears of Brain Drain Prompted by...

Some Afghans who worked on US-funded programes and projects in Afghanistan are praising the US State Department’s Priority 2 programme, which allows specific Afghans and their families to enter the US Refugee Admissions Program. Other Afghans, though, are concerned that the scheme may hasten the country’s brain drain

Afghan Women and Children Face an...

The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan is nearing completion. According to experts,Afghan women and children face a bleak future

Tibetan Students Forced to Take Military...

Schoolchildren in Tibet are being forced by Chinese authorities into programs of military training during summer vacation in a move aimed at weakening their ties to their own culture and further indoctrinating them in the ideology of China’s ruling Communist Party, Tibetan sources say

Members of UN Security Council Give...

Estonia, France, Ireland, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Albania, all members of the United Nations Security Council, brief media on the situation in Georgia

August 4, 2021

More Afghans Arrive in Turkey Following...

The increased fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces has resulted in a new migration of Afghan refugees into Turkey

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