Headlines- Thirty people have died in a devastating fire at a pub in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, according to reports on Tuesday.
- Two UAE tankers have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
- On Monday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that airstrikes on Iran have started for the third night in a row.
- On Monday, the UAE Ministry of Defense announced that two Iranian tankers had attacked two national tankers. One Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured, including four critically, by cruise missiles in the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz in Omani territorial waters.
- Despite unleashing fresh attacks on Iran and reimposing a blockade of Iranian ports, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that an deal with Tehran to end the Middle East war was still possible.
- IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said in a statement on Monday that Iran will "continue to exercise our sovereignty and management over the Strait of Hormuz."
- A constitutional amendment was passed by the Hungarian parliament to oust Orban ally President Tamas Sulyok.
Tag: Press Freedom
Cambodian Court Rules Against Returning Passports,...
Yeang Sothearin and Uon Chhin—who had worked as an editor, reporter and news anchor, and a photographer and videographer for RFA’s Khmer Service, respectively—were taken into custody in November 2017
RFE/RL Journalist’s Car Set Ablaze In...
An unknown assailant has set fire to a car belonging to RFE/RL correspondent Halyna Tereshchuk on a street in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. According to witnesses, a masked individual approached the car, placed something on the windshield of the vehicle, set fire to it, and then fled. Local police have begun an investigation
Burundi: Four Iwacu Journalists Sentenced to...
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DRC: Community Radio Station Burnt Down...
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Cambodian Court Upholds Reinvestigation of Spying...
Local and international rights groups and legal observers have long condemned the treatment of the pair in the courts as part of a wider attack on the media and civil society in Cambodia and called for the country’s trade and aid partners to press for their release
No Truth Please!
The Populist leaders across the World have perfected the art of controlling the media business and they also know how to mislead the public
Charges Against Journalist Glenn Greenwald in...
Seven people were indicted by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday, January 21, as part of the investigation into the hacking of cell phones of senior Brazilian officials in 2019. The American journalist Glenn Greenwald , who lives in Brazil, and who founded the Info site The Intercept Brasil is among the accused
Cambodian Court Postpones Ruling on Reinvestigation...
Yeang Sothearin and Uon Chhin—who had worked as an editor, reporter and news anchor, and a photographer and videographer for RFA’s Khmer Service, respectively—were taken into custody in November 2017 and charged with “illegally collecting information for a foreign source” after RFA closed its bureau in the capital in September that year
Comoros: Two Journalists Arrested and Placed...
The police had already arrested several of the rally organizers that morning and blocked the place where it was to take place, preventing the event from taking place. The first round of legislative elections, scheduled for Sunday January 19, is boycotted by the opposition
Regulation, Transparency and Scrutiny Key to...
Since 2017, leaders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have accelerated a decade-long expansion in the regime’s ability to shape narratives about China around the world, Washington-based Freedom House said in its report “Beijing’s Global Megaphone,” with the use of what it called “new and more brazen tactics” by Chinese diplomats, state-owned news outlets, and CCP proxies