Pig heads, BBQs: Mosque backlash tests S Korea religious freedom | Islamophobia News
Daegu, South Korea – When Muaz Razaq left Pakistan for the first time in 2019 to study for his computer science master’s degree in South […]
Politics
Move Forward galvanises Thai voters with vows of royal reforms | Military News
Bangkok, Thailand – On a busy intersection outside the Thai capital Bangkok, a young woman with a heavy megaphone urged passersby to vote for her […]
Turkey’s foreign policy: From past to potential post-Erdogan era | Politics News
In August 2019, after inspecting the cockpit of Russia’s then-new fifth-generation Su-57 fighter warplane, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, […]
Meet N Korea’s ‘crown princess’ and possible heir to Kim Jong Un | Kim Jong Un News
There is nothing arbitrary in how North Korea presents itself to the outside world, or to its own people. North Korean propaganda is so manicured […]
DIARY: Waiting to leave Sudan, a hotel became a sanctuary
KHARTOUM, Sudan — We were a diverse group of more than a dozen people, hunkered down in a small hotel in central Khartoum — a […]
‘He’s a war criminal’: Elite Putin security officer defects
LONDON — On October 14, a Russian engineer named Gleb Karakulov boarded a flight from Kazakhstan to Turkey with his wife and daughter. He switched […]
‘We’ll kill you’: Troops film boys’ killings in Burkina Faso
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — It was a walk 16-year-old Adama had done countless times, feeding the cows not far from his grandmother’s house in northern […]
Ignoring experts, China’s sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives
BEIJING — When China suddenly scrapped onerous zero-COVID measures in December, the country wasn’t ready for a massive onslaught of cases. Hospitals turned away ambulances, […]
20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope
BAGHDAD — On the banks of the Tigris River one recent evening, young Iraqi men and women in jeans and sneakers danced with joyous abandon […]
‘Never saw such hell’: Russian soldiers in Ukraine call home
KYIV, Ukraine — How do people raised with a sense of right and wrong end up involved in terrible acts of violence against others? That’s […]