By Aluta News Sept 10, 2021 The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has demanded the Taliban end its increasingly violent treatment of people demonstrating in Afghanistan. The bloodshed was not benefiting anyone, spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in Geneva on Friday, warning that “it is not going to help toContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 9, 2021 South African high court on Thursday postponed the hearing of former president Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial linked to 1990s arms deal to Sept. 21 and Sept. 22. The 12-day postponement was agreed between Zuma’s lawyers and prosecutors and granted by Judge Piet Koen atContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 9, 2021 Israel will not let Iran become a nuclear state and reserves the right to act if the world does not stop Iran from getting nuclear capabilities, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Thursday. The foreign minister and I also discussed the Iranian nuclear programmeContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 9, 2021 A mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will on Thursday visit Guinea which has been gripped by a military coup, according to a communique issued late Wednesday. The communique was issued after a virtual meeting of the organisation, convened byContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 8, 2021 Sudan summoned Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum to inform him that 29 corpses found on the banks of a river abutting Ethiopia were those of Ethiopian citizens from the Tigray ethnic group, Sudan’s foreign ministry said. It said in a statement late on Tuesday thatContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 8, 2021 Mexico’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that penalising abortion is unconstitutional. The court ruling indicates a major victory for advocates of women’s health and human rights, just as parts of the United States enact tougher laws against the practice. The decision in the world’sContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 8, 2021 Two-thirds of refugee children might never get to secondary school, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, calling for an international effort to confront “critically low” levels of school and university enrolment. Recent progress “is now under threat,” said UNHCR chief FilippoContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 7, 2021 The Taliban named Mullah Hasan Akhund, an associate of the movement’s late founder Mullah Omar, as head of Afghanistan’s new government on Tuesday and Sirajuddin Haqqani, whose organisation is on a U.S. terrorism list, as interior minister. Haqqani is the son of the founderContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 7, 2021 The head of Russian energy giant Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, warns of a market crash in case oil prices rise above 100 dollar per barrel. Alekperov told the Russian Kommersant newspaper that “I would not want to see oil prices above 100 dollars per barrelContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 7, 2021 The Taliban movement (banned as a terrorist organisation in Russia) says it is ready to have relations with Washington that would serve the interests of both Afghanistan and the United States. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Sputnik in an interview on Tuesday that theContinue Reading