Headlines
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy issues a warning that the Strait of Hormuz is "closed," citing five tankers that have been hit since Friday.
  • Four drones were intercepted and destroyed over the provinces of Riyadh, Eastern, and Southern, according to the coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
  • 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
  • Police and pritesters clashed during Saturday's large-scale protests across France over social injustice, exorbitant prices, and the condition of the educational system.
  • Just two days before the new sanctions and tariffs on Russia mandated by the law named for the late Senator Lindsey Graham were scheduled to go into effect, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday waiving them.
  • On Saturday afternoon, a car drove through a soccer match in Wichita, Kansas, killing a child and an adult and injuring numerous others.

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April 21, 2020

WHO Chief: Worst on Coronavirus Pandemic...

Protests have erupted in some countries where wide restrictions are still in effect, including the United States and Russia. U.S. demonstrators have called on governors in several states to let them return to work, with President Donald Trump voicing support for the protesters

Kenya Activists Fear Spike in Violence...

Wangechi Wachira, the director of the Kenyan feminist Center for Rights Education and Awareness, saysthe Center has seen an increase in reported cases of violence against women

Family Cut Off From Lao Pastor...

Pastor Sithon Thiphavong, 34 was arrested on March 15 in the village of Kaleum Vangkae in the Chonnaburi District, of Savannakhet Province for organizing a mass service with permission, several villagers told RFA’s Lao Service

April 20, 2020

Kazakhstan: Coronavirus Tests a Stuttering Private...

The emergency coronavirus crisis plan approved in mid-March envisions greater availability of affordable financing, tax breaks and a pledge to suspend the often-arbitrary audits that are the bane of every small and medium business in Kazakhstan. Some service-based businesses, like cinemas and restaurants, will be spared having to pay property taxes until the year’s end. For others, depending on how hard the crisis hits, there may be no tax liabilities for up to six months.

WHO: No Evidence Survivors of COVID-19...

Senior World Health Organization officials say there is no evidence that people who have survived a bout of coronavirus become immune from the deadly disease and cannot pass the infection on to others

2.3 Million COVID Cases Around the...

Texas and Vermont will allow certain businesses to reopen Monday, with Montana beginning on Friday, Trump said during a coronavirus briefing Saturday at the White House

Scores of Civilians Killed in Worsening...

The Lendu, who are mainly farmers and Hema, a herding and trading people, have been fighting sporadically for decades over valuable resources in their gold mining and oil rich province. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced

April 19, 2020

Appeal to Global Ceasefire: Violence Carried...

Niger currently lives divided between the presence of foreign troops – the United States, France, Germany and even Italy – and the attacks of Islamic fundamentalism,increasingly aggressive and gathered around the acronym of the Islamic State of the Greater Sahara. On the southern border, the army fights, together with Nigerian, Chadian, Cameroonian and Beninese troops, a war against the militiamen of Boko Haram

April 18, 2020

Human Rights Do Not Disappear Nor...

Choluteca: “About 300 people originally from Haiti, Cuba and Africa (mostly Haitians) have already overcrowded the rooms they had rented in Choluteca, Honduras for more than 24 days”, this is how the letter sent to Fides by the Pastoral Ministry of Human Mobility of Guatemala begins, in the face of the situation experienced by hundreds …

Afghanistan: News Digest

The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the Afghan forces effectively responded to a Taliban attack in Sahak area of Zurmat district, killing at least six militants

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