What's happening around the world? - September 9, 2021
Blockade threatens millions with famine in Tigray after the war broke out 10 months ago, warns the United Nations. As the World Food Programme declares that the aid it is receiving is insufficient in a video released at the end of August.
EU to sanction Warsaw and hold recovery funds worth €57 billion due to court violation in human rights including LGBTQ and press freedoms.
6 prisoners flee one of the most secure prisons in Israel, Gilboa prison established in 2004, by digging a tunnel of tens of meters to the outside world. In response, Israeli forces were mobilized in an attempt to find them as 400 other prisoners from the same prison would be soon converted from Gilboa.
Fears arise as the country decides to recognize Bitcoin as the legal tender as it has the second slowest internet connection in Latin America, only 30% of Salvadorians have bank accounts and its negative influence on the environment as extracting digital currencies from cyberspace requires large amounts of energy.
New electoral system and the rising Covid cases pose a threat on democracy and the right to vote of the 18 million people expected to vote in Morocco on Wednesday as fear of the division of the parliament rises.
39-year old Belarusian opposition figure in the Coordination Council, Maria Kolesnicova, has been sentenced for 10 years in prison after tearing up her passport to prevent authorities from deporting her as she makes the heart symbol.
A new "variant of concern" identified by WHO called C.1.2 due to its high transmissibility and fast mutation has spread to several countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.
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Sources:
Al Jazeera:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/7/as-moroccans-prepares-to-vote-what-are-the-key-challenges
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/9/7/what-we-know-about-the-new-c-1-2-covid-variant
BBC News:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58460702
Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pros-cons-el-salvador-first-bitcoin-nation-2021-09-06/
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