This field actually seeks to observe birds in their natural habitats, either as a recreational activity or as a form of science.
Watching a special bird in nature and observing its special behavior is very exciting for wildlife and nature lovers.
About 600 species of birds have so far been identified in Iran.
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The Health Ministry said the epidemiological experiments showed the majority of the diagnosed cases had a history of traveling abroad. 131 of the cases had taken trips to the UAE, 7 to Pakistan, one to Oman, and one to Benin in West Africa.
Currently, the southern and southeastern border provinces of Hormozgan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Khuzestan and Bushehr are red-alert areas for Aedes aegypti, or the yellow fever mosquito, that can spread dengue fever.
The northern and northwestern border provinces Golestan, Gilan, Mazandaran, and Ardabil are also dotted with the other variations of the mosquito, Aedes albopictus, also known as the tiger mosquito or forest mosquito, that can spread the disease.
The mosquitoes live and grow near human habitats. When a mosquito bites a person infected with dengue virus, the virus enters the mosquito’s body and it transfers the virus by biting another person.
The most common symptoms of the acute viral disease are high fever, headache, body aches, nausea, and rash. In severe cases, it will have hemorrhagic manifestations.
The 50th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers was held on August 29-30 in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. Asadollah Eshragh Jahromi, Director General for International Peace and Security at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led the Iranian delegation at the meeting.
Eshragh Jahromi described Israel’s actions against the oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza over the past eleven months as clear examples of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
He also identified Israel as the main obstacle to achieving stability and sustainable development in the Islamic world and the region, urging greater unity among OIC member states.
Additionally, the Iranian diplomat highlighted the significant commercial port capacities of Iran in the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Oman, as well as the extensive rail network and high transit potential of Iran for connecting OIC member states.
Two resolutions proposed by Iran, condemning terrorist attacks by the Zionist regime on Iranian diplomatic sites in Damascus and strengthening multilateral cooperation among Islamic countries, were among more than one hundred resolutions adopted at the meeting.
The cable provides a blunt assessment of Israel’s forced displacement orders, in one case noting that at least 1.7 million Palestinians were crowded into a “safe zone” whose size is equivalent to just 70 percent of the total area of Washington’s Dulles International Airport.
The cable was reported by online news site Klip News on Wednesday. It includes an assessment by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on the accelerated pace of Israel’s forced displacement orders between 22 July and 25 August.
“Many people have been displaced multiple times, as the IDF has issued evacuation orders under unsafe conditions in quick succession and with little warning before operations begin, heightening protection risks,” the USAID’s disaster assistance relief team said.
“In addition to displacing large swaths of the population, IDF evacuation orders and subsequent military operations further constricted humanitarian space in Gaza, compounding risks to humanitarian staff and curbing access to populations in need,” the US officials warned.
The bulk of the USAID cable reiterates assessments made by the UN about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, but it does provide a warning.
“The continuation of this pace of evacuation orders could debilitate remaining humanitarian operations in the enclave and, as a result, continued assistance to the 2.1 million people in dire need,” USAID said.
USAID said that Israel has not revoked a single forced removal order since October 2023, compounding the shrinking space Palestinians can move in, with many fearing they could be forcibly displaced again.
The cable says the US government has lobbied Israel on “several mitigating measures”, based on the assessment that Israel is “unlikely” to change its overall policy.
The UN on Monday warned that Israel’s order for a forced displacement of Palestinians from parts of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza has severely impacted humanitarian work.
“[The] relocations took place at short notice and in dangerous conditions” the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, stated.
“[The relocation] effectively upends a whole lifesaving humanitarian hub that was set up in Deir al Balah following its evacuation from Rafah back in May.”
USAID officials cited the UN’s report that the Deir al-Balah removal order had “the most significant impact on UN operations of any evacuation order in Gaza since October 2023”, impacting 15 UN and NGO guesthouses, warehouses and Al-Aqsa hospital.
USAID is an independent US government agency responsible for developmental and humanitarian work. It receives its foreign policy guidance from the State Department.
Putin is scheduled to visit Russia’s neighbor on Monday, to mark the 85th anniversary of a major World War II battle. This would theoretically put him at risk of arrest on the ICC’s “war crimes” warrant, as Ulaanbaatar recognizes the court’s jurisdiction.
All states that signed the Rome Statute “have the obligation to cooperate in accordance with Chapter IX”, ICC spokesman Fadi el-Abdallah told the BBC on Friday.
The Rome Statute is an international treaty that set up the court, which Mongolia ratified in 2002.
“In case of non-cooperation, ICC judges may make a finding to that effect and inform the Assembly of States Parties of it. It is then for the Assembly to take any measure it deems appropriate,” el-Abdallah added.
The Rome Statute provides for exemptions when arresting someone would “breach a treaty obligation” with another country or violate the “diplomatic immunity of a person or property of a third state”.
Ukraine has also filed an official demand with Mongolia to arrest Putin, according to the government in Kiev.
Moscow “has no concerns” about the ICC warrant, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier on Friday, noting that all possible issues concerning Putin’s visit have been “worked out separately” in advance.
The ICC issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest in March 2023, accusing the Russian president of “unlawful deportation of population (children)” and “unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation”.
Moscow has rejected the claims as ridiculous, noting that the evacuation of civilians from combat zones was not a crime. Moreover, neither Russia nor Ukraine is party to the Rome Statute, meaning that the ICC has no jurisdiction in the matter.
Putin is expected to attend a ceremony commemorating the 1939 Battle of Khalkhin Gol. The decisive victory of the Red Army and its Mongolian allies over the Imperial Japanese Army secured the Soviet Union’s eastern flank until 1945.
The ongoing military offensives by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, which are currently concentrated in the city of Jenin, are a continuation of the war crimes committed by Israel throughout the Gaza Strip as well as the West Bank, Hamas said in a statement.
It added that these military actions are part of a plan to “grab more West Bank lands and expel its inhabitants.”
Hamas noted Israel’s recent military offensives, including those in Tulkarem and Tubas, have failed, and that “the inevitable outcome of the current aggression in Jenin will be the same.”
Since early Wednesday, the Israeli army has been conducting a large-scale and ongoing military offensive in the cities of Tulkarm, Jenin, and Tubas in the northern West Bank, which is the most extensive since 2002.
As of Friday afternoon, at least 20 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military assaults.
Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank amid a brutal Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 40,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children, since Oct. 7 last year.
At least 670 Palestinians have been killed, nearly 5,500 others injured, and over 10,300 arrested in the occupied territory, according to Palestinian figures.
In a landmark opinion on July 19, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land unlawful and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
On the second day of the Paralympic Games on Friday, the Men’s Shot Put Throw competition was held in the F55 class, where Zafar Zaker got the fourth place with a record of 11.88 meters and the other Iranian athlete, Hamed Ameri, was ranked seventh with a record of 11.37 meters.
However, after the official results were announced, the Iranian officials protested the performance of two athletes from Serbia and Poland who had won silver and bronze medals.
The protest was accepted and all the records of the Serbian shot put thrower and the main record of the Polish thrower were declared invalid, which put Zaker in the second place.
Meanwhile, Iran’s female club thrower in the F32 class with a record of 26.29 meters wrested back the silver medal after the Iranian officials had a point questioning the Polish athlete’s performance.
65 Iranian athletes in 10 sports fields are participating in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which started on August 28 and will run through September 8.
The Iranian team, with three silver medals, so far ranks 30th on the table.
Zelensky said in his nightly address that he had dismissed Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk but offered few details on why.
“I am immensely grateful to all our military pilots, all engineers, all warriors of mobile firing groups, air defense units,” he stated, adding, “The same goes for the command level — we must strengthen ourselves. And take care of people. Take care of personnel — take care of all our warriors.”
The army’s general staff said Lt. Gen. Anatoly Mykolayovych, head of the Air Command Center of the air force, is temporarily assuming the duties of top commander.
Oleshchuk had a public dispute with a Ukrainian member of Parliament, Maryana Bezugla, over the F-16 crash.
A pilot operating an F-16 died Monday while defending Ukraine against a major Russian attack. The F-16 was not downed by Russian fire and appears to have crashed because of a mechanical failure, pilot error or another cause, according to Reuters.
The US has joined the crash investigation.
Bezugla alleged in a post on Telegram that the F-16 was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses, possibly a US Patriot system.
Bezugla claimed at least two other incidents have involved air defenses shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet, and the air force tried to “keep silent and hide information about this case until it appeared in foreign sources”.
“This indicates a lack of proper conclusions and an objective investigation,” she wrote in the post Friday.
“This needs to be changed! This cannot continue any longer. A culture of lies leads us to defeat.”
Oleshchuk said in a Friday post on his Telegram page that “no one has hidden anything” and a detailed investigation was underway.
“But it doesn’t matter to the people who chose Maryana Bezugla as a tool to discredit the top military leadership,” he added, accusing her of pouring dirt on him personally and on the air force and discrediting the US as the manufacturer of weapons Ukraine is using.
Ukraine had asked for the F-16s since nearly the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, arguing the prized American fighter jets could help defend the skies.
The first batch of F-16s arrived in late July.
Nasser Kanaani said the allegations that an Iranian military officer with the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) was on Ukrainian soil to train Russian forces, are totally baseless.
Kanaani reiterated Iran’s principled stance of opposing the war and emphasized the need to halt the conflict and resolve disputes between Russia and Ukraine peacefully.
Ukraine’s Attorney General has announced the opening of a “criminal case” against an IRGC Brigadier, suspected of training Russian soldiers in the use of Iran-made drones sold to Russia.
The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry stated that such baseless claims are made with specific political motives and objectives, adding that these accusations contradict the Islamic Republic of Iran’s principled approach to the conflict in Ukraine.
Bahmani passed away at a hospital in Tehran, marking the end of a tumultuous period that began in late June 2024, when he suffered a stroke.
His condition had taken a turn for the worse on August 31, 2024, after a second brain hemorrhage.
Born in 1942 in Dezful in Khuzestan province, Bahmani was discovered by poet Fereidoun Moshiri, who recognized his talent at a young age. Bahmani wrote his first poem at the age of 10, which was published in the “Roshan Fekr” magazine in 1953.
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