‘Now I have nothing’: Tigray conflict has changed Ethiopia for ever, say refugees
A camp in Sudan is temporary refuge for thousands fleeing a region where life had seemed idyllic – until the killing began
Before shelling by Ethiopia’s army ripped through Humera in early November, life in the airy, agricultural city in Tigray was idyllic, says Brhane Haftu, a geography teacher.
“I was rich, not because of money, but happiness. I had my home, my own cellar, my TV, my kitchen, my refrigerator,” says the 31-year-old, flipping through pictures on his smartphone of his wife and five-year-old daughter. “I didn’t even recognise how good things were for me.”
From the distant vantage of a growing refugee camp in Hamdayet, across the Sudanese border, vague outlines of Tigrayan structures, and the life it offered, faintly emerge from the skyline. Yet while visible, for many, any prospect of a return home feels remote. Haftu and his daughter are among 3,000 in the camp. His wife remains alive in Tigray, he hopes: a communications blackout means it’s three weeks since they last spoke.
A Murder and an UltimatumBiden's Goal of Saving the Iran Deal Just Got Harder
By Christiane Hoffmann, Susanne Koelbl, Dietmar Pieper und Raniah Salloum
When an ultimatum is delivered following a murder, how is it possible to avoid escalation? That is the question currently plaguing leading politicians across much of the world. They are trying to figure out some way to turn the opaque situation surrounding Iran and its nuclear program to their advantage. And what surprises might still be coming.
Jailed Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul accused of passing classified information
Jailed Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul is accused of contacting "unfriendly" states and providing classified information, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister told AFP Saturday, after the campaigner's trial was transferred to a terrorism court.
Hathloul, 31, was arrested in May 2018 with around a dozen other women activists just weeks before the historic lifting of a decades-long ban on female drivers, a reform they had long campaigned for.
Saudi authorities late last month transferred her case to the draconian anti-terrorism court, her family said, raising the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence, despite international pressure for her release.
Polls open for Venezuela’s legislative election
The vote, contested by about 14,000 candidates, comes with the country in a deep political and economic crisis.
Polls opened on Sunday in legislative elections set to tighten Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power and weaken his US-backed rival, Juan Guaido, who is leading a boycott of the polls he calls a fraud.
Victory will give Maduro’s governing Socialist Party control of an expanded 227-seat National Assembly – the only institution not in its hands.
'Immunity passports' are already here. But they come with warnings
Scott McLean and Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN • Published 6th December 2020
The Black Panther who hijacked a jet to Algeria and started again in France
BBC News, Caen
It was an unusual hijacking by a group of three men, two women and three young children. They commandeered a Delta airliner, flew across the Atlantic and the adults never set foot in the US again, four of them making France their permanent home.
An airport vehicle driven by a man in swimming trunks approached the Delta Airlines DC-8 standing on the tarmac of Miami airport in the summer heat. The vehicle's passenger - also wearing swimming trunks - stepped out, carrying a heavy blue suitcase under his arm, and walked until he was under the open door of the airliner's fuselage.
A rope dropped down, and the suitcase was hauled up. Inside was $1m.
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