Headlines- According to the US Central Command, strikes against Iran were carried out for the seventh consecutive night.
- Iranian foeces targeted a Thai-flagged vessel that attempted to transit the Strait of Hormuz, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
- The US attacked an Iranian oil tanker docked at Karg Island, deputy governor of Bushehr, Iran said.
- After what it described as an Iranian strike involving ballistic missiles and drones, Kuwait's military claimed on Friday that several of its ground forces injured and that both military and civilian facilities damaged.
- Iran said it attacked an American military base in eastern Syria on Friday.
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Three Camps in Xinjiang’s Uchturpan Believed...
Beginning in October 2018, Beijing acknowledged the existence of the camps, but described them as voluntary “vocational centers,” despite reporting by RFA’s Uyghur Service which has found that detainees are mostly held against their will in poor conditions, where they are forced to endure inhumane treatment and political indoctrination
Christian Sentenced to Death for “Blasphemy”in...
-A court in Lahore, capital of the Punjab province of Pakistan, sentenced a Christian man to death for committing “blasphemy”: Asif Pervaiz, 37, has been in prison since 2013 on charges of having sent “blasphemous” SMS text messages to employer Muhammad Saeed Khokher. As reported to the Agenzia Fides by the lawyer Saif-ul-Malook, the Muslim lawyer who also defended the Christian Asia Bibi, the court did not give credit to his testimony, in which the Christian man denied any wrongdoing, and sentenced Asif Pervaiz to death on September 8
Thousands of Tibetans Driven From Their...
The evictions will clear the way for the creation of the Mount Qilian National Park, a 50,200 square kilometer parkland and wild animal preserve straddling parts of Qinghai and neighboring Gansu, with the greater part lying in Gansu
Cybercrime and Mobile Payment in Cameroon
The development of electronic wallet by mobile operating companies in Cameroon has change the dynamics of cash transfer, the payment of bills, educational fee, purchase of furniture, sponsor of programs by NGOs, but also negative impact, as cybercriminals use to perpetrate crimes, mitigating financial transaction through purchase of bitcoins. Cryptocurrency term which heard in every economic milieu, have become a tool use by some unscrupulous people engage digital marketing and cyber criminality to extort or victimize communities. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 as an open source software, which started operating in 2009 under the name Satochi Nakoamoto with the following particularities; digital money package which is privately own and exonerate individuals from bank fees, a virtual currency that uses per-to peer technology to facilitate instant payment, bitcoin is purchase through mobile money with the use of internet with cash deposit
Belarus: Authorities Subject Opposition Leader Maryia...
Maryia Kalesnikava, a member of the opposition Coordinating Council who had galvanized opposition to the incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka during the presidential election in August, was seen being bundled into a van marked “Communications” by plain-clothed men near the National Art Museum in the centre of the capital Minsk on Monday morning.
Detained Chinese Dissident Artist ‘Critically Ill’...
Liu Jinxing — who is better known by his artist name Zhui Hun — was detained by Nanjing police in late May 2019 alongside five other prominent and outspoken artists who had exhibits in the city at the same time
COVID-19 Deaths Exceed 15,000 in South...
Gauteng remains the epicentre after 213 087 cases were recorded, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 114 904, the Western Cape 107 244 and the Eastern Cape 86 868.
Virus and Poverty: the Phenomenon of...
Early marriage is a widespread practice in some traditional communities from Indonesia to India, Pakistan and Vietnam, but the numbers of the phenomenon – warns the NGO – had gradually decreased in recent years, thanks to the commitment of organizations and associations that encourage women’s access to education and health services
WHO: World Must Learn from COVID,...
Brazil reported 14,521 new cases on Sunday, and while it now trails India in terms of overall cases, the country still trails only the United States in terms of deaths with 126,650.
‘Lin Zhao Changed My Life’: Interview...
Mao-era Chinese dissident Lin Zhao, whose birth name was Peng Lingzhao, was a writer who grew up near Nanjing, in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Initially a star student at the prestigious Peking University, Lin was branded a “rightist” and a “class enemy” in the 1950s for her criticism of then-supreme leader Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Movement targeting intellectuals.