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A fresh wave of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances has been documented across Balochistan this month, as Baloch rights groups recorded the recovery of several bodies of men who had earlier been forcibly taken, and appealed once more to international institutions that have largely ignored the province.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC)…
The US has issued a global travel alert after allegedly receiving an unspecified al-Qaeda threat.
The state department in a statement said there was particularly strong potential for attacks in the Middle East and North Africa and recommended that US citizens be vigilant while travelling abroad.
The Zimbabwean opposition's Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai slammed Wednesday's election as "null and void" and a "huge farce".
Alleging polling day irregularities and vote-rigging by Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, Tsvangirai said that over 1 million voters were not being allowed to vote.
A criminal court in Libya sentenced the education minister from Gaddafi’s era, Ahmed Ibrahim, to death today, for murder and inciting violence during the 2011 uprising that ended in the disposition of Gaddafi.
The United Nations’ intervention force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has given residents in Goma 48 hours to disarm and anyone armed beyond that time will be considered a rebel.
"They will be considered an imminent threat of physical violence to civilians and [UN mission in DR Congo] Monusco will take all necessary measures to disarm them, including by the use of force in accordance with its mandate and rules of engagement," a statement by the UN mission in the DR Congo, Monusco, said.
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has been involved in electoral fraud during the July 2013 national elections, suggests recent research by Human Rights Watch.
The Asia director of Human Rights Watch, Brad Adams, confirmed that,
The US Secretary of State has announced that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will aim to achieve a “final status agreement” over the coming 9 months, after talks between the two sides concluded in Washington.
“They are on the table with one simple goal: a view to ending the conflict, ending the claims. Our objective will be to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months” said Secretary John Kerry at a press briefing.
Palestinian protesters in Ramallah, protesting against the resumption of peace talks between the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Israel, were beaten up by Palestinian Authority police, and 5 arrested, states Human Rights Watch. In a statement, HRW condemned the police violence which left 10 protesters injured.
Tom Porteous, deputy program director at HRW said,
The police beat protesters and then arrested injured people, some even from the hospital
India’s ruling Congress-led coalition unanimously agreed on the formation of a new state in the Telangana region of the southern Andhra-Pradesh state, officials said today.
Supporters of the new state say that the area had been neglected by the Andhra Pradesh government.