Kul region of Kyrgyzstan say they are continuing to struggle to treat COVID-19 patients and lack critical medicine, equipment, and staff. In a local hospital, most staff have been infected and several ... ( read original story ...)
How Iran and Hezbollah trapped Israel into staring down 150,000 rockets on its border that it can only counter at a terrible cost
"It's a nice trap... and I am afraid our leadership spent the last 30 years just blindly walking into it," one former IDF official told Insider. ( read original story ...)
Russian experts to support COVID-19 laboratory capacity in Tajikistan
English News and Press Release on Tajikistan about Contributions, Health and Epidemic; published on 31 Jul 2020 by WHO ... ( read original story ...)
Tajikistan suspends electricity deliveries to Uzbekistan
Tajikistan says it has stopped delivering electricity to neighboring Uzbekistan and Afghanistan because diminished river levels caused by a winter of reduced snowfall have constrained output at the ... ( read original story ...)
Cambodia shoe sector in fresh plea to EU as trade loss looms
Cambodia's footwear industry has reiterated calls for the European Commission to postpone the partial withdrawal of the country's preferential access to the EU market under the Everything But Arms ... ( read original story ...)
Law to ban ‘inappropriate’ dress in Cambodia seen threatening women’s freedoms
A proposed law that would let Cambodian police fine people deemed to be dressed inappropriately could be used to curtail women's freedoms and reinforce a culture of impunity around sexual violence, ... ( read original story ...)
Hezbollah, Israel jostle in Syria, Lebanon
Conflict between Israel on the one hand and Iran and Hezbollah on the other have been playing out this month in Syria and Lebanon. ( read original story ...)
Moscow, Damascus shadowbox in Syria’s grey zones
The newest twist in Syria involves a Russian-backed military group working to carve out an autonomous zone for itself in the southwest and even clashing with regime forces, perhaps paradoxically ... ( read original story ...)
Executed Turkish general exposed misuse of Qatari funds for Syria extremists: Report
The Turkish army executed a senior general within its ranks after he had discovered the embezzlement of illicit Qatari funding for extremists in Syria by public officials, accordi ... ( read original story ...)
Syria on brink of further disaster as COVID-19 cases escalate
English News and Press Release on Syrian Arab Republic about Health, Protection and Human Rights and Epidemic; published on 30 Jul 2020 by World Vision ... ( read original story ...)