Monsoon floods and landslides threaten 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
The Rohingya refugees who live in shacks clinging to these steep, denuded hills in southern Bangladesh pray that the sandbags…
Category: WORLD
Indefinite rule for China’s Xi snuffs out activists’ reform hopes
During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first years in office, rights activists tried to remain buoyant despite shrinking opportunities to organize.…
Sri Lankan man ‘mutilated & scalped’ in Paris restaurant by assailants armed with machete and saber
A 35-year-old man of Sri Lankan origin has suffered horrific injuries to his head and arm after two assailants, armed…
Russia MP: ‘I don’t feel people up. Well, OK, just a little’
A BBC journalist has alleged that she was sexually harassed by the senior Russian politician Leonid Slutsky. BBC Russian Service’s…
Oldest message in a bottle found on Western Australia beach
A Perth family has found the world’s oldest known message in a bottle, almost 132 years after it was thrown…
Australia and East Timor sign historic maritime border deal
Australia and East Timor have signed a historic treaty on a permanent maritime border in the Timor Sea. The deal…
North Korea used VX nerve agent to kill leader’s brother, says US
The half-brother of Kim Jong-un was killed by a chemical attack in Malaysia on the orders of the North Korean…
#MeToo in South Korea: Governor resigns after rape allegations
A South Korean politician once tipped as a presidential contender has resigned after his secretary publicly accused him of repeatedly…
Rohingya crisis: UN envoy says refugees facing ‘forced starvation’
Myanmar has not stopped its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Rakhine state, a United Nations human rights official…
Afrin offensive: Eight Turkish soldiers killed in Syria clashes
Eight Turkish soldiers have been killed in fighting in the north Syrian region of Afrin, the military says. Another 13…
