The Guardian-https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/thousands-of-gazans-rush-to-border-as-egypt-opens-crossing I found this article particularly interesting because we haven’t seen very much cooperation between the Palestinians and Egyptians in the past. The Egyptian administration has stated that this rare border opening is solely for refugee purposes, Palestinians in turn rushed for the borders. I think this event really puts the refugee crisis in perspective that two opposing sides… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/al-shabaab-extortion-indoctrination-somalia Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia are extorting huge sums from starving communities and forcibly recruiting hundreds of children as soldiers and suicide bombers as the terror group endures financial pressures and an apparent crisis of morale. Intelligence documents, transcripts of interrogations with recent defectors and interviews conducted by the Guardian with inhabitants of areas in the swath of central and… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/21/trump-cuts-un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-millions-in-jeopardy-generation-radicalised The head of the main United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees has warned that the organisation is facing the most severe funding crisis in its history, threatening its support to an estimated 5.3 million people, including more than 400,000 inside Syria. Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency, added that cuts in support to the… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/syrian-death-toll-rises-as-bombing-of-rebel-enclave-continues Aid agencies, including the Red Cross and World Food Programme, are calling for an urgent ceasefire to allow them to reach the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta, as rockets and barrel bombs dropped by pro-regime forces killed dozens more people on the fourth day of an intense assault. The calls were echoed by the UN secretary-general, António Guterres,… Read more »
The Guardian-https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/22/israel-foiled-alleged-plot-to-blow-up-plane-from-sydney-benjamin-netanyahu-says The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has claimed intelligence provided by his country foiled an alleged plot by the Islamic State group to blow up a plane from Sydney using a device smuggled inside a meat mincer. “The Israeli intelligence services thwarted the downing of an Australian plane, an unimaginable slaughter,” the Israeli leader told an American Jewish… Read more »
