Headlines- Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, claims that between October 7 and October 11, attacks on King Khalid International Airport resulted in 333 injuries and 17 fatalities.
- The United Nations warns that 800,000 people in Yemen have lost access to life-saving food aid due to the conflict's escalation, and hospitals are overcrowded with injured combatants.
- Since October 1, 20 attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have been reported, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations. Two of these incidents were reported on Wednesday.
- Iran was accused by a U.S. official of lying about a cargo ship that sank on Wednesday and of attacking it, most likely with a missile.
- A cargo ship struck a naval mine on Wednesday while trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz via "an unauthorized and hazardous route," according to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy.
- Protests against the government in the capital of Albania Tirana turned violent on Wednesday, leaving several official buildings severely damaged and at least one on fire.
- After the arrest of a Japanese journalist on suspicion of espionage by Russia's FSB security agency, Japan's Foreign Ministry summoned in Russia's ambassador on Wednesday.
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United Nations Experts Urge Zimbabwe to...
In statement, the United Nations experts condemned the abduction, torture and sexual abuse of three female oppotion activists – Harare West Member of Parliament Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova – who were seized at a checkpoint by suspected state security agents on May 13th while they were taking part in a Movement for Democratic Change Alliance protest over food shortages in the country under a nationwide coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown
Critics Warn of Deception as Myanmar...
The military opened the accounts on Facebook — the most popular social media platform in the country, with 33 million users — to counter what he called misinformation and fake news, he said, adding that the army would follow Facebook’s community standards.
The mystery of Tajikistan’s “Win” on...
According the Health Ministry bulletin from June 9, a total of 4,690 people had been diagnosed with COVID-19 to date. Of that number, 2,815 people, equivalent to three out of every five carriers, are said to have recovered.
COVID Crisis May Push 130 Million...
Addressing the annual ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS), Lowcock said that according to UN agencies, “the main measures of human development will all go backwards this year for first time since 1990” and “could signify the largest reversal in human development since records began,” and the crisis may push “as many as 60 million people into extreme poverty,” and “130 million more people to the brink of starvation, almost doubling last year’s figure.”
As COVID Shuts Schools, Girls Marry...
Seventy-eight percent of respondents toasurvey sponsored by the Center for Global Development,(CGD), a Washington-based research group,also expressed concerns about school closures increasing gender-based violence.
Prominent Uyghur Journalist Confirmed Detained After...
Qurban Mamut, the former editor-in-chief of the official Xinjiang Cultural Journal, went missing around November 2017, several months after he and his wife visited their son Bahram Qurban at his home in the U.S. state of Virginia—the first time the three had seen each other in more than nine years.
Migrants in the Grip of Covid-19
Malaysia and Singapore have distinguished themselves for first ignoring the problem and then concentrating migrants in structures that favored the infection. The city-state, which employs nearly one and a half million migrant workers, has “locked up” about 300,000 of them in about forty dormitories with 10 or 20 people per room.
Thousands of Australian Black Lives Matter...
Demonstrators rallied in large cities such as Sydney and Melbourne and in small towns across the country after a court overturned a ruling Friday declaring the Sydney protest illegal on health grounds.
WHO: COVID-19 Update
In a press conference in Geneva on 8 Jun, Tedros said almost 75 per cent of cases reported yesterday cases come from 10 countries, mostly in the Americas and South Asia. He said most countries in the African region are still experiencing an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, with some reporting cases in new geographic areas, although most countries in the region have less than 1,000 cases. He added that there was also an increase in the numbers of cases in parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Australian Citizen Jailed in Vietnam ‘Vanishes’...
Chau Van Kham, a resident of Australia and member of the banned U.S.-based Viet Tan opposition party, has not been seen or heard from for nearly four months,Australia’s Guardian newspaper said on June 6.