U.S. will aim to persuade others to 'call out' China over Uighurs at U.N.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the United States would use the United Nations General Assembly this month to persuade countries to help "call out" China over treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority. Asked after a speech at Kansas State University how ...
Myanmar says military holding rare court martial after Rohingya mass grave probe
Myanmar said its military was conducting a rare court martial following a probe into mass graves in crisis-hit Rakhine state, two years after a bloody crackdown drove some 740,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh. In February 2018, an Associated Press report alleged at least five mass graves ...
After National Register of Citizens is published, nearly 2 million face expulsion from Assam
Almost 2 million people in northeast India were left facing statelessness Saturday after Assam published a citizenship list aimed at weeding out "foreign infiltrators" in a process the central government wants to replicate nationwide. A total of 31.1 million people were included in a final ...
Family of first enslaved Africans in America marks 400 years 'building where you came from'
A family that traces its bloodline to America's first enslaved Africans said Friday that their ancestors endured unimaginable toil and hardship — but they also helped forge the nation. "Four hundred years ago, our family started building America, can I get an Amen?" Wanda Tucker ...
No peace in Myanmar if no military prosecutions, U.N. expert says
There will be no long-term peace in Myanamar and no return of Rohingya refugees unless there is accountability for the "brutality" of the Asian country's military forces, a member of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said Friday. Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan ...
Any Jew voting Democratic is uninformed or disloyal, Trump says
President Donald Trump says any Jewish people who vote Democratic show "either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty." Trump commented Tuesday amid his ongoing feud with Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Trump has taken several steps favored ...
Families of Kashmir detainees still don't know where they are, or why they are being held
A week and a half after Indian authorities began detaining hundreds of local leaders and activists in Kashmir, fearing violence after the region's special status was withdrawn, it is unclear in many cases where they are — or even why they were taken away. On ...
Via language, song and nature, young Taiwanese reconnecting with indigenous roots
The Truku elders of Taiwan still dream about their mountain home four decades after bulldozers tore it down — a classic symptom of trauma as community members struggle to accept their loss. At one evening gathering, Miya Yudaw described his recurring dream, where the mountain ...
India promises easing of restrictions, food for Kashmir during Islamic Eid al-Adha festival
Authorities enforcing a strict curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir promised easing of restrictions on Sunday and essential supplies for an Islamic festival, but the divided Himalayan region remained in a lockdown after India's decision to strip it of its constitutional autonomy. Pakistan said that with the ...
Modi's vision of a Hindu India advances with move to absorb Kashmir
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a Hindu India has leaped forward with his government's decision to subsume Muslim-majority Kashmir into the federal government by eliminating its special status and allowing anyone to buy property and move into the state, raising fears among residents ...
As loved ones in China disappear amid crackdown, Uighurs in Japan speak out
As the global outcry over China's crackdown on the Uighurs grows, members of the same ethnic minority in Japan are calling for help out of desperation to discover what has happened to their families back home. At a symposium in Tokyo last month, 10 ethnic ...
Multiracial athletes spark debate in Japan ahead of 2020 Olympics
Amid a shifting cultural landscape, talented multiracial athletes are among some of Japan's best chances to reach the podium at next summer's Tokyo Olympics and consequently draw attention to an often ignored yet growing segment of the country's population. Heading that list is tennis superstar ...
