MONITORING (SW) – Iranians voted for a new parliament on Friday in an election seen as a test of the clerical establishment’s legitimacy at a time of growing frustration over economic woes and restrictions on political and social freedoms.
MONITORING (SW) – A massive fire in Bangladesh that raced through a six-storey building home to restaurants where many families with children were dining has killed at least 45 people and injured dozens, the health minister said on Friday.
KABUL (SW) – Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, in response to the global criticism of the implementation of “retribution orders” and the public execution of several individuals by the de-facto government, asks other countries not to interfere in this matter.
MONITORING (SW) – Gaza health authorities said Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for an aid delivery, but Israel blamed the deaths on crowds that surrounded aid trucks, saying victims had been trampled or run over.
