Headlines- US President Donald Trump said that the war will end "immediately" after the US midterm elections and claimed that talks with Iran "could happen."
- Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, condemned the International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution on the nation's nuclear program on Wednesday, saying that it is based on "fabrications" and won't accomplish the objectives of its signatories.
- Iran said its subsequent attacks on regional U.S. targets were in self-defense on Wednesday, condemning the most recent American airstrikes on Iranian oil tankers.
- According to Syrian authorities, an explosion at a temporary site used to store weapons and remnants of the country's protracted civil war on Wednesday resulted in at least 14 fatalities and 11 injuries.
- In the southern Swiss village of Piotta, a hydroelectric power plant exploded on Wednesday, killing two workers.
Tag: China Human Rights Abuses
Uyghur Advocate Calls For US to...
Lawmakers must act to cut U.S. ties to forced labor and expedite asylum for Uyghur refugees, and Washington should push the global community to end what it has designated a genocide in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), witnesses told a Congressional hearing Thursday
EU to Slap Sanctions on China...
European Union members have agreed to impose sanctions on four Chinese officials and one entity over Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), European diplomats were quoted as saying Wednesday
Xinjiang Authorities Detain Head of Township...
Authorities in in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained the head of a township education committee, according to officials in his home county of Toksun (in Chinese, Tuokexun) in the region’s Turpan (Tulufan) prefecture
Turkish-Chinese Extradition Law Alarms Uighur Refugees...
Turkey has been providing refuge for Uighurs fleeing Chinese persecution, but rights groups are worried that Turkey’s parliament is poised to pass an extradition treaty with China
Police Detain Guangxi Activist in China’s...
Chinese police have detained a woman in the southwestern province of Yunnan on suspicion of subversion, as part of a crackdown on dissent in the southern province of Guangdong, her associates confirmed Friday
China Puts Rights Lawyers, Families Under...
Authorities in the Chinese capital have placed a number of prominent rights lawyers and their families under house arrest on Human Rights Day, RFA has learned
Chinese Rights Activist Who Opposed Hong...
Guangzhou-based rights activist Zhang Wuzhou has been subjected to torture in detention after she opposed Beijing’s imposition of a draconian national security law on Hong Kong, according to her son