The reason behind US President Donald Trump’s reluctance to hold Saudi Arabia responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi was an ambitious $110 billion arms deal between Washington and Riyadh which had been inflated at the direction of his adviser and son-in-law, ABC News reported Monday. Jared Kushner pushed State and Defence Department officials to […]
Tunisia Lawyers, Bloggers Sue over Bin Salman Visit b/c Khashoggi Murder
A group of lawyers in Tunisia are preparing to file a lawsuit to prevent Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman from visiting the country following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A number of journalists and bloggers requested the action be taken, the 50 Lawyers for the Defence of Freedoms and Addressing the Abuse of […]
Trump dismisses as ‘Feelings’ CIA Finding that Saudi Crown Prince ordered Murder
US President Donald Trump has ratchet up his dispute with his own intelligence community by dismissing their conclusion of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khasgoggi saying that it was based on “feelings”. Fielding questions from reporters at his at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, where he is spending his Thanksgiving holiday, Trump doubled down on […]
British Universities Boycott United Arab Emirates over Student ‘Spying’ Life Sentence
In what seems to be the first sign of a nationwide backlash against the UAE’s decision to sentence a British PhD student to life, staff at Birmingham University have voted to boycott their campuses in the Emirates. The motion, passed yesterday, will mean that lecturers based in Birmingham will refuse to teach in Dubai and […]
Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 85,000 Children
Some 85,000 children under the age of five may have died of acute malnutrition during the last three years of war in Yemen, the United Kingdom (UK)-based Save the Children announced yesterday. “The number is equivalent to the entire under-five population in the UK’s second largest city of Birmingham,” Save the Children added. Last month, […]
Top Chefs bow out of Israel Food Festival under BDS/ Boycott pressure
Two leading chefs have pulled out of the Tel Aviv-hosted Round Tables food festival following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, reported Haaretz. Gabrielle Hamilton, chef, and owner of the Prune restaurant in New York, cancelled, following the earlier cancellation by Ana Ros, a world-acclaimed chef from Slovenia. Ahead of the festival, […]
Khashoggi killing: Strongest evidence linking murder to MBS
A message captured in the audio record of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi is widely believed to be an instruction to notify the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman that the operation to slay the Washington Post journalist had been carried out successfully. In the recording, which Turkey has said was passed on to western allies, […]
Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand Timetable for US Troop Withdrawal
Iraqi MP Ahmad Al-Assadi, senior leader of the Iraqi Construction Alliance, revealed on Friday parliamentarian moves to pressure the Iraqi government to evict US forces from the country. Al-Assadi said that the previous Iraqi parliament had started the calls, but now the new parliament was calling for a clear timetable for the US withdrawal from […]
Erdogan: Turkey will not abide by US sanctions on Iran
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that his country rejects the US sanctions on Iran and will not abide by them, Anadolu news agency reported. “US sanctions on Iran are wrong. For us, they are steps aimed at unbalancing the world; we don’t want to live in an imperialist world” Erdogan told reporters in […]
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