🔴 Protests and strikes in #Iran over inflation and currency devaluation have spread from the capital, #Tehran, to several other cities on a third day of unrest.
The protests began on Sunday after shopkeepers in Tehran's Grand Bazaar staged a strike when the Iranian rial hit a record low against the #US dollar on the open market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj2llkjv8vo
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Extreme heat is now the fastest-growing climate disaster across Asia-Pacific, with millions facing chronic exposure to dangerous temperatures by century’s end. A new UN report released in November 2025 warns that South and Southwest Asia could experience more than 300 days of severe heat stress annually, while heat-related deaths across the region may double by 2050
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🔴 The government of #Azerbaijan has ordered the suspension of #BBC #News' Azerbaijani operation in the capital city, #Baku
The #BBC said in a statement on Thursday that it had made the "reluctant decision" to close its office in the country after receiving a verbal instruction from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ⏩
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7ewd9ne0o #SouthwestAsia #WestAsia
A U.N. special committee has found Israel’s actions in Gaza since October 2023 are “consistent with genocide,” including using starvation as a weapon of war and recklessly inflicting civilian casualties. The report, released today, comes one day after a Human Rights Watch report found Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity through its mass forced displacement of civilians in Gaza. HRW is calling on nations to adopt sanctions and halt weapons sales to Israel. But Israel’s indiscriminate slaughter continues, with at least five Palestinians killed today in central Gaza’s al-Maghazi refugee camp. Elsewhere, at least two people were killed by an Israeli strike on a tent encampment for displaced Palestinians near Nuseirat. Meanwhile, the U.N.’s humanitarian affairs office warned Palestinian children are at high risk of injury or death from unexploded ordnance left after more than 13 months of Israeli attacks. Among the victims is severely wounded 8-year-old Mohammed Qarmash. This is his mother. Amal Al-Wadiya: “No one was there to tell him that these are explosives that the Israelis throw. The children play with them, and they blow up. What is happening to us is not fair. His father died at the Karni border, and his body stayed there. What is happening to us is not fair, really.”
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