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Both days of Sri Lanka’s ongoing cricket test match against Australia, the country’s police and army have removed anti-government protesters from the fort ramparts overlooking the ground at Galle Cricket Stadium. Typically, the public is allowed to hold banners and placards as they watch the match from the fort. These are mostly related to cricket. However, these protesters had held placards asking for the resignation of Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and have as a result been removed, even though the ramparts are public space. Among the authorities’ concerns had been that a protest overlooking the cricket would be caught…

The indigenously developed high-speed expendable aerial target ABHYAS was successfully tested at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur off the coast of Odisha in India. The plane demonstrated high maneuverability during the test flight, as well as its capability to maintain its level at low altitude. A ground-based controller flew the target aircraft on a pre-designated low-altitude flight path, which was monitored by various tracking sensors deployed by the ITR, including a radar and an electro-optical targeting system. ABHYAS is designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of India. Indian…

In Pakistan’s restive north Waziristan tribal district, two policemen who were escorting an anti-polio vaccination team were killed by unidentified assailants on Tuesday. While on a door-to-door anti-polio vaccination drive in the district bordering Afghanistan, gunmen attacked the team, killing one of its members and two policemen escorting them. The police launched an investigation into the killings. There has been no claim of responsibility for the killings. In recent years, attacks on workers of anti-polio vaccination drives have increased in Pakistan. In March of this year, gunmen shot and killed a female polio worker in northwest Pakistan as she returned…

An explosion caused by a crane malfunction in the Aqaba Port on Monday led to the deaths of 12 people and the injuries of 260 others, including 123 who are currently in hospitals, according to the National Center for Security and Crisis Management (NCSCM) in Jordan. The unfortunate incident is one of the deadliest accidents to strike Jordan in the last few years. The accident happened when the crane tried to place the gas tank on a ship; however, it failed to move the tank all the way and dropped it halfway, causing a major explosion and a leak of poisonous gas.…

Yesterday, the Indian Government sent a shipment containing 3,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan. Arindam Bagchi, the spokesperson for the Indian External Affairs Ministry, has said that India’s commitment to providing humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people remains steadfast. So far, the government of India has been able to deliver 33,500 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan in partnership with the World Food Programme. Afghanistan has a very dire need for support, with one third of the population hungry and two million children malnourished. Drought, pandemic, and conflict have worsened the food security situation, and hunger will increase so…

After the bodies of 22 young people at a nightclub in South Africa’s southern city of East London were found, police in the city launched an investigation. They ruled out a stampede. The deaths in this coastal town in South Africa, are being investigated by police forensic teams. It has yet to be established what caused the tragedy, which occurred during end-of-year celebrations by teenagers. Authorities said locals raised the alarm at around 4 AM. In a poor neighborhood named Scenery Park, police minister Bheki Cele sought to calm an angry crowd of relatives and residents gathered at the crime…

According to Iranian media reports, an earthquake measuring magnitude 5.6 on the Richter scale hit a southern Iranian province, killing at least one person and injuring more than 30 others. The quake struck 22 kilometers (14 miles) northeast of Kish Island in Hormozgan province at around 8 A.M. local time and struck at a depth of 22 kilometers (14 miles), according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. In the nearby UAE, residents also felt the tremors of the earthquake. In the UAE, no damage was reported from the earthquake, according to the official Emirates News Agency WAM. The head of…

As part of its humanitarian assistance to the island nation, India sent a consignment worth 3 billion Srilankan rupees to Colombo. A consignment of 14,700 MT of rice, 250 MT of milk powder, and 38 MT of medicines was donated by the people of India. It is part of a larger delivery of 40,000 MT of rice, 500 MT of milk powder, and medicines by the Tamil Nadu government. The consignment was welcomed by the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, as well as Ministers from the Sri Lankan government, Keheliya Rambukwella and Nalin Fernando. The Indian government…

The Kermadec Islands northeast of New Zealand’s north island were rattled by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake , although there have been no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported that the epicenter of the earthquake sat at a depth of ten kilometers beneath the surface of the ocean.   There is a subduction zone between the Kermadec Plate and the Tongan Plate which runs east of the Kermadec Islands and marks the boundary between the Australian and Pacific Plates. The convergent boundary is the point where the denser Pacific Plate subducts or dives beneath the less dense…

Abdelfattah El-Sisi, the Egyptian president, and HH Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the Bahraini king, stressed the importance of improving Egyptian-Bahraini cooperation and coordination. This was said during President El-Sisi’s meeting with King Hamad bin Issa in Sharm El-Sheikh, said the official spokesman for the Egyptian presidency, Ambassador Bassam Radi, in a statement. The two leaders also expressed their pleasure at the upcoming summit hosted by Saudi Arabia. This summit will be attended by the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and the United States of America. In the course of the meeting, the two sides discussed…