Headlines
  • 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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July 18, 2020

Civil Gociety to the government of...

Lahore:”We ask the government of the Punjab province of Pakistan to review all the measures that are clearly in conflict with the right to freedom of religion, guaranteed by the Constitution of Pakistan pursuant to articles 20 and 25″: this is what a group of Pakistani civil society organizations call for, expressing serious concerns about …

Xinjiang Capital Urumqi on Lockdown Amidst...

According to official figures, the city of 3.5 million has recorded only six symptomatic cases of COVID-19—the disease caused by the coronavirus—and 11 asymptomatic cases, but official media reports said nearly 90 percent of flights into and out of the Urumqi Diwopu International Airport were cancelled and public transportation was shut down Friday as part of strict measures to contain the spread of the virus

July 17, 2020

Tips to Boost Your Immune System...

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), regular physical activity is good for your body and mind as millions of people grapple with the infectious disease across the globe

Detained Vietnamese Blogger Beaten, Forcibly Injected

Le Anh Hung, a member of the online Brotherhood of Democracy advocacy group who had blogged for the Voice of America, was arrested in July 2018 on a charge of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state” under Article 331 of Vietnam’s criminal code

July 16, 2020

Grisly Death Highlights Increasing Civilian Detentions...

Civilian detentions, a controversial Myanmar army practice during decades of wars with ethnic armies, are on the rise in the southern part of Rakhine, which had been relatively untouched by the armed conflict that has ravaged the northern section of the state for 19 months, those familiar with the situation told RFA

July 15, 2020

Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan widens

Emil Sanamyan, an analyst at the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, suggested that the trigger may have been a new outpost constructed by the Armenian armed forces, which would have given Armenia a tactical advantage in the area and which Azerbaijani forces tried to destroy.

Ayasofya, Erdogan’s Party Responds to Criticism:...

The memorandum was collected and published by the Human Rights Department of the Justice and Development Party (in Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP), the conservative Islamist political formation founded by Erdogan in 2001. The dossier collects and exposes all the improvements that according to the AKP, have been registered in Turkey in the real condition of non-Muslim faith communities for the past 18 years, that is, since Erdogan’s Party came to power. Among other things, the dossier, relaunched by the Turkish press, refers to the support offered by government policies to schools and educational institutions headed by Christian minorities and the Jewish community, whose students were exempted from the Islamic religion exam required in order to be admitted to higher study courses.

SARS Makes R11.6 million Rhino Horn...

The South African Police Services’ Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (the Hawks) have been alerted of the incident. In addition, a criminal case has been registered with the South African Police Service (SAPS) for further investigation

What Are The Types Of Fraud...

By Debdutta Ghosh Some time at the end of June, Delhi resident Puneet Agarwal, the nephew of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel put up a plea for plasma for treatment of Covid-19 for a close relative on his social media page.   Blood plasma from an individual who has recovered from Covid-19 contains vital antibodies …

China’s Tsinghua University Fires Outspoken Lecturer...

Political commentator Wu Qiang, who was also dismissed by Tsinghua for showing public support for the 2014 Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, said that since Xi began an indefinite term in office in March 2018, the ruling party has stepped up a purge of liberal intellectuals from higher education institutions.

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