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  • For the sixth night in a row, the US military strikes Iran, and Iranian media reports explosions in areas including Bandar Abbas, Ahvaz, and Iranshahr.
  • Two persons injured in a US attack on the Bandar Abbas railway junction station, according to Iran's ISNA news agency.
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Thursday that it would not "allow" the United States to cause instability in the region.
  • In a post to X on Thursday, the headquarters of the Kuwait Armed Forces stated that the Gulf country's air defenses were once more "confronting attacks by hostile drones" that were launched from Iran.
  • Eight more Iranian missiles were intercepted by Jordan's military early on Thursday morning, according to the official Jordan News Agency.

Category: News & Views

October 20, 2020

‘Great Participation and Respect for All...

On October 18, more than 7 million Bolivians went to the polls to elect a new President and members of both chambers of Parliament. It was a historic vote, as it will allow Bolivia to emerge from a year of turmoil, restoring stability to its institutions

New Report Documents Rights Abuses in...

In Worth Less Than an Animal: Abuses and Due Process Violations in Pretrial Detention in North Korea, Lim Ok Kyung, one of the former detainees, described extremely harsh conditions when she was arrested in 2014 for having appliances smuggled from China in her house

October 17, 2020

Chinese Police Target Muslim Minorities Using...

Meiya Pico is a digital forensics company, which means that … they help police, they help investigators to find data that is hidden on devices. So what they’ve done is they’ve worked with the Public Security Bureau and others to develop a system and a device that will look for data that’s hidden on people’s devices

October 16, 2020

Demonstration of “young people” for Democracy...

Thousands of demonstrators, who marched yesterday from the democracy Monument to the government building, were dispersed by the police this morning without any episodes of violence

Tiny African Nation of Lesotho Proposes...

The set of regulations, introduced for debate by lawmakers this week, would require all social media users with more than 100 followers to register as “internet broadcasters” — a move that would, in turn, require them to abide by the same rules that govern broadcast media houses. It would also allow regulators to investigate social media users’ posts and even order them to remove them

Hong Kong Reassigns Judges Denounced by...

Pro-democracy lawmaker Dennis Kwok addresses he media after the Hong Kong judiciary reassigned Eastern Court magistrate Stanley Ho, despite throwing out a complaint against him regarding his handling of protest-related cases, in the Chinese city

October 15, 2020

Uyghur Former Volleyball Star on Crutches...

Ablet Bawudun, from Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture’s Uchturpan (Wushi) county, was detained in early 2017 in one of the region’s vast network of internment camps, where authorities are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities since April of that year

October 14, 2020

China’s Narrow Win of UN Human...

China beat out only Saudi Arabia, which has faced its own share of condemnation over its rights record. Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Nepal also won seats in the race to represent Asia-Pacific countries on the 47-member council

October 13, 2020

A Church Desecrated in Malawi, it...

The last armed bandit attack occurred on the night of October 7th. The Nsanama community in Machinga was targeted. The bandits stole cash, a laptop, cell phones and the Holy Eucharist

Rohingya Refugees, Workers Raise Funds to...

The fighting between the Myanmar military and the AA, an ethnic Rakhine armed force which is battling for greater autonomy in the western state, erupted a year after a scorched-earth military crackdown drove 740,000 Rohingya Muslims from the same region to overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh

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