Author: Kushagra Bansal

Early on Friday, Sri Lanka security personnel attacked and largely evicted a protest camp that had taken up residence on government property in Colombo, adding fuel to the fire that fears President Ranil Wickremesinghe had begun a crackdown the day after taking office. In riot gear and brandishing assault guns, soldiers were shown in media footage ripping down the camp, erected in April by demonstrators furious over the nation’s economic collapse and severe shortages of food, fuel, and medication. Wickremesinghe, a six-time prime minister, was sworn in as president on Thursday after winning a vote in parliament to replace Gotabaya…

In order to guarantee unrestricted maritime access of Israel to the Gulf of Aqaba which contain the Tiran and Sanafir Islands, US-led peacekeepers will be replaced by cameras. In order to maintain unfettered access for international commerce to the Gulf of Aqaba, whose shoreline is shared by Israel and three Arab countries, officials announced on Thursday that remote-controlled cameras will take over from US-led peacekeepers. Between Egypt and Saudi Arabia are the deserted islands of Tiran and Sanafir. Egypt gave up control of the islands to Saudi Arabia in 2016. Israel’s only water access to its southern port of Eilat…

Mevlut Cavusoglu, the FM of Turkey, claims that rumors attributing responsibility for the incident to Turkey were PKK attempts to obstruct Ankara’s counterterrorism efforts. The Turkish Foreign Minister has refuted claims that Turkey carried out assaults in the Iraqi province of Duhok, where a strike on Wednesday left 23 people injured and eight dead. Mevlut Cavusoglu warned on Thursday that the Iraqi government should not fall for a “trap.” Turkey has denied charges made by Iraqi authorities and state media on Wednesday that it had attacked a mountain resort in the country’s northern Duhok province. According to district mayor Mushir…

The resignation of Ramaphosa as president of South Africa was one of the demonstrators’ top demands in light of the president’s mounting personal problems, which included the alleged theft of $4 million from his Phala Phala farm. On Friday, over 300 demonstrators, the majority of whom were African National Congress (ANC) members, marched through Johannesburg, South Africa’s commercial center, to submit a list of demands and make a call for a new president at the headquarters of the ruling party. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s removal was justified in part by the rising cost of living, gasoline price increases, frequent power outages,…

In response to a potential Russian gas cutoff, conservative politicians from Germany have reignited the discussion on maintaining the country’s three surviving nuclear power reactors. Polls also indicate that public support for nuclear energy has increased. But an extension is extremely sensitive for Germany’s ruling Greens party, which sprung from the anti-nuclear campaign in the 1970s. After former chancellor Angela Merkel promised to stop using nuclear energy after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, Germany’s three remaining nuclear power reactors are set to be shut down by the end of the year. In the first quarter of 2022, the plants…

Iran claims that the US supported an organization that is charged with killing 17,000 Iranians over a period of decades on purpose. United States officials have been placed on the Iranian government’s “blacklist” because of Washington’s support for a group that Tehran regards as a “terrorist” organization. The Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a group that openly advocates replacing the existing Iranian administration, has been given “deliberate support” by 61 current and former American officials, according to the Iranian foreign ministry, which published the list on Saturday. The Iranian regime had previously banned several of the people, including former Secretary of State…

According to President Joe Biden, the US will continue to be a proactive and engaged partner in the Middle East, putting an emphasis on regional ties. President Joe Biden of the United States stated during a summit in Jeddah, a city on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, that the United States “will not walk away” from the Middle East and leave a void to be filled by Russia, China, or Iran. He also stated that the US is dedicated to making sure Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon at the conference on Saturday. At the summit, the leaders of…

An embattled president flees Sri Lanka amid protests over the country’s economic situation and settles in Singapore. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sent a letter of resignation after fleeing to Singapore, and the speaker of the Sri Lankan parliament accepted it. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, the speaker, declared on Friday, “From this moment, we shall seek to constitutionally appoint a new president.” He added that the Parliament would convene on Saturday to start the selection process for the new president who would complete Rajapaksa’s remaining term, which ends in 2024. According to Abeywardana, the procedure should be finished in seven days. The news…

During their meeting in Jerusalem, US President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Lapid signed a joint statement. In a joint statement pledging to stop Tehran from getting nuclear weapons, US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reaffirmed their anti-Iran positions. On the second day of Biden’s four-day trip to the Middle East, the two leaders met one-on-one in West Jerusalem on Thursday morning. That meeting was followed by a virtual summit with the leaders of India and the United Arab Emirates. According to the declaration, the US will employ “all forces of national power” at its disposal…

According to the UN World Food Programme, increasing violence makes it impossible to carry desperately needed food and other help. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that hunger is expected to intensify in Haiti due to worsening gang violence, high food prices, and rising inflation, endangering humanitarian assistance efforts in the country. According to a statement released by WFP on Tuesday, it has become difficult for people to obtain and afford food due to the unrest in the area surrounding Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, where gangs have taken control of neighborhoods and blocked roadways. More than…