News Roundup 2/22/18

by | Feb 22, 2018

  • Mitt Romney accepts Trump’s endorsement. [Link]
  • Immigration Agents are setting up checkpoints and carrying out warrantless searches miles from the border. [Link]
  • The US trained Honduran TIGER police forces is arresting protesters. [Link]
  • The Philippines President disputes the claim by US intelligence that he is a threat to the Philippines Constitution. [Link]
  • 50 girls are missing after a Boko Haram attack on a Nigerian school. [Link]
  • Israeli police arrest two more associates of Israeli President Netanyahu. [Link]
  • Bahrain sentences activist to five years in prison. [Link]
  • The US is moving towards an agreement to sell Saudi Arabia nuclear reactors. Saudi Arabia is refusing to agree to restrictions on enriching uranium. [Link]
  • Turkish forces attack militias allied to Assad as they were moving to support the Syrian Kurds in Afrin. Erdogan says he had Putin permission. [Link]
  • Syrian bombing has damaged or destroyed 13 Doctors Without Borders hospitals in three days. [Link] The US is asking Russia to end support for Assad. [Link]
  • Aid is failing to meet the demands of the Yemeni people. More Yemeni are becoming dependent on aid because of the Saudi commercial blockade of Yemen. [Link]
  • A bombing in Afghanistan killed three village elders. [Link]

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone

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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