June 20, 2018
Weekly World News Update
U.S. Immigration Battle; Migrant Crisis in Eur ope; U.S. Says 'No' to UN Human Rights Council; Unrest in Nicaragua; Turkey Goes to the Polls; U.S.-China Trade War
Quote of the Week
“I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart."   
-- Former First Lady Laura Bush compares what’s happening at the U.S. border to Japanese internment camps in a Sunday  op-ed in the Washington Post.
U.S. Immigration Battle
Sessions’ Draconian Asylum Decision” Caroline Bettinger-López and Rachel Vogelstein -- Foreign Affairs, June 15, 2018

“ The Facts About Trump’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border Salvador Rizzo -- The Washington Post, June 19, 2018

No More 'Internment Camps': Democrats Disrupt Congressional Hearing Sarah N. Lynch and Susan Cornwell -- Reuters, June 19, 2018


How Anti-Immigration Passion Was Inflamed from the Fringe Michael D. Shear and Katie Benner -- New York Times, June 18, 2018
Migrant Crisis in Europe

Merkel Gets Two Weeks to Solve Migrant Crisis Kate Ferguson -- Daily Mail, June 17, 2018

Migration Is Down, Crime Is Low, but Merkel Is in Trouble ” Krishnadev Calamur -- The Atlantic, June 18, 2018
Turkey Goes to the Polls
Will Spike in Fake News Have an Impact on Elections in Turkey? ” Faisal Edroos -- Al Jazeera, June 14, 2018

Turkey Elections 2018: Everything You Need to Know Kareem Shaheen -- The Guardian, June 18, 2018

Unrest in Nicaragua
Nicaragua Protests Take a New Turn: Empty Streets ” Alfonso Flores Bermúdez and Elisabeth Malkin -- The New York Times, June 14, 2018

Nicaragua Is Heading Down the Same Dark Path as Venezuela ” Margarita Herdocia -- Time, June 13, 2018

Barricades and Empty Streets: Nicaragua’s Leader Loses Control ” Juan Montes -- The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2018
U.S.-China Trade War
U.S. Says 'No' to UN Human Rights Council
U.S. Quits 'Biased' UN Human Rights Council” Editor's Post -- BBC, June 20, 2018

U.S. Leaving UN's Human Rights Council, Cites Anti-Israel BiasJamey Keaten and Edith M. Lederer  -- The Associated Press in the New York Times, June 20, 2018
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