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
Aggression is Denounced by Salvadoran Journalists
El Salvador’s Association of Journalists has issued a warning about an increase in journalist assaults
The Turkish Media Landscape After the...
Turkish Journalists And Government Opponents Are Still Being Punished Five Years After A Failed Military Coup, According To Analysts. More From VOA’s Namo Abdulla
Free Press Attack in Myanmar
The Release Of Journalist Nathan Maung, A U.S. Citizen Who Was Detained In Myanmar On March 9 And Held For Months, Is Welcomed By The United States. Journalist Daniel Fenster, Another U.S. Citizen, Is Still Behind Bars. His Release Has Been Demanded By The US
Outlook For Hong Kong’s Press Freedom...
The media landscape in Hong Kong following the forced closure of the Apple Daily bears a striking resemblance to that of Shanghai after the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949, a veteran Chinese journalist told RFA
Azerbaijan’s Press Freedom
Life In Exile Is Not Necessarily A Guarantee Of Safety For Critics Fleeing Oppressive Regimes
Social Media in Turkey
Concerns regarding media freedoms have been raised as a result of global media giants’ decision to comply with Turkish government demands to open offices in Turkey
Attacks on Afghan Women Journalists Increases
Female journalists in Afghanistan are concerned about their safety after three women working for a media outlet in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad were killed in an early March attack claimed by the Islamic State
Commentator’s Killing Raises Fears in a...
recent killing in Lebanon of activist and commentator Lokman Slim, a prominent critic of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, has rattled the country and raised fears that more people may be targeted
Authoritarian Countries Increasingly Target Critics Abroad,...
China, Russia, Turkey and Iran are some of the world’s authoritarian countries that have increasingly spread political repression abroad with little consequence, according to a report released Thursday
Court in China’s Guangdong Jails 24...
Authorities in the southern province of Guangdong have jailed the administrator of a wiki-based forum for 14 years after a post revealed personal information about the close family of ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping, RFA has learned