Headlines- Spain defeats Argentina in the final to win their second World Cup.
- Bahrain's interior ministry reported that its air raid sirens had sounded overnight on Sunday and Monday.
- During what U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) called "a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone" in northern Iraq on Saturday, one American service member was killed and another was injured.
- Three missiles launched from Iran struck various parts of Jordan, according to a statement posted by the army online on Sunday.
- On Sunday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that it was "looking into reports of an overnight attack on the construction site of a planned nuclear power plant in Darkhovin, Iran," following allegations of a U.S. strike on the facility made by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.
- Early on Sunday morning, a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, left nine people injured, the alleged gunman was shot by police and sent to a nearby hospital with life-threatening fatal injuries.
Tag: Vietnam News
Vietnam’s Crackdown on Freedom of Expression...
According to Amnesty International, as of May, 2019 Vietnam had in its custody 118 prisoners of conscience. Some have since been released after serving their sentences, but many more have been arrested and detained on similar charges
Dozens Gather at Catholic Monastery in...
Describing themselves as “spontaneous” groups, the protesters crowded the monastery’s Cross Hill on Aug. 10 and 11, demanding land used for decades by the monastery, though a local priest said the move may have been sparked instead by the recent placement of a memorial to the cross that was destroyed
Detained Vietnamese Blogger Beaten, Forcibly Injected
Le Anh Hung, a member of the online Brotherhood of Democracy advocacy group who had blogged for the Voice of America, was arrested in July 2018 on a charge of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state” under Article 331 of Vietnam’s criminal code
Family Files Petition For Vietnamese Political...
The petition alleges that at the Xuan Loc Penitentiary in Dong Nai province, where Nguyen Van Duc Do is serving an 11-year sentence, guards tortured him for requesting time on weekends to sunbathe
Australian Citizen Jailed in Vietnam ‘Vanishes’...
Chau Van Kham, a resident of Australia and member of the banned U.S.-based Viet Tan opposition party, has not been seen or heard from for nearly four months,Australia’s Guardian newspaper said on June 6.