Saudi Arabia ranks fifth in the world in terms of military spending

Saudi Arabia ranks fifth in the world in terms of military spending

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…

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Sudan latest: Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer

Sudan latest: Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer

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…

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Singapore: Rights experts call for moratorium on the death penalty

Singapore: Rights experts call for moratorium on the death penalty

They strongly condemned the execution this week of Tangaraju s/o Suppiah, who was convicted of conspiring to traffic cannabis from Malaysia to the country in 2013.  Fair trial concerns  Mr. Suppiah, a 46-year-old Tamil from Singapore, was hanged on Tuesday despite claims that he had not been provided with adequate interpretation during police interrogations. “The…

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