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US stops sale of cluster bombs to Saudis

Thursday, 02 June 2016 10:00 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 02 June 2016 10:00 AM ]

The United States has reportedly stopped selling banned bombs to Riyadh.

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US stops the sale of cluster bombs to Saudis

New indications of discontent have emerged against Saudi Arabia’s use of cluster bombs in Yemen. The United States has reportedly stopped selling the banned bombs to Riyadh. Concerns seem to be specifically high in Washington over an announcement by the Human Rights Watch that Saudi Arabia has used US-made cluster munitions near civilian areas in Yemen.

Ireland joins the BDS movement

An alarming challenge for the Tel Aviv regime as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, the BDS movement has lately been making waves across the globe. In the latest move, Ireland has joined the BDS movement following the Dutch government’s action to refuse to ban the activities of the movement. Israel has been trying to stop the BDS movement from gaining momentum in recent years but the desperate attempts seem to have produced no favorable results.

So-called Syria opposition negotiator resigns

The chief negotiator of the so-called Syrian opposition, known as the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), has resigned over what he has described as the failure of the UN-backed Geneva peace talks.

Mohammad Alloush, who is also the representative of the Takfiri Jaish al Islam militant group in the Saudi-based HNC, said in a statement that the peace talks had also failed to secure the release of thousands of detainees or to force Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit power. The HNC suspended in April its formal participation in the Syria peace talks, saying they would only return if the situation radically changed on the ground.

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