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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Journalists, Free Speech Activists ‘at Risk...
Censors at the social media platform Weibo were meanwhile stepping up warnings to platform users that they could be pursued for comments deemed to be “attacks on government departments or state media agencies.”
General Elections, Among Covid-19 And the...
The ballot boxes to elect of the 14th legislature since the “Lion City” has been an independent state (1965) begins today, July 10, in Singapore. With a unicameral parliamentary system, eleven parties in Singapore run for the 93 seats at stake in the Chamber, attributed with the “first past the post” system, a mechanism that favors those who take the highest number of votes in the circumscriptions
Sudan’s Population Exceeds 43 Million, Almost...
According to the statement, an estimated 9.6 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity and are in need of urgent action in the coming three months. Sudan’s National Population Council, the population of the country consists about 43.2 million people.
On the occasion of the commemoration of the victims of the December Revolution, the Secretary-General of the National Population Council, Wisal Hussein, told the press that Sudan is witnessing an unprecedented demographic development
COVID-19: WHO Announces Initiation of the...
At the historic 73rd World Health Assembly in May, Member States adopted a landmark resolution that called on WHO to initiate an independent and comprehensive evaluation of the lessons learned from the international health response to COVID-19
‘It’s Been Years, But There’s Been...
Hesen believes that his wife, Nurimangul, was imprisoned in Kargilik in 2017, but is unsure of the fates of their teenaged daughter and twin boys. Hesen’s eldest sister, Patemhan Hesen, and her daughter are both thought to have been sent to the same prison that year as well
Increase In Cyber Attacks On Indian...
This was not an isolated incident in the Western state of India as revealed by the cyber crime unit of the state. In fact reports have now emerged that a large number of people have been subjected to online extortion threats from hackers such as this one. The hackers reportedly claimed that they had complete access to the personal data of the targets and demand money, in many cases in bitcoins in exchange of not making public the details of websites that had been accessed by the target in recent times
Bangladesh Cracks Down on Fake COVID...
The comments came as police shut down two branches of a private hospital that according to one opposition party member had issued over 6,000 fake COVID-19 test results
Threat of Lawsuit Shows China ‘Losing...
Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow in China Studies at the Washington-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, has emerged as a leading expert on the mass incarceration of Uyghurs in internment camps in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)
Following Concerns Over Misuse, India’s NCRB...
Such opposition apparently has seemingly made the Indian authorities – more specifically the NCRB, has revised the tender that it had published for procurement of technology for a nationwide automated facial-recognition system
Corruption, Weak Rule of Law Cited...
Heavy rains caused piles of loose dirt and rubble to collapse on July 2, burying more than 200 scavengers looking for discarded pieces of jade left behind by miners and creating “lake of mud” full of bodies in Kachin state’s Hpakant township. More than 50 others were injured, and about 20 are still missing