Daily Archives: January 21, 2021

2021-01-21: News Headlines

Kathy Kelly (2021-01-21). About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocent in Yemen. globalresearch.ca In 1565, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

sputniknews (2021-01-20). US Senate Confirms Avril Haines as Biden's Director of National Intelligence. sputniknews.com US President Joe Biden's new administration is expected to soon declassify and release key documents related to the 2018 murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi monarchy.

MEE and agencies (2021-01-19). Qatar blockade ends: BeIN Sports unofficially returns to Saudi Arabia. middleeasteye.net Qatar blockade ends: BeIN Sports unofficially returns to Saudi Arabia | Riyadh cafes broadcast banned Doha-based broadcaster, as Qatar expected to drop $1bn piracy lawsuit against Riyadh | Tue, 01/19/2021 – 11: 21 | A woman watches beIN Sports from her home in Riyadh in January 2020, months before a Saudi ban on the broadcaster (AFP/File photo) | Qatar-owned beIN Sports was broadcast in Sa…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-01-19). Citing famine, UN urges reversal of terrorist designation for Yemen's Houthis; U.S. refuses. mronline.org Mark Lowcock of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that recent labeling of Houthis as a terrorist organization by the U.S. would likely trigger a "famine on a scale we have not seen in 40 years.

Abdul Rahman (2021-01-19). The war on the Yemeni people has entered a new stage. peoplesdispatch.org The designation of Ansar Allah, referred to as the Houthis, as a foreign terrorist organization takes effect today. Unless Biden administration reverses its predecessor's step, the people of Yemen may have to endure even more suffering…