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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China’s Anhui Publishes Draft Rules Allowing...
Faced with falling birth rates, authorities in Anhui are gearing up to remove bans on unmarried women having children
Newly Arrived Rohingya Refugees Say Hundreds...
Hundreds of people were waiting to cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar, a small group of newly arrived Rohingya told BenarNews, amid fierce fighting close to the border that has sparked diplomatic protests over reports of artillery and mortar shells landing in Bangladeshi territory
Authorities in Xinjiang Detain Hundreds of...
More than 600 mostly young Uyghurs from a village in Ghulja were detained by authorities in Xinjiang on Monday after they ignored a strict COVID-19 lockdown and staged a peaceful street protest against a lack of food that has led to starvation and deaths, a local police officer said
Selangor Ruler Backs King: ‘Royal Pardon...
In a rare move, one of Malaysia’s sultans on Monday backed the king in saying that royal pardons cannot be granted arbitrarily or through any special treatment, as the ruling party leans on the palace to give one to imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak
Four Slain by Pro-Junta Group in...
Four men were found slain in Myanmar’s central city of Mandalay on Sunday in what appears to be the latest in a series of killings by a shadowy pro-junta militia group, sources in the country told RFA0
UN Secretary-General Visits Flooded Areas in...
United Nations Secretary-General witnessed the impact of the floods in the Sindh and Balochistan provinces.One-third of the country was inundated, more than 1,300 people lost their lives, and tens of millions lost their houses
Source: No Special Treatment for Najib,...
Incarcerated former Prime Minister Najib Razak is being kept in an isolation cell inside a wing for high-security inmates at the Kajang prison, but otherwise is getting no special treatment, a highly placed source told BenarNews on Thursday
WeChat Warns Users Their Likes,Comments and...
The Chinese social media platform WeChat is warning users outside China that their data will be stored on servers inside the country, RFA has learned
Indonesian Rights Commission to Probe Activist’s...
Indonesia’s human rights commission will set up a team to investigate a prominent human rights activist’s fatal poisoning aboard an international flight 18 years ago, it said on Wednesday, in yet another attempt to resolve the politically charged murder case
Thousands Rally in Jakarta,Other Cities Against...
Thousands of people took to the streets of Jakarta and other Indonesian cities on Tuesday to protest a steep hike on subsidized fuel prices that the government imposed at the weekend, and threatened a nationwide strike if the administration did not reverse course