On Monday, February 8th, Twitter said it was seeking talks with India’s technology minister in response to the country asking the app to take down 1,178 accounts that are supposedly spreading misinformation about the ongoing farmers’ protests. On February 4th, New Delhi wrote to Twitter asking it to remove all
In March of 2019, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces captured ISIS’s last remaining territory. The SDF declared it a “total elimination of so-called caliphate.” However, the remaining pieces left of ISIS are now regrouping and making a destructive return in Iraq and Syria. Security consultant Olivier Guitta said to Al-Jazeera
As of March 1st, 2021, UN investigators reported that the fate of tens of thousands of civilians in Syria’s “notorious” prisons or detention centres remains unknown ten years after the country’s civil war started. Last week’s 30-page report from the Commission of Inquiry―based on more than 2,500 interviews conducted over
Switzerland is set to pass a new ban on face coverings following a 51.2 per cent majority on Sunday’s referendum, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Latvia and Bulgaria. The ban was championed by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), a right-wing populist political party whose alleged aim was to ‘stop
On 11 March 2021, The United Nation (UN) Security Council convened to debate the relationship between food security and conflicts. UN Secretary-General António Guterres commented that “If you don’t feed people, you feed conflict. Conflict drives hunger and famine, and hunger and famine drive conflict.” In his remark, he warned
