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Libya Egypt and General Haftar
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53779425

Libya has no properly functioning state institutions, no unified army or security forces to speak of, and, crucially, no border guards on its side of their porous 1,100km (685-mile) long desert border. Plus the country is awash with weapons.
The fire began to spill over when Libyans failed to agree on a path forward, militias of all kinds proliferated, jihadists resurfaced to pursue their dream of creating an Islamic state in Libya and beyond.

Call them jihadists, IS or whatever you wanna, they never bring anything good along.
What I wonder here is why did several countries get involved in a fight without letting Libya get a chance to rebuild itself?
Is it France's or Russia's or Egypt's or Turkey's or the Muslim Brotherhood's fault?

In June 2014, smugglers killed six Egyptian border guards
In 2017, a group of jihadists crossed into Egyptian territory and attacked a security checkpoint, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 13 others
Inside Libya itself, Egyptian labourers were targeted. In 2015 militants from the Islamic State group kidnapped and beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians, apparently in retaliation for the removal from power of President Morsi

Now even average Egyptians, no matter if they're Muslims or Christians, are getting involved in this messy situation.

Isreal UAE the Gulf States Iran and... Saddam Hussein?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53805828
We already learned about Israel and UAE signing a declaration where they establish official communications and Israel forgets about the annexation of Palestine territories. Did you know the Emirates were founded in 1971? I didn't know that.

BBC considers Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Morocco might follow suit and start negotiating with Israel in the near future or so. Why would so many Arab states become possible allies of Israel? There seems to be a single answer to this question: Iran.

Since Saddam Hussein's fall Iran has been spreading its militant reach across the Middle East and possibly even beyond. There's also the Muslim Brotherhood and its political Islam threatening the dynastic monarchies in the Gulf states.

Did you know the Emirates is the first Arab country to send a mission to Mars?

USPS: Conspiracy or Reorganization?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53809955
Depending on who you're asking this question, people might think either Trump's ally is causing delays on purpose or the demand on services and blue public mail boxes has declined creating a large hole in the USPS budget that's not funded by taxpayers directly.

People showed concerned over USPS removing or relocating those public mail boxes. Some even claimed it was a treachery.
Let's compare Obama's and Trump's administrations then.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/postal-...-mailboxes
So even if some people complained about those 12,000 removals, they just said they were trying to make USPS remain a valid option for the average American. Why are 600+ relocations or removals an issue now?

Plus why do they care that much? They're public after all! If they were moving your very OWN MAILBOX it would be understandable up to some point. Hey! They're not touching them at all! So why is it a controversy for leftists? Besides you are NOT supposed to get your ballot in a public mail at all. Who would even register it as their legal address? Your cat? Your dog? Your neighbor Smiley? The bear searching for food in your trash cans? 

Former CIA officers charged with spying for China
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53816216
We're talking about Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, age 67, here. He was arrested and his relative was denounced on Friday said DOJ. They accused them of
divulging classified national defense information to Chinese intelligence officials.
They've shared information about the CIA's personnel, operations, and methods of concealing communications. Ma was caught on tape counting his $50,000 payment. DOJ will not prosecuted his accomplice for he's been suffering a severe cognitive disease for quite some time.


China defends detention of Uighur model in Xinjiang
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53809345

According to article 37 of the Prison Law of the People's Republic of China, the people's government shall help released prisoners to resettle," it says.
"During the transfer, Merdan Ghappar committed acts of self-harm and excessive acts against the police."
It continues: "They took legal measures to stop him, and lifted those measures once his mood had stabilised.
The BBC has been shown evidence that the authorities were saying instead that "he may need to do a few days of education at his local community".

Any of us could end up doing anything considered "weird" by those Chinese officers if we spent days or months in a cell for committing non-existent crimes. So working as a model now is a dangerous crime in China, especially if you're Uighur? How did he become a threat for Foshan city where he'd been working? If they ever wanted to educate him why didn't they send him to some college instead?


Just in case you didn't know, China has been trying to control births of new generations of Uighurs for quite some time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53220713

China is forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in Xinjiang in an apparent attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uighurs, according to new research.

Trump dangles cash for US firms moving from China
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53816277

US President Donald Trump wants to offer tax credits to entice US firms to move factories out of China.
He has also threatened to strip government contracts from firms that continue to outsource work to China.

Before somebody starts criticizing his move here, let's keep in mind Japan already did something like that when they offered $1 billion to relocate Japanese firms out of Chinese soil.

Let us also recall how many times Chinese companies has been accused of enslaving their workers. Ask Apple or Nike about that! Some of the workers fell ill and didn't get proper medical attention but got fired instead.

Bill Morneau: Canada finance minister quits amid charity probe
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53815645
Morneau claims he was not dismissed by the Canadian Prime Minister and took this decision on his own after considering its impact carefully. He will put in a bid to be the next secretary general for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
So is it a real resignation? Or was it just another political move?
By the way, Costa Rica was invited to become a member of the OECD. Costa Rican Congress still has to approve it to make it official.  

Victoria Covid-19: Almost all cases linked to quarantine hotels
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53806500
How ironic it is to read that the lockdown itself was a great opportunity for to be spread out in Victoria, Australia.
Poor patients and citizens!

Cuomo calls coronavirus the ‘European virus’ in Trump-bashing DNC speech
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/andrew-...convention

And our current federal government is dysfunctional and incompetent. It couldn't fight off the virus. In fact, it didn't even see it coming. The European virus infected the northeast while the White House was still fixated on China.

Even if some people might think Trump is a fool or should not be the president, how can Cuomo suddenly forget it is the Wuhan virus not the European virus?
I do not recall Europeans spreading the coronavirus in countries like Costa Rica or South Africa before China did in places like Japan, US, Italy, Malaysia among many others.
So the Federal Government is dysfunctional. What about all the nursing homes he forced to take in covidose people? How is he going to explain his decision was valid after many old people has passed away because of the spread of the virus in such places?
It was not Trump's nor New York Mayor De Blasio's but Cuomo's decision what caused such a health disaster! It affected the whole state he claimed he was protecting from the virus. Who will give them those two months or so back to the victims? And the lives lost because of him? He cannot criticize other people when his own decision making skills suck.

The Cuomo administration has refused to release the number, leading some to speculate the state is intentionally manipulating the figures.

So how exactly did Cuomo do a better job protecting New York State citizens? He does not even want people to know how many are deceased including both those that passed away in the nursing homes and those that went back to the hospital.

Trump approved the request of deploying a naval hospital ship in New York City. At the end is was underused but we could say it was better to exaggerate a little bit than not having enough beds for patients. The incumbent president also sent ventilators to New York and Cuomo only complained about the number of machines they would be receiving. Still, they later realized they did not need as many beds and ventilators as they initially claimed.

It seems modern history would disapprove of Cuomo's remarks.