 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from across the world. Our headlines. Blast in Afghanistan kills 25 people, government in Taliban blame each other. Ecuadorian trade unions call for protests against Lenin Moreno's neoliberal policies. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hints at postponing annexation plans. And China's legislature enacts national security law for Hong Kong. We begin with Afghanistan, where negotiations between the government and Taliban forces are expected to resume soon. But meanwhile, at least 25 civilians, including children, died in a bomb blast in the Helmand province in the south on Monday. Both the Afghanistan government and the rival Taliban have blamed each other for the attack that took place in a crowded market in Sangin district. According to reports, four mortars landed in the area which was then followed by a car bomb blast. Despite a repeated call of restraint from neighboring countries such as Russia, Iran and Pakistan, following the US-Taliban peace agreement in February, the violence in Afghanistan shows no sign of subsiding. As per government figures, 422 attacks were carried out by the Taliban between June 21st and 28th in 32 provinces. Close to 300 security personnel lost their lives in these attacks and 550 were wounded. On Sunday, at least 6 civilians which included women and children were killed in a landmine in Helmand's Warshid district. No group claimed responsibility for that attack, either. The UN assistance mission in Afghanistan is estimated that nearly 1,300 civilians were killed in the violence over the first three months of 2020. At least 30% are estimated to have died in blasts and landmine explosions. Ecuador's trade union center, the Unitary Workers Front or FUT on Monday, gave a call for a national mobilization on July 16th to reject the neoliberal policies of the Leroy and Moreno administration and its mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a video conference, Mesia Satamuez, president of FUT, explained that the mobilization is against the mass dismissals of public sector workers, budget cuts in higher education, corruption at the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute and the government's privatization drive. FUT has also asked the participants to comply with the health advisory due to the pandemic. In the meanwhile, Jose Villavicencio, president of the General Union of Ecuadorian Workers, UGTE, announced the filing of seven lawsuits challenging the constitutional validity of the so-called humanitarian laws. The humanitarian laws, recently passed by Moreno, are a set of two organic laws passed to apparently raise funds for the pandemic response. The laws ratify the IMF's measures imposed in Ecuador and enact sweeping austerity policies. Likewise, Isabel Vargas, president of the National Union of Educators, stated that teachers will hold a sit-in at the Independence Plaza in the capital, Quito, on July 2. Union leaders have also criticized the health ministry for its inability to deal with the outbreak in the country. They condemned the government for dismantling the public health cover and leaving out millions of people without protection. In our next story, addressing a meeting of liquid members of the Israeli parliament, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Monday that the proposed annexation plan may be delayed. Reports quoted anonymous sources citing Netanyahu calling the plan to annex large parts of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank as a complicated process. He also mentioned diplomatic considerations that he said he could not get into. The move was sudden given the fact that earlier in the day, Netanyahu was dismissive of his coalition partner and defense minister Benny Gantz's opposition to the timing of the annexation. Gantz said earlier said, and I quote, What is not corona related will wait until the day after the virus and the July 1 is not a sacred date. Netanyahu responded to Gantz saying that the annexation did not depend on Gantz's support. He also claimed that the government is in talks with the US team in Israel, which does not include Gantz's blue and white. Netanyahu's annexation plan is received international condemnation around the world and has seen protests against it both in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel. A new security law for Hong Kong has been passed by China's top legislative body. The national security law for Hong Kong was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress or the NPCSE after over a month of deliberations. The law will authorize the government of the Hong Kong Special Administration region or the HKSAR to deal with cases of terrorism, secessionism and collusion with foreign powers. The draft law which was revealed in parts by Zinwa last week will allow the chief executor of the HKSAR to form a special team of judges to deal with most cases of national security. The law allows the central government to act only in special cases concerning national security and allows it to set up a commissioner's office in the city. It nonetheless puts the primary responsibility of national security with the government of Hong Kong in accordance with its constitution and legal system. The NPCSE used a provision within the HKSAR Constitution that allows the central government to enact laws for Hong Kong on matters that affect national sovereignty. The only other time when it used such special provisions was to enact a similar legislation from Macau in 2009. The legislation was reportedly prompted by the violent anti-government and secessionist protests last year and suspected collusion of some of the movement's leaders with the US. The US also recently enacted laws against Hong Kong's special status in trade over the national security law on Monday, June 29th. That's all we have in this episode of the International Daily Roundup. We'll be back tomorrow with the latest developments of the day. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.