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A repeated controversy has hit the social media, with several users denouncing Google for'Removing Palestine from their Map,' Various users throughout social media platforms suddenly noticed that the country was missing from Google Maps. Palestine, the abode of the Holy city of Jerusalem, claimed by Muslims, Christians and Jews has been rife with its border disputes: it has had annexation, military occupations, it has had its territories being encroached, intifadas, and along with it had displacement, dispute and death of its people. The Kashmiriyat also tried finding out Palestine on Google Maps, it points you to an approximate location - though, with no markers. Also, if you try to find distance from a point to Palestine, it shows, "No results found for Palestine." Though Google ha...

Pakistan took up the issue of Jammu Kashmir and oppose the expansion of the Security Council’s permanent membership in a high level secession of the United Nations. Pakistan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who just recovered from COVID-19, raised the issue of Jammu Kashmir in his address Friday to the High-Level Segment of UN ECOSOC titled ‘Multilateralism after COVID 19: what kind of UN do we need at the 75th anniversary?’ Qureshi said that the United Nations and the entire concept of multilateralism has been eroded by resorting to hegemonism, coercion and arbitrary use of force. Qureshi said Pakistan was “particularly concerned” by the “oppression and atrocities” being perpetrated against the people of Jammu Kashmir. India has firmly told Pakistan that Jammu...

On Thursday, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt will not stand idle if faced with any direct threat to Egyptian and Libyan security, reported Reuters. The statement comes in after commander Khalifa Haftar’s ally lawmakers called on Egypt to intervene militarily in Libya’s civil war. Egyptian presidency in a statement said that tribal leaders from Libya's Haftar’s Benghazi informed President Sisi at a meeting in Cairo that they permit him and the Egyptian army to intervene in Libya “to protect Libyan sovereignty”. Since 2014, Libya has been divided between an internationally and United Nations recognized government in Tripoli, backed by Turkey, and an eastern administration, supported by the UAE, Russia and Egypt. To help fight Turkish support for Libya’s internationally ...

On Thursday, the FBI's San Francisco office said it had launched an investigation after hackers gained access to Twitter's internal systems and hijacked accounts. Hijacked accounts included those of the Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, President Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and the corporate accounts for Uber Technologies Inc and Apple Inc. The hijacked accounts were used to solicit digital currency. The hackers used the accounts to tweet out messages asking users to send bitcoin in order to double their money.buy wellbutrin online blackmenheal.org/wp-content/languages/new/wellbutrin.html no prescription The scammers received over $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency, publicly available blockchain records showed. The FBI said in a statement said,...

On Thursday, Tunisia protesters shut down the main Saharan pumping station at Kamour that feeds a costal terminal, reported Reuters. Tunisia protesters are calling on the government to create jobs in the marginalized southern region of Tatouine. Despite the presence of soldiers guarding the pumping station at Kamour, hundreds of protesters closed in on the petroleum installations. Since last week, Tunisia protesters have camped out in the Sahara region to pressure the government to apply a 2017 deal that would create employment in oil companies and infrastructure projects. The Saharan region has an unemployment rate of 30%, one of the highest unemployment rates in Tunisia.buy propecia online gaetzpharmacy.com/propecia.html no prescription This move by protesters puts furthe...

On Thursday, United Kingdom’s (UK) National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) accused Russia of trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world. The UK, United States (US), and Canada put forth a co-ordinated statement attributing the cyber-attacks to the group APT29, also known as Cozy Bear.buy zovirax online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/new/zovirax.html no prescription In the joint statement, the three countries claim the group APT29 almost certainly operates as part of Russian intelligence services. NCSC Director of Operations Paul Chichester said, “We condemn these despicable attacks against those doing vital work to combat the coronavirus pandemic”. “APT29 is likel...

The Indonesian island of Sulawesi experienced flash floods and landslides resulting in at least 30 fatalities and leaving hundreds displaced, authorities said on Thursday. Yusuf Latif, Indonesia search rescue agency spokesman, said in a statement that fifteen people remain missing. The flash floods were caused by heavy rain that led to three rivers, near the North Luwu district of South Sulawesi province, to burst. More than 4,000 residents were affected by the flash floods. The flash floods have resulted in dozens of houses being partially submerged by thick mud up to their roofs.  

On Wednesday, hundreds protested and dozens were arrested over a protest in Moscow against constitutional reforms that give President Vladimir Putin the power to stay in power for additional 16 years, witnesses, and a monitoring group said. Around 500 protestors chanted asking Putin to resign, held banners against the reforms, and wore face masks with the word “no” written on them. After protestors marched down one of the Moscow city’s main boulevards, police officers in riot gear started making arrests late in the evening. According to the rights monitoring group OVD-info, the police detained over a hundred people. There has been no confirmation on the numbers of arrests from the police or the government. Russian opposition activists state the vote on the reform as illegiti...

On Wednesday, the newly appointed French Prime Minister, Jean Castex, told the National Assembly that he vowed to be "intransigent" in protecting France's secularism, promising to battle against "radical Islamism in all its forms" as "an absolute priority". While introducing a new government policy in Paris, Jean Castex, said a new law to fight "separatism" would be launched after the summer break. According to Castex, the new government policy would aim to "avoid certain groups becoming closed in around ethnic or religious identities." Castex stated that police would be given the resources they needed to deal with violence during protests and petty crime and that local judges would be arranged to guarantee"day-to-day anti-social behavior" was punished rapidly. Recently, Emmanu...

United States (US) researchers state that the first vaccine tested in the country is ready for final testing as it had worked to boost coronavirus positive patients' immune systems. This news comes amid the US reporting a rise in its coronavirus cases by 65,682, making the total tally reach 3.45 million with at least 919 new deaths added to the total number of fatalities of around 136,000. On Wednesday, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a study by Dutch scientists, that the blood of patients who were seriously ill from coronavirus and kept on ventilators was found to be highly inflammatory and harmful to the body. According to official reports from Johns Hopkins University, as of now, COVID-19 has been diagnosed in more than 13.29 million people around the world, 7.37 millio...