https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-iran-nuclear-united-nations-87a66054c42dc272904d3d730559ec96 Iran has confirmed it relocated a centrifuge facility to its underground Natanz nuclear site, days after the U.N. atomic watchdog said it installed surveillance cameras to monitor the new workshop at Tehran’s request. The late Saturday report by the official IRNA news agency comes as diplomatic efforts to restore Iran’s tattered nuclear deal appear stalled. The news agency quoted… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-africa-libya-north-dde2d521b6f0465c08b34be9918cab0d Libya’s national oil company said on Sunday, it was forced to shut down an oil field amid a political impasse that threatened to drag the North African nation back into armed conflict. The state-run National Oil Corp. stated a group of people entered al-Feel field in the country’s south on Saturday, effectively stopping production. It didn’t specify who the… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-religion-united-nations-yemen-civil-wars-9938494cf9cfce13cb5f7ba486706e71 Yemen’s Houthi rebels have agreed to rid their ranks of child soldiers, who have fought by the thousands during the country’s seven years of civil war, the United Nations said Monday. The Houthis signed what the U.N. described as an “action plan” to end and prevent recruiting or using children in armed conflict, killing or maiming children and attacking… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-089b0e358b1d1e06aed6337eb18b5023 On April 1st, Taliban officials states that two bombs placed at a playing field in Afghanistan’s western Herat province killed five people and wounded 25 others. Earlier in the day, five children died in southern Helmand province after finding an unexploded shell that went off. According to the Taliban-appointed Herat provincial spokesman, Mahmood Rasoly, the two bombs went off… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/business-pakistan-india-kashmir-56f5c21fe0fea4703b608f8166e4a4f3 During a rebel attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city, on April 4th, a paramilitary soldier was killed and another wounded. In two separate attacks in another area of Kashmir, four laborers were injured elsewhere in the disputed region. Two militants on a motorbike opened fire at patrolling paramilitary soldiers in the main business center of Srinagar – Kashmir’s largest… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-taliban-3bac934af1267468fe848e824dea6598 On early March 24th, the military stated that militants attempted to sneak into Pakistan from Afghanistan which triggered a shootout with soldiers that killed four Pakistani troops. According to the military statement, the attack happened in Hassan Khel, a border town in North Waziristan, a former militant stronghold, after midnight on Wednesday. It also said that the attack was… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/business-asia-global-trade-south-asia-sri-lanka-5ddb5b2623115b96d1f4c0584f6b3306 On March 22, 2022, in hopes to better trade relations with the European Union Sri Lankan lawmakers approved of a reformal of a long critized, harsh anti-terror law amid its economic crisis. This vote followed a European Parliament resolution passed last year regarding a preferential trade scheme with Sri Lanka, in leverage for rights reforms in Sri Lanka. Most… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-religion-dubai-united-arab-emirates-saudi-arabia-3e1eb2b3232719eac5eb9cdd47b26ad9 With the Muslim fasting month creeping up, the Saudis proposed to pause the fighting before the start of the holiday. A Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis began observing on Wednesday a unilateral cease-fire in the yearslong war, despite the rebels’ rejection of the proposal. Similar truces have been implied yet have failed, and there hasn’t been any immediate… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/health-middle-east-israel-west-bank-bb8a2fedcb369eea8a0337c317c27c69 On March 31th, Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, setting off a gun battle that killed 2 Palestinians and wounded 15 people. This isn’t the first incident to occur recently between the Israelis and Palestinians. A seperate incident were a Palestinian stabbed a Israeli on the bus, killing a bystander, two days before a… Read more »
