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  • After a migrant boat sank overnight off the coast of Djibouti in northeastern Africa, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Sunday that 109 people had died, 80 had survived, and 116 were still missing for.
  • According to Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka, police received information about a potential attack against Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, prompting the emergency meeting at the Internal Security Agency's (ABW) Counter-Terrorism Center.
  • The latest attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport claimed 12 lives and injured 309, according to Saudi Arabia's Civil Aviation Authority.
  • In a statement posted on social media, Saudi military spokesperson Turki Al-Maliki blamed the Iran-backed Houthis for Saturday's fatal attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
  • US president Donald Trump stated that he would "take a look" at joining Saudi Arabia in attacking the Houthis and resuming attacks on Iran.
  • Four people died as Storm Isaias moves across the southern United States.
  • A man was hospitalized after he was struck by a vehicle driven by an Immigration Customs and Enforcement agent who was allegedly pursuing him and another man on Saturday in Houston, Texas.
  • More than a week after her botched execution in Tennessee, Christa Pike was discharged from the hospital and returned to prison.

Tag: Cambodia

February 5, 2020

Cambodian Court Rules Against Returning Passports,...

Yeang Sothearin and Uon Chhin—who had worked as an editor, reporter and news anchor, and a photographer and videographer for RFA’s Khmer Service, respectively—were taken into custody in November 2017

January 28, 2020

Cambodian Court Upholds Reinvestigation of Spying...

Local and international rights groups and legal observers have long condemned the treatment of the pair in the courts as part of a wider attack on the media and civil society in Cambodia and called for the country’s trade and aid partners to press for their release

January 10, 2020

Chinese Investment in Cambodia Comes at...

China’s close alliance with Cambodia has been forged, in large part, with billions of dollars in aid and investment tied to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, which provides developmental assistance around the world to strengthen trade ties and political influence. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his government have welcomed this assistance, saying it comes without “strings attached” compared to western nations that link aid to democratic reforms

November 21, 2019

Map Tattoos Grow in Popularity For...

Border activists and members of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) say that the legislation will cede land to Vietnam because it is based in part on the 1985 treaty, which was enacted after Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979 to oust the Khmer Rouge regime and installed a puppet government to run the country

October 26, 2019

Declining Fish Stocks Threaten Cambodian Way...

For centuries, Cambodians have looked to the Tonle Sap for a protein-rich river fish dinner. But supply has been a challenge. Malis Tum reports from a riverbank fish market in Phnom Phen

August 19, 2019

Opposition Chief Sam Rainsy Vows To...

Most Cambodian migrant workers are in Thailand, where NGOs estimate that more than million reside while the Cambodian Labor Ministry puts the figure at 1.6 million

December 9, 2018

Girls’ Deaths Alert Cambodia to Human...

Nhep Sopheap, secretary-general at the Cambodia National Council for Children (CNCC), a government body, said she was “very concerned” about the effects on children of poverty and migration. She said the rape of children was of particular worry

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