After the US and Russia last week agreed a prisoner swap exchanging WNBA star Brittney Griner for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, officials in Washington are still reacting.
A radio station in the province of Khost has stepped in to broadcast literary programming as girls are not allowed to attend school across Afghanistan
This month, the Taliban’s acting minister of higher education in Afghanistan announced some changes to the country’s education system. Former educators are opposing the revisions, claiming that they are damaging Afghanistan’s educational legacy.
Millions of Syrian refugees are staying in Turkey. However, there are several reports of physical and verbal attacks, and political rhetoric is turning against them amid rampant inflation and an economic crisis.
Bangladesh has arrested two senior opposition party leaders ahead of a huge anti-government rally in the nation’s capital Saturday and after political violence that drew a rare high-profile statement from the White House.
Some 55 Uyghur organizations have called on world leaders to recognize Dec. 9 as Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, marking the day a year ago that an independent U.K.-based Uyghur Tribunal announced its findings that China committed genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in its western Xinjiang region
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’apala, speaks before United Nations Security Council about the situation in his country
Prosthetics are made by Ukrainian-American Yakov Gradinar. So, when the war began, he was ready to help. He has helped dozens of dozens of people wounded in the war
Two dozen Rohingya departed for the United States on Thursday where they will be allowed to live, officials with Bangladesh’s foreign ministry and repatriation office announced,
The Nov. 24 fire in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi sparked public rage throughout the country, as people blamed local COVID lockdown restrictions for impeding the rescue and escape of people caught in the blaze. Chinese government officials at the local and national level denied any connection between the deaths in the fire and pandemic prevention measures.