Headlines- Maxime Prevot, the foreign minister of Belgium, said on Saturday that Palestinians, Catholic delegates, and Western diplomats and officials had been attacked by masked settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
- Three men were sentenced to more than 158 years in prison by a Mexican court on Friday for the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their American companion.
- 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
- said it is targeting Houthi positions in Taiz and Marib.
- A missile attack on Aden International Airport put 151 passengers on a Yemenia flight headed for Cairo in danger, the transport minister of Yemen's internationally recognized government said.
- The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen the least amount of deforestation in almost 40 years.
- Heidi Levine, a journalist for the Washington Post, was injured on Friday after being assaulted by some Israeli settlers while working in the occupied West Bank.
- Ahead of the country's April 2027 presidential election, French President Emmanuel Macron claimed on Wednesday that political forces are "exploiting" the country's student protesters..
- Authorities said at a press conference that the mass shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday that claimed the lives of three students and one teacher occurred inside a special needs classroom. They also identified the suspected shooter and some of the victims.
Tag: RFA Myanmar Service
Myanmar Continues to Investigate Rohingya Boat...
The 17 that were resettled reunited with their families in Darpaing and Thaechaung Villages in Sittwe Township with the cooperation of village heads, local officials said
Displaced Population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State...
Civil society organizations helping the IDPs said they cannot provide supplies to the camps they wish to serve because of the permission requirement and because of authorities who prevent them from traveling by land and water in the region
Arakan Army Seizes Ferry, Unveils Taxation...
Soe Aung, head of the administration department in northern Rakhine’s Maungdaw district, said the drivers were hired to drive large vehicles for the Myanmar government’s repatriation reception center in Maungdaw for Rohingya Muslims refugees under the Office of the Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development in Rakhine (UEHRD)
Few Details as Myanmar Army Holds...
The defendants, who include officer-level servicemen, have been detained at local battalions, he said, but declined to give the exact number of soldiers being tried
Bangladesh Pushes Back Against Criticism of...
The ICG report pointed to security measures that the Bangladeshi government began rolling out in August to restrict the movements of refugees and non-governmental organizations operating in refugee camps and settlements in and around Cox’s Bazar
Myanmar Immigration Officials Nab Growing Number...
The 241 Chinese nationals arrested during the first six months of 2019 in townships along Myanmar’s border with China represent a huge increase over the 177 who illegally entered Myanmar in all of 2018
Trafficking of Myanmar College Student Sparks...
The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) will conduct a team field visit led by member Myint Kyi to Pyapon township on Dec. 2-4, to investigate reported forced labor and human rights violations in the local fishing industry
Rebel Arakan Army Frees 25 Captives,...
Myanmer military spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun said government troops are still searching for survivors of the military’s Oct. 26 helicopter assault on the vessels used by the AA to carry their captives away
Trafficked Myanmar Woman Returns Home After...
The 47-year-old woman, whose leg had been broken by her captors, was found by Chinese police and transferred to Myanmar authorities in the border town of Muse in Myanmar’s northern Shan state on Nov. 1, they said. She was then sent back to her home in Bago city in central Myanmar’s Bago region on Sunday
Myanmar’s Rakhine Conflict Takes Toll on...
The AA detained 18 firefighter recruits and the deputy station chief of the state Fire Services Department as they travelled on a bus from central Myanmar’s Mandalay region to Rakhine’s capital Sittwe after completing basic firefighting training in the town of Pyin Oo Lwin