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OTTAWA — Saudi Arabia still has a troubling human rights record but Canada’s foreign affairs minister says an amended contract to sell it light-armoured vehicles is better than the version the previous Conservative government negotiated.Francois-Philippe Champagne offered that explanation Thursday as he defended the government’s decision to announce — just…

Since 2019, Germany's government has approved arms exports worth over €1 billion to members of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen. Critics says this exacerbates the fighting. Citing new figures from the Economic Affairs Ministry that show that sales are up, Left party disarmament specialist Sevim Dagdelen told…

THE YEAR had got off to a good start for Saudi Arabia. After a sluggish stretch the non-oil economy was growing, and officials were eager to lure new investment. The war in neighbouring Yemen seemed to be winding down. The world had largely moved on from the murder of Jamal…

So, while we continue to be mesmerised by Covid-19, here are a few Middle East tales that should be going viral this week. Let’s start with a little divestment story. Microsoft has said it’s going to sell its stake in AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition startup, after civil liberties groups…

Jen Patja Howell is the editor and producer of The Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the…

Journalist, who warned about pandemic, banned from work and social media. Freelance economic reporter Mohammad Mosaed awaits a court date, after intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested and interrogated him in February regarding social media accounts critical of government. The criticism included lack of preparedness to…

The Critical Hour23:33 GMT 30.03.2020(updated 07:56 GMT 31.03.2020) Get short URLOn this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Danny Haiphong, activist and journalist in the New York City area. "With the coronavirus death toll soaring in the United States and health experts warning that 'no…

President Trump announced Sunday that he will extend social distancing guidelines through the end of April and maybe even until June, reversing his earlier assessment that the U.S. could relax the measures by Easter, reports the New York Times. Trump cited figures showing that as many as 200,000 Americans could…

Saudi Arabia 'is using mobile phone data to track its citizens' movements in the US'Saudi Arabia appears to have hijacked phone data to track its citizens in the USCountry's three biggest mobile networks sent millions of requests for location data to a major US provider starting in November last yearData…

Lawmakers and security experts have long warned of security flaws in the underbelly of the world's cell networks. Now a whistleblower says the Saudi government is exploiting those flaws to track its citizens across the U.S. as part of a "systematic" surveillance campaign.It's the latest tactic by the Saudi kingdom…