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  • Israel claims that as of Saturday, its fighters are carrying out a series of targeted attacks on Israeli forces stationed inside Lebanese territory.
  • On Saturday, the Israeli military demolished portions of a Catholic convent in a border village while Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least seven people and injured others.
  • The U.S.-Israel war on Iran is "likely" to resume, according to Iran's deputy chief of military headquarters, Mohammad Jafar Asadi, as "evidence shows the US is not committed to any agreements or treaties."
  • The US decision to remove 5,000 troops from Germany was "foreseeable," according to Germany's defense minister Boris Pistorius, while the NATO military alliance claims to be asking Washington for clarification.
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani discussed the ongoing talks to end the war in Iran on Saturday.

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January 13, 2021

South Africa Records 755 More COVID-19...

Gauteng recorded the highest number of deaths in the last 24 hours after 225 succumbed to the respiratory disease, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 218, Eastern Cape with 134, while 128 occurred in the Western Cape

Child Hidden by His mother Was...

The parent who fled the Netherlands with her daughter was found by the Judiciary Police today, January 12th, in Azambuja. The child was handed over to his grandparents until his father came to Portugal.The decision to prevent the sharing of parental responsibilities led to the mother of the child under the age of six fleeing with her daughter to her country of origin after these measures were judicially imposed by the Dutch court

Young Uyghur Doctor Missing For Years...

A young Uyghur doctor at a hospital in the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who went missing in 2017 was detained in an internment camp that year, her overseas relatives have learned, but her current situation remains unknown

January 12, 2021

US Slams Chinese Embassy Tweet Lauding...

Washington has condemned Beijing for a since-removed tweet that sought to justify repressive family planning policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by suggesting they make Uyghur women more independent, prompting calls to shutter China’s embassy and ban its Twitter account

January 11, 2021

Psychological Support for Children and Young...

A contest, which, in view of the reinforcement of psychological and psychotherapeutic support for children and young victims of domestic violence treated and / or received in the National Support Network for Victims of Domestic Violence (RNAVVD), was launched this January by the Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality in Portugal.The proposal, which comes under the Operational Social Inclusion and Employment Program, takes on an allocation of 2.78 million euros and aims, as stated in a statement by Rosa Monteiro’s secretary’s office, to “address the need for specialized support services , privileging psychotherapeutic approaches focused on trauma, and which assume the designation of RAP – Responses of Psychological Support for children and young people killed from domestic violence

January 10, 2021

Covid-19 tested the European Union’s Resilience

Portugal, which took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, faces the challenge of strengthening international security, defense, capacity

January 8, 2021

African Continent to Soon Receive First...

A ray of hope emerged Thursday for the Rainbow Nation, which has seen a massive spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases, as South Africa’s health minister announced a large shipment of vaccines is coming this month

Yangon Police Arrest Nearly 100 Rohingya...

Myanmar police arrested nearly 100 undocumented Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar’s Rakhine state for illegal travel after raiding two houses in Yangon on Wednesday, saying that they had been trafficked and were heading to Malaysia

January 7, 2021

Christians Welcome Pakistan Government’s New...

We appreciate the government’s renewed commitment to the protection of Pakistan’s religious minorities, especially the protection of those falsely accused and the protection of innocent underage girls trapped in forced conversions and forced marriages. The initiative of the Government Office for Interreligious Harmony will certainly strengthen peace and harmony between people of various religions and will lead people of religious minorities not to live in fear “

Portugal engages the Armed Forces in...

In twenty-seven international missions, 1,706 military personnel, seventy-five tactical vehicles and seven aircraft deployed by Portugal from the Navy, Army and Air Force will be in action. Of these tasks, it is known that ten occur in the service of NATO, five in the European Union, three in charge of the United Nations and nine engaged in bilateral or multilateral acts as described.The three branches of the Armed Forces contribute to the fulfillment of the commitments assumed by the Portuguese with their allies, in the maintenance of peace, security and stability

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