Headlines
  • In southern Lebanon, the Israeli army claims to have killed two Hezbollah members..
  • On Wednesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards opened fire on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
  • According to US President Donald Trump, the United States is extending the cease-fire with Iran until Iran submits a proposal and talks conclude.
  • It has been decided to postpone Vice President JD Vance's trip to Islamabad for talks.
  • Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, hailed US President Donald Trump for accepting his country's request to extend the ceasefire.
  • US President Donald Trump said Iranian ports would remain blocked until Tehran presents a "unified proposal."
  • For the first time since a 10-day truce went into effect on Friday, the Iran-backed Hezbollah claimed to have fired rockets and drones at Israeli forces on Tuesday "in response to the blatant and documented violations" by Israel.

Year: 2021

May 8, 2021

Family of Detained Chinese Rights Lawyer...

Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi have rejected an official complaint from family of detained rights lawyer Chang Weiping, who is currently under investigation for “subversion of state power” after he attended a December 2019 gathering of dissidents in the southeastern city of Xiamen

Permanent Representative of Lithuania Pays a...

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations, Audra Plepyt (left), pays Secretary-General António Guterres a farewell call

May 7, 2021

Freedom of Press:Female Journalists in Pakistan

Pakistan, female journalists are often seen on camera, but the work can be demanding. VOA Peshawar’s Umer Farooq encounters two women who are breaking down barriers

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

May 6, 2021

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.

May 5, 2021

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

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