Rights groups want Riyadh back on blacklist

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon ©AFP

These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

  • Twenty rights groups slam the UN chief for being pressured into removing Saudi Arabia and its allies from the blacklist of child rights violators over their crimes in Yemen.
  • A shooting attack near the Israeli Ministry of Military Affairs in Tel Aviv leaves four people dead and several others injured. Police say the attackers were Palestinian.
  • Campaigners for British soldiers killed during the Iraq war call for the trial of former premier Tony Blair ahead of the release of an inquiry into the country’s involvement in the war.
  • In France, fresh scuffles break out between anti-government protesters and police over the government’s proposed labor reform law.
  • China demands an immediate end to the US reconnaissance flights in the Chinese airspace, saying they endanger its maritime security.

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