Tibetan residents of India are being caught in rising numbers of COVID-19 infections as the country struggles with a second wave of the pandemic that has seen cases surge since March, sources say
UNESCO’s Deputy Director-General, Xing Qu, speaks at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) commemoration of World Press Freedom Day 2021. The year’s theme is “Information as a Public Good,” which serves as a reminder to value information as a public good and to investigate what can be done in the creation
President Joe Biden is the first American president to recognise the Ottoman Empire’s slaughter of Armenians as a genocide
Senegal has a long history of reverence and tolerance towards people of different faiths. In recognition of this, young Christians distributed snacks to Muslims breaking their fasts one evening during Ramadan
People break their fast in a meal known as Iftar every evening during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. As Mike O’Sullivan reports, one organisation in Los Angeles is using a virtual Iftar to bridge the divide between Muslims and Jews during the COVID-19 pandemic
Since 2004, Thailand’s southernmost provinces, which border Malaysia, have been the epicentre of an insurgency. Over 7,000 people have been killed in the fighting between shadowy Malay-Muslim rebels and Thai security forces
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained an ethnic Uyghur couple of longstanding Turkish citizenship, according to their daughter, who said Beijing will not release them because they have witnessed human rights abuses in the region
The globalization era has changed the narrative of defense intelligence, with the emergence of a highly interconnected global economy, reshaping international alliances and the incorporation of new technologies. This interconnectivity offers new opportunities, and has also led to new security challenges, such as; regional instability, resulting from jihadist tendencies, migration, and resource capture, which requires new ‘grand strategy’