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A mass grave containing 28 bodies has been discovered in Omdurman, city of the capital Khartoum, Sudan. The mass grave is claimed to have the remains of army officers killed for carrying out the 1989 coup attempt against Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir. Tagelsir al-Hebr, a public prosecutor, told AFP news agency, "It took three weeks and the work of 22 experts from different fields to locate it." "Operations are underway to dig up the bodies and medical experts will carry out tests to identify the remains," he added. This is the second mass grave discovered in Sudan recently. Currently, 20 other officials, along with Al Bashir, are on trial for removing the democratically elected government led by Sadek al-Mahdi in 1989. Bashir was toppled in 2019 following popular protests t...

On Friday, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan along with thousands of worshippers gathered to pray for the first time in 86 years at the museum turned mosque Hagia Sophia. The prayers were commemorated after a 16-year legal battle was won in a court ruling stating the Hagia Sophia as the legal property of the Ottoman conqueror, Sultan Mehmet II, who captured Istanbul in 1453 and turned the 900-year-old Christian Byzantine cathedral into a mosque. During the Muslim prayer, intricate mosaics of the Virgin Mary, baby Jesus, and other Christian symbols were concealed by curtains. The prayer began with Erdogan reading out a Quran recitation and then an imam saying the formal prayer service at 1.45 pm (1045 GMT). Erdogan and his top ministers wore white facemasks as a precautionary me...

On Friday, Thai youth including young Thai political activists protested outside the government house of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister and generals who orchestrated a 2014 coup. Over the past week, protests against the government have erupted in at least six provinces of Thailand, along with internal party rifts leading to six cabinet members resigning. Protesters on Friday burned images of Prayuth and his deputy, Prawit Wongsuwan. Youth groups of Thailand are further planning several protests for the weekend. Last week, Bangkok saw about 2,500 people protest as one of the biggest street demonstrations since the 2014 coup. The protesters call on the government to dissolve parliament, step down, and end harassment of critics. Such de...

On Friday, three senior editors and over 70 journalists resigned from Hungary's most-read and well recognized independent news site Index.hu due to sacking of the Index.hu’s editor-in-chief Szabolcs Dull. The resignations by Hungarian journalists are in protest of the removal of Dull, as fears of government interference and influence on media grow across the country. Dull was removed because he had warned the organization about its independence from the government falling at risk. In March, after Dull’s warning, 50 percent of Index's advertising agency was purchased by pro-Prime Minister Viktor Orban businessman Miklos Vaszily. In a statement, the resigned journalists condemned Dull's removal as "an overt attempt to apply pressure on Index.hu". Friday also saw thousands of Hungarians ...

On Friday, Indian and Chinese diplomats held further rounds of talks to restore calm and reduced the numbers of troops in the Galwan valley of India’s Ladakh region, where the two nations had the worst clash in decades on June 15. The Galway valley clash over a month ago resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers. The diplomats had planned to hold talks through a virtual conference on the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs, a New Delhi government source said. “It is our expectation that the Chinese side will sincerely work with us for complete disengagement and de-escalation and full restoration of peace and tranquility in the border areas at the earliest,” India’s foreign ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said. A United Stat...

China and Pakistan undertook a secret three-year deal to expand potential bio-warfare capabilities, the Klaxon reported. According to Anthony Klan, the Klaxon report author, the covert deal is signed between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and Pakistan military's Defense Science and Technology Organization (DESTO), to join forces to research in "emerging infectious diseases" and advance studies on the biological control of transmitted diseases. It is important to know that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is under speculation of being the lab where COVID-19 had emerged from. The China- Pakistan covert deal includes several research projects related to the deadly agent anthrax, an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus Anthracis. Anthrax can occur in four forms: skin, lungs,...

On Thursday, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed various issues over a telephonic conversation. The Kremlin issued a statement that the two presidents discussed arms control, the pandemic, and Iran nuclear program.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/wellbutrin.html Trump told Putin that the US wants to avoid an arms race with Russia and China, and engage in arms control negotiations. “President Trump reiterated his hope of avoiding an expensive three-way arms race between China, Russia, and the United States and looked forward to progress on upcoming arms control negotiations in Vienna,” Judd Deere, White House spokesman said. Although the White House did not mention Iran, the Kremlin statement said, “The need for collective efforts to maintain regional stability and...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin commented on the US move to close the Chinese Houston consulate this week by saying, “China must make a necessary response and safeguard its legitimate rights”. Wenbin said the US’s decision his week had “severely harmed” US-China relations and warned that China “must” retaliate, without specifying any measures. On Tuesday, the US gave China 72 hours to close its Wuhan consulate in Houston, which the US stated was “to protect American intellectual property and Americans’ private information”. Wenbin rebutted the US accusations by calling them “malicious slander” and described the move as “unreasonable”. Editor of China’s Global Times tabloid, Hu Xijin, posted on Twitter: “Based on what I know, China will announce countermeasure on Friday B...

On Thursday, a Zimbabwean court rejected bail to Jacob Ngarivhume, an opposition politician and rights activist, over the planning of anti-government protests.buy udenafil online https://healthcoachmichelle.com/wp-content/themes/Divi/css/new/udenafil.html no prescription Jacob Ngarivhume along with Hopewell Chin’ono, a Zimbabwean journalist, were charged in court over accusations of encouraging public violence before next week’s planned anti-government protests against corruption. State prosecutors in the court claim the two used their Twitter accounts to ignite public violence by motivating Zimbabweans to come out to protest. A state prosecutor opposed the bail of Ngarivhume stating he could flee the country, continue to motivate Zimbabweans to participate in the planned protests via ...

For the first time, past the March 10 deadline to begin negotiations, the Taliban is ready to hold peace talks with the Afghan government next month right after Eid al-Adha, but only if the continuing prisoner swap has been completed. On Thursday, Suhail Shaheen, a political spokesman for the Taliban, on Twitter said, “The Taliban is likely ... ready to begin intra-Afghan negotiations immediately after Eid in case the process of the release of the prisoners is completed". There have been no immediate comments from the Afganistan government regarding the Taliban’s statements. The prisoner-exchange deal is part of an agreement between the US and the Taliban ahead of peace talks. According to the US-Taliban agreement, the Afghan government has to free up to 5,000 Taliban fighters, whereas...