Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines, anti-government protests erupt once again in Egypt, Facebook blocks accounts of activists days ahead of anti-pipeline campaign in Canada, 7k in Colombia, 60th massacre this year, Sudanese delegation to meet US officials, terrorless delisting to be discussed, and Iraqi-stage massive protests against kidnappings and killings of activists. On Sunday hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets in different cities and towns including Gaza and Suez, asking the government of President Abdel Fatel CC to resign. The protests marked one year of similar protests which were some of the largest knee-jipped in years. The protesters responded to a call given by Muhammad Ali, a contractor and actor turned whistleblower who lives in self-imposed exile in Spain. The US's social media followers to go out on September 20th to mark the anniversary of last year's protests. His videos on YouTube alleging corruption in the CC government were viewed millions of times and had led to popular demonstrations against the government for days in September 2019. The government cracked down on the protests last year led to the arrest of thousands of people across the country. The Abdel Fatel CC regime outlawed demonstrations since it came to power in a military coup in 2013 after reposing the democratically-elected Muhammad Mohrsi. According to reports, Egyptian authorities had shut down cafes and arrested hundreds of people including some left intellectuals and activists on September 16th this year in anticipation of the protests. Security forces were also deployed at all crucial protests side several days before the anniversary. The popular anger against LCC regime is rooted in the ongoing economic crisis in the country as well as the government's misshandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the pandemic began, the government has ordered the demolition of thousands of houses calling them illegal. The event was also recorded over 100,000 cases and registered more than 5,700 deaths. Between September 19th and 20th, in our second story, Facebook blocked dozens of accounts linked as co-hosts on an event page of an upcoming online campaign against the Coastal Gas Link project in support of the Wetsuit and Tribe of Canada. The event was to target the US-based investment group KKR and Co, which became the majority funder of the CAD 6.6 billion pipeline project which is set to traverse through indigenous Wetsuit and land. Pages of more than a dozen indigenous and environmental organizations, along with accounts of many individuals who reportedly targeted in the recent virtual crackdown by Facebook. All accounts put through a three-day suspension were either listed as hosts or were associated in other ways with the organizing of the social media campaign. According to Greenpeace USA, whose pages among the ones that were blocked, Facebook notified them of a three-day suspension in response to a supposed copyright infringement. Many others were reported to have been blocked without a proper explanation from the social media platform. The September 21st event was to target KKR and Co, with the communications blockade by flooding their New York office with calls and emails, along with the social media Blitzkrieg on Twitter and other platforms. The investment group acquired 65% of the stake in the pipeline project in December 2019. In our next story on Sunday, at least seven people were killed in a massacre in the municipality of Buenos Aires, the Department of Cawka in Colombia, according to reports by the network of life of human rights of Cawka. Bringing the total number of massacre victims to 35, this is the ninth one to occur in this department since the beginning of the year, according to the network. So far in September, there have been 11 massacres around Colombia. The human rights network is put forward a demand to the government and the attorney general, take forward the investigation process with the aim of clarifying the facts. It is also demanded that the victim should not be stigmatized in order to justify their massacres. Social leaders have been among those targeted in violence in rural areas in the country. Former combatants of the demobilized guerrilla group FACC, who gave up their weapons following the 2016 peace accords with the government have also been targeted in the violence. Young Colombians also mobilized in the street earlier this month in response to the torture and killing by the police of Javier Ordenes in Bogota. The gruesome assault which has captured and video was widely seen and led to mass protest against police terror in the capital and in the country. Aggression by Yvonne Duque security forces towards the protesters has resulted in at least 13 deaths. In our next story, a high level delegation led by the head of Sudan's ruling council has traveled to the UAE for separate talks with Emirati and US officials. According to reports, Sudan plans to take forward the discussion on its removal from the United States list of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism. It reports General Abdul Fatiha Al-Burhan, head of the sovereign council that has been in charge following the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir last year, will hold talks with the UAE's leadership on to court all regional issues that are related to Sudan. Reports also suggested that besides the terror dealistic, Sudan's transitional government is asking for more than $3 billion in humanitarian assistance and budgetary aid in return for a deal with Israel. Al-Burhan had met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nethaniyahu in Uganda in a secret meeting in February. This was widely condemned by the Sudanese protesters who were responsible for the overthrow of the dictator Al-Bashir last year. Since coming to power, Sudan's transitional government has been pushing to be taken off the US list. Its presence on the list makes the country ineligible for loans from international financial institutions and limits potential foreign investment. And finally, intense protests had taken place in the Iraqi city of Nasiria in southern the southern part of the country over the past two days, over the repeated killings and kidnappings of human rights activists. The protesters demanded that a government bring the culprits to justice as well as make public the names of all those suspected. The protests which began in the late hours of Saturday continued over the next day and saw the protesters blocking the three main bridges in the city. Hundreds of protesters also gathered around and surrounded several government buildings, including the Kuwaitu-Qaadis-The-Provincial government. Soon after the protests began Iraqi security forces were deployed in massive numbers of the protest locations. The protests were sparked by yet another kidnapping this time of Sajjad al-Iraqi, a prominent anti-establishment activist who was abducted by unidentified men late on Saturday. The kidnapped activists had in the past received multiple threats to his life. According to another fellow activist Abdul Wahab al-Hamdani, al-Iraqi was a vocal critic of both the government and the various Islamist parties in the country. Following al-Iraqi's kidnapping, Iraqi social media users and other activists launched an online campaign to demand his release with the hashtag Freedom for Sajjad al-Iraqi. Al-Aqiz witnessed a course of kidnappings, murders and assassination attempts and human rights activists, civil rights activists and anti-government critics over the past one year since the protests began in the country on October 1st. That's all we are talking about today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news from the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.