Political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, right, arrives at the Grand Hotel Wien where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Foreign ministry officials from the countries still in the accord, the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, are meeting in Vienna

Total of 2,728 people currently under detention, 38 of them sentenced, says Assistance Association for Political Prisoners At least 570 people in Myanmar have been killed since the country’s military seized control on Feb. 1, a Myanmar-based civil rights group said. As of April 5, 570 people were confirmed killed by the military junta, a

File Photo/Somali Times The Somali government has closed the case against former Jubaland security minister Abdirashid Janan, who recently reached a deal with the government. The attorney general’s office that issued the decision to close Janan’s case is based on the public interest in justice. The Benadir Regional Court, where Janan’s case and arrest warrant

Abdulrahman al-Sadhan and his sister Areej al-Sadhan, prior to his detention (Courtesy of Areej al-Sadhan) Abdulrahman al-Sadhan’s arrest was reportedly linked to an anonymous Twitter account that voiced concerns over human rights in the kingdom A Saudi terrorism court sentenced a local aid worker to 20 years in prison, weeks after his family reported that

File – In this November 2019, file photo, renowned Japanese scriptwriter Sugako Hashida speaks during an interview in Atami, west of Tokyo. Hashida, best known for the internationally popular TV drama series “Oshin,” has died of lymphoma. She was 95. Hashida had been treated for the illness since earlier 2021. She died Sunday, April 4,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a hearing evidence stage for his trial over alleged corruption crimes, at the Jerusalem district court, in Salah El-Din, East Jerusalem, Monday, April 5, 2021. Netanyahu was back in court for his corruption trial on Monday as the country’s political parties were set to weigh in on whether he

The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) called for a fresh start in talks over the Nile dam, which has been the subject of a dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan for the past years. Felix Tshisekedi, who is also the current African Union chair, was speaking at the opening of a

By Riyaz Ul Khaliq Beijing-based think tank warns of 3 major obstacles to Sino-US military relations in South China Sea South China Sea has witnessed a “sharp increase” in the frequency, intensity, and pertinence of US military’s close-in reconnaissance on China since 2009, said a Beijing-based think tank on Thursday. The US military’s frequent close-in

A burned tank stands near the town of Adwa, Tigray region, Ethiopia, on March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner Eritrean forces have started withdrawing from Ethiopia’s Tigray region in the north, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said. The United States, Germany, France and other G7 countries called on Friday for a swift, unconditional and verifiable withdrawal of

File – In this Oct. 15, 2013 file photo, Chuck Goolsbee, site director for Facebook’s Prineville data centers, shows the computer servers that store users’ photos and other data at the Facebook site in Prineville Ore. Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. The information