Headlines- The Israeli military responds to rockets fired at Israel by launching another round of attacks on Hezbollah sites in Lebanon.
- In response to the disruption brought on by the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the International Energy Agency has decided to release a record 400 million barrels of crude oil.
- After one person died from injuries, the number of death from an Israeli attack on Tamnin al-Tahta in the eastern Baalbek district of Lebanon now stands at eight.
- US Congress is informed by the Pentagon that the US spent $11.3 billion during the first week of the Iran War.
- The Pentagon said on Tuesday that in the first ten days of the war with Iran, about 140 American service men have been injured.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reportedly carried out a joint operation with Hezbollah in Lebanon that involved five hours of nonstop shooting and hit over fifty sites around Israel, CNN reports.
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Justice delayed is Justice Denied –...
The debate over should justice for exceptional criminal incidents such as these tow be delivered in the manner in which the Hyderabad police had allegedly delivered or should they go through the due process of law risking the delay as has happened in the case of ‘Nirbhaya’, rages on
Urgent Need to Tackle the High...
indigenous peoples also often experience poor working conditions and discrimination. Tomei said the biggest challenge to improving the living and working conditions of indigenous peoples is “the extremely high incidence of poverty and extreme poverty among them.”
Bangladesh: Dhaka Elections Not Fair, Opposition...
Awami officials and the Bangladesh Election Commission rejected the criticism, saying that the introduction of electronic voting machines for the first time in the city polls made it impossible to manipulate the vote
China Clamps Down on Independent Reporting...
Government censors have also deleted accounts belonging to medical imaging experts Zhang Bo and Zhang Xiaochun of Wuhan University’s Zhongnan Hospital after they posted a request for diagnosis to be made through CT scans rather than genetic tests of the virus
Zimbabwe Screening Travelers in Wake of...
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Zimbabwe is using the WHO-prescribed intervention measures in order to curb infections in the country through travelers
Uyghurs in Saudi Arabia Flee to...
The new policy has forced the 100-odd members of the Uyghur diaspora in Saudi Arabia to make a choice between returning home, where they are likely to be accused of harboring “strong religious views” and detained, or remain where they are, under constant threat of deportation because of their illegal status
Review: The Vanishing Generation, by Bagila...
Bukharbayeva is one of the only handful of journalists who was present in Andijan in May 2005, when the massacre there unfolded. Her account of those events is at turns anxiety-inducing and jaw-dropping. There is no mistaking that this was a premeditated mass killing of innocents
Coronavirus International Emergency: WHO
The Director-General noted that he was declaring the public health emergency of international concern not because of what is happening in China, “but because of what is happening in other countries” adding that WHO’s greatest concern is “the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems, and which are ill-prepared to deal with it.”
Malaysia: IS Extremists Campaigning to Keep...
Malaysian police were working with unnamed third parties in the region to reach out to those citizens in Syria and begin the repatriation process, and the Malaysian government would decide whether to allow them to return home, Ayob said
Seven Truckloads of Timber Seized at...
Smugglers will now often mix timber with finished wood products to move across the border, one source in Attapeu said, while other sources told RFA that vendors now prefer to smuggle timber to Vietnam through the Lalai international checkpoint “because it is easier to bribe officials there.”