WASHINGTON-Sharadiya Durga Puja, the largest Hindu festival in Bangladesh, started Wednesday under a cloud of concern following recent...

President Lai Ching-te took office in May, continuing the eight-year rule of the Democratic Progressive Party that rejects Beijing's...

Bannon, a self-declared general of global populists, wants to break the world order. And he’s tapped into something much bigger than Trumpism. [Edward Kinsella III] There are times when Washington still feels like what it used to be—a sleepy little Southern city. Generations of some of the most powerful people on earth have spent their days in DC griping that the city is a backwater. But Washington’s modest position in our constellation of great cities was always part of its

The military and the mobs it supports are targeting local and global NGOs and their workers in Buthidaung town in Rakhine State. Kyaw Muang (second from right) with his colleagues at the UNHCR jetty at Buthiduang in Myanmar's Rakhine State. (Photo via Special Arrangement) At least 10 people were reportedly murdered or went missing at Buthidaung town in Myanmar’s Rakhine State during the violence when the Arakan Army (AA) liberated it from junta control. Suffering the same fat

A rare in-person visit sheds light on the chaotic events that took place before and after the Arakan Army’s capture of the town in May. The wreckage of buildings in Buthidaung Town in Myanmar's Rakhine State [Rajeev Bhattacharyya] The Arakan Army’s campaign against the State Administration Council (SAC) of the Myanmar military has triggered allegations of human rights abuses against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State. The accusation against the rebel army gained traction

October 7 saw so many aspects of the Israeli state and society — its uncompromising reliance on military force, its dehumanization of...

Pro-Palestinian demonstration near the Prime Minister's office in London, England. 9 May 2021 [Bariş Çimen | Voice of America] Israel’s latest bombardment of Gaza—a fifth since its false disengagement in 2006—has once again exposed the catastrophic failures of international law in protecting the world’s most vulnerable from militarism and settler-colonialism. While purportedly targeting resistance, a dubious goal in its own right, Israel has intentionally and systematically

Israel rejects criticism, saying claim that IDF had threatened Unifil forces was ‘unfounded and inflammatory’ President Michael D Higgins...

The speakers are poised to determine the future of transgender care in the United Kingdom, which has increasingly come under attack. [Ted Eytan | Creative Commons] On Wednesday, the  full agenda  for a conference in Athens, organized by the Society for Evidence in Gender Medicine (SEGM)—a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)-designated anti-LGBTQ+ hate group —was made public. The group has faced criticism for advocating against conversion therapy bans for transgender people and

Up to 600 people were shot dead in a matter of hours by al Qaeda-linked militants in an August attack on a town in Burkina Faso , according to a French government security assessment that nearly doubles the death toll cited in earlier reports. The new figure would make the assault, in which civilians were shot dead as they dug trenches to defend the remote town of Barsalogho, one of the deadliest single attacks in Africa in recent decades. Militants from Jama’at Nusrat al-Isl