Headlines
  • Iran's next supreme leader is Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
  • Iranian attacks on Israel since last week have resulted in at least 13 Israeli deaths and 1,929 injuries.
  • According to US Central Command, injuries sustained during Iran's initial attack across the Middle East last week resulted in the death of a seventh US military member.
  • Israeli strikes have killed near 400 people in Lebanon.
  • Iranian drone attacks in Sitra, Bahrain, caused damage to several homes and several injuries, including at least one major injury.

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September 20, 2019

China Launches New Push Against Dalai...

The raids, which were held to enforce restrictions already in place, were recently conducted in several areas of Dzamthang county in Sichuan’s Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, one local source told RFA’s Tibetan Service this week

September 18, 2019

Uyghur Businessman Remains Jailed Eight Months...

China recently organized two visits to monitor internment camps in the XUAR—one for a small group of foreign journalists, and another for diplomats from non-Western countries, including Russia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, and Thailand—during which officials dismissed claims about mistreatment and poor conditions in the facilities as “slanderous lies.”

September 17, 2019

Murder In Tashkent: Killing Of Gay...

The brutal killing of a 25-year-old gay man in Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, last week has raised concerns within the local lesbian and gay community, which has been largely ostracized in the predominantly Muslim Central Asian country

IDPs From NWSW, Frustrated By Unscrupulous...

The armed conflict in Southern Cameroons has seen an exodus of thousands of, Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, into Francophone towns seeking education. With this influx, many unscrupulous and corrupt school administrators have resulted in reckless exploitation of these vulnerable persons. before gaining admissions into schools, they have to pay bribes of some times throat-cutting

Lao Authorities Arrest Woman for Criticizing...

Houayheuang Xayabouly, 30, criticized the government for delaying their rescue effort, leaving many victims still trapped in areas cut off by floodwaters

September 15, 2019

UN Secretary-General Guterres Visited Bahamas

The Secretary-General visited the Abaco islands together with the Bahamian Prime-Minister Hubert Minnis. They toured the stricken areas in a helicopter provided by the Dutch Royal Navy which dispatched one of its ships to assist in the emergency

Iranians, Foreigners Mourn ‘Blue Girl,’ Urge...

Sahar, nicknamed the “Blue Girl” after the main color of her favorite team, the famous Tehran club Esteghlal, had reportedly been told that she could be sentenced to six months in prison

September 14, 2019

Student Leader Flees Hong Kong, Citing...

Davin Wong, who had been acting president of the HKU student union, told the university’s governing council that he had taken a “one-way trip” after being set upon by unidentified men in Wanchai, local media reported

September 13, 2019

Iran Resorts To ‘Maximum Repression’ In...

The repression level has remained high in 2019, even though the number of protests has dropped significantly — by 38 percent according to Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli — with analysts suggesting that the poor economy is likely to weaken citizens’ ability to hold public protests

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

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