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  • The United Nations warns that 800,000 people in Yemen have lost access to life-saving food aid due to the conflict's escalation, and hospitals are overcrowded with injured combatants.
  • Since October 1, 20 attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have been reported, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations. Two of these incidents were reported on Wednesday.
  • Iran was accused by a U.S. official of lying about a cargo ship that sank on Wednesday and of attacking it, most likely with a missile.
  • A cargo ship struck a naval mine on Wednesday while trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz via "an unauthorized and hazardous route," according to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy.
  • Protests against the government in the capital of Albania Tirana turned violent on Wednesday, leaving several official buildings severely damaged and at least one on fire.
  • After the arrest of a Japanese journalist on suspicion of espionage by Russia's FSB security agency, Japan's Foreign Ministry summoned in Russia's ambassador on Wednesday.

Year: 2022

March 8, 2022

Uyghur University Lecturer Serving 10-Year Sentence...

Uyghur professor and translator has been serving a 10-year sentence in a prison in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region for separatism and promoting Western culture, a former Uyghur classmate of the man and a village official confirmed to RFA this month, more than four years after his detention

March 7, 2022

In Pakistan, A Female Entrepreneur Tries...

For years, Pakistan’s agricultural business model has remained unchanged. A young female entrepreneur, on the other hand, is aiming to change the multibillion-dollar sector that is dominated by men by eliminating the middleman entirely

Thousands Detained in Russia During Anti-War...

On March 6, police detained tens of thousands of anti-war protesters across Russia during protests against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Over 4,800 people were held in at least 59 different Russian cities, according to the independent protest-monitoring organisation OVD-Info

March 6, 2022

‘We’ll Tear You Apart,’ says a...

Russian air raids and shelling have spared Zaporizhzhya so far, but highly ravaged towns further south, such as Mariupol or Melitopol, are not far away, and Russian soldiers are advancing north

From Polish-Ukraine Border

Hundreds of thousands of people are leaving the nation as Russia continues its bombardment of Ukrainian cities

March 5, 2022

Ukrainian Journalists Faces Danger As Russian...

Yevheniy Sakun, a Ukrainian cameraman, was killed when Russia shelled a TV tower in Kyiv. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, his killing highlights the dangers that journalists face

Hundreds of Uyghurs Said to be...

Nearly 800 Uyghurs are being held in a detention camp in Manas county in northwestern China’s Xinjiang, said an official from the area who previously worked at the facility

March 4, 2022

Attack On Borodyanka, Northwest Of Kyiv

RFE/RL’s Maryan Kushnir witnessed the aftermath of an attack in Borodyanka, a town northwest of Kiev in the Kyiv area. His footage from March 2 shows extensive damage in residential areas, with some structures still engulfed in flames and others reduced to rubble

Police in China’s Shaanxi Detain Man...

Police in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi are investigating the case of a woman locked in an iron cage in Jia county, amid ongoing public anger over the trafficking of women and girls in the wake of the chaining of a woman in Jiangsu

March 3, 2022

Activists Call on Biden to Grant...

While the US joins its allies in sanctioning Russian President Vladimir Putin and his senior officials for their role in the Ukraine conflict, humanitarian advocates in the US are urging the Biden administration to provide immigration relief to Ukrainians already living in  the US

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