Malaysian police have detained two Rohingya they suspect of having instigated a riot and mass breakout at a detention center that led to six escapees being fatally struck by vehicles on a highway in the middle of the night, authorities in northern Kedah state said Friday
A Uyghur academic who studied in Germany has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, according to a security officer at a university where the man worked
Abdulla Shahid, President of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-sixth session, speaks during an Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature to Commemorate International Mother Earth Day: Contributions of Ecological Economics and Earth-centered Law in “Harmony with Nature”
Thousands of people queued outside Kyiv’s main post office to purchase a stamp honoring defiant Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island. They refused to surrender to the Russian battleship Moskva, which sank in February
Explosions, death, displacement, and fear are all part of the story. The Russian invasion of Ukraine will have long-term ramifications for Ukrainians, particularly for the numerous children who have been displaced from their families as a result of the conflict
A court in Thailand’s Islamic-majority Deep South ruled Thursday that Muslim girls can wear hijabs at a Buddhist school housed within a temple where the principal had banned the religious headgear as part of the campus dress code
Mysterious fences have begun appearing overnight blocking city thoroughfares in Shanghai amid a grueling COVID-19 lockdown affecting some 26 million people, residents told RFA
Tom Birkhoff was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and was adopted by a family in the United States more than 15 years ago. But, now that his homeland has been invaded by Russia, he has launched a fundraising campaign to aid Ukraine. Birkhoff sends essential supplies and obtains funds, which he then distributes to a childhood friend
Hundreds of Rohingya detained for two years in northern Malaysia escaped Wednesday following a pre-dawn riot, but six were killed by vehicles as they tried to cross a highway, in a tragic turn of events highlighting conditions at the country’s secretive immigrant detention centers
Police in the central Chinese province of Hunan have ordered local residents to hand over their passports to police, promising to return them “when the pandemic is over,” amid a massive surge in people looking for ways to leave China or obtain overseas immigration status