Arab News BAKER ATYANI 18 September, 2017 MANAMA: The US posture toward the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as well as global institutions, is negatively impacting business and regional growth, according to experts at the second International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Bahrain Bay Forum 2017. A panel, including ... Read More »
Amber Rudd proposes new UK-EU security treaty that is not conditional on success of Brexit talks The Guardian Alan Travis 18 September, 2017 Proposals for a new UK-EU security treaty to “lock in” membership of Europol, the European arrest warrant and other existing joint measures to combat crime and terrorism ... Read More »
‘The demand for food, shelter, water and basic hygiene support is not being met due to the sheer number of people in need’ The Independent Chris Baynes 17 September, 2017 Rohingya refugees fleeing violent persecution in Burma could starve to death amid a growing humanitarian crisis, an aid agency has ... Read More »
The Telegraph James Titcomb 17 September 2017 BAE Systems will supply 24 Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar, preserving thousands of British manufacturing jobs in the biggest export deal for the Typhoon project in a decade. Defence secretary Michael Fallon signed a statement of intent with his Qatari counterpart Khalid bin ... Read More »
HURRICANE Maria is barrelling towards the Caribbean with additional strengthening forecast, according to the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC). Express By Nicole Stinson 18 September, 2017 Maria was upgraded to a hurricane on Sunday evening and the latest NHC forecast shows the storm travelling along a west-northwest trajectory, placing Florida ... Read More »
The US President called the nuclear accord ‘one of the worst deals I’ve ever seen’ The Independent Samuel Osborne 17 September, 2017 Iran‘s Supreme Leader has warned Iran would react strongly to any “wrong move” by the United States on Tehran’s nuclear accord with world powers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s statement ... Read More »
UPI Gunmen opened fire at a restaurant in Iraq’s Dhi War province and a car bomb exploded outside Thursday, killing dozens of people, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said. Conflicting announcements from official and security sources placed the death toll between 50 and 80, with many injuries. “Terrorists assaulted citizens inside of ... Read More »
BBC NEWS 15 September, 2017 Brazil’s top anti-corruption prosecutor has charged President Michel Temer with obstruction of justice and racketeering. It is the second set of criminal charges he faces and is based on the plea-bargain testimony of the owners of the meatpacker JBS. They accused Mr Temer of taking ... Read More »
NASA will crash a spacecraft into a planet today on a suicide mission to stamp out any threat of an alien invasion. The Daily Star By Henry Holloway 15 September, 2017 The £3 billion spacecraft has spent nearly a decade-and-a-half scouring the moons of the ringed planet for any signs ... Read More »
THE US is heading for a dollar disaster 10 years after the financial crash – which might end its economic domination of the world. Daily Star Tom Towers 15 September, 2017 Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the 2007 disaster, when wages froze, house prices tumbled and cost of living ... Read More »
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