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      6 February

      Anti-government protests continue in Israel decrying planned judicial reforms

      Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered on Saturday for a weekly demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial overhauls, which opponents say threaten Israel’s democratic values. The protesters marched at two locations in the central coastal city of Tel Aviv, waving flags and chanting slogans against the justice minister. “Doctors fighting for the life of democracy,” read a banner raised by a doctor at the Tel Aviv protest. The protest is the fifth against the new government, a coalition of ultra-Orthodox and far-right nationalist parties that took office in December. The government launched proposals to weaken the Supreme Court by giving parliament the power to overturn court decisions with a simple majority vote. It also wants to give parliament…

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    • 6 February

      Japan PM fires aid over same-sex couple comments

      Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday fired an aide who said he wouldn`t want to live next to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender couples and warned that people would flee Japan if same-sex marriage was permitted.  In remarks reported by local media, Masayoshi Arai, an economy and trade official who joined Kishida`s staff as a secretary in October, added he did not even want to look at same-sex couples. “His comments are outrageous and completely incompatible with the administration’s policies,” Kishida said.Speaking to reporters later in the day, the Japanese leader said he had dismissed Arai, who had earlier apologised for “misleading” comments made on Friday. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no…

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    • 6 February

      Pope, Anglican, Presbyterian leaders denounce anti-gay laws

      Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister together denounced the criminalization of homosexuality on Sunday and said gay people should be welcomed by their churches. The three Christian leaders spoke out on LGBTQ rights during an unprecedented joint airborne news conference returning home from South Sudan, where they took part in a three-day ecumenical pilgrimage to try to nudge the young country’s peace process forward. They were asked about Francis’ recent comments to The Associated Press, in which he declared that laws that criminalize gay people were “unjust” and that “being homosexual is not a crime.” South Sudan is one of 67 countries that criminalizes homosexuality, 11 of them with the death penalty. LGBTQ advocates say…

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    • 6 February

      Former Israeli PM: Putin promised not to kill Zelenskyy

      A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett emerged as an unlikely intermediary in the war’s first weeks, becoming one of the few Western leaders to meet President Vladimir Putin during the war in a snap trip to Moscow last March. While Bennett’s mediation efforts appear to have done little to end the bloodshed that continues until today, his remarks, in an interview posted online late Saturday, shed light on the backroom diplomacy and urgent efforts that were underway to try to bring the conflict to a speedy conclusion in its…

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    • 6 February

      Iran’s Supreme leader pardons large number of prisoners linked to protests, state TV reports

      Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned “tens of thousands” of prisoners, including many arrested in recent anti-government protests over security-related charges, state media reported on Sunday.  “Prisoners not facing charges of spying for foreign agencies, having direct contact with foreign agents, committing intentional murder and injury, committing destruction and arson of state property, or not having a private plaintiff in their case will be pardoned,” state media said. The pardons were announced in honour of the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. According to the HRANA activist news agency, about 20,000 people have been arrested over anti-government protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman, in September. (Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing…

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    • 5 February

      China strongly opposes US move to shoot down unmanned airship

      China expressed strong dissatisfaction and opposition towards the US use of force to attack China’s civilian unmanned airship, Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Sunday in a statement. The Chinese side has, after verification, repeatedly informed the US side of the civilian nature of the airship and conveyed that its entry into the US due to force majeure was totally unexpected, the statement said, noting the Chinese side has clearly asked the US side to properly handle the matter in a calm, professional and restrained manner, Xinhua News Agency reported. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Friday when answering a relevant query that the civilian airship is used for research, mainly meteorological purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering…

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    • 5 February

      Pakistan’s former military ruler General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf passes away

      Pakistan’s former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf passed away on Sunday in a Dubai hospital, according to media reports. Musharraf, 79, was suffering from amyloidosis, a rare disease caused by a build-up of an abnormal protein called amyloid in organs and tissues throughout the body, The Express Tribune reported. The military ruler had been undergoing treatment at American Hospital Dubai, Geo News reported. Musharraf was born on August 11, 1943 in Delhi. He assumed the post of Chief Executive after imposing martial law in the country in 1999 and served as the president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. The former president’s family moved from New Delhi to Karachi in 1947. He joined the Pakistan Army in 1964 and was a graduate…

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    • 5 February

      Russia rejects reports that US offered Moscow secret Ukraine peace plan

      The Kremlin on Friday rejected as a “hoax” media reports that U.S. CIA Director William Burns had travelled to Moscow with a secret peace proposal that involved Ukraine ceding a fifth of its territory to Russia. The Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung’s report, which said Burns had made a secret trip to Moscow last month to put forward the plan on behalf of the White House, has also been dismissed by Washington. Asked whether Burns had travelled to Moscow or put forward a plan that involved Ukraine ceding 20% of its territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “That whole report is a hoax.” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel, chairman of the 27 EU national…

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    • 5 February

      Why has Pakistan blocked Wikipedia?

       Pakistan blocked online encyclopaedia Wikipedia for hosting “blasphemous content”, reported Dawn. Earlier in the week, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had warned Wikipedia that it had 48 hours to remove certain content or access to the site would be cut off in the country. A spokesperson for the PTA told the press that “An opportunity of hearing was also provided, however, the platform neither complied by removing the blasphemous content nor appeared before the authority”.  Press Release: PTA has degraded Wikipedia services in the country on account of not blocking / removing sacrilegious contents. pic.twitter.com/h6ZWuf8TnR— PTA (@PTAofficialpk) February 1, 2023 While details of content that the PTA wanted to be removed are unclear, the spokesperson said that Wikipedia will remain blocked in…

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    • 5 February

      ‘Honour killing’: 22-year-old Iraqi YouTuber killed by father over family dispute

      A young Iraqi YouTuber became the victim of ‘honour killing’ at the hands of a family member. The killing of 22-year-old Tiba al-Ali sparked outrage in Iraq. Interior ministry spokesman Saad Maan noted in a tweet on Friday that Ali was killed by her father on January 31 in the southern province of Diwaniya. Notably, Ali resided in Turkey and was visiting her family in Iraq. Mann noted that police had tried to mediate between Ali and her relatives to ‘resolve a family dispute’. The minister further said that after the police’s initial meeting with the family, ‘we were surprised the next day… with the news of her killing at the hands of her father, as he admitted in his…

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