The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk (Tuerk) talks to the media during a new press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 09 December 2022. Photo: EPA
10 December 2022
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk expressed shock this week that more than 130 people...
A flag next to the Canadian Parliament Building is flown at half staff one day after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of the Canadian Army Reserves was killed while standing guard in front of the National War Memorial by a lone gunman, on October 23, 2014 in Ottawa, Canada. Photo: AFP
10 December 2022
Canada announced Friday sanctions against 67 individuals and nine entities in several...
Photo: Karenni Nationalities Defence Force(KNDF)
10 December 2022
The National Unity Government (NUG) in exile and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) have...
10 December 2022
The Shwe Nyaung Township People Defense Force (PDF) injured two policemen in a grenade...
10 December 2022
Defence forces detonated a remote-controlled mine and threw a grenade at Mingaladon Myoma...
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09 December 2022
Global economic leaders hail China's move away from its hardline zero-Covid policy, with...
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09 December 2022
China says it is "firmly opposed" to the US House of Representatives passing a defense...
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09 December 2022
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva praises...
(File) LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) and woman's rights activists hold a banner during a protest against the draft of the country’s new criminal code (RKUHP) outside the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia, 12 February 2018. Photo: EPA
09 December 2022
Indonesia's legislation banning sex outside marriage represents a major new threat to the...
09 December 2022
The two top leaders of Bangladesh's main opposition party were taken from their homes by...
This handout from the Royal Thai Navy taken on June 4, 2022 and released on June 5 shows members of the Thai Navy and park officials offering food to Rohingya found stranded on the Thai island of Koh Dong. Just under 60 people including five children have been discovered on a southern Thai island, a senior police officer said on June 5, after they said they were abandoned by traffickers en route to Malaysia. Photo: Royal Thai Navy / AFP
09 December 2022
More than 150 Rohingya people have been rescued from a waterlogged boat near the Thai...
Image of Thai-Myanmar border where, according to army officials, Thai soldiers have killed 15 suspected drug smugglers as they attempted to cross into northern Thailand.
09 December 2022
Thai soldiers have killed 15 suspected drug smugglers as they attempted to cross into...

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