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  • After alerts in the Yiron area, the Israeli military claims that its air force effectively stopped a "suspicious aerial target" before it entered Israeli territory.
  • As a "humanitarian gesture," US President Donald Trump stated that ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz will be escorted.
  • The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran claimed in a statement released by the state-run Press TV that the United States' ability to make decisions "has narrowed" due to the prolonged impasse in negotiations.
  • In a post to X on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces claimed to have attacked 120 alleged Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon over the weekend, including over 50 other infrastructure targets and 70 military-use buildings.
  • In an effort to maintain "market stability" despite the Iranian conflict, seven members of the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries resolved on Sunday to begin gradually raising production in June.

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January 31, 2020

Review: The Vanishing Generation, by Bagila...

Bukharbayeva is one of the only handful of journalists who was present in Andijan in May 2005, when the massacre there unfolded. Her account of those events is at turns anxiety-inducing and jaw-dropping. There is no mistaking that this was a premeditated mass killing of innocents

Coronavirus International Emergency: WHO

The Director-General noted that he was declaring the public health emergency of international concern not because of what is happening in China, “but because of what is happening in other countries” adding that WHO’s greatest concern is “the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems, and which are ill-prepared to deal with it.”

Malaysia: IS Extremists Campaigning to Keep...

Malaysian police were working with unnamed third parties in the region to reach out to those citizens in Syria and begin the repatriation process, and the Malaysian government would decide whether to allow them to return home, Ayob said

Seven Truckloads of Timber Seized at...

Smugglers will now often mix timber with finished wood products to move across the border, one source in Attapeu said, while other sources told RFA that vendors now prefer to smuggle timber to Vietnam through the Lalai international checkpoint “because it is easier to bribe officials there.”

January 30, 2020

Tibetan Capital Lhasa Announces First Suspected...

The suspected carrier, identified only by his surname Zhang, arrived in Lhasa by train on Jan. 24 and is currently medically isolated and under observation, according to a notice on Wednesday by the city’s Municipal Health Committee

Tibetan Areas of China Confirm 140...

The China Tibet Broadcasting website reported that as of Jan 27, Sichuan confirmed 90 cases of coronavirus, Yunnan reported 26, Gansu reported 19 positive tests, and Qinghai identified six cases. Four of the Gansu patients were in critical condition, it said

January 29, 2020

Confirmed Xinjiang Coronavirus Cases Jump to...

On Jan. 23, Chinese state media cited local health authorities in the XUAR as saying that a 47-year-old man identified by the surname Li and a 52-year-old man identified as Gu had been confirmed infected by the novel coronavirus (nCoV). Both had been to Hubei’s capital Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have been first transmitted to humans

Bangladesh: 17 Christian Rohingya Families Taken...

The ARSA insurgent group, which claims to be fighting oppression of Rohingya Muslims, carried out attacks on police and army posts in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in August 2017

January 28, 2020

Can Azerbaijan serve as a playground...

Citing security concerns, in the wake of the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet by the Iranian military, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has banned Iranian teams in its championship tournament from hosting games in Iran.

Vigilantism Takes Hold in Central China...

National Health Commission Minister Ma Xiaowei said on Sunday that the incubation period for nCoV could range from one to 14 days, and that the virus was infectious during incubation, which would allow it to spread while still undetected

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