ASSAD REGIME MADE AT LEAST $5.7 BILLION IN 2021 FROM ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE: REPORT

Mon 04 July 2022: The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad made a profit of at least $5.7 billion from its booming narcotics trade last year alone, as it continues to smuggle the captagon pills worldwide. Since 2019, shipments containing tens of millions of captagon pills – a type of highly-addictive narcotic used as an alternative […]

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TURKISH CUSTOMS SEIZE RUSSIAN SHIP CARRYING UKRAINIAN GRAIN

Sun 03 July 2022: Turkish customs authorities have detained a Russian cargo ship carrying grain that Ukraine says is stolen, Ukraine’s ambassador to Türkiye said on Sunday. “We have full co-operation. The ship is currently standing at the entrance to the port, it has been detained by the customs authorities of Türkiye,” ambassador Vasyl Bodnar said on Ukrainian national television. Bodnar said that the […]

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HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AND JOURNALISTS CALL FOR MOHAMMED ZUBAIR’S RELEASE

Sun 03 July 2022: Over 100 citizens in an open letter demanded the immediate release of Alt News co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair. The letter included signatures of writer and human rights activist Aakar Patel, independent journalist Ajit Sahi, Arjun Sheoran of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Kavita Krishnan of the All India Progressive […]

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PROPERTY FIRM UNDER SCANNER FOR BUYING PRINCE CHARLES’ ECO-VILLAGE IN SCOTLAND

Sun 03 July 2022: A UK real estate firm is being investigated for purchasing homes on an estate in Ayrshire from a subsidiary of the Prince’s Foundation. The Knockroon development in Scotland, which Prince Charles initially acquired as a plot of farmland when he bought the adjoining estate, Dumfries House, has reportedly seen the purchase […]

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UKRAINE FIRED MISSILES AT BELARUS MILITARY POSTS, PRESIDENT LUKASHENKO SAYS

Sun 03 July 2022: Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, claims his military has shot down missiles fired at his country from Ukraine and vowed to retaliate “instantly” to any hostile assaults. “We are being provoked,” Lukashenko was quoted as saying by state news agency Belta on Saturday. “I must tell you that around three […]

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NUMBER OF NUCLEAR WARHEADS IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN NEXT 10 YEARS

Sun 03 July 2022: Nuclear-armed nations are projected to seek out more weapons in the coming decade, despite the fact that there has been a drastic decline in the number of nuclear warheads worldwide during the past 50 years. According to the data gathered by Anadolu Agency from Stockholm Institute for Peace Research (SIPRI) and […]

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PALESTINIANS WILL HAND OVER THE BULLET THAT KILLED SHIREEN ABU AKLEH TO U.S.

Sat 02 July 2022: According to a Palestinian official on Saturday, the Palestinian Authority would provide the United States the bullet that killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank last month. THE BULLET THAT KILLED AL JAZEERA JOURNALIST ABU AKLEH “We agreed to transfer the bullet to the Americans […]

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SUDAN CONTINUES TO WITNESS ANTI-MILITARY PROTESTS TO DEMAND CIVILIAN RULE

Sat 02 July 2022: Protests in Sudan resumed for the third day in a row on Saturday, calling for the reversal of last year’s military coup and the restoration of civilian authority. The protests come as the so-called Resistance Committees, which have led the anti-military demonstrations, issued a call for civil disobedience across Sudan to […]

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