Human Rights

NEW YORK, Nov 15 (APP): The US military covered up a series of airstrikes in 2019 that killed dozens of Syrian civilians during the campaign against supposed Da’esh targets, according to a report in The New York Times.

The strikes in Baghuz, in Syria’s east, targeted a group of women and children huddled by a river, that had been identified as such by Air Force personnel monitoring the area. The report said personnel were shocked by the bombings and it was not immediately clear who had ordered them.

13 Nov 2021; MEMO: Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has declared that the normalisation of ties with the Israeli occupation state is an "irresponsible" decision, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Friday.

In an interview with a local TV channel, Lamamra affirmed that the next Arab League summit slated to be held in Algeria would be dealing with Arab unity.

13 Nov 2021; MEMO: Former Head of Qatar's Ministerial Council Hamad Bin Jassim Al-Thani revealed on Friday that Israel and an Arab state had planned the latest military coup in Sudan.

13 Nov 2021; MEMO: Gaza is still suffering "from a particularly difficult economic situation with very high unemployment and deteriorating social conditions", the World Bank warned in a report this week.

13 Nov 2021; MEMO: Recent remarks by a far-right French politician on the migration crisis at the EU's borders with Belarus sparked concern across the country on Friday.

Speaking to the French BFM TV news channel on the recent events transpiring on the Belarusian-Polish border, Julien Odoul, a member of the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, said the main task of European authorities must be to protect Europeans.

Jammu, Nov 12 (PTI) National Conference provincial president Rattan Lal Gupta on Friday said Jammu and Kashmir was passing through a most difficult phase and asked the partymen to shoulder responsibilities of steering it to peace and political stability.

He said the people were looking towards the National Conference with hope and, therefore, it is incumbent upon the cadre to meet their aspirations and expectations.

12 Nov 2021; MEMO: The man due to take over as CEO of Israeli spyware company NSO Group, Isaac Benbenisti, has quit after the business was blacklisted by the US Commerce Department, the company said yesterday.

Bhopal, Nov 12 (PTI) The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh is contemplating banning in the state, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid's book in which he has compared Hindutva to radical groups like ISIS and Boko Haram, after taking legal opinion on the matter, said Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Friday.

The minister also hit out at Khurshid over the book on the Ayodhya verdict, titled 'Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times', which was released on Wednesday.

Ghaziabad, Nov 11 (PTI) Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said the farmers' protests will continue till the contentious farm laws are not repealed by the Centre.

Only the repealing of the contentious laws would ensure the end of the protests, the influential farmer leader asserted.

11 Nov 2021; MEMO: An Israeli lawyer has asked Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to open a criminal investigation into Defence Minister Benny Gantz's designation of six Palestinian NGOs as "terrorist" groups, the Jerusalem Post reported today.