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: September 2022
Analysts: Amhara and Oromia Conflict Threatens...
As the civil war in the north intensifies, less pattention has been paid to the fight in Ethiopia between the federal government and rebels in the Oromia region. Attacks have underscored the escalating hostilities between the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups
Source: No Special Treatment for Najib,...
Incarcerated former Prime Minister Najib Razak is being kept in an isolation cell inside a wing for high-security inmates at the Kajang prison, but otherwise is getting no special treatment, a highly placed source told BenarNews on Thursday
WeChat Warns Users Their Likes,Comments and...
The Chinese social media platform WeChat is warning users outside China that their data will be stored on servers inside the country, RFA has learned
Crypto Community Unconcerned About Tough Times
Recently, one of the largest conferences for the cryptocurrency and blockchain community was hosted in Austin, Texas,attracting a wide spectrum of people involved
Indonesian Rights Commission to Probe Activist’s...
Indonesia’s human rights commission will set up a team to investigate a prominent human rights activist’s fatal poisoning aboard an international flight 18 years ago, it said on Wednesday, in yet another attempt to resolve the politically charged murder case
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
A briefing on the situation in Somalia is presented to the Security Council meeting by James Swan, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia
Traditional Night Market in Central California...
In order to promote Khmer culture and help in the recovery from past trauma inflicted on by the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian Americans in California are gathering at a traditional night market
Thousands Rally in Jakarta,Other Cities Against...
Thousands of people took to the streets of Jakarta and other Indonesian cities on Tuesday to protest a steep hike on subsidized fuel prices that the government imposed at the weekend, and threatened a nationwide strike if the administration did not reverse course
Woman Killed,Two Injured in Army Shelling...
A 48-year-old woman was killed and two more women injured by heavy artillery as junta troops shelled and entered a village in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region on Monday
Security Council Meets to Discuss United...
The Security Council meeting on UN peacekeeping operations is presided over by Nicolas de Rivière (left at table), the Permanent Representative of France to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of September