US finalising F-35 sale to Israel as tensions over Gaza war plan boilPart of the package of arms transfers that the US will notify to Congress is a new shipment of precision-guided munitions worth more than $1bn dollars and a $2.5bn sale of F-35 fighter jets, Josh Paul, the former director of congressional and public affairs for the State Department’s bureau of political-military affairs, said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-finalising-f-35-sale-israel-tensions-over-gaza-war-plan-boilIsraeli Influence Operation Targets U.S. Lawmakers on Hamas-UNRWAAt the center of the campaign, researchers at Fake Reporter found, were three "news sites" that seemed to have been created especially for the operation. The sites published reports that were copied from other, real news outlets, among them CNN and The Guardian – for instance, a UN report about sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-03-19/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israeli-influence-op-targets-u-s-lawmakers-on-hamas-unrwa/0000018e-5098-d282-a19f-7dd95cc70000https://archive.is/NiIeA Thousands march in Shehba on the sixth anniversary of Turkish occupation of Afrin Efrin and Shehba Canton Council organised a protest march in the Ahdas district to mark the sixth anniversary of the occupation of Afrin. The demonstration was participated by thousands of people from Shehba and Afrin IDPs who took refuge there after the occupation of their homes and lands.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/thousands-march-in-shehba-on-the-sixth-anniversary-of-turkish-occupation-of-afrin-72301South Korea will suspend licenses of 2 senior doctors in first punishment for doctors’ walkoutsPark Myung-Ha, one of the five members, said he received a government-sent letter saying that his license will be suspended for three months from April 15. Park, who works for the KMA’s emergency committee, said committee leader Kim Taek-woo was also given a three-month suspension.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-doctors-strikes-license-suspensions-f7fd03bdf52577d7fa084bda26282e48Mainland Chinese surge into Hong Kong property after stamp duties scrappedHong Kong in late February removed all additional stamp duties, including those for purchases of second properties, as well as duties on those selling flats within two years of buying them. Foreigners, who had to pay 15% tax since October, from 30% previously, now pay around 4.25%, on par with locals.
https://www.reuters.com/business/mainland-chinese-surge-into-hong-kong-property-after-stamp-duties-scrapped-2024-03-19/Gujarat: After Attack on Foreign Students in Campus, VC Says They Should be Culturally 'Sensitised'Following the attack in Ahmedabad on foreign students for performing namaz (prayer) on March 16, the statement by Gujarat University Vice Chancellor, shifting onus on the “cultural sensitivity” of those attacked, has sparked controversy.
https://www.newsclick.in/gujarat-after-attack-foreign-students-campus-vc-says-they-should-be-culturally-sensitisedDominican Republic is urged to stop deporting people to Haiti as people flee surge in gang violenceCharpentier said his organization has received complaints about Dominican authorities allegedly bursting into homes to arrest people believed to be Haitians, breaking belongings and extorting them at times.
https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-deportations-haiti-gangs-violence-d8a45e4b4095a6a28780c7e5c2ed0fecMexico City is running out of water, forcing many to rationLatin America accounts for one-quarter of the world's agricultural and fisheries exports, but the increasing scarcity of water could hurt those. Roughly 14% of workers in Latin America and the Carribean work in agriculture, though that rate is much higher in particular countries, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Guatemala among them.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/19/mexico-city-water-crisis-drought-climate-changePetro proposes negotiations with Colombia’s paramilitaries "If they are willing to abandon the illegal businesses, with the migrants, with the extortion, with the drug trafficking, we talk." The president added that “the one with the ball in their court is the Clan del Golfo,” the name given to the paramilitary organization by the authorities.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-proposes-negotiations-with-colombias-paramilitaries/Argentine organizations are planning a historic march on March 24 to say: “Never again!”March 24 marks the day a US-backed military coup was carried out in Argentina that installed the bloodiest civic-military dictatorship in the history of the country. In 2002, the Argentine Congress declared that this tragic day would be remembered as the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice. Since then, millions have marched each year to mark the day to remember the dictatorship and the 30,000 Argentinians the regime killed or disappeared.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/19/argentine-organizations-are-planning-a-historic-march-on-march-24-to-say-never-again/