The US government and the United Nations, on Tuesday, expressed concerns about a contentious religion-based citizenship law in India, with the UN calling the legislation “fundamentally discriminatory in nature”, Reuters reports. Rights advocates have criticised the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act, which the Indian government moved to implement on Monday. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say it discriminates[…]
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the number of displaced Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to 1.8 million people or about 80 percent of the population in the enclave. According to OCHA data, approximately 1.1 million displaced persons have been registered[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Yesterday Al Jama-ah’s Ganief Hendricks has called on the South African Police to take action against the two Jewish bodies residing in Cape Town. This comes after the members were believed to have propagated racism and the violation of the International Law that South Africa has signed.[…]
Despite the hardships in their war-torn country, Yemenis showed remarkable support and solidarity with the victims of two deadly earthquakes that killed thousands in Turkiye, Anadolu News Agency reports. More than 41,000 people were killed and thousands injured by the back-to-back quakes in Turkiye, according to the latest official figures. Following the[…]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has warned that Israel’s decision to expand the licensing of firearms for Israelis would lead to further violence with Palestinians, Anadolu reports. “Plans by the Government of Israel to expedite and expand the licensing of firearms, with the stated intention of[…]
INTERNATIONAL The Israeli army has killed at least 10 Palestinians, including a five-year-old child and a senior military leader, in the latest bombardment on the Gaza Strip on Friday. Follow our live coverage of the situation in Gaza here Taiseer al-Jabari, head of the northern division of al-Quds Brigades (Saraya al-Quds), the military wing of the[…]
Tehran, Iran – Iran has called on the United Nations to take formal action against the United States for the assassination of its top general two years ago. Iran says Qassem Soleimani, the then-commander of the elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was in Iraq’s capital Baghdad[…]
Lebanon’s prosecutor general has ordered a probe into the alleged torture of more than 20 Syrians in custody following a report by Amnesty International, state media reported. Ghassan Oueidat announced the launch of the probe on Monday in response to the Amnesty report, which accused Lebanese authorities of “cruel and abusive”[…]
Complaints submitted to the United Nations (UN) accuse Israel of intentionally targeting journalists in Palestine and failing to thoroughly investigate its killings of media workers. The complaints, submitted by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) ask the special rapporteurs to secure justice and accountability[…]
Ethiopia’s prime minister declared that “the final and crucial” military operation will launch in the coming days against the Tigray region. The announcement on Tuesday comes after the United Nations warned of a “full-scale humanitarian crisis” with refugees fleeing and people in Tigray starting to go hungry. In a warning[…]
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