On 7 June, a court in the Netherlands began hearing evidence against the four fugitive suspects in connection with the MH17 Malyasian airline crash. The four suspects – Russian nationals Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov, and Igor Girkin, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko – are suspected of being key pro-Russian separatists
On 24 May, the United States sent files to Mexico’s government in relation to the investigation of the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping, and massacre of 43 students training to be teachers. Trainees from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were kidnapped by police suspected of corruption and working with a drug
Thousands of residents of a hilltown in Northwest Myanmar fled to jungles, villages, and valleys on Monday, May 17, seeking refuge from state troop attacks on local militias. 5,000 to 8,000 people have been displaced with short reserves of food and water. The latest call for restraint comes from the
On 19th April, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report claiming that the Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Northwest Region of Xinjiang. The crimes involve systematic policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offenses, that the Chinese
Twenty-five Chinese air force aircrafts entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday, April 12th, marking the largest Chinese incursion on Taiwan to date. The latest Chinese mission involved 14 J-16 and four J-10 fighters, as well as four H-6K bombers, which can carry nuclear weapons, two anti-submarine aircraft
Palma, the town in Northern Mozambique that was attacked by Islamic-linked insurgents late last month, is now secure, U.S. News says. The coastal town south of the Tanzanian border was reportedly overrun by military extremists on March 24th, but on April 9th, Mozambique’s military reported that it had regained control.
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has officially requested a four-party mediation from the United Nations, African Union, European Union, and the United States to facilitate the regional dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Since the start of the dam’s construction in 2011, the three countries, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt
A revolutionary study released on Monday by the Norwegian nonprofit, Rainforest Foundation Norway, reported that two-thirds of Earth’s tropical rainforests have been destroyed or degraded. As one of the world’s leading organizations in the field of rights-based rainforest protection, the foundation successfully completed the world’s first complete historical and current
