Thousands of Rohingya refugees live in temporary camps in India’s northwestern Jammu and Kashmir region, where they fear deportation back to Myanmar
More and more North Korean youth are dodging mandatory military service, because ruling party membership and all its perks are no longer as automatic for those who finish lengthy stints in the armed forces, sources in the country told RFA
People over 60 in the city of Karachi received COVID-19 jabs on March 10 as part of the second phase of Pakistan’s vaccination campaign..Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated their loss at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan Valley on March 9
Tunisian police are arresting social media activists for criticizing the government online and calling for protests, according to rights groups
Beginning Wednesday, February 24th—and until March 9—only businesses with less than twenty employees may apply for a loan. This gives banks and lenders time to work with small businesses, which tend to get overlooked. The changes also allow sole proprietors to receive aid
Most Palestinians remain without access to the COVID vaccine, but Israel is vaccinating Palestinian laborers who work in Israel and the Jewish settlements in the West Bank
As protests and violent suppression by troops grind on in Myanmar, coup opponents are stepping up a campaign to make China rethink its support for the military junta, including a boycott of imports from their giant neighbor and threats against a major Chinese energy pipeline and port
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on ten years of ongoing conflict in Syria
With the Kremlin cutting deals to ship its Sputnik V vaccine to countries struggling to combat the coronavirus, Russian soft power is on display. Yet the global outreach campaign is happening amid signs the government is struggling to inoculate its own population at home
Ten million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the decade, threatening years of progress in reducing the practice, according to a new analysis released by UNICEF