The olive harvest season in the West Bank is usually a time for celebration, but Palestinians say extremist Jewish settlers routinely destroy trees and even attack farmers
Organizers of next year’s rescheduled Tokyo Olympics will have measures in place to limit the spread of COVID-19
A new railway linking western China’s Sichuan province with central Tibet’s Nyingtri prefecture will boost tourism and trade along a previously unconnected southern route, but will also strengthen Beijing’s control over a disputed region bordering India, state media and other sources say.
On the eve of the general elections in Burma, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces the countless attacks on press freedom which have punctuated the electoral campaign and which have already discredited the results of this consultation. It has become the great forgotten point of the democratic transition in Burma, initiated ten years ago. Press freedom has …
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Abidjan: The Independent Electoral Commission of Ivory Coast announced the victory of outgoing President, Alassane Ouattara with 94% of the votes in the October 31 elections and a turnout of 53.9%. The opposition does not want to recognize the results and has already announced the creation of a “National Transitional Council”. Indeed, the election was …
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a young ethnic Kazakh wrestler to 15 years in prison for sharing a song by a Kazakhstani musician on social media, according to a former internment camp detainee. Kastar Polat, a 20-year-old man from Chaghantoqay (in Chinese, Yumin) county, in Ili Kazakh (Yili Hasake) …
An RFE/RL crew filming damage sustained in the Nagorno-Karabakh city of Martakert were forced to take cover for over an hour as shelling broke out in the area, November 2
Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack on Kabul University that killed at least 22 people and injured a dozen more
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed makes remarks during the Civil Society meeting on Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
At least three people have died and three are seriously ill from among 17 people taken to internment camps from a single street in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)