Layan Nasir, a 23-year-old native of Birzeit, is the only Christian woman under "administrative detention". She was taken, blindfolded and handcuffed, overnight by a military patrol without an arrest warrant or charges against her. The Bethlehem Lutheran leader: Israel enjoys "impunity" and “feels entitled to destroy the lives of millions of people.”
A single mother was found guilty of the sin of 'khalwat' (closeness) in a state ruled by the Islamist party. The sentence - a first - is scheduled to be carried out in Marang prison on 6 May. A case destined to represent a thermometer of the power relations with fundamentalists in Anwar Ibrahim's Malaysia
At the centre of the controversy is a film that tells the story of a young orphaned painter raised in an ashram. He refuses the courtship of a wealthy woman because he feels like a woman in a man's body. Attacks and controversy on social media. The issues of homosexuality and gender are sensitive in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation.
In the International Monetary Fund's report, the ills that have always made growth impossible in Ašgabat re-emerge: the 'black accounting' of the Berdymukhamedov regime, in which the revenues from the sale of gas and oil are not shown, and the black market in manat, the local currency, which unloads all the burdens and imbalances onto the shoulders of the population.
Today's news: Israeli raid in Iran, for Tehran nuclear sites 'intact'; China, Japan and South Korea voted to recognise Palestine at UN in resolution blocked by US veto; Terrorist attack in Karachi, five Japanese unhurt; The ground in half of China's cities is subsiding due to water extraction; Russia started the withdrawal of its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh now in the hands of Baku.
The upcoming annual Balikatan military exercise will include an area in the South China Sea that is claimed by China, as well as an area not far from Taiwan. The Philippines wants peace and development in the Indo-Pacific despite tensions fuelled by Beijing.
