Author: Beirut Voice

A BBC journalist who was detained during the ongoing military crackdown in Myanmar has been freed, the corporation said today…

Jordan’s teachers continue to face backlash from the government, nearly eight months after their union’s offices were raided and its leadership arrested…

By Zaid M. Belbagi    A stagnant economy and another ailing military strongman is not exactly what Algerians, young and old, protested for during the Hirak movement…

A 68-year-old man Asian man has been violently assaulted on the New York City subway by an assailant shouting racial insults, in the latest shocking incident of anti-Asian hate…

Hundreds of shanties were gutted after a massive fire broke out at Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Monday, according to eyewitnesses and authorities…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States must first lift all sanctions it has imposed on Tehran after unilaterally withdrawing from a 2015 nuclear … Read More

Protesters have held a pre-dawn demonstration in Myanmar’s second largest city a day after eight demonstrators were killed in a bloody crackdown by the military junta…

Amman’s Attorney General Hassan Abdallat on Sunday said that Salt’s Attorney General ordered the arrest of four additional officials in connection with the New Salt Public Hospital deaths caused by … Read More

More than 18,000 people in Australia have been evacuated from their homes as rain continues to mass flood the southeastern state of New South Wales…

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Kabul on Sunday to meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani ahead of a key international peace conference on Afghanistan in Turkey…