Headlines
  • Iran's High Council for Human Rights condemned attacks on religious, cultural, and historical landmarks across the country by the United States and Israel.
  • Despite an ongoing ceasefire, the National News Agency of Lebanon has reported several Israeli attacks in the country's south.
  • A new round of peace talks was reportedly scheduled to take place in Pakistan with Vice President JD Vance and other American diplomats.
  • The US will host new talks between Israel and Lebanon on Thursday with the aim of encouraging an agreement.
  • US President Donald Trump has stated that unless an agreement is made with Tehran, the US will not lift its embargo of Iranian ports.
  • Data from the Defense Department shows that at least 415 American troops have been injured in the war with Iran.
  • US On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to leave for Pakistan in preparation for the upcoming round of peace talks with Iran.
  • On Monday, US President Donald Trump claimed on social media that Israel "never talked" him into going to war with Iran.

Year: 2021

March 17, 2021

South African National Parks Welcomes Successful...

The South African National Parks (SANParks) on Wednesday commended the National Prosecuting Authority in Mpumalanga on the successful prosecution of two long-standing rhino poaching trials in the Mhala Regional Court

Ghana COVAX Rollout

On February 23, COVAX shipped 600 000 doses of the AstraZeneca / Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune, India to Accra, Ghana, arriving on the morning of February 24. The arrival in Accra was the first batch shipped and delivered in the region by the COVAX Facility

Nigerians Displaced by Boko Haram

Boko Haram militants have terrorized northeastern Nigeria for more than a decade, driving what the United Nations says are more than two million people from their homes

Rights Activist Held in Psychiatric Facility...

Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have formally arrested prominent rights activist Li Qiaochu, and are holding her in a psychiatric hospital in Linyi city, RFA has learned

UN Security Council Holds Videoconference in...

Mark Lowcock, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefs the videoconference with Security Council members in connection with the Middle East (Yemen)

World News At a Glance

Myanmar Junta Extends Martial Law in Yangon and other news around the World.
Somalia receives its first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and other African News

March 16, 2021

Turkey EU Refugees

March is the anniversary of the refugee migrant deal between Turkey and the European Union that ended a mass exodus of migrants into Europe. But the future of the deal could be doubt with Ankara calling for revisions to the agreement

Syria War 10 Year Anniversary Part...

March 15th marks ten years since the civil war began in Syria, and in many places the government of President Bashar al-Assad appears victorious. But in Idlib, the last remaining opposition stronghold, four million people are trapped within a war that some say is far from over

Opening of Sixty-fifth Session of Commission...

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director, addresses the opening of the sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) on March 15

Xinjiang Authorities Detain Head of Township...

Authorities in in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained the head of a township education committee, according to officials in his home county of Toksun (in Chinese, Tuokexun) in the region’s Turpan (Tulufan) prefecture

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