The Council of Europe on Monday strongly condemned threats and attacks against journalists during recent Yellow Vest demonstrations in France. “Any attack on journalists who are simply doing their jobs is an attack on democracy,” Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland said in his first...

Twenty-eight Sudanese journalists were arrested by the authorities on Monday, the Sudanese Journalist Network (SJN), an independent watchdog group, has asserted. SJN official Hassan Brkia told Anadolu Agency that, for the last several weeks, local journalists have been protesting the...

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death on drug trafficking charges on Monday after his previous 15-year prison sentence was deemed too lenient, a ruling likely to deepen a diplomatic rift between Ottawa and Beijing. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, nodded as the judge in the...

Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, director of East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, has said that Israeli police bear full responsibility for recent escalations at the flashpoint site. Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Monday from a hospital where he is receiving treatment, al-Kiswani said: "The Israeli...