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SYRIANS SEEK JUSTICE FOR WAR ATROCITIES 11 YEARS AFTER UPRISING

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Amjad al-Malah, holding his daughter, survived years of siege in Madaya with little food and medicine [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera] ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Wed 16 March 2022: Over the past decade, Syria’s uprising-turned-civil war has been littered with grave human rights violations that rights groups say could amount to war crimes. Amjad al-Malah, 32, and his family […]

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UNDER IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL MOSCOW HAS GUARANTEES AGAINST SANCTIONS: LAVROV

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Tue 15 March 2022: Russia got written guarantees under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that will protect its cooperation with Iran against the recent US and EU sanctions, noting that the guarantees are included in the text of the agreement, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking at a news conference […]

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WEST MADE ‘TERRIBLE MISTAKE’ BY LETTING PUTIN GET AWAY WITH ANNEXING CRIMEA – UKS JOHNSON

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Tue 15 March 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said letting Russian President Vladimir Putin “get away” with annexing Crimea was a “terrible mistake” that the West made. “It is vital, if we’re going to stand up to Putin’s bullying, we’re going to avoid being blackmailed by Putin in the way that so many […]

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RUSSIA BARS ENTRY TO BIDEN, BLINKEN AND OTHER TOP US OFFICIALS

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Tue 15 March 2022: Russia has put US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top officials on a “stop list” that bars them from entering the country. Their names, together with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, CIA chief William Burns, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and others, were included on a list […]

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ISLAMOPHOBIA CAN BE DEFINED AS “THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGY OF THE 21ST CENTURY,” ERDOGAN

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Tue 15 March 2022:  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Islamophobia is continuing to spread like a plague in Western countries. In a video message at the 2nd International Media and Islamophobia Forum in capital Ankara, the president said Islamophobia is “poisoning all segments of society, from people on the street to […]

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CHINA DOES NOT WANT TO BE ‘AFFECTED’ BY RUSSIA SANCTIONS: FM

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Tue 15 March 2022: China’s foreign minister has told his Spanish counterpart his country does not want to be impacted by Western economic sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine last month, according to state media. “China is not a party to the crisis, still less wants to be affected by the sanctions,” […]

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IRAN’S FM AMIR-ABDOLLAHIAN ARRIVES IN MOSCOW TO DISCUSS NUCLEAR TALKS, UKRAINE CRISIS

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Tue 15 March 2022: Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has arrived in Moscow to hold talks with Russian officials, on Iran’s nuclear issue and the Ukraine crisis. vrov expressing support for reviving the Iran nuclear deal. At the start of talks on Tuesday Amir-Abdollahian expressed hopes his visit would lead to Russian support for a […]

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RUSSIAN TV PRODUCER ARRESTED AFTER ANTI-WAR PROTEST LIVE ON AIR COULD FACE 10 YEARS IN JAIL

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Tue 15 March 2022: Marina Ovsyannikova, a producer of the Kremlin-controlled Channel One television network who interrupted a live broadcast Monday night with an anti-war banner, is facing up to 10 years in jail, a Russian lawyer has said. An anti-war protester has interrupted the main news program on Russia’s state TV Channel One, holding up […]

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INDIA COURT UPHOLDS KARNATAKA STATE’S BAN ON HIJAB IN CLASS

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Tue 15 March 2022: Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classroom. The prescription of school uniform is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible which the students cannot object to, a three-judge […]

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