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    Yemen's Houthi militia on Sunday accused the Saudi-led coalition of launching five drone strikes on the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Houthi-controlled Saba website reported. The attacks were among "97 coalition breaches of the truce in the city committed by the coalition forces on Sunday, including heavy flying of reconnaissance drones on Hays district in the southern part of the city," it added. The Saudi-led coalition and the Yemeni government have yet to comment. Hodeidah has witnessed a shaky cease-fire between the Yemeni government forces and the Houthi militia since they reached a UN-sponsored truce in Stockholm in December 2018. The port city is controlled by the Houthis, while the government forces have advanced to the southern districts. Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Iran-backed Houthi militia stormed several northern cities and forced the Saudi-backed Yemeni government out of the capital Sanaa. The Saudi-led coalition...

  Following the murder of three Kurds in what is being considered to be a probable racist incident , there have been widespread protests in Paris. The fact that the authorities did not view the attack at a Kurdish centre as a terrorist act has enraged the Kurdish diaspora in Paris. A 69-year-old man opened fire on a crowd of individuals early on Friday morning at the Ahmet-Kaya centre on Rue d'Enghien in the 10th arrondissement. One of the three victims is badly injured. All of the dead were Kurdish community members who passed away both inside and outside the cultural centre. Agit Polat, a spokesman for the Kurdish centre, charged that French officials "yet again failed to safeguard us... This is a terrorist attack in our eyes, according to the AFP news agency. In the afternoon, a number of protestors, largely from the Kurdish diaspora, got into a fight with the police outside the centre and in the streets close by, throwing rocks and torching trash cans. Police use...

    A tightening of restrictions on women in Yemen by the Houthi rebels – echoing religious regimes in Iran and Afghanistan – is dashing the hopes of those who dream to continue their lives elsewhere.  The Iran-backed Houthis, who have controlled swathes of the Arab world’s poorest country since  seizing the Yemeni capital Sanaa  in 2014, have increasingly enforced travel restrictions on women over the past eight months, according to residents and activists. Restrictions on female freedoms, which  parallel decrees  issued by the fundamentalist Taliban in Afghanistan, are not part of Yemeni law and are enforced arbitrarily through rebel directives.     "This is the first time that a decision limiting the freedom of movement of women has come from an official authority,” said Radhya al-Mutawakel, co-founder of the Yemeni rights group Mwatana. The travel restrictions set a "very dangerous" precedent and disproportionately affect women who ...

  Cybersecurity is important in today’s world. As technological advancements make digital payments easy, cybercrimes have increased rapidly across the world. Criminals are adopting new strategies to steal money from people. Hackers track people to hack their data and money. How to ensure cybersecurity in 2023? It is important to create a robust digital infrastructure to protect user data. Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, behavioural biometrics and device intelligence could help to ensure cybersecurity in 2023. Know Your Customer (KYC) processes can help to prevent and identify unlawful activities such as money laundering and terrorism financing. Another great way to protect your data is to keep strong passwords. Use strong passwords for online security. Choose complex passwords of upper case letters, symbols and numbers. Hackers cannot track these kinds of passwords easily. Do not use the same password for all your social media apps and websites. If you have t...

  Iranian authorities violated international human rights law with excessive and lethal force against protestors in Kurdistan throughout September, October and November, Human Rights Watch (HRW)   reported   Wednesday. HRW asserts that Iranian security forces continue to commit human rights violations with their inhumane treatment of detainees and executions. HRW calls on the UN to investigate these human rights abuses. According to HRW’s report, Iranian security forces have used excessive and lethal force against anti-government protesters. This includes live ammunition, tear gas and pellets. HRW also claims that Iran is committing human rights abuses against detainees, such as arbitrary arrests, denial of medical care, torture, beatings, sexual harassment and assault. HRW researcher Tara Sepehri says, “Iranian authorities have dramatically escalated abuses against protesters in custody.” The nationwide protests erupted in September 2022 following the death of 22-year-ol...

  The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian officials on Wednesday, including the prosecutor general and key military officials, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on protests. The move is the latest Washington response to the Iranian crackdown on unrest after the death of young Iranian Kurdish woman  Mahsa Amini  in morality police custody in September. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on Mohammad Montazeri, Iran’s prosecutor general, accusing him of directing courts in September to issue harsh sentences to many arrested during protests.  Also designated was Iranian company Imen Sanat Zaman Fara, which the Treasury said manufactures equipment for Iran's Law Enforcement Forces, including armored vehicles used in crowd suppression. Washington also imposed sanctions on two senior officials of Iran’s Basij Resistance Forces, a militia affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards that has been widely deployed during t...

  The Iranian government has executed two people since protests erupted in September, following the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran's so-called "morality police." On Dec. 8, Mohsen Shekari, 23, was the first to be put to death. He was hanged after taking part in protests in Tehran. Four days later, Majid-Reza Rahnavard, also 23, was executed publicly — his body was hanged from a crane in the northeastern city of Mashhad. Like Shekari, he was convicted of "waging war against God," a capital offense. The executions are Tehran's main response to protests that swept the country since Amini's death, and they signal that Iran's clerical leadership feels it has few options other than brute force to quell the unrest. A pro-government TV channel aired audio that was described as Rahnavard's confession to police. NPR could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the audio. "Unfortunately, my own arrow hit...