News Roundup 6/12/19

by | Jun 12, 2019

News Roundup 6/12/19

by | Jun 12, 2019

US News

  • The US formally request the UK extradite Julian Assange. [Link]
  • The Trump administration calls for Saudi Arabia to show tangible progress into the investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. [Link]
  • Senate Democrats and Republicans are working to block Trump’s emergency weapon sale to Saudi Arabia. [Link]
  • Over a fifth of people living in war zones suffer from a mental illness. [Link]

Korean Peace

  • Trump says he would not use CIA informants against North Korea. [Link]
  • Trump said he received a beautiful letter from Kim Jong-un expressing Kim’s belief that the US and North Korea can reach an agreement. [Link]

Middle East

  • Turkish pilots will no longer train on F-35s in the US. [Link]
  • Turkey claims to kill ten Kurdish militants in Syria as retaliation for a Turkish soldier being killed. [Link]
  • An aggressive Twitter personality and freelance journalist is a group of MEK members. [Link]
  • Aid workers in Yemen are battling another Cholera outbreak. Over 1,100 Yemenis have died from Cholera in 2019. [Link]

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Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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