Headlines
  • Saudi Arabia attacks the Houthi-held city of Hodeidah in Yemen.
  • According to Iranian army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia, recent IRGC attacks in Erbil, Iraq, destroyed "almost all" US military infrastructure.
  • After a vehicle drove into a crowd on Saturday during Berlin's LGBTQ celebrations, police confirmed a manhunt was underway.
  • Nearly 260,000 people have been forced to flee due to uncontrolled wildfires that are blazing on Saturday in the southwest of France near Madrid, the capital of Spain prompted French government to send out its military.
  • Eight people, including six children, were discovered dead inside a Michigan home on Friday.
  • Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, was officially announced on Saturday as the candidate from his father's Liberal Party to challenge the incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
  • The most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has claimed over 1,309 lives.
  • In Syria, two buses collided, which caused at least 35 deaths and 30 injuries.

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August 11, 2020

Cambodian Teachers’ Activist Attacked in Alleged...

Ouk Chhayavy, president of the Cambodian Independence Teacher Association (CITA) was riding a motorbike in Kandal province with her husband when two men she did not recognize pulled up on a motorbike, grabbed the handlebars and pushed the couple to the ground, she told RFA

August 10, 2020

Hong Kong: RSF Denounces Arrest of...

Jimmy Lai , 71, the founder of the Hong Kong pro-democracy daily Apple Daily , was arrested at his home on the morning of August 10, 2020 on charges of “collusion with foreign powers”

Salmon Is Disappearing From Russia’s Amur...

The scarcity of the region’s salmon is a hot topic in Khabarovsk, one that everyone — not only the region’s 22,500 indigenous people — is concerned about. Spend some time in the capital city of Khabarovsk, home to nearly half of the sparsely populated region’s 1.3 million people, and most will tell you they can no longer afford the fish that used to be bountiful

August 9, 2020

Zimbabwe Accused of Stiffling Press Freedom

Security forces thwarted the July 31 protests against corruption and poverty,arresting Chin’ono and an opposition leader.  South Africa is sendingenvoys to Zimbabwe to investigate reports of escalating rightsabuses,which the government denies

Broadway Shows Won’t Return Until 2021

NYC’s famous Broadway shows were put on hold when the coronavirus pandemic hit the US. And though the bright signs with pictures of “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” are still there, the actors and audiences won’t come back into the beautiful halls to enjoy the performances until at least the winter of 2021

‘They Don’t Reveal The True Statistics’:...

Iran’s Alborz Province has been hit by a spike in COVID-19 cases. Citizen journalists in the provincial capital, Karaj, have sent video to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda and say authorities are not revealing the true scale of the pandemic

August 8, 2020

‘I Beg God, Nobody Else’: Pakistani...

A Pakistani woman is making soccer balls and selling them on an Islamabad road to support her family after husband was paralyzed four years ago. Abida Bibi hopes to pay for her four daughters to complete their education

Ethiopians Living in Egypt Say Racism...

The long-running dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile River dam remains unresolved, and on the streets of Cairo Ethiopian residents say racism and hostilities against them are intensifying

August 7, 2020

Police in China’s Guangdong Order Eviction...

Shandong police are now leading a nationwide operation that has detained at least eight people and questioned many others following the gathering at a restaurant in Fujian’s port city of Xiamen to socialize and to share ideas about China’s development

North Korea State Media Modernization

From high-definition TV broadcasts to shiny new on-screen graphics to laid-back video blogs…North Korean state media have been getting a makeover. But the cosmetic changes won’t be able to alter North Korea’s perception as one of the world’s most censored and isolated countries

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