Media Coverage

Myanmar’s military government hosted its first high-level regional meeting since the army took power last year, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and counterparts from Mekong Delta nations attending. State broadcaster MRTV reported that Wang met with his colleagues from Myanmar, Laos, Thailand...

France has repatriated 35 French children and 16 mothers from camps in the northeast of Syria that hold family members of suspected ISIL (ISIS) armed group fighters. The foreign affairs ministry said in a statement that the minors were handed over to child protection services while the mothers would...

The Justice Department has settled a decades-old lawsuit filed by a group of men who were rounded up by the government in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks and held in a federal jail in New York in conditions the department’s own watchdog called abusive and harsh. The settlement...

West African leaders lifted sanctions on Mali's military regime, accepting a March 2024 return to civilian rule and agreed to allow Burkina Faso two years for its transition back to democracy. Heads of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in Ghana's capital Accra to assess...

Sudan’s coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the army would make way for a civilian government, a demand made for months by street protesters and repeatedly called for by the international community. Burhan said the military would no longer participate in national talks facilitated by the UN and...

The United Nations said Friday that its findings showed that the shot that killed Al Jazeera TV journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 was fired by Israeli forces. The Palestinian-American journalist, who was wearing a vest marked "Press" and a helmet, was killed on May 11 while covering an Israeli...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for three men wanted on suspicion of committing war crimes during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, it announced on Thursday. The Hague-based court opened an investigation in 2016 into the conflict, which killed hundreds and left thousands...

Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, was sworn in as Philippine president Thursday in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history, but which opponents say was pulled off by whitewashing his family’s image. His rise to power, 36 years after an army-backed...

A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. A warrant for the...

Four people were reported killed as huge crowds took to the streets of Sudan amid a communications blackout and tight security to rally against the country’s military leadership that seized power eight months ago. The Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said in a tweet that the four were fatally shot...