Micael Johansson, the president and CEO of Saab AB, the Swedish defense and aerospace company, told reporters last week that it will take more time before Europe hits its full capacity to produce weapons and fully identify and address its vulnerabilities.
The U.S. military has carried out nearly 750 airstrikes on targets in Yemen since the self-proclaimed “peace” president, Donald Trump, ordered the initial salvo on 15 March, which has been taking a large toll on the civilian population in the war-torn country.
A UN agency announced Friday that it no longer has any food supplies inside Gaza amid the U.S.-backed Israeli humanitarian blockade that started on 2 March and completely ended the flow of aid into the enclave.
The U.S. military continued its bombing campaign on Yemeni civilians last week as the Houthis dug in and said they will not end their own strikes until the Israelis end the genocide in Gaza.
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel who represents the evangelical leadership that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relies on, said last week that Iran will not stop at Israel and Tehran’s ultimate goal is the destruction of America.
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said last week that he supported the humanitarian blockade in Gaza after an appeal from a World Health Organization official to get Tel Aviv to allow the flow of aid into the destroyed enclave.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear to the head of Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic spy agency, that his orders trumped the country’s supreme court if there was ever a constitutional standoff, Ronen Bar, the agency’s head, said in an affidavit that illustrates the Israeli leader’s obsession with maintaining power and destroying anyone who is not a blind loyalist.
The IDF continued its massacre across Gaza last week—bringing the enclave's death toll to 50,983, with 116,274 injured. The Israeli military has killed more than 1,600 since the collapse of the ceasefire deal last month.
The U.S. government announced last week that it imposed sanctions on China’s Guangsha Zhoushan Energy Group to smash Iran’s “shadow fleet” supplying oil to major buyers and helping to prop up the Iranian economy.
On 11 April, the national average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage rose .13 of a percentage point to reach 7.1 percent, its loftiest since mid-February, according to Mortgage News Daily (MND).