News Roundup 5/13/17

by | May 13, 2017

  • The White House has released a list of the 11 people Trump is considering nominating to be the next FBI Director. [Link]
  • The US is closing in on a deal to sell Saudi Arabia $100 billion in weapons. [Link]
  • Lithuania’s president calls for US troops to be permanently stationed in Lithuania. [Link]
  • The president of Somalia is asking the UN to lift a 25-year embargo against Somalia. The embargo prevents weapons from being sold to Somalia. [Link]
  • The civilian death toll in Mali has reached 150 in 2017. [Link]
  • Turkey has arrested the online editor of a news outlet. The arrest warrant was issued after the news outlet ran a story about the death of a prosecutor. [Link]
  • A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed 25 people in an attack on a member of the Pakistani Senate. The Senator was traveling in a convoy and survived the attack. The Islamic State group in Pakistan is claiming responsibility. [Link]
  • The Hadi government has condemned the secessionist push in South Yemen. [Link]

On Foreign Policy Focus #39, I discuss US interventions across Africa and Asia. The US is going to provide support for the West African coalition fighting Islamists. The US is selling $2 billion in weapons to the UAE. The UAE is currently fighting against the US-backed government in Libya. The Afghan government nearly lost a key province to the Taliban. I also update nuclear waste, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and the drug war. LISTEN HERE!!

About 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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