Two teenagers found beheaded last week were two of the most gruesome victims of an escalating number of violent incidents that the United Nations’ special rapporteur says are “consistent with patterns of brutality” among forces affiliated with the military junta.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is up for reelection despite growing anger with his government’s handling of the recent massive earthquakes that hit Turkey.
A medical helicopter carrying five people that went missing is feared crashed in waters off Palawan island in the western Philippines, coast guard officials said Thursday.
Addressing at the Conference on Disarmament 2023 in Geneva is Yevheniia Filipenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Office in Geneva on
Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, is only 30 kilometres from the Russian border. The city suffered major damage but never fell while it was under siege by Russian forces for more than six months. Meanwhile, Russians are again gathering soldiers across the brder. The city is experiencing an increase in ballistic missile attacks, and Kharkiv is reinforcing its defences.
The supply of essential goods in Indonesia’s restive Papua region has been disrupted in recent weeks as a regional airline halted nearly 70% of its flights after one of its pilots was taken hostage by separatist rebels last month.
When Chinese authorities began the “strike hard” campaign in Xinjiang in 2014, they imposed severe penalties on Uyghurs, arrested them arbitrarily, and began a propaganda drive against the group’s ethnic customs and religious faith under the guise of promoting modernity.
With solar-powered, portable cinema, a South African organisation is providing youth in impoverished African nations with access to films.
The country’s economy is beginning to feel the effects of a year of international sanctions against Russia and the beginning of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, though the impact has not been as fast and effective as Western powers had hoped.
Former Sen. Leila de Lima has appeared in a Manila court again to press her petition to dismiss the government’s case against her for lack of evidence, days after marking six years in jail on what she calls trumped-up charges