2020-03-13: News Headlines

Dania Akkad (2020-03-12). Top Saudi Intelligence Official 'Chased' to Canada by Crown Prince MBS. globalresearch.ca The Canadian government gave refuge to a powerful former Saudi intelligence official deemed a threat to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's rule, three sources familiar with the matter have told Middle East Eye. | Saad al-Jabri, once a trusted …

Tasnim News Agency (2020-03-12). US Marines Arrive on Yemen's Socotra Island to Back UAE Troops: Reports. globalresearch.ca Sanaa Post reported that the American soldiers were received by the occupying UAE forces at their headquarters on the island. | There is speculation that the US intends to establish its own military base amid reports that America had sent military …

teleSUR (2020-03-12). Yemen Cancels UN Work in Country Amid Growing Armed Conflict. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Yemeni Foreign Ministry suspended the work of the United Nations (U.N.) country team, which was seeking to end the armed conflict that has been raging in the country since 2015. | RELATED: | The UN team will have to leave the port province of Hodeidah, which is the heart of the conflict between the Yemeni government and the insurgent group known as the Houthis, local sources said today. | The decision by the governme…

news.un (2020-03-12). De-escalate now, to steer Yemen off 'precarious path', UN Security Council hears. news.un.org Yemen is at a "critical juncture", the UN Special Envoy for the country told the Security Council on Thursday. Speaking via video-link, Martin Griffiths said that the combatants will either move towards de-escalation or greater violence, which would make "the path to the negotiating table more arduous".

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold (2020-03-12). Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS. dissidentvoice.org This week, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He arrested members of his own royal family and initiated an oil price war with Russia that has sent the price of oil—and the world's stock markets—plummeting. Behind the headlines, however, another critical event will take place …

Medea Benjamin (2020-03-11). Saudi Arabia's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS. mintpressnews.com The case of Al-Hathloul and the other women's rights activists on trial in Saudi Arabia is a tremendous embarrassment for MBS, who has been putting an enormous effort into convincing his Western allies that he is a reformer and that the Kingdom is becoming more liberal.