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New York: UN agencies have offered support to Greek authorities on Wednesday after a major fire ripped through an overcrowded refugee camp overnight, destroying dwellings and forcing thousands to flee, many reportedly suffering from smoke inhalation. more
Uyghur Genocide: Activists slam Disney for filming Mulan in Xinjiang

Washington: Activists and netizens have been outraged after Disney shot several portions of the action movie Mulan in parts of China where it is believed that authorities have placed coun ...

Control on Turkic minority: Uyghur doctor reveals she was forced to perform operations on women in China

Beijing: A Uyghur doctor, who is currently in exile, has revealed that he was forced to perform operations on women in China as part of the country’s attempts to control its ethnic ...

Overturned verdict on Khashoggi murder a ‘parody of justice’ – independent UN rights expert

New York: An independent UN human rights investigator called the overturned verdict of Saudi Arabia’s prosecutor in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey a "p ...

Inaction has been fatal, says UNHCR, as dozens of Rohingya refugees perish at sea

New York: Dozens of Rohingya refugees are believed to have died in the Andaman sea after spending more than 200 days afloat, owing to a “collective unwillingness” of countries ...

Blasphemy charges: Pakistani court sentences Christian man to death

Lahore: A Court in Pakistan's Lahore city on Tuesday  sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed "blasphemy", media reports said.

Diplomatic Standoff: Two Australian journalists flown out of China

Beijing: Ending a five-day diplomatic stand-off, two journalists, who were working in China for Australia media, have flown home, media reports said.

China crushing every trace of Islamic identity to robotically reprogram them as Han Chinese, says scholar

Beijing: A noted scholar has claimed that  China’s  communist regime embezzles the COVID-19 crisis to muzzle the voice of dissents in  Xinjiang and Tibet.

End secret detention of rights defender, independent experts urge Pakistani authorities

New York: Independent UN rights experts have called on the Government of Pakistan to end the secret detention of a human rights defender, who has not been heard from in more than nine mon ...

UN agency for Palestinian refugees launches $95 million appeal to keep COVID at bay

New York: The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a health and socio-economic emergency across the occupied Palestinian territory, the UN agency for the region warned on Friday, noting a swell ...