Headlines- Two days after catastrophic flash flood struck the border between China and Nepal, rescue workers have resumed searching for hundreds of people who are still missing.
- At least 538 people killed and another 1,300 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
- Iran's President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf met with Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister to discuss ongoing efforts to defuse the situation in the region.
- According to Iran's security chief, Moshen Rezaei, his country is preparing together a list of conditions to submit to the United States in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- In an attempt to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America," US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, further escalating his conflict with Canada and its prime minister.
- Mazloum Abdi, the leader of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been named presidential advisor by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Month: July 2022
Appeals Court Affirms Nobel Laureate Journalist...
The Court of Appeals upheld a cyber-libel conviction against Maria Ressa, the Nobel Prize-winning chief executive of the Rappler news website, and a former staffer while adding eight months to their maximum prison sentences imposed by a lower court in 2020
Fears Grow for Guo Feixiong, on...
Fears are growing over the health of Chinese dissident and former legal advocate Guo Feixiong, also known as Yang Maodong, who has been on hunger strike for several months while in detention
High-Level Dialogue Between United Nations and...
A group photo of the attendees during the UN-EU High-Level Dialogue in New York
Ukrainian Students Continue Rallying Despite Declining...
Ukrainians all around the world are continuing their efforts to garner moral and financial support for their beleaguered country as it fights Russian invaders as the war enters its fifth monthuk
Tigrayans Not Allowed to Leave IDP...
In camps for the displaced in northern Ethiopia, ethnic Tigrayans claim that they are being held against their will due to their ethnicity after being evicted from their homes.VOA was able to enter two of the camps, where residents said they are unable to leave despite a lack of food, water, and medical supplies
Many Ukrainian Refugees Want to Return...
Since Russia invaded their country in February, Ukrainian refugees have spread across Europe and the globe. However, according to Polish officials, less than half of them have stayed in Poland. But Greg Flakus reports from the Polish border town of Medyka that a lot of people are preferring to stay nearby to make fast trips across the border and then return back home when the time comes
After Three Years,Annual Hindu Pilgrimage in...
A 40-day pilgrimage is taking place in Indian-controlled Kashmir for the first time in the past three years. The Amarnath pilgrimage is expected to be the biggest in Jammu and Kashmir’s history, according to Apurva Chand, secretary at India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcastin
Confusion,Hospital Visits Trail in Wake of...
Thailand’s partial decriminalization of cannabis appears to have caused a haze of confusing problems, including health-related ones and some that aren’t necessarily a result of smoking or ingesting the weed known here as “ganja”
First International World Kiswahili Language Day...
During the first international observance of World Kiswahili Language Day, a look at the participants on July 7,2022.The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference in November 2021 declared July 7th as World Kiswahili Language
Freedom of Speech is Not Absolute...
Though the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution,this freedom does not give us the right to offend people’s sensitivities, particularly religious sensibilities