The UN Security Council Committee concerning ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida has delisted Said ben Abdelhakim ben Omar Al-Cherif, and Emrah Erdogan. They will no longer be subject to an asset freeze, travel ban or arms embargo.
As the scandal over MP vaccination grows, Lebanon's health caretaker minister claimed that the inoculations were not a violation of the vaccination plan for COVID-19.
Yesterday, Hamad Hassan said that his ministry was not under "international guardianship," an implicit response to Saroj Kumar Jha, a World Bank official.
The World Bank's Middle East point-person said the vaccination of 12 MPs was a breach that jeopardized the funding of his institution for the inoculation campaign.
On Thursday, China strongly protested the passage through the Taiwan Strait of the US guided-missile destroyer "USS Curtis Wilbur."
With the passage, an Eastern Command military spokesman accused the US of "artificially creating risk factors in the Taiwan Strait and deliberately undermining regional peace and stability."
He said naval units and aircraft had been deployed by the People's Liberation Army to track and monitor the US warship.
According to local authorities, at least 24 people were killed in three separate attacks that took place overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, both in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
According to local authorities in Beni, on Tuesday evening, rebels assaulted the village of Kisima for the first time, killing eleven civilians and then torching a few buildings.
The same attackers later launched an assault near downtown Oicha,
shooting two other civilians to death before fleeing into the nearby forest. According to civil society in Beni territory, the results of these two attacks are still provisional as some civilians have not been found since the attack on Tuesday.
With fewer infections and simultaneous concerns about the British virus variant, Denmark is cautiously easing some of its restrictions on March 1. Most important change:
The shops that have been closed since the end of 2020 are allowed to reopen on Monday, provided that their retail space is less than 5000 square meters and they are not located in shopping centers. Justice Minister Nick Hækkerup announced this at a press conference in Copenhagen.
Larger stores can also reopen with a very limited number of customers. Open-air cultural institutions are also allowed to receive visitors at the turn of the month if these guests can present a corona test that is no more than 72 hours old.
In view of the significantly increased number of cases, the restrictions in Poland are to be tightened again. It should be about entry restrictions and new mask rules, says Health Minister Adam Niedzielski to the radio station TOK FM.
In addition, the measures would have to be more regionally oriented. The new restrictions should come into force on Saturday, but it can also be done earlier. An announcement is planned for today. The minister pointed out that with 12,146 new positive tests,
there was an increase of more than 3,500 cases within a week. Poland had first relaxed some restrictions by opening ski slopes as well as cinemas, hotels and theaters with a capacity of up to 50 percent.