Syrian activists claimed that government forces moved tanks into a northern town on Wednesday, in clear violation of a ceasefire agreement, just after the departure of a team of United Nations observers.
A British filmmaker used the BBC’s archives to argue that Bahrain’s “system of oppression, the rock against which the dreams of democracy are being dashed, was largely created by the British.”
Etisalat Nigeria, part-owned by the Emirati telecommunications giant Etisalat, was fined around $2 million by Nigerian regulators this week for poor service and failure to meet quality targets.