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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Bangladesh Police to Drop Controversial Official...
Bangladesh police said Wednesday they were dropping charges against a journalist who was accused of violating the Official Secrets Act by illegally photographing documents on the purchase of Chinese and Russian vaccines.
Doctor Draws Heat for Matching Deep...
A group of Muslim women in Thailand’s Deep South is criticizing a doctor for promoting his services online to help local men find up to three extra wives, saying such polygamous matchmaking doesn’t follow the Prophet’s example.
Village in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region Raided...
Around 80 junta troops stormed a village in Sagaing region’s Yinmarbin township, killing nine People’s Defense Force (PDF) members and one local.
Prisons Chief Suspended Following Death of...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the country’s prisons chief be suspended without pay after an inmate who allegedly brokered the contract killing of an outspoken broadcaster died while incarcerated earlier this week, the justice secretary announced Friday.
Chinese Police Pressure Family of U.S.-Based...
Police in Beijing have contacted the family of a Chinese student studying in the United States after he expressed support online for the “Bridge Man” protester
Myanmar’s Junta Bans Family Visits,Food Deliveries...
Myanmar’s military junta on Thursday banned family visits and delivery of food and other necessities to inmates in seven prisons across the country after an explosion at Yangon’s Insein Prison killed eight people the day before, relatives and lawyers of the prisoners said
Malaysia Probes Possible Israeli Involvement in...
Malaysian authorities are investigating whether Israel’s spy agency was involved in the kidnapping of a Palestinian in Kuala Lumpur in late September, a senior police official said Wednesday
Police: Suspected Gunman in Philippine Broadcaster’s...
Philippine police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a suspect in the killing of a radio journalist who was known for criticizing President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his immediate predecessor
Marawi Still Shows Battle Scars 5...
Five years after then-President Rodrigo Duterte declared government forces had liberated the southern city of Marawi from Islamic State militants, the area remains far from normal with thousands of residents living in limbo in temporary shelters.
Tibetans in Lhasa Forced to Watch...
Chinese authorities are ordering residents of Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa to tune in to television coverage of China’s 20th Communist Party Congress, forbidding them to leave their homes until the sessions end, RFA has learned.