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Apr
19
2024
By JAMES MACKENZIE and NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
Israel will defend itself, Netanyahu says, as West calls for restraint

Israel will defend itself, Netanyahu says, as West calls for restraint

WORLD
ISRAEL will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran. The United States, European Union and G7 group of industrialised nations all announced plans to consider tighter sanctions on Iran, seen as aimed at mollifying Israel and persuading it to rein in its retaliation for the first ever direct Iranian strikes after decades of confrontation by proxy. Iran attacked in retaliation for a suspected Israeli airstrike on its embassy compound in Damascus on April 1. Israel and its allies mostly shot…
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Aug
06
2021
By The African Mirror
SPECIAL REPORT: How a G7 task force unwittingly helps govts target critics

SPECIAL REPORT: How a G7 task force unwittingly helps govts target critics

NEWS
ANGUS BERWICK IN late 2020, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni faced a fresh challenge to his 35-year rule, a new tool helped to silence his critics: anti-money laundering legislation promoted by the G7. The Financial Action Task Force, established by the G7 group of advanced economies to protect the global financial system, had written to Uganda's government eight years earlier telling it to do more to combat money laundering and terrorism financing or risk being placed on a "grey list" of deficient countries, according to a top Ugandan official who described the private letter to Reuters. Such a move could…
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