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Netanyahu revives push to shut down Al Jazeera in Israel

foreign news networks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revived a push to close down Al Jazeera in Israel. The Israeli leader demanded on Monday that his coalition government pass legislation in the Knesset that would allow senior ministers to shut down foreign news networks deemed a security risk.

PM Shehbaz conveys to Biden Pakistan’s willingness to work with US for int’l peace, regional prosperity

peace and regional security

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday responded to US President Joe Biden’s letter and said Pakistan was willing to work with the United States on the shared targets of international peace and regional security.

Two-way financial opening-up to expand more this year

strengthen the interconnection

China will work to further expand its financial opening up this year as part of its efforts to attract more foreign investment and bolster the world’s second-largest economy, officials and experts said on Friday.

Live blog: Palestinian resistance groups oppose foreign forces in Gaza

foreign forces in Gaza

Israel’s war on besieged Gaza — now in its 176th day — has killed at least 32,705 Palestinians and wounded 75,190 as Biden reportedly approves transfer of new bombs, warplanes to Israel.

What the data on Gaza says: Large-scale hunger deaths, deadly epidemic

Large-scale hunger deaths

A Rome-based food security organisation operating in over 30 countries has scraped together compelling data on Gaza’s hunger crisis, concluding that the besieged enclave has hit the catastrophe-phase 5 mark.

Medical professors demand vice health minister be excluded from media responses

medical reform

An association of medical professors urged the government Saturday to exclude Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo from making media responses to facilitate talks in the upcoming negotiations for medical reform.

‘Pure veg fleet’: How Indian food app Zomato sparked a caste, purity debate

caste-based delivery systems

Delivery workers worry that vegetarian-only fleets today could pave the way for caste-based delivery systems tomorrow.

Meta’s oversight board urges Facebook, Instagram to lift ban on ‘shaheed’

ban on ‘shaheed’

The oversight board of Meta, the social media giant which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has ruled that a ban on the use of the word “shaheed” – “martyr” in Arabic – should be lifted. Meta has acknowledged that the term “shaheed” accounts for more content removals under the company’s content moderation policy than any other single word or phrase on its platforms.