bill to: By agreeing to extend China’s CPEC project to Afghanistan, the Taliban have agreed to deepen trilateral cooperation with China and Pakistan. According to international media reports, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang held talks with his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Islamabad, the capital of…
In Germany, a cardiologist has been arrested on suspicion of murdering patients who died from an overdose of sedatives. According to the police, the doctor is suspected of deliberately overdosing two critically ill patients. Both patients died of sedative overdose. The 55-year-old doctor, who worked at a local hospital in Berlin, was suspended in August…
Ethnic riots continue in the Indian state of Manipur despite the army being called in. The affected areas are being monitored with the help of drones and helicopters. Army and Assam Rifles personnel are also carrying out a flag march in the violence-hit areas. According to officials, more than 50 deaths have occurred due to…
One of the two accused confessed to his crime during the hearing in March 2021. 2 people were executed for blasphemy in Iran. According to the website of the Iranian Judiciary, both men have been sentenced to death for desecration of the Holy Quran and blasphemy. According to the details, the accused named Sadrullah Fazli…
Israel demolished a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank. The European Union has strongly condemned the Israeli authorities’ move to demolish Palestinian schools. Students say that the building was reduced to rubble, leaving no trace of the school. The EU delegation working for the Palestinians said on its official Twitter account that it was…
Congo flood death toll exceeds 400; Photo: File Brazzaville: In Congo’s southern province of Kivu, torrential rains caused rivers to boil and hundreds of people were swept away in Riele, killing 401 and injuring around 200. According to the international news agency, in the continuous rains in Congo for 4 days, the water of the…
At the same time, UN agencies are also helping to provide emergency relief support, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), whose Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) aims at assisting refugees and third country nationals who are desperately trying to flee fighting by escaping to neighbouring countries. Sudan’s national army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF),…
“Corporal punishment is a violation of the Convention against Torture and must cease,” said UNAMA’s human rights chief Fiona Frazer, stressing that the UN is “strongly opposed” to the death penalty. She called on the de facto authorities to establish an “immediate moratorium” on executions. Flogging and stoning In a new report, UNAMA said that…
That’s according to the UN Trade and Development body UNCTAD’s Trade and Environment Review 2023, published on Monday, which analyses the world’s $3-6 billion ocean economy, and assesses how human activity and multiple global crises have significantly impacted sectors like fishing, seafood, shipping and coastal tourism. The report, presented at the 3rd UN Trade Forum in Geneva, calls for…
In a call to the Malian authorities to prevent people from being born into slavery, the experts said that the country is the only one in the Sahel region without specific legislation criminalizing enslavement. “Nothing can justify slavery, whether it be culture, tradition, or religion”, said the experts, Tomoya Obokata, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms…
