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Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:33
China: weaponisation of space
Space satellites have become strategic assets and valuable military targets. China has vowed to become the world's leading space power by 2045. In 2019 it landed its Chang'e-4 lunar probe on the far side of the…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:30
USA / Iran: options over nuclear deal
US secretary of state Antony Blinken said, ‘The US and its allies want to bring Iran back into compliance with the nuclear deal, including looking at all of the options necessary if diplomacy doesn’t work.’ He…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:28
India: Christians are attacked, but then are arrested
500 Hindu nationalists accused 60+ Christians of forcible conversion. The mob harassed them, searched their belongings, including women’s undergarments, physically assaulted them, and vandalised their vehicles. But when the police came they arrested the Christians, not…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:25
Iraq: IS attack sparks sectarian bloodshed
An IS attack in October has triggered a crescendo of acts of violence against and displacement of Sunnis in a province in Iraq, bordering Iran, which has long suffered from cells operating in its dense orchards…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:23
Ethiopia: a seemingly inescapable quagmire
Since hostilities began last November, there have been rapes and massacres of civilians on a large scale. As far back as January, aid agencies were sounding alarms about how much worse the situation could get. Continued…
Thursday, 11 November 2021 20:54
Yemen: rising severe mental health problems
Now in its seventh year, the crisis in Yemen is no longer headline news. But the conflict continues to have a devastating impact on people’s wellbeing, and on their mental health in particular. In Hajjah, Doctors…