The world rang in the new year on Wednesday with spectacular firework displays from Sydney to Tokyo, though celebrations in Australia were overshadowed by deadly wildfires and the festive mood in Hong Kong and India was dampened by protests.
Thousands of protesters briefly blocked one of Hong Kong’s main roads on New Year’s Eve after forming human chains across the city and marching through shopping malls, urging people not to give up the fight for democracy in 2020.
A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor on Tuesday indicted a Bosnian Serb former army general for taking part in the 1995 massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, an atrocity described as genocide by two international courts.
Protesters and militia fighters enraged by U.S. air strikes on Iraq staged a violent demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, torching a security post and hurling stones as security forces and embassy guards hit back with stun grenades and tear gas.
Hong Kong’s protest movement is supported by 59% of city residents polled in a survey conducted for Reuters by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, with more than a third of respondents saying they had attended an anti-government demonstration.
نیروهای شبه نظامی وابسته به رژیم ایران امروز سهشنبه ۳۱ دسامبر (۱۰ دی) به ساختمان سفارت آمریکا در بغداد حمله کردهاند. مهاجمان قصد اشغال و آتش زدن سفارت را دارند. به دنبال حملات تلافی جویانه آمریکا به مواضع نیروهای شبه نظامی وابسته به رژیم ایران در عراق، صدها تن از اعضای حشد الشعبی و کتائب […]
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the potential for arms control in a phone call on Sunday, the White House said.
Bolivia’s interim government on Monday asked the Mexican ambassador and several Spanish officials to leave the country, raising the tension over Mexico’s decision to grant asylum in its La Paz embassy to nine people including some allies of Bolivia’s former socialist president, Evo Morales.
A top Iraqi militia leader warned of a strong response against U.S. forces in Iraq following air strikes in Iraq and Syria overnight that hit several bases of his Iranian-backed group and killed at least 25 people.