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  • Early on Sunday morning local time, Kuwait's defense ministry announced that an Iranian drone attack had targeted fuel tanks at the country's international airport.
  • US president Trump said he believes Iran is to blame for the attack on the school of Iranian girls.
  • As the conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah intensifies, dozens more people have died in Lebanon as a result with major Israeli air and ground operations.
  • On Saturday, Trump visited an air base in Delaware for honorable transfer of six US service members who had been killed in the fighting.
  • After a week of strikes, Israel and the United States had almost complete control of the skies over Tehran, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who declared on Saturday that Israel would continue its fight with Iran "with all our force."

Tag: China Human Rights Issue

July 29, 2021

Blinken Meets Tibet Exile Government Representative...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a meeting with a representative of Tibet’s exile government in New Delhi, India Wednesday, a move that Tibet analysts said showed Washington’s commitment to supporting Tibetan rights in the face of harsh Chinese rule

July 28, 2021

Police Stop Mourners Laying Wreaths Near...

Authorities in the flood-hit Chinese province of Henan are preventing relatives and supporters from laying public wreaths for those who died in the Zhengzhou flood disaster of July 20, RFA has learned

July 27, 2021

China’s Panchen Lama Ignored by Tibetans...

A Beijing-appointed Tibetan Buddhist leader sent by China to attend a conference in Sichuan this month was ignored by ordinary Tibetans who had been told by authorities to turn out to greet him, with only hand-picked officials present to show him respect, Tibetan sources said

July 23, 2021

Couple Apply For Asylum in The...

A Chinese national who fled his home country after supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has arrived in the Netherlands to claim political asylum after a harrowing escape from agents of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spanning the Middle East and eastern Europe

July 22, 2021

Hong Kong Marks Second Anniversary of...

Police were out in force at Yuen Long MTR station on the second anniversary of a mob attack on train passengers there at the height of the 2019 protest movement, as one victim of the attacks told RFA they are still waiting for justice

July 20, 2021

Police in China’s Wuhan Hold Man...

Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei are holding a man on suspicion of murdering two officials following clashes linked to a forced demolition in the provincial capital, Wuhan

July 17, 2021

Interview: ‘We Are Gravely Concerned About...

Uyghur-American lawyer Nury Turkel, is a vice-chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan and independent federal government body

July 16, 2021

Police in China’s Sichuan Formally Arrest...

Authorities in the southwestern province of Sichuan have formally arrested a prominent rights activist on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” a charge often used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), RFA has learned

July 15, 2021

Six Years After the Death of...

Six years after the death in a Chinese prison of a popular Tibetan religious teacher, fair treatment under the law is still being denied to Tibetans living under Beijing’s rule, experts say

July 14, 2021

Noted Uyghur Folklore Professor Serving Prison...

An internationally recognized expert in Uyghur folklore and ethnographer who disappeared in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) more than three years ago has been confirmed as being imprisoned by authorities, according to her former co-workers at Xinjiang University

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