Dario Salvi

Tomorrow is the fourth election in less than two years and the second since the pandemic broke out. For one Palestinian leader, the country is increasingly tilting right, but the battle for votes remains uncertain. Netanyahu’s political survival is at stake. The prospects for peace are absent and the future is uncertain.

In his homily for Sunday Mass, Card. Raï attacks the "new proposals and excessive conditions" linked to the birth of the new executive. Hopes for "positive results" from today’s summit between the president and prime minister in charge. Criticism, without directly naming, of Hezbollah which continues to "paralyze" political and institutional life.

The two sides clash over Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber war and Beijing's economic reprisals against Washington's allies. Common interests include Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan and climate change. The Chinese are looking to Russia and Turkey to counter the US offensive. European Union and Australia make their move.

Turkey's human rights agency has rejected the request by Fr Remzi Diril for an investigation. Nothing is known about his father who went missing over a year ago while his mother’s body was found, naked with signs of torture. Human rights groups call on the members of the human rights agency to resign.

More and more cases of violations and abuses are reported in schools, workplaces, and public buildings. Since 2001, at least 60 national and local rules or laws have been adopted discriminating on the basis of dress. For Alissa Wahid, an “inclusive paradigm” has morphed into an “exclusive” vision that leaves “a single interpretation of Islam”.

At least 10 people were detained in Istanbul. Exponents of the Peoples' Democratic Party are targeted. Process at Constitutional Court over ban on Kurdish education. Its leaders denounce a "political coup". Criticism from the United States and Germany over violation of human rights.

Nabil Antaki: the Pope speaks of brotherhood, but many "treat Syria and the Syrians as enemies". War, the financial crisis in Lebanon, US and European sanctions, and inflation have triggered a spiral of despair. Widespread criticism and poverty have pushed the Christian group to reactivate the distribution of food parcels.

In the Cave of Horror, archaeologists discovered biblical scrolls from about 2,000 years ago from the Book of Twelve Minor Prophets, written in Greek but with the name of God in Ancient Hebrew. For the director of the Franciscan Museum in the Holy Land, the discoveries “bear witness to the spread of Greek translations in Jewish circles.” Findings include ancient coins and a mummified skeleton from 6,000 years ago.

Yesterday there were 5663 new cases to the virus and 33 deaths. On average 40 thousand tests are carried out every day; an insufficient number according to experts to contain the infections. Baghdad auxiliary: In Jordan a "major increase", the new coronavirus is now "part of everyday life".

UN experts: the Islamic Republic has an advanced generation advanced centrifuge (the IR-4) in the Natanz underground plant. Another plant produces uranium with a purity of up to 20%. Iranian Minister: Tehran and Washington must decide whether to reach a "compromise".

Thorn Kimsan, a member of the CNRP, posted to social media that the product is "unsafe" and has reportedly caused “several victims" in the country. Plainclothes officers arrested her while she was working in a restaurant in the capital. For her daughter it is a "political" arrest. Other activists are in prison for the same reason.

It is the worst in the last 10 years. A surge in pollution indicators. Government reforestation projects fail to solve the problem. The country produces 28% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Xi Jinping: "decarbonization" by 2060.