Headlines- JD Vance,vice president of the United States, has arrived in Switzerland for high-level talks with Iran, which will be mediated by Qatar and Pakistan.
- Iran’s IRGC claims the Strait of Hormuz is blocked over Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon that have killed at least 32 civilians since dawn..
- The US State Department said on Friday that the next round of talks between Israel and Lebanon will take place in Washington from June 23 to 25. This announcement came after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.
- Hezbollah fired more than fifty rockets on Israel through Saturday night, according to an Israel Defense Forces, targeting soldiers stationed in southern Lebanon.
- Two wagons plunged over the bridge and onto the street below when two freight trains crashed on a railway bridge in Germany overnight. One person was killed.
- Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, and President Trump continued to spar on Saturday. Meloni had earlier stated that she was "stunned" by Mr. Trump's alleged statement to an Italian network that she had "wanted a picture with me so badly" at the G7 summit in France earlier in the week, and that he only agreed because he "felt sorry for her."
Tag: Freedom of Expression
For Sale: Georgia’s main opposition TV...
Media observers say that these plans only validate their belief that Khalvashi has, all along, been fronting for the ruling Georgian Dream Party and its billionaire chairman, Bidzina Ivanishvili
Hong Kong: Attacks Against Journalists Are...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Hong Kong authorities to protect journalists covering protests, which are increasingly targeted by the police and mafia gangs
Nicaraguan Journalists in Exile Send the...
More than a year has passed since protests against changes to Nicaraguas pension program turned into a full scale socio-political crisis
Mass Blocking of Social Media and...
Amnesty urged the authority that this decision should be overturned and the Turkish authorities must end their suffocating crackdown on the ever shrinking number of independent voices
As Kazakhstan’s Activists Find Their Voice,...
Thanks to Alnur Ilyashev’s efforts, citizens and movements opposed to how the government is being run will – on June 30 – be able to state their case in an Almaty public square without running the risk of arrest
Tajik Vloggers In Hot Water Over...
A secretly filmed video report about sex workers in the Tajik capital has landed its authors in hot water as authorities accuse them of breaching privacy laws.
Open letter: RSF Urges Pakistani PM...
A year after becoming head of the Pakistani government, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges Prime Minister Imran Khan to acknowledge the alarming deterioration in the state of press freedom in the country, and to take urgent measures to remedy
China: RSF Demands Pardon for Journalist...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Chinese President Xi Jinping to pardon journalist Huang Qi, a two-time winner of the RSF award, sentenced today to 12 years in prison despite very serious health problems
Iraq: Journalist searched after revelations of...
An Iraqi judge ordered the search and arrest of a journalist after he revealed a corruption case involving local justice. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) strongly condemns these trumped up charges against an investigative journalist
Georgian Journalists Say Independence Threatened At...
Georgian journalists staged a live on-air protest, after a European Court decision paved the way for the Rustavi-2 TV station, seen as an opposition channel, to pass into the ownership of a businessman they see as close to the government