North Korea is placing greater focus on disease prevention, describing efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic as more important than economic development. ( read original story ...)
UN warns 10 million face acute food shortages in Yemen
Nearly 10 million people are facing acute food shortages in Yemen and urgent action is needed to avert a famine, the United Nations's World Food Programme (WFP) has said. © [Abdu ... ( read original story ...)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iran’s controversial former president to offer to mediate in Yemen war, reports say
Iran’s controversial former president is reportedly set to offer to negotiate a peace settlement between warring groups in Yemen, but he may find no takers in either the Arabian Peninsula or his own ... ( read original story ...)
The Shifting Politics of Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia
As the Rohingyas became increasingly prominent in Malaysia, certain quarters have come to perceive them as a social, economic, and security threat. ( read original story ...)
Malaysia’s Sime Darby seeks detail after palm oil ban request
Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantation has asked Liberty Shared for more information, it said on Friday, after the activist group made labour abuse allegations in a petition to the United States urging it ... ( read original story ...)
Police interrogate five Australian Al Jazeera journalists accused of sedition in Malaysia
Journalists ordered to be questioned after broadcast of documentary about migrant workers in Kuala Lumpur during Covid-19 pandemic ... ( read original story ...)
Netherlands to sue Russia over downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
The Dutch government on Friday said it would file a suit against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights over the downing of Malaysia Airlines passenger flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine six years ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia smashes US$14 million people-smuggling syndicate, arrests police, soldiers
Authorities in Malaysia 's southern Johor state on Friday said they had crippled a major people-smuggling syndicate which is believed to have brought some 43,000 people in and out of the country with ... ( read original story ...)
How Poetry Societies Are Giving Women in Afghanistan a Voice During Coronavirus Lockdown
And during the global COVID-19 pandemic, technology has helped them continue to meet. Afghanistan has 33,908 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 957 fatalities as of July 10, yet the true number of cases ... ( read original story ...)
Iraq to Open 20 New Hospitals to Fight Coronavirus
Hamdaniya General Hospital in Nineveh (Iraqi Health Ministry’s Twitter Account) Iraq has plans to boost hospital capacity over the growing number of COVID-19 patients, the Health Ministry’s ... ( read original story ...)