Tue 05 July 2022: The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been charged with blasphemy and spreading anti-government propaganda online by Iran’s judiciary. “The indictment… has been issued and referred to the court on the charges of propaganda activity against the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and blasphemy,” Tehran’s chief […]
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Tue 05 July 2022: After devastating floods struck the eastern coast state of New South Wales, Australia has declared a natural disaster. The statement, which was made late on Monday, ought to make it possible for emergency funds to be distributed to impacted areas quickly. Since Friday, there have been significant downpours, especially in Greater […]
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Tue 05 July 2022: According to the Russian state news agency TASS, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated on Tuesday that conscripts were not being sent to Ukraine to participate in Russia’s “special military operation.” Though President Vladimir Putin had previously said that draftees would not be deployed to Ukraine, the defence ministry admitted in March that a […]
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Tue 05 July 2022: Pope Francis has denied reports that he will step down anytime soon and says that after visiting Canada later this month, he expects to travel to Moscow and Kyiv. A planned retirement announcement at the end of the summer “never entered my mind,” Francis added in a Reuters interview that was […]
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Tue 05 July 2022: The British government is considering a new law that would oblige social media companies to actively combat misinformation published by other countries, such as Russia. The measure would address fake accounts created on behalf of foreign governments to sway elections or court action on websites like Meta’s Facebook and Twitter. The […]
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Tue 05 July 2022: At least 200 Somalian children have died of hunger since January, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), which reported the situation as “catastrophic food insecurity” for the first time since 2017. In eight regions of the country—up from six regions in May this year—drought […]
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Tue 05 July 2022: South Korea witnessed another spike in COVID-19 cases as the country reported over 18,000 new cases in the past 24 hours, local media said on Tuesday. The new cases have risen to 18,147 from 6,253 on Monday, bringing the total caseload to over 18.41 million, Yonhap News Agency reported. South Korea’s COVID-19 cases have […]
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Mon 04 July 2022: The key outpost in the Black Sea known as Snake Island has been in the news a lot lately since Russian forces abandoned their position following months of intense pounding. On Monday, Ukrainian military raised their country’s flag on the island for the first time in a significant development. “The military […]
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Mon 04 July 2022: As per Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, the European Union is prepared to assist Ukraine in funding its post-conflict reconstruction. “Europe has a special responsibility and a strategic interest to be at Ukraine’s side every step of the way,” von der Leyen told an international conference of […]
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Mon 04 July 2022: The US Department of State has said that independent investigators could “not reach a definitive conclusion” regarding the origin of the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, but said Israeli military gunfire was “likely responsible” for her death. “Ballistic experts determined the bullet was badly damaged, which prevented a […]
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