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Thursday, 18 November 2021 20:25
Uganda: Muslim cleric shot dead after terrorist attack
Security forces in Uganda have shot dead a Muslim cleric, Sheikh Muhammad Abas Kirevu, accused of working with an armed group linked to suicide bombings in Kampala. He had recruited for cells run by the Allied…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:36
COP26: death threats for indigenous activist after speech
Txai Suruí is a climate activist who is part of an indigenous community in the Amazon rainforest. She spoke to world leaders at COP26 about the direct impacts of climate change that her tribe is already…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:33
China: weaponisation of space
Space satellites have become strategic assets and valuable military targets. China has vowed to become the world's leading space power by 2045. In 2019 it landed its Chang'e-4 lunar probe on the far side of the…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:30
USA / Iran: options over nuclear deal
US secretary of state Antony Blinken said, ‘The US and its allies want to bring Iran back into compliance with the nuclear deal, including looking at all of the options necessary if diplomacy doesn’t work.’ He…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:28
India: Christians are attacked, but then are arrested
500 Hindu nationalists accused 60+ Christians of forcible conversion. The mob harassed them, searched their belongings, including women’s undergarments, physically assaulted them, and vandalised their vehicles. But when the police came they arrested the Christians, not…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:25
Iraq: IS attack sparks sectarian bloodshed
An IS attack in October has triggered a crescendo of acts of violence against and displacement of Sunnis in a province in Iraq, bordering Iran, which has long suffered from cells operating in its dense orchards…