2024-09-18: News Headlines

Arshad Mehmood (2024-09-18). Constructions Begins on Afghan Portion of South-Central Asian Gas Pipeline. themedialine.org

Juliette Rousselot (2024-09-18). Afghanistan: Oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council. fidh.org On 10 September 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) delivered an oral statement during the Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. The statement, prepared with FIDH's member organisation Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA, calls on the UN Human Rights Council to escalate its response to the situation in the country and to establish a new independent international accountability mechanism. Read the oral statement below.
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presstv.ir (2024-09-18). Resistance movements denounce Israeli pager attacks in Lebanon. presstv.ir Thousands of wireless communication devices of members of Hezbollah exploded in different locations across Lebanon on Tuesday.

Raúl Rodríguez (2024-09-18). Selecciones cubanas vuelven a la acción en Olimpiada de Ajedrez. radiohc.cu La Habana, 18 sep (JIT).- Luego de la fecha de descanso general del martes, los elencos cubanos enfrentan este miércoles a Paraguay, en el masculino, y a Turkmenistán, en el femenino, en la continuación de la Olimpiada Mundial de Ajedrez de Budapest, que entró en su recta final con la séptima de las 11 rondas programadas.

Raúl Rodríguez (2024-09-18). Cuba contra las cuerdas en Mundial de Futsal. radiohc.cu Bukhara, Uzbequistán (JIT).- La derrota 10-5 ante Tailandia puso a Cuba contra las cuerdas en la Copa Mundial de Futsal de la Fifa de Uzbekistán 2024.

Human Rights Watch (2024-09-17). Uzbekistan: Free Wrongfully Imprisoned Activists. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Dildora Khakimova, 2023. | © Private | (Berlin) — Uzbek authorities should immediately quash the convictions and release two wrongfully imprisoned activists, Human Rights Watch and Uzbek Forum for Human Rights said today. An appeals court in Qarshi is scheduled to resume hearings in the case of Nargiz Keldiyorova and Dildora Khakimova on September 18, 2024.A court in Kashkadarya on July 18 sentenced Khakimova and Keldiyorova to six years and one month and six-and-a-half years in prison, respectively, on dubious extortion charges. Keldiyorova was also found guilty of "attempti…

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