Headlines
  • The latest attack on Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport resulted in one fatality and eleven injuries.
  • Residents of Riyadh have been given the all-clear by Saudi Arabia's civil defense agency after the military's announcement that incoming missiles fired toward the capital by the Houthis in Yemen had been shot down.
  • Iran's alleged involvement in a security alert outside a UK/US airbase in southern England last month led the British government to summon the ambassador and announce sanctions against two people.
  • In a sophisticated overnight cyberattack, hackers commandeered refrigeration systems throughout France, spoiling stock at major chains and forcing hundreds of supermarkets to discard perishable goods on Monday.
  • According to a transcript and audio recording of the calls made on the nite of Christa Pike's botched execution, 911 callers reported that she was unconscious and had difficulty breathing an hour after receiving two fatal injections of the sedative pentobarbital.
  • An "incident involving a roller coaster" at a Six Flags theme park in Georgia resulted in one fatality and multiple injuries, according to the authorities.

Month: March 2022

March 16, 2022

UN Secretary-General meets with Poland’s Foreign...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Zbigniew Rau, the Republic of Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs

March 15, 2022

Ukraine’s Economy During Russian Invasion

During Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government is doing everything it can to keep the economy functioning. Its funds, however, are rapidly dwindling

Uyghur Farmer Sentenced to Prison For...

A Uyghur farmer jailed for moving his pregnant wife from their hometown in Xinjiang to prevent authorities from forcing her to have an abortion died in 2020 while serving an eight-year prison sentence, a Uyghur with knowledge of the situation and local police officials confirmed to RFA this month

Press Briefing by UN Secretary-General on...

Reporters are briefed on the war in Ukraine by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.According to Secretary-General,the situation in Ukraine is tense. In front of the world’s eyes, the country is being annihilated. The consequences for civilians are dreadful

March 14, 2022

City Activists Plant Food Forests as...

A non-profit group is pushing an initiative to establish ‘food forests’ in Mumbai to help ease the city’s environmental damage caused by development. Hundreds of trees and edible plants have been planted on small plots of land to create these forests

March 13, 2022

‘We’re Encircled’: Residents in Southeast Ukraine...

RFE/RL spoke with evacuees fleeing Russian soldiers in southeast Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya area. On March 11, nine buses and 150 cars were utilised to transport residents from regions such as Dniprorudne, which is near the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Station, which Russian soldiers captured on March 4. Residents stated the city was still in Ukrainian hands, but that Russian troops were encircling it

From the Frontline Irpin

Yan Boechat of VOA reports from Irpin, roughly 25 kilometres north of Kyiv, where Russian and Ukrainian troops are fighting

March 12, 2022

“Home Is Home”: A Ukrainian Grandmother...

Celia Mendoza of VOA went to the Polish village of Medyka, which has become one of the busiest border crossings since Russia invaded Ukraine and sent this report

China’s Anti-Trafficking Activists Face Vast Network...

Public anger over widespread trafficking in women and girls, mostly for “marriage” to men who can’t find willing partners, is running in high in China since a woman was found chained by the neck in a freezing outbuilding in the eastern province of Jiangsu in January

March 11, 2022

For the Second Time, Afghans in...

Thousands of Afghans have fled the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For many of those now coming into Poland, conflict has uprooted their lives for the second time.

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