Ayatollah Khamenei’s sister condemns his rule, urges Guards to disarm. According to a letter published by her son in France, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s sister has criticized his crackdown on widespread protests and has called on the widely feared Revolutionary Guards to put down their weapons. Since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini […]
Day: December 7, 2022
How Indonesia’s new sex laws will affect tourists?
How Indonesia’s new sex laws will affect tourists? Tourism operators in Indonesia are still trying to recover from the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the country’s parliament has passed new laws that some fear could turn tourists away once again – because having sex out of wedlock is set to be outlawed. The […]
Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN
‘Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed multinational corporations for turning the world’s ecosystems into “playthings of profit” and warned failure to correct course would lead to catastrophic results. “With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,” […]
EU appeals to WTO panels over trade conflicts with China
EU appeals to WTO panels over trade conflicts with China The European Commission has requested the formation of adjudicating panels at the World Trade Organization as the next step in two trade disputes with China. The disputes, both brought to the WTO at the beginning of the year, concern alleged Chinese restrictions on EU companies’ […]
SC orders new independent JIT to probe Arshad Sharif’s murder
Hours after the Islamabad police notified a JIT, the Supreme Court rejected it on Wednesday, asking the government to form a new Joint Investigation Team comprised of intelligence officers to investigate the murder of journalist Arshad Sharif. A five-judge enlarged Supreme Court panel, led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and included Justices […]