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  The United Nations is going to organize a virtual pledging event to raise around US$3.85 billion (S$5.13 billion) to help avert a huge man-made famine in Yemen which will be the worst ever the world would experience.   The current degree of hunger in Yemen is terrible and is causing serious difficulty for a large number of Yemenis. In July 2020, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expressed that Yemen is nearing a huge famine because of continuous conflict, flash floods, locust attacks, and the outbreak and aftermaths of the coronavirus pandemic.    Over many years, the Houthi militia has driven a tremendous number of Yemenis and forced numerous to flee to other regions where they can feel safe.   As per the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, airstrikes, shelling, bombarding, and fight with the Houthi military have destroyed the Yemeni people's lives.    The Covid episode has moreover weakened the state of the Yemeni people...

  Turkey has been for years taking advantage of the nations that are either war-torn or are economically backward by one means or another. Arab-African nations have been prone to political attacks by Turkey and Somalia is one of the nations that is under cold attack from Ankara. The Turkish people came to Somalia nearly a decade ago and since then have been a crucial part of governing the country. Somalia suffered drought in 2010, which led to a lot of life loss, and Ankara entered in the name distributing humanitarian aid but took over the security section. Turkey has already taken control of the country's key ports in Mogadishu and Adam Adi International Airport in the capital but this is not even half the problem. Turkey has taken over the Somali troops and is in the process of training them so that they can destabilize the situation in Libya, Syria and Yemen. Situation and influence of Turkey has completely changed from what it was ten years ago. It is to be noted that no...

  Here’s something interesting about what I read today, this pandemic, Israel should eliminate its long-standing, clearing limitations on the development of individuals and products, subject just to proportionate security checks. There is uphold for facilitating measures among the Israeli safeguard foundation, just as in the southern line networks, which perceive that financial distress in Gaza is counterproductive for Israel's security.   So far as Israel forces versatility limitations and the occupation proceeds, and without admittance to characteristic assets, Palestine's economy will keep on discharging. Gifts from the global local area can just at any point be a tourniquet. The global local area should hold onto the second to challenge Israel on its approach of dispensing hurt on the Palestinian economy as a weapon of war.

  Here’s something interesting about what I read today, a recently emphatic homegrown dissent development which was embodied by Alexei Navalny and an intense financial standpoint is where Putin shows up uncommonly helpless and overstretched. Subsequently, for now, Moscow has gone from being the premier worldwide inciter of contentions to enthusiastically extinguishing flames and quieting things down and not least in the Center East, where Putin is tired of Tehran's warmongering and interminable incitements.   Let’s take a look at the russian pre-greatness in Syria and the district is positively not our optimal situation, given the ramifications for administration, opportunities and common freedoms. Notwithstanding, given the overall danger from Tehran, Hezbollah, Daesh, Al-Qaeda and a thousand and on.

  I want to share something surprising as it appears to be the responses for the US will come through multilateralism supplanting its influential position, which the world has become acclimated to. The previous many years have seen to and for moves in the US' approach, from being excessively solid to full withdrawal. It appears to be the current organization will endeavor, through commitment with partners and China the same, to bring a more reliable and stable way to deal with the Middle East.   I likewise keep thinking about whether this methodology won't be perused as an American acknowledgment of China's ascent to world authority and a craving to go with it, along these lines that the UK went with the US on its ascent in the only remaining century. Such a perusing by territorial forces in the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Europe would quicken more grounded neighborhood commitment with China and Russia to fill the vacuum left by the US.

  I want to share about the sequence of incidents that happened recently during the third full week of the Biden administration's existence is very unfortunate. It started with the announcement by the US government that it would exclude the Houthis from its list of terrorist groups, and was followed by that group's eventual attack on Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia and theories about what Robert Malley, the pro-Iranian political advisor, is trying to do to harmonize American-Iranian relations.   Looking at it, incorrect moves are risky components of what seems to be a very troublesome approach to Iran and Yemen by the White House. It is really necessary for President Joe Biden and his Middle East team at the beginning to consider the limitations of their approach towards the Houthis and Iran toward reconciliation. None of them want US compromises, they want an American defeat.

  According to the  Arab News , the US-led International Coalition is set to establish a new military base along the Turkish-Syrian boundary to eradicate the rest of the remaining terror groups. The military main base will be situated in the Ain Dewar zone of Syria's northeastern territory of Hasakah.    As indicated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a military convoy of more than 50 trucks and military vehicles affiliated to the International Coalition were noticed crossing into north-eastern Syria from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.    "Trucks carrying weapons, armored vehicles, military, and other logistic equipment, entered through Al-Walid crossing with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, going towards Al-Qamishli zone," the Observatory detailed as reported by the  Arab News .    As per the  Asharq Al-Awsat reports,  the SOHR activists also confirmed on February 8, that a new International Coalition convoy...

There were political talks last year which suggested that Raghad Saddam Hussein will not be a part of the political sphere in Iraq but dismissing all those claims, the eldest daughter of Saddam Hussein said that she will continue to be part of the Iraqi politics. As per recent media reports, the eldest daughter of the late Iraqi leader suggested that it is very much possible for her to play an active role in Iraqi politics. It was after a special program on Al Arabiya on Monday, when the Raghad spoke about her relationship with her father along with views on recent politics in Iraq. She said this when the journalist asked her about her direct involvement in Iraqi politics to which the 51-year-old leader said that ‘everything is possible’. Along with talking about her political future, she also talked about Iran’s interference in the country’s matter. She slammed the Iraninan interference in the region and stressed on the violations that allegedly carried out by the Iranians in the abse...

 Trending today on the news was that the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee is confirmed stepping down. Yoshiro Mori has officially announced his resignation. The 83-year-old, who was also a former Japanese prime minister had been under tremendous fire for the sexist comments he made back in February 13, 2021. The controversy started when he responded to a remark about the Japanese Olympic Committee's board having just five female members out of 24 and that the meetings with more women would "drag on." "If we increase the number of female board members, we have to make sure their speaking time is restricted somewhat," he said. "They have difficulty finishing, which is annoying." He initially refused to step down.

 On Saturday an EU delegation including ambassadors of France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland and Finland, as well as the deputy ambassador of Norway, arrived in Aden, to push forward the long-stalled peace efforts with senior government officials. The conflict-riddled country of Yemen, has been in crisis for over past six years and has been struggling to reach a resolution between internationally recognized government forces and extremist forces, mainly led by Iran-backed, Houthis.   The recent attacks in the country, the latest being huge explosions in January, which targeted a security patrol in the southern Yemen city port, pointed at increasing presence of Muslim Brotherhood in various pockets of the country. Yemen’s the ongoing civil war, which has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions of inhabitants, and pushed the country to the edge of starvation, triggering the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. To initiate the peaceful resum...

  Tuesday, February 2, 2021. According Jpost, Israeli security officials, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have met in his office to discuss the ongoing conflict with Iran and Israel's concerns over Iran's nuclear talks, which Joe Biden he will revive. Officials including Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, the Finance and Defense ministers and financial and military ministers met with Netanyahu to discuss how to prepare a budget for possible attack on Iran if deemed necessary. The meeting comes less than a week after Kochavi said they were ready for an operational plan to strike a nuclear program if needed. "Going back to the 2015 nuclear deal, or even similar to several development agreements, is a bad thing in terms of operation and strategy," Kochavi said. This time Israel seems to be taking military action, given Israel's recent activities. At the end of the last year, Israel sent a submarine into the Persian Gulf, and also carried out atta...

  Egypt received 1st batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine jabs from India in the fight against COVID-19 Egypt on Sunday received a first batch of 50,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines from India. The vaccine shipment arrived in Cairo on January 31 on an Emirates Airlines flight from India via Dubai after release procedures were finalized by relevant authorities. The Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) had previously approved the emergency use of two COVID-19 vaccines - one developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and the other by Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm. According to Presidential adviser for health affairs Mohammed Awad Tag El-Din, Egypt will be receiving COVID-19 vaccines from different sources. “We are monitoring the progress in scientific research on vaccines produced worldwide, and Egypt will make sure that it diversifies its sources of vaccines,” Tag El-Din had said during a press conference in December 2020. In addition to Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID...