Ammonia gas leak injures 11 in Jordan's Aqaba industrial area
At least 11 people have been injured after an ammonia gas leak in Jordan's Aqaba industrial complex, according to local reporting. The incident took place in the southern port city's industrial zone during maintenance work. Authorities evacuated the port area as a precaution while the leak was brought under control.A state news channel said the evacuation was carried out after reports of the leak, and an official said the ammonia release was contained within the industrial complex. The available information does not say how serious the injuries are or whether any of those affected required hospital treatment. It also does... [Continue Reading]
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UK West Bank settlement sanctions trigger Israeli diplomatic retaliation and muted US response
Israel has moved to escalate its response after the United Kingdom unveiled sanctions against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. According to the supplied material, Israel said it would shut Britain's diplomatic mission to the Palestinians, expel UK military staff from a coordination base near Gaza and bar nearly a dozen British lawmakers from entering the country. The measures mark a sharp widening of a dispute that began with the British announcement on settlement trade restrictions.The UK said it acted out of what it described as a moral imperative to stop the destruction of the two-state solution. It accused... [Continue Reading]
Fear the Shia, Arm the Sunnis: The Uncomfortable Numbers Behind America’s War Narrative
“When fear is managed carefully enough, a nation can be taught to look away from the blood on the floor and stare instead at the shadow on the wall.” A friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal because he asked me not to, sat across from me over dinner and placed a question on the table that would not leave me alone. He was born into a Muslim Shia background, and for the angle of this article, that detail matters, not because I wish to reduce a man to a sect, but because sect has become one of... [Continue Reading]

