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Trusted news agencies tracing tendencies of democratisation and autocratisation globally
Trusted news agencies tracing tendencies of democratisation and autocratisation globally
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The final appeal of thirty-odd Tunisian oppostion figures in a case of so-called "conspiracy' has started. The mass trial has drawn sharp criticism by rights groups who call it a "travesty of justice".
Israel plans to keep hold of around 60% of the territory of the Gaza Strip, PM Benjamin Netanyahu said as he visited a military base there. The visit comes as a tricky parliamentary looms in October, which is largely a referendum on Netanyahu’s nearly uninterrupted 17-year rule.
Moderate Zionist former security minister Yoav Segalovitz is joining forces with the conservative Islamic Ra'am party in a move that could shake up the political landscape in Israel ahead of the October 27 elections.
Syria has introduced Kurdish school instruction following a decree issued by the country's president Ahmed al-Sharaa in January which recognizes Kurdish as a “national language".
Iran has executed yet another two people by hanging after they were found guilty of hundreds of armed robberies. According to Amnesty International, Iran conducts the second most executions of any country, after China.
A rights body focusing has documented flogging in Afghanistan, detailing cases of floggings in public. Most cases relate to alleged sexual offences. In March, the UN expressed concern over a rise in the practice.
Extremist Knesset member Zvi Sukkot has drawn criticism for destroying a memorial to Palestinian martyrs in Madama, a village in the northern West Bank. The military termed the incident "serious" and accused Sukkot of deception.
A Damascus court has handed down a third verdict on Assad-era officials, sentencing a former grand mufti to life. Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun had justified the use of barrel bombs on civilians, the court found.
Iran executed yet another man in connection with the January anti-government protests sparked by a cost-of-living crisis. The judiciary's Mizan news agency said the man had been armed and was an agent of Israel and the US.
The Taliban have released two UN staffers detained for more than a week in Herat in the west of the country. The UN in New York said that unspecified charges had been dropped. Details were scant, but reports said the two were men.
South Sudan, Africa's newest country, heads into elections in December amid serious risks, the UN Human Rights Commission believes. It accuses the government of using the country's resources to abuse the rights of its people.
The Israeli military is to probe the death of 5-year-old Hind Rajab, who was heard pleading for help from a car in Gaza before she too died. Other deaths, including those of paramedics, will also be investigated, but not the World Central Kitchen attacks.
An Afghan national who took part in protests in Iran has been executed, the latest in a wave of hangings. The organisation Iran Human Rights condemns this as a "stark example of the arbitrary use of the death penalty" by Iran.
A cousin of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to death in absentia in Damascus for war crimes but observers say the sentence is unlikely to be carried out since like the former leader he has fled the country.
