Headlines- Israel claims that as of Saturday, its fighters are carrying out a series of targeted attacks on Israeli forces stationed inside Lebanese territory.
- On Saturday, the Israeli military demolished portions of a Catholic convent in a border village while Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least seven people and injured others.
- The U.S.-Israel war on Iran is "likely" to resume, according to Iran's deputy chief of military headquarters, Mohammad Jafar Asadi, as "evidence shows the US is not committed to any agreements or treaties."
- The US decision to remove 5,000 troops from Germany was "foreseeable," according to Germany's defense minister Boris Pistorius, while the NATO military alliance claims to be asking Washington for clarification.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani discussed the ongoing talks to end the war in Iran on Saturday.
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UNHCR Steps Up its Efforts to...
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday that the onset of winter, along with the disastrous consequences of COVID-19, posed a direct threat to the health and livelihoods of Venezuelans stranded in southern Latin America
Uyghur Relatives Deployed by China to...
Chinese officials of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) presented relatives of ethnic Uyghurs at a news conference on Wednesday to speak out against witnesses who testified during a recent independent tribunal in London, discrediting their accounts of torture, sexual assaults, and other grave human rights violations inflicted on Muslims in the region
Fudan University Party Secretary’s Murder Rocks...
Police in Shanghai are investigating the murder of a ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official at the city’s prestigious Fudan University, as he was firing a colleague in the School of Mathematics
Activist Detained in China’s Guangzhou Over...
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained a man for staging a public memorial of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen massacre
Uyghur Tribunal Hears Grim Accounts of...
Witnesses and experts provided grim testimony about torture, rape, and other human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) at the opening day of a tribunal in London investigating whether China’s treatment of its ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims constitutes genocide
South Africa Records Over 5, 000...
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Two Siblings of Norway-based Uyghur Activist...
Chinese authorities have sentenced the brother and sister of a prominent exiled Uyghur scholar and linguist to several years in jail in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), government and police officials in the region told RFA last month
Newly Elected Sikyong Open to ‘New’...
Penpa Tsering, Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), said Wednesday that he is willing to forgo traditional channels of communication to revive talks with Beijing over Tibetan autonomy under Chinese rule, days after being sworn in as the head of Tibet’s India-based government-in-exile
Former Victims of ‘One Child’ Policy...
A former victim of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s draconian “one-child” curbs has hit out at the government over a 180-degree policy shift that now seeks to encourage Chinese citizens to have up to three children per married couple
Chinese Dissidents Sent on Forced ‘Vacations’...
Authorities in Beijing are forcing dissidents and rights activists to leave town ahead of the politically sensitive June 4 anniversary of the bloodshed, which ended weeks of student-led protests in Beijing and other Chinese cities in the spring of 1989