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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Hong Kong authorities to protect journalists covering protests, which are increasingly targeted by the police and mafia gangs
The first enslaved Africans landed in what is now the United States 400 years ago. Those first African captives came from the Portuguese colony of Angola, brought to the shores of Virginia in 1619. Some 6 million enslaved Africans came from Angola, most of them sent to Portugal’s colonies, though some ended up in North America
Thousands of anti-extradition protesters converged on Hong Kong’s international airport on Monday, prompting the authorities to cancel all remaining flights from the city
Afghanistan’s historic culture is on display at a festival that shows off the nation’s life instead of strife. Afghan music, art and food are what attendees are finding at this festival
Authorities in Dushanbe believe Shafiev and his associates are training their Tajik recruits in Afghanistan and sending them back to Tajikistan to create a terrorist sleeper cell
Kosovar Muslims gathered in the Grand Mosque of Pristina on August 11 to begin the celebration of Eid al-Adha — the Festival of Sacrifice — a Muslim holiday that follows the annual hajj pilgrimage
It’s been a year since an Ebola outbreak started the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern region. Since then, 25-hundred cases have been reported and more than 18-hundred people have died
In North Point, tensions were running high as protesters gathered in a district known for its triad-linked loyalty to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, after a man in a red shirt ran out of a restaurant and attacked a young man wearing black: the usual colour worn by supporters of the anti-extradition movement
Once considered Islamic State’s de facto capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa is slowly recovering, nearly two years after its liberation from the Islamic State terror group. Local officials and residents complain there is too little money to rebuild their city
Members of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the Social Democratic Front party, SDF, have threatened to boycott the November Parliamentary session should President Paul Biya fail to end the war he declared on the people of the North-West and South-West regions, prepare a favourable environment for school resumption and elections to take place