FILE PHOTO: The FIFA World Cup Trophy sits on a stand during an unveiling ceremony in Tehran, Iran September 1, 2022. It is a direct threat to the security of female fans in Iran and wherever our national team plays in the world. Therefore, we ask FIFA, based on Articles 3 and 4 of its statutes, to immediately expel Iran from the World Cup 2022 in Qatar." Under pressure from Infantino, a small group of female fans were granted access to Persepolis's home leg of the 2018 Asian Champions League final in Tehran. Iran are due to appear at their sixth World Cup finals and have been drawn to face England, Wales and the United States in Qatar.

TRIPOLI: Forty-two bodies have been found in a mass grave in the Libyan city of Sirte, an ex-stronghold of the militant Islamic State group, the country’s missing persons authority said Sunday. Exhumation teams unearthed “42 unidentified bodies” after following up reports of a “mass grave” at the site of a former school in Sirte, the authority said. “DNA samples have been taken for analysis in coordination with the office of forensic medicine,” it added, without elaborating further. In October 2017, a grave containing the bodies of 21 Coptic Christians, executed by the jihadists two years earlier, was uncovered near the Mediterranean city. Another mass grave with the remains of 34 Ethiopian Christians was discovered near Sirte in December 2018, more than three years after the IS published a video showing its personnel executing at least 28 men described as Ethiopian Christians.

It can be witnessed IN NATO`s involvement in world politics that NATO has always been promoting the western narrative of the “liberal world order”. The following sheds light on NATO`s expansionist policies and its utility as a peacekeeping organization through the prism of neo-realism. - Advertisement -First, NATO`s expansion is a lingering threat to global peace due to its unnecessary intervention in international affairs leading to instability in the involved region. After all, the world today is well connected and is interdependent and the absence of peace in one corner may affect peace across the globe. After all, the world today is well connected and is interdependent and the absence of peace in one corner may affect peace across the globe.

For many Iranian women, it’s an image that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago, said Fatemeh Shams, who grew up in Mashhad. Iranian women are putting an end to a veiled society and the compulsory veil,” she said. Iran's Islamic Republic requires women to cover up in public. “The most important protest they (Iranian women) are doing right now is taking off their scarves and burning them,” she added. Iranian women who grew up before the overthrow of the monarchy in 1979 remember a country where women were largely free to choose how they dressed.

Forty-two bodies have been found in a mass grave in the Libyan city of Sirte, an ex-stronghold of the Islamic State group, the country’s missing persons authority said Sunday, IgbereTV reportsExhumation teams unearthed “42 unidentified bodies” after following up reports of a “mass grave” at the site of a former school in Sirte, the authority said. “DNA samples have been taken for analysis in coordination with the office of forensic medicine,” it added, without elaborating further. Sirte, a central coastal city, was held by IS between 2015 and 2016, as it exploited the chaos engulfing much of Libya in the wake of the 2011 overthrow and killing of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a NATO-backed uprising. The jihadist group was dislodged by forces loyal to the then Government of National Accord in December 2016 after months of intense house-to-house fighting. In October 2017, a grave containing the bodies of 21 Coptic Christians, executed by the jihadists two years earlier, was uncovered near the Mediterranean city

Libyan authorities discovered on Sunday a mass grave, in which 42 bodies were buried, near the premises of a school in Sirte. The District Prosecution reported the discovery of the mass grave near Ibn Khaldoun school to the General Authority for Searching and Identifying Missing Persons, which sent a field team that exhumed the bodies, according to a statement by the Authority. DNA samples were collected from the bodies by the field team to aid the forensic authorities in identifying them. The bodies were then transferred to Ibn Sina Hospital in the city.

10 new people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 11 percent of the infection rate, according to a Sunday report by the National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC). The center also said 2 have recovered during the same reporting period. The total recorded COVID-19 cases in Libya have exceeded more than 50,000 since the start of the pandemic, while over 490,000 of which have recovered, according to the NCDC. The virus has claimed the lives of 6,437 people. Over two million people received one dose of the vaccination, while more than one million others were vaccinated with two doses.

The Libyan House of Representatives on Saturday passed a 53-article law that penalizes cyber crimes. The law defines cyber crime as “every act committed through the use of computer systems, the international information network, or other information technology means in violation of the provisions of this law.”Any cyber acts which the full under the scope of the law will be criminalized if it harms the Libyan national interests, whether such acts were committed inside or outside of the country. Under this law, the Libyan authorities would also be able to sentence people to prison for at least a year or order them to pay 1,000 dinar fine if they “publish or distribute information which incite racism, regionalism or sectarianism that aims to discriminate through the international information network or other electronic means”.

The Libyan Crimes Watch (LCW) Organization on Saturday called on the authorities in the east of the country to reveal the fate of the kidnapped and forcibly disappeared and to release them unconditionally, holding them responsible for their safety and life, stressing the need to respect the right to freedom of opinion and expression. In its report on human rights violations in Libya for the month of September, the LCW called on the Attorney General to open effective investigations to prosecute and hold accountable those responsible for endangering the lives of civilians during the recent clashes in the city of Al-Zawiya and the Warshafana region in the western region. The Independent Fact-Finding Mission in Libya also called for an urgent investigation into the ongoing violations against civilians, and to work to ensure that the perpetrators do not go unpunished.

Thirty members of the Libyan Parliament demanded the Speaker, Aqila Saleh, to present the unamended 1951 constitution to the Parliament for deliberation regarding a return to the federal system in Libya. According to the text of the request signed by 30 deputies from Cyrenaica region, they demanded “to amend the unamended 1951 constitution, with the need to deliberate the matter in a private session broadcasted live to consider a return to the federal system in accordance with the three historical regions, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan.”The deputies said: “In this context, we ask our brothers and partners from the regions of Tripolitania and Fezzan to support this request, which we see as the real guarantor of the unity, security and safety of Libya at a time when all these matters are under threat.”Libya issued its first constitution in 1951 under the rule of Idris Senussi I, the king of the United Kingdom of Libya. The constitution was amended in 1964, where the federal system was cancelled and it became Kingdom of Libya. Later in 1969, Muammer Gaddafi led a military coup against the kingdom and ruled the country for 42 years, until he was killed in 2011 uprising.

Turkey’s naval forces have conducted a joint military exercise with their Libyan counterparts off the coast of the North African country, in the central Mediterranean. According to Turkish state-owned news agency Anadolu, the Turkish missile frigate TCG Gaziantep and the Libyan amphibious landing ship Ibn Ouf-132 participated in the maneuvers held off the Libyan coast, under the command of the Turkish naval forces. The Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah added that the training included “a wide range of successfully completed maneuvers”, including visual communications between the two ships, strengthening “relations between the naval forces of the two countries”.

Libya’s oil revenues, from the beginning of 2022 until now, have reached 77.17 billion Libyan dinars (15.2 billion U.S. dollars), announced the Tripoli-based Ministry of Finance. According to a report by the ministry, the total turnover of the energy sector reached 79.35 billion dinars (15.7 billion U.S. dollars). The ministry also revealed that, in the first nine months of the year, the state-owned NationalOil Corporation (NOC) signed agreements for over 15 billion dinars (about 3 billion U.S. dollars).

A Royal Navy task group has completed a mission to Libya as part of security operations in the Mediterranean. The British HMS Albion ship, which docked Wednesday in the port of Tripoli, was the first Royal Navy ship to visit the port in eight years. HMS Albion’s Warrant Officer Weapon Engineering, who led one of the training teams, said, “being able to work collaboratively with the Libyan Navy has been a fantastic opportunity and one that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago”, hoping to build a stronger maritime relationship with Libya. Task Group Commander and Commanding Officer of HMS Albion, Captain Simon Kelly Royal Navy, said “our visit to Tripoli was also a wonderful opportunity for the sailors and marines on board to interact with their counterparts in the Libyan Armed Forces. “During our short time alongside we conducted a wide range of activates from damage control training to delivering a number of official receptions, hosting senior Libyan political, military, and civil society figures, all reinforcing the UK’s cooperation and ongoing commitment to Libya”, he added.

The German Special Envoy to Libya, Christian Buck, has reiterated Germany's readiness to support the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), the new head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily. “A particular privilege to meet and congratulate Abdoulaye Bathily, the new SRSG for Libya and head of UNSMIL, together with German Ambassador to UN Antje Leendertse in New York. Berlin stands ready to support him and his mission”, Buck said in a tweet. The German ambassador to Libya, Michael Ohnmacht, commented on the meeting, saying “welcome again, SRSG Abdoulaye Bathily, looking forward to having the opportunity to meet and work with you in and for Libya”.

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