Media Coverage

The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has struck a limited immunity deal with former Davao City cop Arturo Lascanas in the investigation into the Philippine drug war and killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's home city. The OTP said it would not use as evidence against...

A 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, Frozan Safi, has been shot and killed in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be the first known death of a women's rights defender since the Taliban swept to power almost three months ago. The death underscores the pervasive sense of fear in...

The prison hospital treating Georgia's hunger-striking former president Mikheil Saakashbili lacks proper medical equipment and fellow inmates there have threatened and abused him, according to a Georgian human rights official. Public Defender Nino Lomjaria, Georgia's rights ombudsman said,...

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has signed off on legislation which will enable the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, to wind down and finalize its mission within the next three years. The tribunal was charged with prosecuting those...

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when Islamic State gunmen attacked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, in central Kabul following two heavy explosions. The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban completed their...

A senior United Nations official has warned that millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from the brink of collapse. The World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley told Reuters news agency that 22.8 million...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte took full responsibility for the bloody war on drugs that has killed thousands of people, but maintained he will never be tried by an international court and would only face a Philippine court and a Philippine judge. The Philippines has come under pressure from...

A United States judge has ruled the United States has no legal basis for holding an Afghan man, Asadullah Haroon Gul, at the notorious US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2007, setting the stage for his potential release. Gul was held for 14 years at Guantanamo without charge and denied...

Pastor Alex Cho’s collection of Holocaust artifacts are housed inside the Taiwan Holocaust Peace Memorial, what Cho calls the “smallest Holocaust museum in the world.” As Taiwan reckons with its own past, Cho is also hoping to teach Taiwanese people, and particularly Christians, about the Holocaust...

The European Union pledged a one-billion-euro aid package for Afghanistan, “to avert a major humanitarian and socioeconomic collapse,” at a virtual G20 summit hosted by Italy. President of the European Commission Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen has said EU countries have a “moral duty” to help Afghans...