17:36, 16 Mar 2019
A former aircraft engineer currently living in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province was recently sentenced to three and a half years in prison. His latest conviction was preceded by multiple arrests and a cumulative seven years ...
18:28, 14 Mar 2019
According to information compiled by Minghui.org, another 139 Falun Gong practitioners were confirmed to have been sentenced to prison for their faith since July 2018. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline ...
11:35, 14 Mar 2019
China’s attempt to eradicate distinct ethnic and religious identities in Xinjing is nothing less than a systematic campaign of cultural genocide
20:14, 13 Mar 2019
A once happy family in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province was shattered after the Chinese communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a self-improvement system that ...
08:30, 13 Mar 2019
Trump administration considering sanctions, but lawmakers say they have seen no meaningful actions to pressure China
17:57, 09 Mar 2019
(Minghui.org) A 22-year-old young man suffered a mental collapse after seven months of torture in a forced labor camp in China. He was incarcerated for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese ...
01:14, 25 Feb 2019
Nearly two years after the Chinese government began to detain members of Muslim minority groups in western China, a growing number of family members abroad are refusing to remain silent. On Sunday, about three dozen relatives ...
20:24, 07 Feb 2019
A protest outside an embassy in Washington on Thursday highlighted how far the Chinese regime can go in suppressing free speech. The protest did not take place at the Chinese Embassy, but instead at the embassy ...
04:48, 04 Feb 2019
In recent weeks, hopes have been dashed for the mothers of two jailed Chinese rights defenders to reunite with their sons – Liu Feiyue and Huang Qi – during this week’s Lunar New Year holidays. Las
14:35, 31 Jan 2019
The Trump administration recently expressed concerns over the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) sentencing of a human rights lawyer who is well-known for defending oppressed faith believers in China. In a statement released Jan. 29 the U.S. State Department ...
06:39, 24 Jan 2019
“There has never been a president who has been tougher (but fair) on China or Russia,” President Donald Trump tweeted on Dec. 21, 2018. There has never been a president who has been tougher (but fair) ...
01:08, 10 Jan 2019
Amid Concerns the bodies are from Chinese prisoners and members of the Falun Gong Group. The controversial “Real Human Bodies” exhibit will not be showcased at the Beaulieu Palace in Lausanne, as scheduled for October 19-21. ...
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11:57, 19 Mar 2019
Russia and the United States remain split on how to resolve the crisis in Venezuela, officials from both powers said Tuesday after talks in Rome. Elliott Abrams, the Trump administration’s special envoy to Venezuela, met with ...
06:22, 19 Mar 2019
Leaders of Brazil and US have expressed a desire to deepen ties
23:08, 18 Mar 2019
Jorge Altieri runs his hands over old blood stains on a helmet that saved his life in 1982 when Argentina and Britain went to war over the Falkland Islands.Looking at the treasured object is still ...
11:55, 18 Mar 2019
Russia refuses to accept US interference in its relations with Venezuela
08:21, 17 Mar 2019
Latin America has displaced the Mediterranean Sea as the deadliest route
09:14, 16 Mar 2019
More than 5,000 Venezuelan refugees and migrants are being moved from Brazil’s northern state of Roraima to new homes in 17 other states in the country
23:46, 15 Mar 2019
The move is the first by a multilateral institution to recognize the Venezuelan opposition leader
12:25, 15 Mar 2019
Inter-American Development Bank governors have approved a resolution recognizing a new Venezuela representative designated by opposition leader Juan Guaido.The IDB said in a press release Friday that the designation of Ricardo Hausmann as Venezuela's representative ...
06:16, 15 Mar 2019
Greece's left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is backing calls by Bolivia for a negotiated settlement to the severe political and financial crisis in Venezuela.Many European Union member countries are among 50 nations, including the United ...
01:47, 15 Mar 2019
Juan Guaido said at a rally Thursday in capital Caracas
17:19, 14 Mar 2019
Two young men who stormed their former school in southern Brazil armed with a gun, crossbows and axes, killing seven people, were trying to emulate the 1999 Columbine attack in Colorado and had been planning ...
16:41, 14 Mar 2019
Pompeo says they will continue their work from other locations
15:07, 14 Mar 2019
The last remaining American diplomats in Venezuela left the country on Thursday, amid deteriorating ties between Washington and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. "I know it is a difficult moment for them," U.S. Secretary of State Mike ...
09:34, 14 Mar 2019
Bolivia's left-wing President Evo Morales is due to visit Greece on rare trip to Europe, with talks in Athens expected to include the ongoing crisis in Venezuela.Morales is due in Athens later Thursday, traveling from ...
23:39, 13 Mar 2019
In the midst of a regional crisis over Venezuela and tough economic straits, the Cuban government is about to launch a sweeping makeover of its centrally planned, single-party system with dozens of new laws that ...
20:30, 13 Mar 2019
Masked gunmen burst into a middle school near Sao Paulo, leaving a bloodbath before killing themselves
17:14, 13 Mar 2019
Two masked men armed with guns, knives, axes and crossbows descended on a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing five students and two adults before taking their own lives, authorities said. The men, identified as ...
16:24, 13 Mar 2019
Aside from violations in Venezuela and Iran, the report cites China for Uighur detentions, but critics say it neglects the abuse of women's reproductive rights
14:00, 12 Mar 2019
A seemingly belligerent tweet from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about pulling American diplomats out of Venezuela has prompted further criticism Tuesday of an administration that has sent mixed messages about what it might do ...
12:40, 12 Mar 2019
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is under investigation for the alleged sabotage of the country's power grid, the chief prosecutor said Tuesday, as the government sought to pressure an adversary who blames corruption and mismanagement ...
08:13, 20 Mar 2019
The Latest on a U.N. court's decision on the conviction and sentencing of ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (all times local):14:10 p.m.A hearing is underway at a United Nations court where judges will hand down ...
06:43, 20 Mar 2019
The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local):1:40 p.m.Italy's hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has given an emotional defense of his decision last summer to refuse to allow migrants aboard an ...
06:37, 20 Mar 2019
A senior lawmaker from Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel's party says Hungary's ruling Fidesz party may be suspended from the main center-right bloc in the European Parliament.Prime Minister Viktor Orban's authoritarian style and anti-European Union, anti-migration ...
05:33, 20 Mar 2019
German automaker BMW says its profits this year will be "well below" last year's due to higher raw materials prices, the costs of compliance with tougher emissions requirements and unfavorable shifts in currency exchange rates.The ...
04:52, 20 Mar 2019
United Nations judges are set to hand down their decisions in the appeal by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic against his convictions and 40-year sentence for masterminding atrocities in his country's devastating 1992-95 war.Karadzic ...
04:35, 20 Mar 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May is preparing to ask the European Union for a short delay to the country's divorce from the European Union. A Downing Street official said May will write to EU leaders on ...
04:21, 20 Mar 2019
Gena the crocodile was left in a trash can. Elza the lion was roaming free in the cargo hold of a plane. As Tonya the bear grew up, the chain she wore dug so tightly ...
04:01, 20 Mar 2019
In March 2016, European governments breathed a sigh of relief as the European Union reached a deal with Turkey designed to stop hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants heading into the heart of Europe. ...
04:00, 20 Mar 2019
The Latest on Brexit talks (all times local):9:55 a.m.British Prime Minister Theresa May is preparing to ask the European Union for a short delay to the country's divorce from the European Union.Britain's Press Association is ...
03:13, 20 Mar 2019
Dutch voters are casting ballots in regional elections that are seen as passing a midterm judgment on the ruling national coalition of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and could indirectly eliminate his majority in Parliament's upper ...
03:02, 20 Mar 2019
Dutch police and prosecutors are questioning two suspects as they investigate whether a deadly shooting on a tram in the central city of Utrecht was an act of terror.Police spokesman Joost Lanshage said Wednesday that ...
02:28, 20 Mar 2019
Sunderland voted for Brexit to make itself heard, and in hope of a brighter future. Almost three years later, residents are still waiting.This city in northeastern England once built ships that drove global commerce and ...
18:39, 19 Mar 2019
Smoking high-potency marijuana every day could increase the chances of developing psychosis by nearly five times, according to the biggest-ever study to examine the impact of pot on psychotic disorder rates.The research adds to previous ...
16:14, 19 Mar 2019
A humanitarian rescue ship carrying 48 migrants entered the port of Lampedusa, where they were being allowed to disembark Tuesday evening despite an earlier refusal by Italy's hard-line interior minister.The boat was allowed to enter ...
12:54, 19 Mar 2019
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be traveling to Brussels to attend a meeting of the main center-right alliance in the European Parliament, set to discuss the expulsion or suspension of Orban's Fidesz party from ...
12:36, 19 Mar 2019
France's finance minister has revised the country's growth forecast this year to 1.4 percent, down from the previous 1.7 percent, partly attributing the new estimate to the yellow vest protests.Speaking Tuesday at the Senate, Bruno ...
11:16, 19 Mar 2019
Dozens of Hungarian opposition lawmakers have been fined up to a month's wages for their loud disruptions and protests inside parliament in December, as deputies were voting on changes to the labor code.Trade unions and ...
08:50, 19 Mar 2019
Chancellor Angela Merkel says the German government shouldn't get involved in exploratory talks between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank on a possible merger.Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, and Commerzbank announced Sunday they would discuss a possible ...
08:39, 19 Mar 2019
Hundreds of U.S. soldiers have begun arriving in Germany in the first test of a rapid deployment strategy meant to bolster NATO's presence in eastern Europe in the event of Russian aggression or other emergencies.U.S. ...
08:33, 19 Mar 2019
Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the oil-rich ex-Soviet nation of Kazakhstan for nearly three decades, has announced his resignation.Nazarbayev said in a televised address to the nation Tuesday that he has taken the "difficult" decision ...
07:49, 20 Mar 2019
Scuffles break out after election officials urge end to political violence
03:50, 20 Mar 2019
Zimbabwe is retrieving and burying bodies Wednesday as Mozambique begins three days of national mourning for victims of Cyclone Idai.The death toll is rising in both countries, but the full number of those killed and ...
02:02, 20 Mar 2019
The National Revenue Authority says it's ready name and shame corrupt government and bank officials who steal tax money
00:08, 20 Mar 2019
International aid has started trickling into the east African countries of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to ease the humanitarian crisis created by floodwaters from Cyclone Idai.Relief efforts that were initially stifled by airport closures slowly ...
23:55, 19 Mar 2019
Emergency workers have described flooding as the region's most destructive in 20 years
21:00, 19 Mar 2019
Hundreds of people are dead or missing in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe
15:28, 19 Mar 2019
South Africa beat Sri Lanka in a Super Over to decide a frantic and often farcical first Twenty20 at Newlands on Wednesday.The teams finish tied in a helter-skelter end to the regulation 20 overs a ...
11:07, 19 Mar 2019
There are no accurate figures on the number killed in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, but it could be as high as 1,000
03:42, 19 Mar 2019
Hundreds are dead, many more missing and thousands at risk from massive flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai and persistent rains.International aid agencies and government officials are scrambling Tuesday to rescue ...
19:45, 18 Mar 2019
Ambassador says he must speak for his government but is foremost an Algerian citizen
17:00, 18 Mar 2019
More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation's president said. "It is a real ...
11:47, 18 Mar 2019
US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor Nagy recently called on Cameroon to free opposition leader Maurice Kamto and to work harder to stop violence in its anglophone regions
19:44, 17 Mar 2019
More than 150 people were killed and hundreds more were missing Sunday after Cyclone Idai swept through southeastern Africa. The United Nations estimates more than 1.5 million people in Mozambique
10:51, 17 Mar 2019
Hundreds of Sudanese took part in anti-government protests in the capital and other cities on Sunday as the government announced it had secured $300 million in loans to address the economic crisis that triggered the ...
06:12, 17 Mar 2019
Thousands mourned the Ethiopian plane crash victims on Sunday, accompanying 17 empty caskets draped in the national flag through the streets of the capital as some victims' relatives fainted and fell to the ground.The service ...
09:44, 16 Mar 2019
Hopes were high that after a 20-year military stalemate with Ethiopia, Eritrea’s human rights landscape for the better
06:55, 16 Mar 2019
Foreign atrocities echo South Africa's own history
04:59, 16 Mar 2019
The Rev. George Kageche Mukua was coming home. The Catholic priest had last seen his Kenyan family a year ago, when he boarded a plane for Europe.His return ended in a thunderous impact in a ...
22:18, 15 Mar 2019
Some activists complain on Twitter that public transport links to the capital Algiers were shut down
09:24, 15 Mar 2019
Data show Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610 planes both flew with erratic altitude changes
07:06, 20 Mar 2019
To help out with her parents’ debt, a 10-year-old child was working in a brick kiln factory
06:23, 20 Mar 2019
The Latest on the change of president in Kazakhstan (all times local):2:20 p.m.The eldest daughter of the outgoing leader of Kazakhstan has been named speaker of the upper chamber of parliament.The Kazakh Senate voted on ...
03:41, 20 Mar 2019
Community begins burying dead and struggles to move forward
00:46, 20 Mar 2019
Pocketbook issues may not sway the outcome of Sunday's election in Thailand, given the bigger debate among voters over whether they support or oppose the military junta that has ruled the country since a 2014 ...
00:41, 20 Mar 2019
Human Rights Watch urged Japan on Wednesday to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilized to have their gender changed on official documents.A 2004 law states people wishing to register a gender change must ...
00:22, 20 Mar 2019
A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for "the safest country in the world" were buried before hundreds of mourners Wednesday, the first funerals for victims of shootings at two mosques ...
22:50, 19 Mar 2019
Iran's many woes briefly went up in smoke as Iranians observed a nearly 4,000-year-old Persian tradition known as the Festival of Fire. The celebration is held on the last Tuesday night before Nowruz, or the Iranian ...
19:34, 19 Mar 2019
The Latest on the mosque shootings in New Zealand (all times local):1:15 p.m.The first two people to be buried after last week's mosque attacks that killed 50 people are a father and his son.A man ...
11:33, 19 Mar 2019
U.S.-backed Syrian forces on Tuesday seized control of an encampment held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, after hundreds of militants surrendered overnight, a spokesman said, signaling the group's collapse after months of ...
05:33, 19 Mar 2019
The leafy New Zealand city where a self-proclaimed racist fatally shot 50 people at mosques during Friday prayers is known for its picturesque meandering river and English heritage. For decades, Christchurch has also been the ...
03:22, 19 Mar 2019
International journalists' organizations are criticizing South Korea's press freedoms after the country's ruling party singled out a Bloomberg reporter with South Korean nationality over what it claimed was a "borderline traitorous" article insulting President Moon ...
03:10, 19 Mar 2019
Jacinda Ardern urges lawmakers to instead “speak the name of those who were lost” in emotional address to Parliament Tuesday
01:28, 19 Mar 2019
She wonders now if that moment was a prophecy, if her brother somehow knew it was the last time they'd see each other. Or maybe he was just teasing her, like he always did. But ...
00:36, 19 Mar 2019
Fall armyworms, a longtime American pest, are munching their way around the globe, raising alarm now in Asia after entrenching themselves in Africa.Experts say the insect was first found outside the Americas in 2016, in ...
00:21, 19 Mar 2019
While government readies proposed new gun laws, the Muslim community deals with possibility that a similar attack may occur again
23:45, 18 Mar 2019
Military is expected to maintain control as new government is formed that will face faltering economy and growing frustration over inequality
21:15, 18 Mar 2019
'Financial sanctions against Pyongyang remain some of the most poorly implemented and actively evaded measures,' a recent UN report says
21:00, 18 Mar 2019
The white supremacist accused of gunning down 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand has dismissed his lawyer and opted to represent himself at trial, prompting the prime minister to declare Tuesday that she ...
20:30, 18 Mar 2019
It's election season in Thailand and a campaign truck is rolling at the crack of dawn through the streets of the northeastern town of Phimai, blaring the slogan "Vote Thaksin, Get Thaksin."It's a bit disconcerting, ...
20:25, 18 Mar 2019
Disease, injuries and overcrowding endanger women and children fleeing as IS militants continue to fight for the last sliver of land that they control in Syria
02:10, 20 Mar 2019
Just over a year ago the Chinese government announced 31 incentives for Taiwanese to work, study and invest in China, a market where salaries can run higher than in Taiwan and the number of consumers
11:10, 19 Mar 2019
Report aims to justify what Beijing calls anti-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts in heavily Muslim western region
03:38, 19 Mar 2019
Once one of the most linguistically diverse area of China, southern dialects are disappearing in favor of standard Mandarin
02:19, 18 Mar 2019
China has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists and has broken up hundreds of "terrorist gangs" in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said in a report Monday issued to counter international criticism of ...
17:36, 16 Mar 2019
A former aircraft engineer currently living in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province was recently sentenced to three and a half years in prison. His latest conviction was preceded by multiple arrests and a cumulative seven years ...
09:17, 15 Mar 2019
Two-week long discussions give experts little reason to believe major policy issues have been thoroughly debated
07:00, 15 Mar 2019
Premier Li Keqiang says China has never and will never ask Chinese companies to spy on other countries
20:29, 14 Mar 2019
China's ceremonial legislature has endorsed a law meant to help end a costly tariff war with Washington by discouraging officials from pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology.The technology measure is part of a law ...
18:28, 14 Mar 2019
According to information compiled by Minghui.org, another 139 Falun Gong practitioners were confirmed to have been sentenced to prison for their faith since July 2018. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline ...
09:57, 14 Mar 2019
China’s top legislature is expected to pass the country’s first Foreign Investment Law this week at a time when negotiators from Beijing and Washington work to hammer out a trade deal. Analysts and
11:30, 12 Mar 2019
In his annual report, Zhou Qiang combed through progress China's judicial reform has made
07:57, 12 Mar 2019
Has China's plan for technological dominance rode quietly into the sunset?
07:00, 12 Mar 2019
In different statements during the last few days, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, publicly criticized Beijing for its wide-ranged persecution of religious groups. “It seems the Chinese government is at war with faith,” ...
20:19, 10 Mar 2019
Samuel D. Brownback, U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, spoke at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong on March 8, 2019. He condemned the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong and the ...
08:20, 10 Mar 2019
Abortive mission forced the Dalai Lama, Tibet's traditional Buddhist leader, into exile in mountainous Dharamsala, in India, where he established a Tibetan government-in-exile
01:58, 10 Mar 2019
China is defending its often-criticized rule in Tibet 60 years after the Dalai Lama fled into exile amid an uprising against Chinese control, saying those who question its policies are merely biased.The official Xinhua News ...
22:31, 09 Mar 2019
China plans to grow crops specifically for wild elephants to graze on in an effort to spare the livelihoods of local farmers.The southwestern province of Yunnan will set up the special farm in a habitat ...
17:57, 09 Mar 2019
(Minghui.org) A 22-year-old young man suffered a mental collapse after seven months of torture in a forced labor camp in China. He was incarcerated for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese ...
10:16, 08 Mar 2019
Beijing is proposing a 7.5 percent increase in its defense budget this year, down from 8.1 percent in 2018
11:32, 05 Mar 2019
China’s Premier Li Keqiang has warned that the world’s second largest economy has a tough struggle ahead this year as Beijing grapples with slowing growth and an ongoing trade dispute with the United
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