Headlines- According to Lebanon's Health Ministry, an Israeli raid on Ain Baal in the Tyre district resulted in one death and seven injuries.
- US President Donald Trump stated on Friday that he was "not satisfied" with Iran's most recent offer in talks to put an end to their conflict.
- As part of the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, 45 commercial vessels have been directed to turn around or return to port so far, U.S. Central Command said on Friday.
- Israel claimed that the majority of the activists it apprehended in the Mediterranean near Crete were taken to Greece as part of a flotilla that was trying to break the blockade of Gaza.
- The Pentagon intends to withdraw nearly 5,000 American forvesfrom Germany.
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Communist Party Meeting in Tibet Underscores...
Chinese Communist Party officials in Tibet this month reaffirmed Beijing’s hardline policies pushing for Tibet’s complete assimilation into China’s dominant Han culture, calling for “political education” to further weaken Tibetans’ loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, according to state media reports
Police in China’s Wuhan Hold Man...
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei are holding a man on suspicion of murdering two officials following clashes linked to a forced demolition in the provincial capital, Wuhan
Interview: ‘We Are Gravely Concerned About...
Uyghur-American lawyer Nury Turkel, is a vice-chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan and independent federal government body
Police in China’s Sichuan Formally Arrest...
Authorities in the southwestern province of Sichuan have formally arrested a prominent rights activist on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” a charge often used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), RFA has learned
Six Years After the Death of...
Six years after the death in a Chinese prison of a popular Tibetan religious teacher, fair treatment under the law is still being denied to Tibetans living under Beijing’s rule, experts say
South Africa:72 Die,1,234 Arrested in KwaZulu-Natal,...
Seventy-two people have as of Tuesday evening died in the ongoing destruction and looting of businesses and violent protests in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng
Noted Uyghur Folklore Professor Serving Prison...
An internationally recognized expert in Uyghur folklore and ethnographer who disappeared in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) more than three years ago has been confirmed as being imprisoned by authorities, according to her former co-workers at Xinjiang University
North Korea Mobilizes Women for Border...
North Korea is forcibly mobilizing married women living near the border with China to toil away making cement blocks for the construction of a wall, sources in the country told RFA
Civil Society Leaders: Violence Increases,a UN...
“We ask for a United Nations mission to ascertain the truth about the recent attacks on civilians”. With foreign troops on the path of withdrawal, the Taliban on the offensive, a weak government, growing violence and “very worrying future scenarios”, in an interview with Agenzia Fides Shaharzad Akbar, at the head of the “Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission” (AIHRC), calls for a greater commitment from the international community”
Four Tibetan Monks Handed Harsh Prison...
Chinese authorities in Tibet last year sentenced four Tibetan monks to long prison terms following a violent raid by police on their monastery in Tingri county, a New York-based rights group said in a report released this week