Afghan Refugee Assistance: Over 80,000 persons, including US citizens and Afghan refugees, have been evacuated from Afghanistan in the last two weeks. Fatima Popal started collecting donations in her Washington, D.C. restaurant to help newcomers from Afghanistan settle in
During the outbreak, Brian Taylor, a Sierra Leonean immigrant renowned as the Harlem Groomer in New York City, lost 80% of his non-essential business. But he discovered a creative way to continue doing his work, inspiring a national movement in the process.
This week, nearly all of New York City’s 300,000 employees were required to return to work after the city ended remote employment. However, not everyone is happy with how the return was handled
The global gaming industry is waiting to see what China’s new laws for minors playing online games will bring.
A group of 117 Afghans has left for the United Kingdom after being evacuated to Kosovo recently. On September 16, the evacuees, identified as civilians who cooperated with NATO forces in Afghanistan and their families, flew out of Pristina International Airport.In Belgrade, a celebration commemorating Serbian National Unity Day was held in front of a monument honouring Serbian king Stefan Nemanja from the 12th century
Recent wildfires and the coronavirus outbreak in Turkey have taken a toll on the tourism business. Several places, on the other hand, have begun to re-attract local and international visitors
A Chinese woman who threw eggs at vice president Wang Qishan’s motorcade during his 2019 trip to Germany is facing forcible repatriation after her application for political asylum was rejected, RFA has learned
The United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan is chaired by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for September on
Guantánamo Bay Naval Base military prison opened on January 11, 2002, to detain suspected terrorists caught in the US-led global “War on Terror.” The naval installation, which is located in Cuba, was chosen as the location for the military prison
On the first anniversary of Belarus’ unprecedented crackdown on the Human Rights Center Viasna (“Viasna”), 20 international and Belarusian human rights organisations including Amnesty International are launching a campaign to demand the release of seven detained Viasna members and raise awareness of the plight of hundreds of others who have been prosecuted and imprisoned solely for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression