Senate overwhelmingly approves making Trump’s relocation of embassy to Jerusalem permanent:
- US Senate Approves Amendment to Keep Embassy in Jerusalem (Jerusalem Post)
BJP pushes a narrative that large Muslim families is an “organized conspiracy” to alter India’s demography, but a popular scholarly book concludes that Hindus will always be the majority:
The U.S. follows other nations in trying to push India to protect human rights in Kashmir and include Pakistan in the negotiations:
- US Asks Pakistan, India to Begin Talks on Kashmir Issue (The News International)
Kashmir is a primary case study demonstrating how governments are quick to censor and restrict access to internet:
- From Myanmar to Kashmir, Unrest is Met with Internet Blackouts (Voice of America)
- India Restores 4G Mobile Internet in Kashmir After 18-month Ban (NBC News)
Annual UAE aid to Palestine had peaked over $50 million, but is now down to just $1 million following UAE’s normalization with Israel:
- UAE Massively Cut Aid to Palestinians After Normalization with Israel (Times of Israel)
Egyptian MPs are in an uproar over the possibility that the U.S. Congress may give an audience to the victims of their human rights abuses:
As Muslim hate-crimes increase in the developed nations, another instance of Muslim women wearing a burka is attacked:
- Edmonton Police Hate Crime Unit Investigating Two ‘Hate-Motivated Assaults’ Against Muslim Women (Edmonton Journal)
U.S. and Iran remain at an impasse over the U.S> abandonment of the JCPOA as Iran calls for U.N. action in the face of Israeli threats:
- U.S. Will Not Lift Sanctions to Get Iran to Negotiating Table -Biden (Reuters)
- Iran’s Supreme Leader: U.S. Must Lift Sanctions Before Any Return To Nuclear Deal (NPR)
- Iran Calls for UN Response over Israeli Military Action Threat (Aljazeera)
Although the United States has been intervening in the Middle East for many years now, some Iraqis are beginning to worry about American troops leaving due to the presence of extremist and paramilitary groups:
- Some in Iraq Fear Being Caught Between ISIS, Pro-Iran Militias (The Arab Weekly)
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