The European Union has imposed new sanctions on Iran against the government crackdown. According to the news agency from Brussels, the new sanctions were imposed on Iranian officials and institutions in response to the violent crackdown. The sanctions include 5 individuals and 2 entities of Iran. The news agency says that there were protests in…
3 terrorists were sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia. According to the Saudi Ministry of Interior from the capital Riyadh, the three terrorists who were sentenced to death were Saudi citizens. According to the Ministry of Interior, the three terrorists who were sentenced to death had connections with terrorist organizations. According to the Saudi Ministry…
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi has said that the policies of the Islamic Emirate are not hostile to neighboring and international countries. Addressing an event in Kabul, he said that the Islamic Emirate wants relations with everyone based on respect. Mullah Abdul Salam demanded that the…
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has appointed IRGC Commander Ali Akbar Ahmadian as the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. The Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council is the highest-level post in Iran, playing an important role in the country’s domestic and regional policymaking. Before Ahmadiyan, Ali Shamkhani, who had held the post for…
This marked the seventh time that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant had been completely disconnected from the national electricity grid since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion 15 months ago, the agency said, noting that the facility was forced to run on emergency diesel generators once again. The plant’s only remaining external 750 kilovolt…
According to WMO, weather, climate and water-related hazards caused close to 12,000 disasters between 1970 and 2021. Developing countries were hit hardest, seeing nine in 10 deaths and 60 per cent of economic losses from climate shocks and extreme weather. WMO said that Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States suffered a “disproportionately” high…
Captain Cecilia Erzuah, 32, who has served in Abyei since March last year, as the Commander of the Ghana Engagement Platoon, will receive the award from Secretary-General António Guterres during a ceremony marking the International Day of UN Peacekeepers this Thursday, said the Department of Peace Operations in a press release. Abyei is a disputed and resource-rich area between Sudan and…
“On the International Day for Biological Diversity, we reflect on our relationship with humanity’s life-support system, from the air we breathe and the food we eat, to the energy that fuels us and the medicines that heal us, our lives are wholly dependent on healthy ecosystems,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said. “Yet, our actions are…
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was delivering his report to the 76th World Health Assembly, the UN agency’s decision-making body, which is meeting this week. Threat still remains “The end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency is not the end of COVID-19 as a global health threat,” Tedros told Member States. “The threat of…
“Lives and infrastructure are being destroyed, and the security situation is impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid,” said Volker Perthes, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sudan, briefing the Security Council on Monday about recent developments. Five weeks since the eruption of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…
