In the year 2024, geopolitical competition increased while the one brief respite from a year with more steps backward than forward came with the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, the world’s most beautiful city.
MONITORING (SW) – Britain’s online safety regime came into force on Monday, requiring social media companies like Meta’s Facebook and ByteDance’s TikTok to take action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms and make them safer by design.
Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad’s luxurious home after rebels swept into Damascus and declared he had fled the country, in a spectacular end to five decades of rule by the Assad dynasty.
The announcement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to bar women from studying in medical institutes will have far-reaching consequences on women’s health in the country, warned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
France has been plunged into political crisis after a no-confidence vote brought down the government, ending the beleaguered minority coalition of the rightwing prime minister Michel Barnier after only three months.
President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, saying that if they are not freed before he is sworn into office for a second term there will be “HELL TO PAY.”
A number of residents of Kabul, expressing complaints and concerns about the shortage of drinking water, say they are facing many difficulties in securing water.
US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on a bloc of nine nations if they were to create a rival currency to the US dollar.
At least two children and a woman were crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip amid a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory, medical officials said.
Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, has stated that Sergey Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, assured during his visit to Afghanistan that the removal of the “Taliban” name from Russia’s list of banned groups will be finalized in the near future.
MONITORING (SW) – Pakistan security forces launched a night-time operation to disperse thousands of supporters of the country’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, after the crowd broke through barricades and gathered in the capital Islamabad demanding his release.
Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, has said that Moscow is ready to implement infrastructure projects in Afghanistan, including railways, transport, industry, agriculture, electricity, and mining.
