Headlines- The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen claims to have intercepted three drones in the southern and Riyadh regions, two cruise missiles over the Red Sea, and a ballistic missile headed for the Saudi city of Yanbu. In the
- said it is targeting Houthi positions in Taiz and Marib.
- A missile attack on Aden International Airport put 151 passengers on a Yemenia flight headed for Cairo in danger, the transport minister of Yemen's internationally recognized government said.
- The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen the least amount of deforestation in almost 40 years.
- Heidi Levine, a journalist for the Washington Post, was injured on Friday after being assaulted by some Israeli settlers while working in the occupied West Bank.
- Ahead of the country's April 2027 presidential election, French President Emmanuel Macron claimed on Wednesday that political forces are "exploiting" the country's student protesters..
- Authorities said at a press conference that the mass shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday that claimed the lives of three students and one teacher occurred inside a special needs classroom. They also identified the suspected shooter and some of the victims.
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On June 17, outside Balochistan’s Provincial Assembly building in Quetta, Pakistan, opposition MPs staged a protest..Kateryna Handziuk, an anti-corruption campaigner and public official who died three months after being seriously injured in an acid assault, was remembered at a demonstration in Kyiv, Ukraine
Uyghur Businessman Sentenced to 17 Years...
The Uyghur founder of a grocery store chain with more than 500 food stores and 200 product lines throughout China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was sentenced in May to more than 17 years in prison for his alleged “suspicious” relations with Turkey, following a three-year investigation, sources outside and inside the region told RFA
Election in Iran
Iranians Will Elect A New President On Friday. However, With International Monitors Barred, Critics Believe The Election Is Far From Free Or Fair
Uyghur Billionaire Jailed For 20 Years...
A Uyghur entrepreneur in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was jailed for 20 years for “supporting terrorists” for donations he gave to the wives and children of Uyghur prisoners, sources in the region told RFA
China Using Law to Curb Dissent,...
Hong Kong and Chinese officials are engaging in sweeping curbs on dissent and political opposition, a U.K. government report said this week, as European Union officials joined a chorus of international criticism over a draconian national security law
Uyghur Relatives Deployed by China to...
Chinese officials of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) presented relatives of ethnic Uyghurs at a news conference on Wednesday to speak out against witnesses who testified during a recent independent tribunal in London, discrediting their accounts of torture, sexual assaults, and other grave human rights violations inflicted on Muslims in the region
In the Tigray War, Children Were...
Many Health Care Facilities Have Been Looted And Destroyed Since The Deadly Civil Conflict In Ethiopia’s Tigray Region Began In November
Religious Expression in North Korea is...
North Korea’s widespread human rights violations, especially severe limitations on religious freedom, continue to concern the United States
Uyghur Tribunal Hears Grim Accounts of...
Witnesses and experts provided grim testimony about torture, rape, and other human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) at the opening day of a tribunal in London investigating whether China’s treatment of its ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims constitutes genocide
During a Court Hearing, a Belarusian...
After Hearing That His Family And Neighbours Would Face Prosecution If He Did Not Plead Guilty, A 41-Year-Old Belarusian Man Attempted To Cut His Own Neck At A Court Hearing In Minsk On June 1. Last Year, As Major Protests Erupted In Belarus Over The Disputed Presidential Election Results, Stsyapan Latypau Was Imprisoned As Part Of A Violent Crackdown On Dissent