Hezbollah warning
The secretary general of Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement has warned Israel against waging a war on the country. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says in case of a war, the resistance movement will send the regime back to the Stone Age. He made the remarks as Lebanon is marking the anniversary of Hezbollah’s victory over Israeli forces in the 2006 war.
Condemning Iran terror attack
The United Nations has denounced the deadly terrorist attack on a shrine in Iran as abhorrent. The European Union also condemned the shooting at the Shah Cheragh shrine in the southern city of Shiraz. EU spokesman Peter Stano says the attack is yet another example of terrorists targeting innocent civilians. Several countries including Russia and Syria have also slammed the tragic incident that happened on Sunday. The terrorist attack has so far left two people dead and several others injured. One assailant was arrested at the holy site. The shrine was the scene of another terror attack last October, which claimed more than a dozen lives.
UK labor woes
An umbrella union body has warned that the UK suffers from structural racism. It says the country's black and minority ethnic (BME) workers in low-paid and insecure jobs have more than doubled in the past decade. The Trades Union Congress says nearly 4 million Britons are in insecure employment. Out of those, over 800,000 were from black and minority ethnic backgrounds in 2022. That’s up from over 360,000 in 2011. The union said BME employment grew by 1.7 million people in the last decade, but 27 percent of the increase was in insecure work. BME men were almost twice as likely to be in insecure work as their white counterparts. The term insecure work covers people on low pay, on variable hours, or doing seasonal or agency work.