‘Still waiting’: Myanmar’s Kayah looks for justice over military killings | Conflict News

‘Still waiting’: Myanmar’s Kayah looks for justice over military killings | Conflict News

Kayah State, Myanmar – On December 28, in his clinic in Myanmar’s eastern Kayah State, Dr Oak wrapped up a routine check on a pregnant woman and removed some non-threatening shrapnel from the leg of a resistance fighter. Exactly two years earlier, he was living a nightmare, examining the charred…

US to send top diplomats to Middle East as regional tensions spread | Israel War on Gaza News

US to send top diplomats to Middle East as regional tensions spread | Israel War on Gaza News

US Secretary of State Blinken due to visit as Israel’s war on Gaza widens to Lebanon and threatens to engulf region. The United States is to engage in a renewed diplomatic push to calm tensions in the Middle East as the region teeters on the brink of a regional conflagration…

Myanmar military government pardons more than 9,000 prisoners | Prison News

Myanmar military government pardons more than 9,000 prisoners | Prison News

Annual amnesty marking Independence Day takes place during crisis in the north that poses threat to military rulers. Myanmar’s military government has pardoned more than 9,000 prisoners, including 114 foreign nationals, to mark the country’s Independence Day. Friends and families of prisoners gathered outside the high-security Insein Prison in the…

China targets friendly media, diplomats to ‘tell story of Xinjiang’ | Uighur News

China targets friendly media, diplomats to ‘tell story of Xinjiang’ | Uighur News

Albanian-Canadian historian and journalist Olsi Jazexhi believed in early 2019 that reports about human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) of Western China were lies. Accounts from people who had fled the area as well as reports from human rights organisations were painting a picture of human…

Peace and potato chips: Dreams big and small as 2024 approaches in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Peace and potato chips: Dreams big and small as 2024 approaches in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – It is bitterly cold, and people are trying to build adequate shelter to protect themselves in a new refugee camp set up in Deir el-Balah to cope with the overwhelming numbers of people fleeing in search of safety. In the camp, which is close to…

Israel says Gaza war is like WWII. Experts say it’s ‘justifying brutality’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel says Gaza war is like WWII. Experts say it’s ‘justifying brutality’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel’s campaign of relentless bombardment against the Gaza Strip had been raging for three weeks when the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked to address the heavy civilian death toll in the Palestinian enclave. Netanyahu, who had earlier evoked the 9/11 attacks on New York’s Twin Towers and the…

What’s the latest UN Gaza resolution that the US has agreed to? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

What’s the latest UN Gaza resolution that the US has agreed to? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

After a week of diplomatic back and forth, the United States has signalled that it is ready to support a United Nations Security Council resolution. Here is what we know about the draft resolution. Why did the US want the draft resolution watered down? The original draft was put forth…

Will the US again veto the UNSC resolution on Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Will the US again veto the UNSC resolution on Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

A United Nations Security Council (UNSC) vote to call for the suspension of hostilities in Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid there has been postponed for a third day in a row. The delays come as the UN chief has sounded an alarm about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the besieged…

John Mearsheimer: Israel is choosing ‘apartheid’ or ‘ethnic cleansing’ | Israel-Palestine conflict

John Mearsheimer: Israel is choosing ‘apartheid’ or ‘ethnic cleansing’ | Israel-Palestine conflict

US political scientist John Mearsheimer on Israel’s ‘punishment campaign’ against the civilian population in Palestine. Israel has gone far beyond “going after Hamas” in the first 10 weeks of its war on Gaza, according to one of the United States’ leading political scientists, John Mearsheimer. He tells host Steve Clemons…