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      12 December

      Pakistan Political Crisis: Imran Khan’s to dissolve Punjab, KPK assemblies if…

      Ousted premier Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Sunday warned Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led government that it will dissolve the assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces if a date for next general election is not announced by December 20. “Leaders of the imported government don’t want polls and they have no idea how to run the country,” former information minister and PTI’s senior vice president Fawad Chaudhry said in a tweet. He criticised the members of the ruling coalition led by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), saying the country’s affairs are not run by appointing ministers and making foreign visits. “If the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) doesn’t bring a formula for holding general elections by December 20, the Punjab…

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    • 12 December

      Free condoms: France is making condoms available to all young people after learning a startling percentage of its population doesn’t use protection

      France will start offering free condoms to all young people in January in an effort to curb STIs. Health officials there say STIs have been on the rise lately, especially among young people. France will make free condoms available to all young people starting in January in an effort to curb the country’s increasing rate of sexually transmitted infections, President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday. Macron announced the new measure in a Twitter video on Friday. The move is part of a larger health iniative meant to improve public access to personal healthcare, including contraception and STI screening. “It’s a small revolution for prevention,” Macron said of the condom push. The decision was in part prompted by the growing rate of sexually transmitted infections in…

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    • 12 December

      Erdogan hints that he would run as candidate «for the last time» in 2023 elections

      Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his intention to seek popular endorsement ahead of a final five-year presidential term in the 2023 general election before retiring from political life. Without being an official announcement, the Turkish president confirmed this past Saturday in a speech in the city of Samsun that “God willing, in 2023, and with the power of your support on my behalf for the last time, the construction of the Turkish Century will begin”. Erdogan ruled Turkey as prime minister between 2003 and 2014 and, since then, as the nation’s president. A constitutional amendment in 2017 changed the system to an executive presidency model and Erdogan was elected president in 2018. After what would be his last…

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    • 12 December

      Israel, UAE ratify comprehensive economic partnership pact

      The comprehensive economic partnership deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has been ratified, the UAE’s state minister for foreign trade, Thani Al Zeyoudi, announced on Twitter on Sunday. 96 per cent of the items moved between the countries would no longer be subject to tariffs thanks to the free trade agreement, which was first signed in May. “Non-oil trade between UAE and Israel hit $2 billion in the first nine months of 2022, up 114% from the same period in 2021… [The agreement] will accelerate this progress as we create opportunities in key sectors such as advanced technology, renewable energy and food security,” Al Zeyoudi added. Under the Abraham Accords, which were mediated by former US president Donald Trump,…

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    • 11 December

      Russia’s oil exports plunge on EU price cap and latest round of sanctions

      Russia’s oil exports have plunged amid the latest round of western sanctions. According to data from Kpler, Russian seaborne oil shipments fell 16% on Tuesday. Russia’s oil exports have plunged amid the European Union’s price cap on Russian crude and the latest round of sanctions, squeezing revenues for Moscow’s wartime economy. According to data from the analytics firm Kpler, Russia’s seaborne oil shipments fell by 16%, or about half a million barrels per day on Tuesday this week. TankerTrackers.com, another analytics site, recorded an even steeper 50% drop in daily barrel shipments, largely due to a fall in shipments headed Russia’s Black Sea and Baltic ports, which transfer oil to Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported. The decline comes shortly after the EU…

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    • 11 December

      Google restores Gmail that went down for millions globally

      Gmail users complained about mails not being received. Both mobile app and desktop versions were affected across the world. New Delhi: Google finally restored Gmail service after it suffered a massive outage for millions of users globally, including in India, on Saturday. Gmail users complained about mails not being received. Both mobile app and desktop versions were affected across the world. “The issue with gmail is now fully mitigated. All the backlog of undelivered messages have been cleared and mail services are back to normal,” Google Workspace said in an update. “Thanks for your patience while we resolved this issue,” said the company. The company earlier said that mitigation was currently underway and “email delivery is no longer failing”. “However, the…

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    • 11 December

      US announce sanctions on 2 Chinese officials involved in serious human rights abuse in Tibet

      US announced sanctions on two Chinese officials for serious human rights abuse in the TAR, according to the US Department of Treasury. Washington: US on Friday announced sanctions on two Chinese officials for serious human rights abuse in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), according to the US Department of Treasury. The Chinese officials, named Wu Yingjie (Wu) and Zhang Hongbo (Zhang) have been named as those involved in rights violations by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) which is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the U S Treasury Department. The agency administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions in support of US national security and foreign policy objectives. Notably, the Treasury has sanctioned over 40 individuals and entities across nine…

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    • 11 December

      Australia imposes sanctions on Iran, Russia over human rights violations

      SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s foreign minister said on Saturday the government would place targeted sanctions on Russia and Iran in response to what it called “egregious” human rights violations. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement Australia was imposing Magnitsky-style sanctions on 13 individuals and two entities, including Iran’s Morality Police and Basij Resistance Force, and six Iranians involved in the crackdown on protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in custody in September. In an opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald, Wong said the sanctions applied to Seyed Sadegh Hosseini, whom she described as a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was being listed for his alleged role in “indiscriminate use of violence…

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    • 11 December

      UK sanctions target global human rights abuses, corruption and sexual violence

      Britain has targeted individuals accused of human rights abuses, corruption and sexual violence in 30 sanctions across nearly a dozen countries. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the asset freeze and travel bans announced on Friday “expose those behind the heinous violations”. Ten officials connected to Iran’s judicial and prisons systems, including those linked to handing protesters death penalties, were targeted. Also targeted were two former directors of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where Iranian-British dual nationals including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe have been held. Russian Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin was sanctioned for his alleged role as commander of the 90th Tank Division on the front line of the invasion of Ukraine. Officials in Russia linked to torture were also targeted, as was a Muslim cleric…

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    • 11 December

      Power outage plunges parts of Paris into darkness; technical glitch blamed

      Several districts of southern Paris were plunged into darkness on Thursday night due to a power outage tied to a technical glitch on an electrical transformer of energy supplier Enedis. The incident comes amid worries that power blackouts could cripple infrastructure in France as the first cold snap of the winter tests the resilience of the power network. Many streets in Paris’s third, fourth, fifth arrondissements were hit by the power cuts around 10:15 p.m. (2115 GMT) and power was restored around 11:00 p.m., grid operator RTE’s division for the region encompassing Paris, Ile de France, said on Twitter. “Around 125,000 households were affected at the height of the incident,” it said. A spokeswoman for Enedis told Reuters the transformer…

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