An impoverished, weak news channel will be unable to do investigative journalism. Their journalistic product will depend on tycoons or politicians who fund their work – which may be driving the communication minister's crackdown on press and strengthen the government's influence in media

The Trump administration's policies on Israel show an emerging paradigm shift. If in the past, the United States sought to build a regional alliance with Israel at its center, it is now backing a Turkish-Saudi-Pakistani axis that will expand its influence in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, and push Israel to the margins

According to a report in French newspaper Le Monde, the two women are suspected of aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza. The warrants were issued over the summer as part of an ongoing investigation into French citizens who delayed aid trucks during the Gaza war