Tel Aviv: The Israeli government has approved the sale of artificial milk produced in a laboratory without cows. A foreign news agency According to the report The government has issued its first marketing and sales license for lab-made synthetic but nutritious milk and dairy products. The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) announced in a statement on…
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law on treason, according to which traitors will now be punished with life imprisonment. According to global media reports, Putin has signed amendments to the Criminal Code that toughen penalties for treason, terrorism and aiding international organizations of which Russia is not a member. Under the…
Occupied West Bank: In the Palestinian city of Ramallah, the Israeli occupying forces shot and killed a young man. International media quoted the Palestinian Ministry of Health as saying that the young man was killed during a clash between Palestinians and Israeli forces in a village near the town of Bethlehem. The ministry has identified…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has ordered the filing of hate speech cases even without a complaint, warning that the relevant authorities will be guilty of contempt of court if the cases are delayed. The Supreme Court extended the scope of its 2022 order, directing Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand police to take…
MUMBAI: Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen has joined hands. Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen, who has dedicated his entire life to India, has been issued a notice to vacate his ancestral home on the campus by the university administration. In a notice issued by the Vishwa Bharati University of West Bengal, it has been…
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s military spending reached a record level of seventy-five billion dollars, a sixteen percent increase in defense spending in Saudi Arabia was recorded during one year. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s report on global military spending in 2022, Saudi Arabia ranks fifth in the world in terms of the increase…
“A society can only succeed on its path towards sustainable peace and development when all its constituencies can participate on an equal footing,” Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, said ahead of progress reports delivered by high-level representatives of Colombia, The Gambia, and Timor-Leste. The preventive potential of transitional justice can only be…
Dozens of civilians across the country were killed and injured, and homes and other vital infrastructure, destroyed. More than 20 people were killed in the small central city of Uman alone, when their apartment building collapsed after it was hit, according to international media reports. ‘Inexcusable’ attacks “It is just inexcusable that in places like…
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea living in the country have fled the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Khartoum area. The newly displaced have found shelter in existing refugee camps further east and south, creating new humanitarian…
“The international community’s response to the crisis in Myanmar is failing, and that failure has contributed to a lethal downward spiral that is devastating the lives of millions of people,” Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, said at the end of a 10-day official visit to Japan. Referring to…
