North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced Monday that North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for a constitutional change to identify South Korea as the “number one hostile state,” according to the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Kim claimed that reconciliation between the two states is not possible [...]

A court in Iran has handed an additional 15-month prison term to the convicted Nobel laureate and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, according to a Monday Instagram post from the activist’s family. The additional jail term was given to Mohammadi for allegedly “spreading propaganda” against the Islamic Republic. The court reportedly based its decision on [...]

The Editors Guild of India (EGI) on Monday issued a statement on X (formerly Twitter) expressing concerns over the draft Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill, stating that the provisions of the bill would lead to an overarching censorship framework for broadcasting services, including news broadcasting. The statements were issued by the EGI after the Ministry of Information [...]

Pakistan’s senate proposed another resolution on Sunday seeking the postponement of February’s general elections. This is the fourth resolution filed in recent weeks advocating for a delay of the upcoming elections. The latest resolution was proposed by another independent senator, Hilalur Rehman, belonging to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). According to Dawn, Rehman reasoned [...]