Denmark has called on Bahrain to release all people arbitrarily detained in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, including prominent human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is also a Danish citizen and serving a life sentence for his influential role in the 2011 popular uprising against the Al Khalifah regime.
NYT:
Indian police engaged in direct violence against Muslims and helped Hindu mobs in their atrocities against Muslims, or just stood aside watching, as Hindu extremists targeted the Muslim minority in the capital, New Delhi, last month, a new report shows.
During a visit to Moscow, a delegation from the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad movement has exchanged views with Russian officials on issues such as unity among Palestinian factions and a pro-Israel proposal devised by Washington on the Middle East conflict.
A number of Iranian intellectuals and academicians, in a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, urged him to take urgent action to put an end to uncontrolled violence against Muslims in India.
Israeli military forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenage boy as tensions continue in the occupied Palestinian territories as part of the aftermath of US President Donald Trump's announcement of his so-called deal of the century on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinian leaders slammed the Israeli defence ministry's approval of planning for a road that would separate Palestinians and Israeli commuters East of Jerusalem, a highly controversial move meant to help advance an illegal settlement plan in the strategically sensitive E1 region.
CENTCOM:
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says it is set to deploy missile systems in Iraq for fear of more Iranian attacks in retaliation for the assassination by the US military of top anti-terror general Qassem Soleimani.
Syrian government forces have discovered a workshop in the western countryside of the country’s embattled northwestern province of Aleppo, which foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants used to manufacture toxic chemical weapons for their attacks against army troops and civilians in government-controlled areas.
The fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Monday urged the United Nations and the European Union to launch an international investigation into his murder "to prove their legitimacy”.