2021-11-06: News Headlines

Dario Sabaghi (2021-11-05). Lebanon: Domestic worker sues employer in first lawsuit against kafala exploitation. middleeasteye.net Lebanon: Domestic worker sues employer in first lawsuit against kafala exploitation | Story of MH is one of many cases of exploitation suffered by foreign domestic workers under hiring system in Lebanon
| Fri, 11/05/2021 – 13: 52 | Migrant domestic workers from various nationalities demonstrate in the northern suburbs of Beirut to protest against abuses and ask for law protection, on 24 June 20…

Nur Ayoubi (2021-11-05). 'Love you in your madness': Lebanon's new tourism slogan sparks backlash online. middleeasteye.net 'Love you in your madness': Lebanon's new tourism slogan sparks backlash online | The new slogan aims to reignite Lebanon's tourism industry. For the country's citizens, however, the phrase appeared more offensive than witty | Fri, 11/05/2021 – 13: 06 | Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati speaks near a slogan that reads "We love you in your madness" displayed on a screen at the government palace in Beirut…

_____ (2021-11-05). Has Saudi Arabia Decided to Put an End to the Small and Defenseless Lebanon? journal-neo.org Recently, Saudi Arabia and its satellites Bahrain and Kuwait have decided to expel Lebanese ambassadors amid the rising tensions between Beirut and some countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC). In addition, Riyadh severed economic ties with Lebanon, which looks like a deliberately malicious move aimed at pushing Lebanon into a deeper …

Atilio Boron (2021-11-05). Latin America: The Imperial Reconquest. orinocotribune.com By Atilio Boron — Nov 2, 2021 | The empire has lost all its composure. In a few days it has produced two very disturbing pieces of news, which speak of its sickening pretension to recapture total control of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, taking relations between them and the United States back to the point they were at before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. | One of them has to do with Argentina, made in the scandalous statements by Joe Biden's nominee for Argentina, Ambassador Marc Stanley, at his confirmation hearing before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His words oozed…

Levent Kemal (2021-11-05). Turkey blamed Syria for a deadly air strike. Its troops blame Russia. middleeasteye.net Turkey blamed Syria for a deadly air strike. Its troops blame Russia | Fri, 11/05/2021 – 11: 37 | Turkish soldiers say Russian bombs killed 34 fellow troops in February 2020. So why has the Turkish government never acknowledged it? | On 27 February, 2020, four missiles slammed into a convoy of Turkish soldiers near the village of Balyun in southern Idlib, the Syrian opposition's last stronghold. | The…

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