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World in brief: September 28, 2023

ISRAEL: Occupation forces arrested about 135,000 Palestinians in the last 23 years, including thousands of minors and women, Palestinian authorities reported today.

The Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs said that since 2000, the year of the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada (as the second Palestinian uprising is known), Israeli troops detained almost 21,000 children and young people.

WORLD BANK: A rights watchdog, the Oakland Institute, has accused the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government’s violent expansion of a national park through their financing arrangements.

The campaigners said that the World Bank has failed to hold Tanzanian authorities accountable for serious rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and sexual assaults, relating to the expansion of Ruaha National Park in the south of the East African country.

BURKINA FASO: Authorities in Burkina Faso said on Wednesday that they had foiled a coup attempt by dissident army officers.

In a statement read out on television on Wednesday evening, the authorities said some arrests had been made and they were actively pursuing other suspects, without giving specific details. 

Four army officers have reportedly been detained.

UNITED STATES: The US federal government is just days away from a shutdown that will stop all actions deemed non-essential, and millions of federal employees, including members of the military.

Government funding expires on October 1, the start of the federal budget year. 

A shutdown fuelled by demands by hard-right Republican politicians for deep cuts in federal spending will take place if Congress is unable to pass a funding plan that the president signs into law before the deadline.

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