Headlines- 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.
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Heavy Rains Kill One In Douala
Littoral Governor Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua ordered that a regional crisis committee be activated to assist persons affected by the rains in Douala on Friday August 21, 2020
UN Refugee Agency Urges Myanmar Actions...
More than 740,000 Rohingya fled to southeastern Bangladesh from Myanmar after government security forces launched a brutal crackdown in August 2017 in the wake of deadly attacks by Rohingya insurgents on police and army posts in Rakhine state
Tibetan Crowds at Lhasa Festival Smaller...
The Shoton, or Yogurt Festival, runs this year from Aug. 19 to 24 and features the unveiling of a large embroidered thangka portrait of the Buddha on a hillside outside Lhasa’s Drepung monastery, with Tibetan devotees flocking to see the precious relic
Taiwan to Ban Chinese Media Apps...
Taiwan’s communications regulator said it will ban individuals, companies, and other organizations from transmitting content originating in China via the internet from Sept. 3
Tibetan Woman Jailed in Protest Over...
Dolkar, who was convicted in May 2019 of sharing news amid tight information curbs of the protest by her nephew Wangchen, was released on Aug. 15 and is now receiving medical care at her home in Sershul (in Chinese, Siqu) county in Sichuan’s Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, a Tibetan source in exile told RFA
Hollywood Censors Films for Content ‘Offensive’...
Film content is now frequently changed even for American audiences, while studios provide censored versions of films specifically for Chinese audiences and sometimes invite Chinese censors onto film sets to advise them on how to avoid “tripping the censors’ wires,” PEN America said
Malawi President Announces Plans to Reopen...
Titus Divala,an expert in epidemics at Malawi’s College of Medicine,warns that the good number of recoveries form COVID-19 should not be a ticket for complacency
Uyghur Exile Group Urges IOC to...
The complaint, submitted by London-based rights lawyer Michael Polak, referred to evidence the WUC said proves that a number of crimes against humanity are taking place in the XUAR, including arbitrary detention in internment camps, torture, repressive security and surveillance, and forced labor and slavery
Kamala Harris: Breaking Down Barriers, Confronting...
Biden was stunned by the attack and protested that he was only opposed to forced busing mandated by the federal government — although he had often worked as a senator himself in the 1970s and 1980s to oppose school busing to racially desegregate schools. But he later apologized for his comments about his working relationships with Southern segregationist lawmakers
China Lending Bangladesh Almost $1 BN...
In May the Ministry of Finance asked for $853 million to implement the Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration project in the greater Rangpur region. The Chinese loan marks the first time that China, India’s regional rival, will be involved in a river management project in Bangladesh