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MILAN (AP) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Melon I reprimanded the youth wing of her far-right party Brothers of Italy after an Italian news outlet published videos showing some of its members glorification of fascism. “I have said and repeated it dozens of times, but perhaps I should repeat it: there is no room in […]

Opinion by James E. Jennings (Atlanta, Georgia) Wednesday, July 3, 2024 Inter Press Service ATLANTA, Georgia, Jul 3 (IPS) – Zionism is broken. It is finished as a political philosophy and cannot survive for long. Now that it has earned the visceral opposition of masses of people and countries around the world for engaging in

Opinion by Andrew Firmin (London) Wednesday, July 3, 2024 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jul 3 (IPS) – Myanmar’s military, at war with pro-democracy forces and ethnic militias, must know it is nowhere near victory. It has recently came close to lose control of Myawaddy, one of the country’s largest cities, at a key location on

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A former Pakistani senator was killed Wednesday when a vehicle carrying him and his supporters struck a roadside bomb in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border, police said. Two other people were killed. Two other people were wounded in the attack in Bajur, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

A Hezbollah commander and his bodyguard were killed in an Israeli drone strike near the port city of Tyre on Wednesday, security and Hezbollah sources said. The car was attacked in the al-Hosh region, east of Tyre. Hezbollah confirmed the deaths of the two people, but gave no further details. According to Lebanese security sources,

German prosecutors on Wednesday arrested four suspected members of a Syrian militia and one suspected member of the Syrian secret service. The detainees are suspected of killing and attempting to kill civilians, which amounts to crimes against humanity and war crimes. Four of them are also accused of torture. The four alleged militia members are

Members of ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) can now apply to become a registered accountant. This will help reduce the talent shortage and increase diversity in the audit sector. Following ACCA’s accreditation by the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors of South Africa last year, ACCA members can now apply to become registered auditors

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s election commission fired its chairman on Wednesday after finding him guilty of sexual abuse, following a complaint from an employee. The General Electoral Commission’s ethics council said its chairman, Hasyim Asyari, carried out the October attack and that the council had “fully accepted” the prosecutor’s complaint, the head of the

TOKYO (AP) — In a landmark ruling, Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay adequate compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-repealed eugenics protection law that was designed to eradicate the offspring of people with disabilities. An estimated 25,000 people were sterilized without their consent between

Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will meet in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. The event takes place at a time when tensions are rising between two of the group’s most powerful members. Russia and China compete for influence in Central Asia. Leaders of a group of countries seen by Russia and China as a counterweight to