A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced former first lady Rosmah Mansor to 10 years in prison for bribery during the administration of her husband, Najib Razak, the former prime minister who was put behind bars last week for corruption
Chinese authorities sentenced two Tibetan monks to at least three years in prison for possessing photos of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s foremost Buddhist spiritual leader who has been living in exile since 1959, RFA has learned
A View of the Niger delegation at the third United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS)
On this edition of Straight Talk Africa,guest host Vincent Makori will discuss the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world is still going on. Last week, fighting broke out once again between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and Ethiopian government forces. Salem Solomon, the Real Time News Desk’s lead editor, and Joseph Siegle, the center’s research director, are among the guests
Victor Mambor and Pizaro Gozali Idrus/Jayapura, Indonesia, and Jakarta Indonesia’s president said Wednesday that police must thoroughly investigate six soldiers who were arrested as suspects in the grisly killing of four civilians in Papua last week, but residents of the troubled region cast doubt that justice would be served. During a working visit to Papua, …
Taiwanese author Lung Yingtai has responded to the banning of her books in Chinese schools, saying she is honored to have been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s ever-widening program of censorship
The United Nations Security Council meeting on peace and security in Africa is chaired over by Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China and President of the Security Council for the month of August
Yellowstone National Park is celebrating its 150th anniversary by highlighting the stories of the native tribes that were evicted from the park at its founding in the Western U.S. states of Montana and Wyoming
Despite six months of fighting, Ukrainians abroad remained united.Local Ukrainian communities helped in organizing this year’s independent celebrations in Denver to support Ukrainians back home
JeAt 36, Supriyadi has twice been in prison for terror-related activities in Poso, a regency in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province once torn by Muslim-Christian violence