NewsGlobal unrest: Tensions, turmoil, and revelations overnight
Global unrest: Tensions, turmoil, and revelations overnight
It happened while you were sleeping. Here is what the global agencies reported overnight from Monday to Tuesday.
- Turkey’s Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya, stated on Monday night via platform X that 43 individuals accused of inciting unrest had been detained, with operations ongoing to locate additional suspects. The announcement followed a protest at Istanbul’s Sarachane Park, where tensions escalated between demonstrators and police. The situation turned chaotic after objects were thrown at officers, prompting them to deploy pepper spray, which triggered panic among the crowd.
- A United Airlines plane had to turn back over the Pacific because one of the pilots lacked a passport. The incident caused a delay and a change of crew. The plane was carrying 257 passengers.
- Lieutenant General Yasir al-Atty of Sudan announced attacks on airports in Chad. The United Arab Emirates uses these airports to supply arms to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Chad has deemed this a "declaration of war" and vowed to defend its territory.
- Dina Boluarte, the President of Peru, shaken by social protests against her government's policies and escalating corruption, appointed the seventh Minister of Internal Affairs in just under fourteen months of her rule. Julio Diaz Zulueta, the former Deputy Minister of Public Security, assumed the position.
- Two months after launching the "México Te Abraza" (Mexico Embraces You) programme, the Coordinating Business Council (CCE) announced on Monday that nearly 60,000 jobs have already been prepared across the country for nationals deported from the United States.
- Zahi Hawass, a well-known Egyptian archaeologist and former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, stated that claims about the existence of an underground city beneath the pyramids in Giza or the pyramids resting on giant underground pillars were completely false and had no scientific basis. The archaeologist's reaction came after conspiracy theory enthusiasts spread research by Italian scientists Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on platform X a few days ago. The researchers claimed that radar scanning of the Giza plateau revealed a network of structures extending more than 600 metres deep under the pyramids. These reports quickly gained popularity on many other social media platforms, where graphics emerged depicting the pyramids as the peaks of gigantic pillars covered with reliefs.
