Headlines- The internationally recognized government army of Yemen claims to have started bombarding a designated "kill box" near the port city of Mocha, which was seized by the Houthis yesterday.
- The Houthis have expanded their control over the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait and seized control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline.
- 44 people sustained injuries after a train derailed on Friday nite in Normandy, northwest France, on the route between the cities of Rouen and Caen.
- The key right-wing opponent of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the election scheduled for next month, Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, is being investigated for alleged money laundering and corruption.
- Friday is the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, which killed 2,977 people at the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Detained Chinese Dissident Artist ‘Critically Ill’...
Liu Jinxing — who is better known by his artist name Zhui Hun — was detained by Nanjing police in late May 2019 alongside five other prominent and outspoken artists who had exhibits in the city at the same time
China Scholar Xu to Sue to...
According to sources close the professor, Xu completely denies the police allegation against him of soliciting a prostitute – a charge that emerged after Xu had published a series of articles and open letters critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its supreme leader Xi Jinping.
China Jails Rights Lawyer Yu Wensheng...
Yu’s wife Xu Yan was informed in a phone call from the Xuzhou City Procuratorate on June 17after the verdict was read behind closed doors the same morning.
Petition Calls For Activist To Be...
Pu has repeatedly called for a last meeting with Huang, who suffers from kidney failure and coronary heart disease, among other things. But the authorities have refused to allow even a final phone call
Tibetan Monk Gets Three-Year Prison Term...
Lobsang Dorje, 36, was taken from his room in Ngaba county’s Kirti monastery by police in July 2018, and was incommunicado until now, Kanyag Tsering—a monk at Kirti’s branch monastery in India—told RFA’s Tibetan Service on Thursday