By JOHN HAYWARD Police used a water cannon against protesters in Myanmarâs capital of Naypyidaw on Sunday as protests against last weekâs coup continued to…
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U.S. Set to Reverse Trump Move and Rejoin China, Russia at U.N. Human Rights Council
By SIMON KENT Self-anointed guardians of human freedom China, Russia, Cuba, Eritrea, and Venezuela may soon have the company of the U.S. at the U.N.…
By JOHN HAYWARD Activists supportive of Prime Minister Narendra Modiâs government in India burned teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg in effigy on Thursday, while Indian…
Top Russian Doctor Who Treated Alexei Navalny After Poisoning Dies
By GABRIELLE REYES A top doctor at the hospital in Omsk, Russia, that treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny immediately after his poisoning last summer has…
China Demands W.H.O. Seek Coronavirus Origin in U.S.
By FRANCES MARTEL A growing chorus of Communist Party-approved Chinese scientists are demanding the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) send a team of investigators to find…
United Nations: 20,000 Refugees Missing in Ethiopiaâs Tigray
By GABRIELLE REYES An estimated 20,000 refugees are missing from Ethiopiaâs northern Tigray region after two displaced personsâ camps in the war-torn area were destroyed in recent…
By JOHN HAYWARD The Twitter social media platform flagged a Sunday tweet about âLGBT deviantsâ from Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu as âhateful,â but did…
By JOHN HAYWARD Senior Chinese foreign policy official Yang Jiechi, one of the top aides to dictator Xi Jinping, on Monday instructed President Joe Biden…
Russia Arrests Relatives, Allies of Dissident Navalny for âCoronavirus Violationsâ at Protests
By GABRIELLE REYES Russian authorities have detained various family members and allies of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on charges of violating coronavirus restrictions through their…
Russiaâs Population Drops to 15-Year Low
By FRANCES MARTEL Russiaâs population dropped by over half a million people between January 2020 and January 2021, the countryâs Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) revealed on Thursday.…