Rights groups criticise Turkey protest ban ahead of Nato summit Last week, the Ankara Governorate announced a 13-day province-wide ban on all public assemblies from Sunday, citing “national security" and security measures around the conference.
A total of 225 people were also arrested, including alleged supporters of the leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) and the Islamic State group. Other detainees included academic Emel Memis, LGBTQ rights activist and journalist Yildiz Tar, environmental NGO Tema Foundation representative Nevzat Ozer, independent labour union Umut-Sen spokesperson Burcu Arikan, and Progressive Lawyers Association lawyers Semra Demir and Kursat Bafra.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rights-group-criticise-turkey-protest-ban-ahead-nato-summitIraq detains politicians, officials in anti-corruption crackdownZaidi, who took office in May, has pledged to tackle entrenched corruption, which remains one of Iraq's most persistent challenges despite repeated promises by successive governments to hold officials accountable. Sunday's operation was launched on his direct orders after judicial authorities issued arrest warrants targeting what the sources described as suspected corruption networks.
https://www.reuters.com/world/iraq-arrests-politicians-government-officials-anti-corruption-crackdown-2026-06-28/ Israel finds new breakaway allies in Bosnia's Serbs Cooperation between Serb and Israeli leaders has increased noticeably of late. In March 2025, Netanyahu held talks in Jerusalem with Milorad Dodik, then-president of Republika Srpska. In January this year, Dodik, who was removed from office in June 2025, met with Netanyahu once again. In May, not long after it was announced that Serbia and Israel would jointly produce combat drones, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Marko Djuric announced a strategic partnership with Israel during a visit to Jerusalem. . . .
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-finds-new-breakaway-allies-bosnias-serbsProbe into far-left activists’ claim of ‘anti-Zionist patrol’The post said the group staged the “patrol” in a part of the city “where Israeli capital has parasitically intruded.” It added that Israeli and other funds “are massively buying up beaches, neighborhoods and villages, turning their residents into migrants in their own land.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1308099/probe-into-far-left-activists-claim-of-anti-zionist-patrol/Campaigners urge Burnham not to ‘don the straightjacket’ of Labour's current fiscal rulesThe PM-in-waiting revealed a decade-long plan setting out what he called a “new direction” for Britain, giving regions new powers to control essential utilities, transport and housing. The former Greater Manchester mayor pledged to transfer power away from Whitehall in his first major speech since Sir Keir Starmer announced his departure as PM.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/campaigners-urge-burnham-not-don-straightjacket-labours-current-fiscal-rulesZimbabweans seek urgent repatriation as anti-immigrant deadline loomsFamilies carrying luggage crowded the Zimbabwean consulate and surrounding streets, with some spending the night on pavements before being allowed inside the building as space became available. Aid organisations distributed food and water after local, provincial and national authorities failed to provide assistance. The aid groups warned of deteriorating conditions, saying hundreds of people, including children and infants, were living in overcrowded conditions without adequate sanitation or hygiene facilities as heavy rain and colder temperatures were forecast.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/zimbabweans-seek-urgent-repatriation-anti-immigrant-deadline-loomsUgandan army chief orders the closure of a major news platformGen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the eldest son of President Yoweri Museveni, has served as the top military commander since 2024. In recent days, after Museveni was sworn in for a seventh consecutive term, Kainerugaba has strengthened his grip with a series of directives and orders usually reserved for the head of state.
https://apnews.com/article/uganda-army-media-freedoms-kainerugaba-0d3a99b5f8afb709d28517b7c44ad204Pakistani airstrikes kill 36 civilians in Afghanistan and wound 160, officials sayHamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, said Pakistani forces targeted a home in Paktia’s Chamkani district, killing an older man and a child, while other family members were wounded. When residents gathered to rescue people, the area was struck again, killing 28 villagers and wounding 158, he said.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-airstrikes-militants-eaf84d1a19cd5e5df750511c310ae906 Over 200 CLSU students walk out against Red-tagging and state harassment The University Security Force (USF) stopped volunteers from the CLSU USSC and Artista at Kabataan para sa Lupa at Soberanya (AKLAS, or Artist and Youth for Land and Sovereignty) Nueva Ecija on June 11 while they finished a mural painting as part of the coordinated activity Advocacy Wall. The mural was an artwork calling for land rights, wages, education, social services, and social justice.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/over-200-clsu-students-walk-out-against-red-tagging-and-state-harassment/ Pro-Regime Militia Officer Arrested Over Arms, Drugs and Fake Thai Currency Captain Min Htet Paing, also known as Paing Paing, served under the group’s Myawaddy Township Development Department. His arrest follows the detention of another KNLA‑PC officer, Captain Saw Arkar, who was seized by regime troops in mid‑June near the Myawaddy–Mae Sot Friendship Bridge No. 2 for allegedly using fake Thai baht at a restaurant. Regime troops subsequently raided Min Htet Paing’s residence in Myawaddy’s Ward 4, where they reportedly found large quantities of counterfeit baht, printing equipment and weapons.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/pro-regime-militia-officer-arrested-over-arms-drugs-and-fake-thai-currency.htmlAnti-independence parties make gains in New Caledonia provincial pollIn the Southern Province, which includes the capital Noumea, a joint list formed by the two main non-independence parties – Les Loyalistes and Le Rassemblement – won around 50 percent of the vote, according to provisional results. The bloc was projected to secure 24 of the 54 seats in New Caledonia’s Congress, up from 19, making it the largest grouping but leaving it short of the 28 seats needed for an absolute majority.
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