Media Coverage

A United Nations human rights working group on July 1 called for the immediate release of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying he had been detained “arbitrarily in violation of international laws.” Khan has been facing multiple prison sentences since 2022 when he was ousted...

New fighting has broken out in northeastern Myanmar, bringing an end to a Chinese-brokered cease-fire and putting pressure on the military regime as it faces attacks from resistance forces on multiple fronts in the country’s civil war. The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), one of three...

Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain and the Maldives are allowed to intervene in Gambia's Myanmar genocide case with the International Court of Justice, the ICJ said in a statement on July 3. The countries had asked to intervene in the case at the ICJ, also known as the World...

A barrage of Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities on July 8, killing at least 36 people and injuring more than 149, and destroying a large children’s hospital in Kyiv, the state emergency service said. At least 22 people, including two children, were killed in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and another...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on July 3 that the turnout in the first round of the country's presidential election was "lower than expected", semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Turnout was about 40%, Iran's interior ministry said - the lowest on record since the 1979 revolution....

The son of detained Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has urged foreign judges to carefully consider whether they should continue to serve in judicial roles “in this place that imprisons pro-democracy protesters”. Speaking during a visit to Australia, Sebastien Lai said Hong Kong “has more than 1,800...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 2 to consider a ceasefire to accelerate an end to the war with Russia, but Kyiv said it saw its own approach as the path to peace. Orban, who is an outspoken critic of Western military aid to Ukraine and has...

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group have advanced eastwards toward the key administrative and humanitarian hub of Port Sudan, claiming to have taken the key town of Sinja, the capital of Sennar State. Over 60,000 people have fled Sinja Town, south of Sudan's capital Khartoum, to...

Activists behind Kenya's anti-government protests are rethinking their strategy after demonstrations on July 2 were marred by violence and looting that they fear could undermine the movement and its efforts to push President William Ruto to resign. The activists say the violence was the work of...

International envoys raised concerns about restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan during meetings with the country's ruling Taliban in Qatar, United Nations' political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo said on July 1. The two-day, UN-led meeting was the first of its kind attended by the Taliban...