Philemon Yang President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, briefs on his priorities for 2025. On the right is Movses Abelian, UN Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.
Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, who has been behind bars without trial for three years on “subversion” charges, has issued a defiant statement to the authorities after they repeatedly extended his detention, saying he ‘won’t bow’ to them.
While firefighters have been working to suppress the infernos, which had killed at least 24 people by Sunday, the deadly fires in the Los Angeles area have persisted for a week.A firefighter’s home is among the more than 7,000 buildings that officials say have caught fire in what has been called the Eaton Fire.
A human rights group has urged Thailand not to deport to China 48 Uyghurs who have languished for more than a decade in detention, saying their safety and human rights must be the priority.
With winds picking back up, the weather conditions aren’t helping the raging wildfires in the Los Angeles, California, area.
The Arakan Army has seized a police station in the Ayeyarwaddy region, the first in Myanmar’s heartland to fall to the ethnic Rakhine rebels since the 2021 military coup.
According to a new analysis, Israel’s assault against Hamas militants in Gaza has claimed much more lives than the official figure.
Five months after the repressive Awami League government fell, with an interim administration preaching freedom of the press, some Bangladeshi media are producing critical coverage but others are censoring themselves, saying there is “an atmosphere of fear.”
The dictator in Syria has fallen,but it is still unknown what the new government will look like.Heather Murdock visits the country’s key minority groups, asking what they hope for and what they fear from the new leadership.
The Myanmar air force has bombed a fishing village in Rakhine state killing 41 civilians and wounding 52, most of them Rohingya Muslims, residents involved in rescue work said on Thursday, in an attack insurgents condemned as a war crime.