SECURITY

The United States announced today the impositionof sanctions related to human rights abuses. Inaddition toChina, Myanmar, North Korea andBangladesh, the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime Grouphas been added to the USTreasury Department‘s sanctions blacklist. They also sanctioned the private European instituteJUSTO based in Moscow and its rector for giving“hundredsof student visas to North Korean domesticworkers“. […]

For measures to improve the safety and security of international shipping, and to prevent pollution from ships.

Palestinian healthy ministry says the victim succumbed to his wounds after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in the village of Beita.

The French Minister of Culture, Roseline Basselot, announced today the forthcoming opening of the archives on “the judicial inquiries” into the Algerian war (1954-1962), some 60 years later and at a time when French-Algerian relations have been in crisis for months. “I am opening 15 years early the records of judicial investigations of the gendarmerie […]

The armed forces staffs of Burkina Faso and Niger have announced that about a hundred “terrorists” were killed during a joint operation conducted from 25 November to 9 December on their border, as the two countries have been faced with increasingly frequent and bloody jihadist attacks. The operation allowed “about a hundred terrorists” to be […]

At least 138 people have been killed and dozens wounded in three separate areas of Sudan’s West Darfur state in recent weeks, medics have said, in the latest bout of inter-communal violence. The West Darfur Doctors Committee said in statements on Wednesday and Thursday that attacks in the Kreinik area killed 88 and wounded 84, […]

Islamabad, Pakistan – The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) armed group, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, has unilaterally announced an end to a month-long ceasefire with the Pakistani government, accusing authorities of reneging on promises made in the initial stages of peace talks, a statement says. The ceasefire came into effect on November 9, after the […]

Iraq‘s national security adviser said today that US-led forces have completed their combat mission in the country, meaning that the remaining troops will now have a training and advisory role. Qassim al-Aaraji tweeted that the combat mission was completed on schedule before the end of the year and that the combat troops are to be […]

The Yemeni Army battling the Houthis across the country has demanded that the UN Security Council and the UN special envoy to Yemen name and shame the Iranian regime for continuing to send military supplies to the Houthis, responsible for killing thousands of Yemenis and undermining peace and stability.  Abdu Abdullah Majili, a Yemeni army […]

The Indian Chief of General Staff, General Bipin Rawat, is dead, as are his wife and 11 other officers, despite initial reports that he had been recovered and taken to hospital. Yesterday the news had spread that the general had been found in the wreckage and was still alive. It is ultimately unclear whether he […]