The Philippines’ leading human rights alliance lashed out at the government Tuesday for designating four leftist activists as terrorists and said the move was nothing but a “virtual hit list.”
Although Aleksandr Statiev was born in Turkmenistan, he chose to live in Ukraine. He has a business and has appeared in films, but after Russia invaded Ukraine, he went home to serve as a medic for the wounded.
Animals that have been transferred from Ukrainian zoos to Poland’s Poznan Zoo include lions, tigers, bears, and other animals as those seeking refuge from Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine. On their way to new homes in Western Europe and the United States, that is their first stop.
Since the start of Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has been using drones for attack and reconnaissance. To save civilians or perhaps capture the enemy, combat drone operators have been known to use them.
At least 10 people were killed, and 42 others were injured when Russia launched a missile attack on an apartment building in Lviv early on Thursday. Rescuers still searching for survivors among the rubble.
At least five members of rival Rohingya militant groups were killed in a gunfight Friday at a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, police and other sources said.
Seven Burmese garment workers and union activists will face trial on incitement charges in a military court for advocating for a pay raise at a factory that supplied Inditex, the owner of the Spanish retailer Zara, a labor activist said Friday
A month after the Kakhovka dam disaster in Ukraine, the upstream reservoir that has provided the region with water, power, and food since the 1950s has turned into a heap of dried-up fish carcasses and puddles next to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Periodically prostrating himself, a Tibetan Buddhist monk pulling a cart with food and bedding has completed a pilgrimage of more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) over eight months to Dharamsala, India.
The Minnesota-based company Epimona, which was founded by a former refugee, turns material from life jackets worn by refugees into accessories and other clothing items.