PAKISTAN: Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan says he will begin a protest march with his supporters from the eastern city of Lahore to the capital Islamabad on Friday to call for early elections.

The government has already said demonstrators will be barred from entering the city and they expect to deploy about 30,000 law enforcement officers to encircle the capital for protection.

ISRAEL: The International Criminal Court “must investigate unlawful attacks” and possible war crimes during Israel’s August offensive on the Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

The human rights advocacy organisation collected photographs of weapons fragments, satellite imagery and testimonies that it says amount to evidence that war crimes were committed in three separate attacks during the three-day bombing campaign. 

CANADA: Political party Bloc Quebecois have called on Canada to cut ties with the British monarchy, describing the institution as a costly and “archaic” symbol.

A vote on the motion, which was debated on Tuesday, was expected to be voted on by the Parliament today.

IRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says several institutions and individuals from the European Union will be included in the Islamic republic’s blacklist of sanctions, days after some European countries imposed a set of bans on the country under allegedly false pretexts.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced embargoes on a number of British individuals and entities including the National Cyber Security Centre and Government Communications Headquarters as well as Volant Media, Global Media, and DMA Media and anti-Iranian TV channels that they support including BBC Persian.