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Libya’s fragile transition plagued by deepening economic and political divides Nearly 15 years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi and the emergence of rival administrations in 2014, the country remains divided, with the internationally recognised ...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights among new entries to UNESCO Memory of the World Register 17 April 2025 Culture and Education The archives of British naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection ...
Rise in violence against civilians in South Sudan The finding comes in its latest brief on violence against civilians, which also reveals a similar rise in incidents of conflict-related sexual violence (CSRV). Sources include victims ...
Sudan: No respite for civilians amid unrelenting war and aid access barriers Into its third year, the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has created the world’s largest ...
Gaza: Alongside conflict, an information war is still happening, warns UNRWA chief By Daniel Johnson 17 April 2025 Peace and Security Amid reported Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip into Thursday that killed at least ...
2025-04-17T11:19:36+00:00 Shafaq News/ On a dimly lit stage at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani, optimism ran high as veteran Iraqi Kurdish politician Hoshyar Zebari declared that what happened in Syria is “just the ...
Those who came to power in Syria under Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have failed to inspire any confidence in either domestic or international public opinion. Their track record was already deeply troubling. They tried to ...
An international conference called Rethinking European Democracy: Local Democratic Innovations and Discoveries of Kurdish Municipalities in Turkey (1990–2016), will take place on 29 April at the MISHA Conference Hall of Strasbourg University. The conference will ...
As part of an investigation into the Beşiktaş Municipality, a detention order has been issued for 12 municipal officials, including Deputy Mayor Ali Rıza Yılmaz. In a statement, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said: ...
Foza Yusif, a member of the Co-Presidency Committee of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), stated that if the process initiated by Abdullah Öcalan leads to a resolution, it would eliminate the excuses Turkey has used ...
Ömer Faruk Hülakü, an MP for the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), emphasized that improving the conditions of Abdullah Öcalan is not merely an individual matter, but also a decisive element for peace ...
On 19 March, Turkey entered a new phase following the detention of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu and 11 others. The protests that erupted across the country in response to the detentions have triggered ...
In this in-depth interview, Duran Kalkan, member of the KCK Executive Council, spoke about the state of affairs one and a half months after people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan’s ‘Call for Peace and Democratic Society’ was ...
2025-04-17T10:00:09+00:00 Shafaq News/ Security forces in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan Region, have dismantled a five-member drug trafficking network that used women to lure children and affluent youth into buying narcotics. The operation, carried out ...
Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı, a well-known pro-government pundit, has been detained in an investigation for allegedly spreading disinformation regarding his claims about a potential takeover of the main opposition party by the government. Kütahyalı was taken ...
Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı, a well-known pro-government pundit, is under investigation for allegedly spreading disinformation regarding his claims about a potential takeover of the main opposition party by the government. In a series of social media ...
Building an app dedicated to helping people aggregate and read news, articles and social media posts in one place is apparently a tough proposition these days. Smashing, an AI-powered app that lets users curate the ...
7:11 PM PDT · April 16, 2025 Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. On Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” ...
Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. “Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,” Zoom said ...
In Brief Posted: 4:08 PM PDT · April 16, 2025 Chapter, a Medicare advisory startup co-founded by former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, has closed a $75 million funding round at a valuation of $1.5 ...
