Syria urges UN action against backers of terrorism

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• North Korea has released footage showing the country’s latest firing of three ballistic missiles off its east coast. The state broadcaster did not specify the date of the test-fire. This as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the military to continue bolstering its nuclear force despite international condemnation.
  
• Syria has also called on the UN Security Council to take punitive and deterrent action against countries which support terrorism, particularly Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and France. This, after a wave of terrorist attacks on Monday claimed some 50 lives across Syria.
  
• A funeral procession is staged for some of the victims of Monday’s car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, which left at least 12 people dead. Mourners carried the coffins draped in Iraqi flags through the streets of the central district of Karrada.
  
• The French prime minister has called for a recount of the votes in Gabon’s disputed presidential election. Manuel Valls said there are doubts and arguments about the election results and that a transparent electoral process can help end the political turmoil in the country.
  
• All flights at London City Airport have been disrupted after protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement locked themselves together on the runway. Officials had to redirect flights while police removed and arrested the protesters. The group wanted to highlight Britain’s environmental impact on the lives of black people.
  
• Clashes have broken out between Turkish police and protesters in Ankara who were rallying in solidarity with hunger striking activists in the city of Diyarbakir. Eight protesters were detained. The campaigners were angry over lack of information about jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Ojalan.
  
• Bahrain’s prominent human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, has faced new charges. This, after the New York Times published his letter from prison in which he complained of the dire condition of detainees in Al Khalifah regime’s prisons. Bahraini prosecutors charged Rajab with broadcasting false news against the kingdom.
  
• Some 1,400 people have been evacuated after a wildfire blazed through brush surrounding a popular tourist resort in Spain’s Costa Blanca. The wildfire, fuelled by intense heat, broke out on Sunday near the Mediterranean resort of Javea. It has so far destroyed 320 hectares of land and several buildings.

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