News Roundup 4/26/19

by | Apr 26, 2019

News Roundup 4/26/19

by | Apr 26, 2019

US News

  • The FBI and IRS search the home and office of Baltimore’s mayor. [Link]
  • A Georgian businessman claims he was misrepresented in the Mueller report. [Link]
  • A US soldier dies in Iraq. His death is being reported as a non-combat fatality. [Link]
  • Instagram blocks the account of Syria’s President Assad. [Link] Assad’s Instagram account was reactivated. [Link]

Venezuela

  • Juan Guaido calls for major marches on May 1st. [Link]

Kim/Putin Meeting

  • Putin/Kim talks end without a signed agreement. Kim said the peace of the Korean Peninsula depends on the attitude of the US. [Link]
  • After meeting with Kim, Putin says North Korea is willing to denuclearize if given international security guarantees. [Link]

Myanmar

  • 2 Reuters journalists have lost their final appeal and will serve a seven-year sentence in Myanmar. The journalists were jailed for documents they possessed while investigating the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya. [Link]

Afghanistan

  • Afghan government forces are responsible for most civilian death in the first three months of 2019. [Link]

Middle East

  • Saudi Arabia executes 37 people in one day. Saudi says those killed were guilty of terrorism and had adopted terror ideologies. The Saudis have executed 95 people in 2019. [Link]
  • Mohammed bin Salman will likely be the next king of Saudi Arabia. [Link]
  • Iran’s foreign minister says Bolton is responsible for the aggressive US policy towards Iran. [Link]
  • A new study finds US airstrikes killed at least 1,600 civilians in Syria. [Link]
  • A UN report says the Yemen War has set the country back more than 20 years. [Link]

Africa

  • The UN/US backed Libyan government has pushed the forces of Field Marshal Haftar out of southern Tripoli. Haftar’s troops pushed into southern Libya after starting an offensive to take the city a few weeks ago. [Link]
  • Sudan’s ruling military council and the leadership of popular protest groups agree to form a committee to resolve differences. [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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