(2022-07-16). Iran Proxy Claims Iraqi PM Wants Normalization With Israel. news.antiwar.com This weekend's GCC+3 summit in Saudi Arabia is fueling some controversy in Iraq. Iraq PM Mustafa Kadhimi will attend the summit, and his rivals in pro-Iran proxy groups think he's up to something. | It's not clear how this got started, but Ketaib Hezbollah figures are claiming that some Israelis might attend the summit, expanding that to PM Yair Lapid possibly being there, and then suggesting Kadhimi There is no evidence of any of this, and Lapid almost certainly…
(2022-07-16). The West is experiencing a contraction of its power, not necessarily its decline. peoplesdispatch.org What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in the 16th century and expanded continuously until the 20th century. On the eve of World War I, about 90 percent of the globe was Western or Western-dominated: Europe, Russia, the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and much of Asia (with the partial exceptions of Japan and China). From then on, the West began to contract: first with the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the emergence of the Soviet bloc, and then, from mid-century onward, with the decolonization movements. Terrestrial space, and soon after, extraterrestrial space, bec…
(2022-07-16). [World Report] Climate change driving east Africa towards famine. thelancet.com Consecutive years of drought caused by climate change and La Niña have led to food insecurity in many parts of east Africa. Sharmila Devi reports.
(2022-07-16). Biden Should Not Renew Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia. juancole.com By Michael Page | Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division | ( Human Rights Watch ) President Biden is set to land in Saudi Arabia later this week to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid disturbing media reports that, if true, signal a policy reversal that could lead to …
(2022-07-16). Chinese FM spokesperson refutes 'debt trap' claim. ecns.cn A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday refuted the so-called "Chinese debt trap" claim, saying that it is pure disinformation and a narrative trap created by those who do not hope to see China-Africa cooperation pick up speed.
(2022-07-16). Tanzania receives 3 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by China. ecns.cn The government of Tanzania on Thursday received a donation of 3 million COVID-19 Sinopharm vaccine doses donated by China.
(2022-07-15). Sisi says "let them eat leaves" as food crisis sharpens class lines in Egypt. mronline.org 
The war in Ukraine, rising oil prices and spiralling global inflation have fuelled food scarcity and surges in the price of basic goods in Egypt. Most worrying among the goods affected is bread, which makes up almost 40 percent of the average Egyptian's diet.
(2022-07-15). Ukraine: Is Russia's Advance Too Slow? libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic In 2014/2015, the then-nascent Kiev regime suffered a humiliating debacle after it was defeated by a much smaller, undermanned and under-equipped Donbass force. The political West stepped in and forced the Neo-Nazi junta to sign the Minsk agreements and prevent the complete collapse of the regime, which, according to their own admission, used the agreements to buy time…
(2022-07-15). Exporting Blood and Benjamins: U.S. Capitalism is the Real Dracula. libya360.wordpress.com Stephen Millies Over 70% of the world's plasma comes from the exploited poor in the USA Malcolm X declared, "you show me a capitalist, I'll show you a bloodsucker." U.S. capitalists are the biggest bloodsuckers on the planet. In 2017, human blood and plasma were the tenth largest U.S. export items, with sales of $28.6 billion. That's…
(2022-07-15). Report: US Clinches Deal for Steps Toward Saudi-Israeli Normalization. news.antiwar.com The Times of Israel reported Thursday that President Biden An unnamed Middle Eastern diplomat told the Times that Egypt had agreed to transfer the control of two Red Sea islands, T…
(2022-07-15). Ilhan Omar's Meddling in Horn of Africa Earns Boos at Somali Concert. towardfreedom.org Framed by Republican-oriented media as a backlash against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's "woke" politics, the boos of a Somali crowd in Minneapolis expressed growing anger over the Democratic congresswoman's role in U.S. meddling in the Horn of Africa. Ann Garrison reports.
(2022-07-15). Ilhan Omar's Meddling in Horn of Africa Earns Boos at Somali American Concert. libya360.wordpress.com ANN GARRISON Framed by Republican media as a backlash against Ilhan Omar's "woke" politics, the boos of a Somali American crowd expressed growing anger over the congresswoman's role in US meddling in the Horn of Africa. Ilhan Omar was greeted with vigorous booing during a July 2 Minneapolis concert featuring Somali singer Suldaan Seeraar in Minneapolis. The booing was…
(2022-07-15). Will Egypt Drain the World's Second Largest Wetlands? dissidentvoice.org "With 35% loss globally since 1970, wetlands are our most threatened ecosystem, disappearing three times faster than forests. Wetlands' services for climate mitigation, adaptation biodiversity, and human health outweigh all other terrestrial ecosystems." 1 Sudd is Africa's largest freshwater wetland at roughly 3, 0 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan. It's under threat …
(2022-07-15). Egypt's Sisi: ringmaster of a near-bankrupt circus. fairobserver.com
(2022-07-15). United Kingdom Pursuing Investment Projects in Africa. moderndiplomacy.eu At least, during the past few years, including the Covid-19 pandemic period, the United Kingdom has consistently followed its planned agenda with African countries. The UK has an agenda and decisively been implementing all aspects. It describes "Africa as a reliable partner" during its historic UK-Africa Investment Summit held in January 2020. Monitoring developments after …
(2022-07-15). Rwanda. Understanding the Growth of an Economy at War During the Last Thirty Years. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | To receive Global Research's Daily Newsletter (selected articles), Follow …
(2022-07-15). Mozambique: Getting Agricultural Support Right. moderndiplomacy.eu After multiple consecutive shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic which led to the first recession in almost three decades, the Mozambique economy has started to recover but with considerable uncertainty. The 8th edition of The World Bank's Economic Update on Mozambique focuses its analysis on the potential offered by agriculture to promote a sustainable and more …
(2022-07-15). Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey Could Join BRICS. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | To receive Global Research's Daily Newsletter (selected articles), Follow …
(2022-07-15). Machine-learning algorithms can help health care staff correctly diagnose alcohol-associated hepatitis, acute cholangitis. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Acute cholangitis is a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection that often is associated with gallstones. Symptoms include fever, jaundice, right upper quadrant pain, and elevated liver enzymes. While these may seem like distinctive, telltale symptoms, unfortunately, they are similar to those of a much different condition: alcohol-associated hepatitis. This challenges emergency department staff and other health care professionals who need to diagnose and treat patients with liver enzyme abnormalities and systemic inflammatory responses….
(2022-07-15). Reportan decesos en Tanzania por enfermedad nasal desconocida. telesurtv.net Hasta el momento, se han diagnosticado 13 pacientes con la afección, cuyo principal síntoma es la hemorragia nasal.
(2022-07-15). Saudi Arabia Opens Skies To 'All Carriers' In Breakthrough Step To Normalize With Israel. southfront.org 
El Al Boeing 787 -9 jet number 4X-EDA at Ben Gurion Airport., 18 September 2017. Photo by Wikimedia user (LLHZ2805). | Saudi Arabia has opened its airspace to all air carriers in a move that its meant to allow for more overflights to and from Israel. | In a statement released on July 14, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said that the kingdom's airspace was now open to all carriers that meet its requirements for overflights, in line with international conventions that say there should be n…
(2022-07-15). Canadian police confirm 'high profile' killing of Sikh businessman. tribune.com.pk 
Canadian police confirmed on Friday that a man shot dead in British Columbia on Thursday was Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Sikh businessman acquitted in connection with the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people. | Police said they have not established a motive for the killing or have evidence to suggest whether the incident was connected to the airline attack. | Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, a worker in British Columbia, were acquitted in 2005 of charges related to the attack on Air India Flight 182, which exploded over the Atlantic Ocean in 1985 in one of history's deadliest bombings of a commercial airline…
(2022-07-15). S Arabia opens airspace to all carriers in gesture to Israel. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 15 (MNA) — Saud Arabia said it is lifting restrictions on "all carriers" using its airspace, in an apparent gesture of openness toward Zionists following Biden's pledge to aggressively push for the normalization of Riyadh-Tel Aviv ties.