The first article I read this time around was about the trial in Saudi Arabia regarding the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. From what I’ve read and learned, Jamal Khashoggi was from Saudi Arabia and moved to the US to be a journalist. Jamal Khashoggi had been criticising the Saudi Arabian government and it’s policies through his writing and reporting. The… Read more »
This week, my article focused on issues occurring in North Africa. There are a large amount of refugees from Syria’s civil war in Africa, specifically in the north. These Syrian refugees are trying to seek refugee in Algeria by entering up through the South. However, Algeria has banned all Syrians from entering the country through its southern borders and any… Read more »
Egypt’s interior ministry has said at least 40 fighters have been killed on Saturday in response to an attack on a tourist bus in which four people were killed the night before. According to the official state news agency MENA, security forces killed the suspected fighters in raids in Giza and northern Sinai – a volatile desert region that has… Read more »
Brazil will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with only the date of the transfer to be decided, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking during a meeting with leaders of Brazil’s Jewish community in Rio de Janeiro, Netanyahu said the country’s President Jair Bolsonaro told him that it was “when, not if” he moves the embassy. “We attach… Read more »
by Ali Younes & Trevor Aaronson After President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Syria last month, the US military ramped up its bombing campaign against territory still held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the eastern part of the country, according to sources on the ground and photographs obtained in a joint… Read more »
Saudi Arabia’s attorney general sought the death sentence for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh on Thursday. All 11 accused were present with their lawyers at the opening hearing in the capital, according to a statement by the attorney general carried by the official Saudi Press Agency…. Read more »
LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have found that a strain of cholera causing an epidemic in Yemen – the worst in recorded history – came from eastern Africa and was probably borne into Yemen by migrants. Using genomic sequencing techniques, researchers at Britain’s Wellcome Sanger Institute and France’s Institut Pasteur also said they should now be better able to estimate the… Read more »
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices rebounded on Thursday after an early slide, helped by dollar weakness and signs of output cuts by the world’s top crude exporter Saudi Arabia that eased concerns about a glut. International Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 94 cents at $55.85 a barrel by 1340 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate oil futures CLc1 rose 65… Read more »
Algeria has banned all Syrians from entering the country via its southern borders, hours after a rights group reported that 50 Syrians and Palestinians had been deported to neighbouring Niger in the last week. Hassen Kacimi, the head of migrants policy at the interior ministry, said that Syrians seeking refuge this way were suspected to be armed fighters. “We have hosted 50,000 Syrians… Read more »
Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has announced plans to “worsen” conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including rationing water supplies and reducing the number of family visits. The planned moves, which are expected to come into force in the coming weeks after being approved by the Israeli cabinet, were sharply criticised by Palestinian leaders and activists who described as them as… Read more »