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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 Ashraf Dabbour, beirut, corruption charges, diplomatic corruption, former ambassador, interpol, judicial probe, Lebanese judiciary, lebanon, Lebanon airport arrest, legal investigation, mahmoud abbas, Middle East politics, palestine, palestine liberation organization, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian envoy, plo, public assets, Rafik Hariri International Airport, Red Notice

Lebanon Detains Former Palestinian Envoy Over Corruption Probe

Beirut– Lebanese authorities have detained former Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon Ashraf Dabbour on corruption charges after he arrived at Beirut’s

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 amnesty international, arrests, capital punishment, Chabahar prison, death penalty, executions, forced confessions, Geneva, human rights, internet shutdown, iran, judiciary, Middle East war, Nasrin Sotoudeh, national security charges, OHCHR, political prisoners, protests, torture allegations, U.S.-Israeli strikes, united nations, volker turk

UN Says Iran Executed 21, Arrested 4,000 Since Regional War Began

Geneva– Iran has executed at least 21 people and arrested more than 4,000 others on national security-related charges since the

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 annexation, Bezalel Smotrich, donald trump, Ethnic Cleansing, EU relations, Gideon Saar, israel, Israeli politics, Israeli settlements, Itamar Ben Gvir, Middle East conflict, mossad, Nablus, occupied territories, palestine, Palestinian displacement, Palestinian state, settler violence, Tamir Pardo, united nations, west bank

Former Mossad Chief Warns West Bank Violence Poses ‘Existential Threat’ to Israel

Dubai– Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo has warned that escalating settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank poses

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 agriculture, assam, bangladesh, Boro paddy, Chittagong, climate change, crop damage, Dhaka, floods, food security, Habiganj, haor basin, Kishoreganj, Meghalaya, monsoon rains, Moulvibazar, rice harvest, rice production, river flooding, Sunamganj, Sylhet

Flood Fears Jeopardize Bangladesh’s Summer Rice Harvest

Dhaka – Heavy pre-monsoon rains and rising upstream water flows from India have swollen rivers across northeastern Bangladesh, threatening major

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 African conflict, Algoney Hamdan Dagalo, arms procurement, civil war, Colombia, Darfur, El-Fasher, Hemedti, humanitarian crisis, Jenny Chapman, khartoum, mercenaries, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, Omdurman, rapid support forces, rsf, sanctions, sudan, UN Security Council, united nations, War Crimes

UN Sanctions Brother of RSF Chief Over Sudan Atrocities

New York – The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four additional individuals accused of fueling Sudan’s

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 criminal gang, detention centers, Egypt migrants, Ethiopia migrants, Europe migration route, human trafficking, libya, Libya attorney general, Mediterranean migration, migrant abuse, migrant crisis, migrant deaths, migrant smuggling, Muammar Gaddafi, ransom kidnapping, Sudan migrants, Tobruk, torture allegations, Tripoli Criminal Court, united nations, Zuwara

Libya Court Sentences Four Human Traffickers to Up to 22 Years

Tripoli– A criminal court in Tripoli on Tuesday sentenced four members of what Libyan authorities described as a human trafficking

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 Abdullah Ocalan, ankara, ceasefire, DEM Party, disarmament, iraq, Kurdish conflict, Kurdish militants, legislative roadmap, Middle East politics, parliament, peace process, pkk, political reforms, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, southeast turkey, syria, terrorism designation, Tulay Hatimogullari, turkey, Turkish government

DEM Party Accuses Ankara of Stalling Fragile PKK Peace Process

Ankara– Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party on Tuesday sharply criticized President Tayyip Erdogan’s government for what it described as hesitant and

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 analyst forecasts, auto industry, automotive margins, China market, CLA electric sedan, cost cutting, EBIT, electric vehicles, EV transition, German automakers, germany, Harald Wilhelm, luxury cars, Mercedes-Benz, Ola Kaellenius, operating profit, quarterly earnings, revenue miss, S-Class, Stuttgart, tariffs

Mercedes Profit Slides as China Slowdown, Tariffs Pressure Margins

Berlin- Mercedes-Benz Group AG reported a sharp fall in first-quarter operating profit on Wednesday, as weaker demand in China, rising

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Balakot strikes, border tensions, cross-LoC trade, divided families, funeral, humanitarian access, India Pakistan relations, Jammu and Kashmir, kashmir, Keran, Kishanganga river, Kupwara, Line of Control, Ministry of Home Affairs, Muzaffarabad, Neelam river, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, srinagar

Funeral Across LoC Revives Calls to Reopen Kashmir Crossing Points

Srinagar– A funeral held on the banks of the Kishanganga river in north Kashmir has renewed calls to reopen Line

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NewsDesk MC April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 Al Adl Wal Ihssane, appeals court, censorship, civil liberties, constitutional institutions, freedom of expression, human rights, Islamist activist, L7assal, Mohammed Taifi, Moroccan Association for Human Rights, morocco, Morocco Israel normalization, North Africa, political dissent, prison sentence, public body insult, Rabat, rapper, Souhaib Kabli, Taza

Morocco Court Upholds Rapper’s Jail Term Over Criticism of State Institutions

Rabat – A Moroccan appeals court has upheld an eight-month prison sentence for rapper and activist Souhaib Kabli, convicted of