Headlines- Numerous homes have been damaged and people have been injured in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Bafliyeh in southern Lebanon.
- As Israeli forces step up their attacks on Lebanon, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has rejected an upcoming talks between the Lebanese government and Israel in the United States, calling such efforts "futile."
- The blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports by the US military has now started.
- A new US naval blockade of Iran's ports was denounced by Tehran as "an act of piracy," according to a Monday report from the Iranian news agency Tasnim.
- Asserting that it is "clear" that "there is no military solution" to the conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is urging the United States and Iran to resume talks in an effort to put an end to the conflict.
- In response to President Donald Trump's criticism, Pope Leo XIV told reporters on Monday that he had "no fear" of the Trump Administration when visiting Algeria.
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Rohingya Refugees Who Returned to Myanmar...
Some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled a brutal military-led crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in 2017 and sought refuge in neighboring Bangladesh say they have not been able to go back to their original villages after returning to Rakhine of their own volition
China’s Growing Influence Fails to Yield...
China’s growing influence on the world stage has not translated into favorable views of the country, according to a survey by a Washington-based think tank focusing on social issues and demographic trends, released as the East Asian nation marks the 70th anniversary of its founding. The opinion of China throughout most of Western Europe, North …
Myanmar Police Detain 30 Rohingya Traveling...
A brutal military-led campaign of violence targeting the Rohingya in Rakhine state in 2017 left thousands dead and drove more than 740,000 others across the border to Bangladesh where they now reside in sprawling displacement camps
Rights Group Calls for Action on...
The case of the Panchen Lama, who vanished 24 years ago, has come to represent Beijing’s efforts to “interfere with and undermine Tibetan Buddhist culture,” Kai Mueller of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights said on Wednesday at a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland
North Korean Miners’ Families Suffer Cancers,...
Reports of cancer, infertility, and birth defects in the mining area of Tongam village are consistent with medical understandings that these things result from exposure to radiation
North Korean Officials Favor South Korean...
Medicines including painkillers and fever-reducing drugs brought into North Korea by the Red Cross and other international NGOs have become harder to obtain in recent years as U.N. sanctions punishing North Korea for its illicit nuclear weapons program have taken hold, sources told RFA in earlier reports
Thousands of Anti-Extradition Protesters Occupy Hong...
Thousands of anti-extradition protesters converged on Hong Kong’s international airport on Monday, prompting the authorities to cancel all remaining flights from the city
Thousands Call For Release of Detained...
London-based rights group Amnesty International has said the police are largely to blame for protester violence, because they have a tendency to use tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and batons to attack the crowd
Trial Date Set For Kazakh Activist...
Adrian Zenz, a lecturer in social research methods at the Germany-based European School of Culture and Theology, has said that some 1.1 million people are or have been detained in the camps—which would equate to 10 to 11 percent of the adult Muslim population of the XUAR
Hong Kong Police Slow to Move...
Dozens of men in white shirts gathered near the Yoho Mall, part of the Yuen Long MTR subway station development, at around 6.00 p.m, according to social media posts