Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement to protect against cyber threats. The agreement was signed between an Israeli cyber intelligence company and a UAE telecom company. The Israeli company tracks cyber attacks, identifies them and issues alerts for potential cyber attacks to public and private organizations. Under the three-year agreement, the…
A Buddhist temple in Great Britain, file photo Belgium is likely to officially recognize Buddhism, with the federal government today approving a proposed law. The Belgian Buddhist Union applied for recognition of Buddhism in March 2006. The Union estimates that there are currently one and a half million Buddhists living in the country. Apart from…
China’s president will visit Russia next week, Photo: File Beijing: China, expressing concern over the length of the war, has demanded that Ukraine and Russia negotiate a ceasefire. According to the World News Agency, China’s senior diplomat Qin Gang spoke to his Ukrainian counterpart on the phone and stressed the need for a ceasefire, saying…
Polish MiG-29 aircraft, file photo Poland and Slovakia have agreed to supply fighter jets to Ukraine. Poland will be the first NATO member country to supply 4 MiG-29 aircraft to Ukraine. Polish President Andrzej Duda said the fighter jets were taken from the former German Democratic Republic and will be handed over to Ukraine after…
Heath authorities said there was a confirmed case in an unvaccinated four-year-old child in Isale district, in western Burundi, as well as two other children with whom he had been in contact “Additionally, five samples from environmental surveillance of wastewater confirmed the presence of the circulating poliovirus type 2”, said a press release issued by…
Martin Griffths, the UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefed ambassadors on the eve of the expiration of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which has allowed nearly 25 million metric tonnes of foodstuff from Ukraine to reach global markets. The accord was signed in Türkiye in July 2022, in parallel with a Memorandum of…
The report, covering the period between May 2020 and December 2022, draws on interviews with 207 victims and witnesses and an analysis of more than 2,500 items of evidence, including photographs, videos, medical, and court records. ‘Unacceptable picture of impunity’ “Our report paints an unacceptable picture of impunity and the near-total destruction of civic space…
“Brutal” armed conflict has left 10 million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger in need of humanitarian assistance – more than double the number in 2020, UNICEF warned in a new report. And hostilities spilling over into neighbouring countries, are putting an extra four million children at risk. “The conflict may not have clear boundaries, there…
Overall levels of documented violent incidents rose by 27 per cent, from 714 recorded acts of violence in 2021, to 982 last year. 2022 was marked by three distinct surges of violence, the UNMISS report said: between April and May, in southern Unity State; between July and September, in Warrap State; and between August and December, in the…
“The contents of the warrants are secret to protect the victims,” said ICC President Piotr Hofmański. “Nevertheless, the judges decided to make the existence of the warrants public, in the interest of justice and to prevent future crimes.” The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II also issued a warrant for the arrest of Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s…
