Teachers across China are being reported and punished for offering paid catch-up sessions to students amid an ongoing crackdown on the tutoring industry by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi Jinping
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA], Martin Griffiths, is sworn in by Secretary-General António Guterres
Consumers around the globe face higher prices for a wide variety of everyday purchases, as supply chain problems bedevil markets for all manner of goods, and energy prices spike to highs not seen in years
Anna Politkovskaya, a relentless investigative reporter who uncovered the brutality of Russia’s war in Chechnya and showed how President Vladimir Putin was curbing democracy in Russia, was assassinated 15 years ago. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who was one of the subjects of her human rights reporting, is still in power, and claims of his complicity in murder and torture have persisted
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are adjusting our health-care habits. Virtual medical appointments have been shown to be successful in the United States and internationally, helping patients manage their care and keeping them out of hospitals, according to research
Turkey has been one of the most hospitable countries to Uyghurs, with whom Turks share ethnic, religious, and linguistic connections. Turkey’s government has offered Uyghurs a safe place to live outside northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. About 50,000 Uyghurs are believed to live in Turkey — the largest Uyghur diaspora outside Central Asia
California is gearing up to welcome 5,000 Afghan refugees, and the state is getting ready
United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is chaired by Martin Kimani, Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of October. The Council hears the Secretary-report General’s on UN Organization Stabilization
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko wants to deepen his ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to ease his government’s international isolation, which has resulted from a harsh crackdown on political opponents
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is investigating the second senior law enforcement figure for “serious violations of discipline” to make headlines in a week