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Protests erupt after Israel reform clause voted through
AFP – Protests erupted across Israel Tuesday, hours after parliament adopted in a first reading a key clause of the cabinet’s judicial overhaul package.
The cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forged ahead with the controversial move despite mass demonstrations since the reforms were proposed in January.
Baku accuses Red Cross of smuggling, shuts road to Karabakh
Al Jazeera – Azerbaijan has temporarily shut the only road linking its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region with Armenia, accusing the Armenian branch of the Red Cross of smuggling.
The Armenian-populated region has been at the centre of a decades-long territorial dispute between the Caucasus arch-foes, which have fought several wars over the mountainous territory.
“The passage through Lachin checkpoint of the state border is temporarily suspended” pending an investigation into the Red Cross using its medical vehicles for “smuggling”, Azerbaijan’s state border service said on Tuesday.
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Lauding the IRGC’s Ground Force for “effective missile and drone attacks” against the terrorist groups in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, with the purpose of protecting Iran’s security, Major General Baqeri said the strikes have been suspended after the Baghdad government undertook to disarm those groups and stop their activities.
The general then noted that Iran will wait until September and hopes that the government of Iraq would honor its commitments, adding, “If the deadline passes and they [terrorists] remain armed or carry out any operation, our operations against those groups will definitely recur more severely.”
Iran launched several rounds of military strikes on the positions of separatist groups in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region in 2022.