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As the 2026 midterm elections enter the final stretch, it’s important to know your rights in case your vote is challenged. The best way to ensure that your vote is counted is to advocate for yourself. I’m a an attorney and lecturer for the University of Southern California’s undergraduate civil rights advocacy initiative, Agents of Change. Here are […]

Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.

Tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghans, including journalists and activists, fled to neighboring Pakistan after the Taliban takeover. But many face deportation to their homeland, where they fear reprisals.

Russia has been sending abducted Ukrainian children to a summer camp in North Korea, according to a European Union document seen by RFE/RL outlining a new round of planned sanctions.

More than three decades after Germany’s 1990 reunification, lasting east-west divisions may be thrown into stark relief at Sunday’s election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. The anti-immigration and Moscow-friendly Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to win big and even hopes to take power at the state level, which would be a first for a far-right party in German post-war history. As much of the east has become an AfD stronghold, the government’s commissioner for eastern Germany,...

A driver has died after a Tesla collided with a seven-seater on Hong Kong’s Island Eastern Corridor. Police received a call at 10.37am on Saturday alerting them to a crash involving two private cars driving west along the corridor. The force said the driver of one private vehicle was sent to Ruttonjee Hospital in Wan Chai while unconscious. The driver was later certified dead at 12.08pm. It was not immediately clear which of the drivers died. The force said the incident remained under...

The revelation that Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has amassed a staggering debt pile has sparked heated discussion in China, where property investors have suffered painful losses in recent years amid a deep market downturn. The 79-year-old Japanese-American author, who inspired generations of investors to take on leverage to scale up their investments, claimed in a series of podcast interviews over the summer that he owed US$1.2 billion. His ex-wife and long-term business partner Kim...

Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio posted bail at a Manila courthouse on Saturday, a day after an arrest warrant was issued over her alleged death threat against the country’s president. Duterte-Carpio was charged last month with “grave threats” stemming from a late-night news briefing in which she claimed to have hired a hitman to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, his wife and a congressman cousin should she be cut down first. She later said the comments had been misconstrued. The...

Hong Kong national security police have arrested three people on suspicion of acting with seditious intent over a gathering outside Prince Edward MTR station to mark the 2019 protest flashpoint there. A police force spokesman said on Saturday that two men and a woman were arrested on Thursday for allegedly shouting seditious slogans and holding white flowers outside the station on August 31. “The people concerned were suspected of spreading false information and attacking the Hong Kong Special...

Introduced to combat sports as a seven-year-old after being bullied at school, Kurtis Campbell is now chasing success in the UFC.

Introduced to combat sports as a seven-year-old after being bullied at school, Kurtis Campbell is now chasing success in the UFC.

Introduced to combat sports as a seven-year-old after being bullied at school, Kurtis Campbell is now chasing success in the UFC.