Trump Heights, Trump Square, Trump train terminal: Israel isn't shy about honouring Donald Trump, who is widely admired among Israelis for his staunch support of their country.
Niger ‘scandal of the century’ exposed in FinCEN Files sparks lawsuit demanding action
Publisher Moussa Aksar was targeted as his reporting on millions in disappearing defense spending was submitted in a request to force a government inquiry. Journalist Moussa Aksar stands at the entrance to his newspaper, L’Evenement, in Niger.
English front companies allegedly siphoned millions of dollars from Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries, in a military procurement scandal that has engulfed the country and sparked lawsuits.
Last year, journalists in Niger obtained a confidential audit from the country’s ministry of defense that alleged up to $120 million in defense spending had disappeared from the West African country, often into tax havens and bank accounts controlled by unknown owners.
As Joe Biden is about to be inaugurated as the new US president in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, the world will greet a new US government with entirely different values and policies than the administration of former president Donald Trump. To what extent the new US government will fix or adjust the China-US relations, which reached a low point during the Trump era, remains in question, and Chinese experts urged Biden and his top officials to be responsible and brave to correct the wrong and dangerous policies set by the previous government.
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A Petah Tikvach city square named after former U.S. President Donald Trump. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
Trump Heights, Trump Square, Trump train terminal: Israel hasn’t been shy about honoring Donald Trump, who is widely admired among Israelis for his staunch support of their country.
In four years, Trump overturned decades of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Joe Biden will want to undo many of those changes during his presidency, but his freedom for maneuver will be limited.
At his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Biden’s choice for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, signaled that countering Iran would be central to Biden’s Middle East agenda.