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(Vatican Radio) An international human rights group has expressed concern that rights activists and bloggers in Vietnam are being increasingly threatened and attacked, often in view of police, and urged the government to investigate the violence and hold those responsible accountable. New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday highlighting 36 assaults, sometimes resulting in serious injuries, that took place with apparent impunity between January 2015 and April 2017. Despite being a one-party Communist state, Vietnam is one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies, and has increasingly opened to social change. Yet the state maintains a tight control on the media and freedom of expression with zero tolerance for criticism. Hence critics often take to the social media to air their grievances.“In many cases, the assaults took place in plain view of uniformed police officers who did not intervene,'' Human Ri...
PARIS (AP) -- French President Emmanuel Macron is poised to rearrange his Cabinet after his new centrist party engineered a landslide in the country's parliamentary election, enabling the government to quickly start passing its first big laws....
LONDON (AP) -- London police said Monday that 79 people were now believed to have died in the high-rise apartment building fire....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's ballistic missile strike targeting the Islamic State group in Syria served both as revenge for attacks on Tehran earlier this month and a warning that Iran could strike Saudi Arabia and U.S. interests in the Mideast, an Iranian general said Monday....
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's coast guard is investigating why it took nearly an hour for a deadly collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a container ship to be reported....
LONDON (AP) -- A white man plowed a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday in an attack that police say they are investigating as a terrorist incident....
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- The Lighthouse Christian Academy promises to provide an exemplary education, a caring atmosphere and service to God - but not for everyone. The school says in its admissions brochure that it reserves the right to deny admission to LGBT students because their lifestyle is prohibited by the Bible....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Getting nowhere with her father, liberal advocacy groups have been looking for an ally in Ivanka Trump. They haven't had much luck....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The latest developments relating to the Brexit negotiations kicking off in Brussels on Monday. All times local....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world's most elite institutions and for a reason that has, until recently, hardly registered in the university admissions process: social media....
