Desert or Sea: Virus Traps Migrants in Mid-Route Danger Zone Thousands of desperate migrants are trapped in limbo and even at risk of death without food, water or shelter in scorching deserts… 05/03/2020 Aimeast
Indian Air Force Planes, Military Bands Pay Tribute to COVID Workers Air force planes flew over major Indian cities and helicopters showered flower petals on hospitals as a tribute to healthcare… 05/03/2020 Aimeast
Comedians Manage to Get Laughs During Pandemic Lockdowns With the coronavirus having closed nightclubs across the world, comedians are still managing to get the laughs from people on… 05/03/2020 Aimeast
North, South Korea Exchange Fire in DMZ; No Casualties Reported North Korea fired multiple gunshots that struck a South Korean guard post in the heavily fortified border region separating the… 05/03/2020 Aimeast
Activists Concerned About Safety of Hindus, Sikhs in Afghanistan Sikh activists are worried about the safety of Hindu and Sikh communities in Afghanistan. The Afghan government has promised further… 05/03/2020 Aimeast
Trump Says He’s ‘Glad’ Kim Jong Un ‘Is Back, and Well’ U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was "glad" about the reappearance of Kim Jong Un and that the… 05/02/2020 Aimeast
Amid Backsliding on Press Freedoms, Phnom Penh Calls for ‘Professional’ Reporting Press freedom in Cambodia, in decline since the 2017 FILE - The Cambodian government’s suppression of Radio Free Asia and… 05/02/2020 Aimeast
Slain American Journalist’s Family Seeks Justice From Pakistan’s Top Court The parents of a murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl filed an appeal Saturday with Pakistan’s Supreme Court against a recent… 05/02/2020 Aimeast
Philippines Frees Nearly 10,000 Inmates as Coronavirus Hits Jails Nearly 10,000 prison inmates have been released in the Philippines as the country races to halt coronavirus infections in its… 05/02/2020 Aimeast
Aboriginal Australians Take Music to The World During COVID-19 Lockdown Locked down in COVID-19 biosecurity zones, thousands of kilometers from Australia's big cities, aboriginal artists are performing online to global… 05/02/2020 Aimeast
In Chechnya, Message to Press Is Clear: Journalists Are Not Welcome or Safe Former rebel fighter-turned-president Ramzan Kadyrov has made it clear that independent journalism will not be tolerated in Chechnya: a message… 05/02/2020 Aimeast
Missing Pakistan Journalist Found Dead in Sweden A Pakistan journalist living in exile in Sweden who has been missing since March has been found dead, police said… 05/02/2020 Aimeast
Hong Kong Police Spray Tear Gas in Protest at Shopping Mall Hong Kong police used pepper spray on Friday to disperse over a hundred protesters in a shopping mall who were… 05/02/2020 Aimeast
US Argues Diplomacy Demands Withholding Taliban Attack Data The Defense Department is defending its decision to withhold information on the frequency and success of Taliban attacks, saying it… 05/01/2020 Aimeast
Dying Mother of Jailed Chinese Dissident Pens Open Letter: ‘I Just Want to Say Goodbye’ The mother of China’s first cyberdissident, who has been in detention since 2016, has published an open letter asking for… 05/01/2020 Aimeast
US, China Step Up Activities in South China Sea Amid COVID-19 Pandemic An old geopolitical hotspot is poised to boil again amid the coronavirus pandemic, with U.S. and Chinese warships stepping up their presence in the South China… 05/01/2020 Aimeast
South Korea Balances Privacy, Public Health in Virus Fight South Korea is one of very few countries to contain the coronavirus without resorting to mass lockdowns. So how did… 05/01/2020 Aimeast
Australian Police Shoot, Kill Knife-Wielding Attacker in Mall Police in the northwester Australian coastal city of South Hedland say they shot and killed a man Friday who attacked several… 05/01/2020 Aimeast
US Troop Reduction Plan on Track in Afghanistan The U.S. military said Friday its withdrawal from Afghanistan is continuing and that it expects troop levels to drop to… 05/01/2020 Aimeast
India to Keep Restrictions in Big Cities Under Staggered Exit from Lockdown India's big cities will stay under tight restrictions after a nationwide lockdown ends on Sunday, while areas less hard-hit by… 05/01/2020 Aimeast