Headline News 22/01/2020

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World’s Rich Get Richer

Jordanians Hit Streets for Second Week Calling for End to Zionist Entity Gas Deal

Iranian Politician Offers '$3m to whoever kills Trump'

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World’s Rich Get Richer

As the world’s richest nations and richest individuals gathered at the Swiss ski resort in Davos, Oxfam published its annual report on global inequality. Their conclusions have grown starker as the years have gone by. The wealthiest 2,153 people now have more money than the poorest 4.6 billion people in the world – 60% of the world’s population. 'Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women,' Oxfam's India head Amitabh Behar said. Behar who represented Oxfam at the conference highlighted ‘the gap between rich and poor can't be resolved without deliberate inequality-busting policies.' Capitalism continues to fail in distributing wealth in equitable manner as many across the world struggle to meek out a living.

Jordanians Hit Streets for Second Week Calling for End to Zionist Entity Gas Deal

Hundreds of Jordanians protested on Friday, 17 January, calling for the end of a $10 billion gas deal with the Zionist entity for the second week in a row. In the cities of Amman, al-Zarqa, Irbid, al-Aqaba and al-Karak, protesters demanded that the government end the “treasonous deal” struck in 2016, which saw Jordan start importing gas from the Zionist entities largest offshore field last week. The Jordanian government has said the deal will secure stable energy prices for the energy-dependent country for the next decade and could help reduce Jordan's chronic budget deficit, potentially saving Jordan at least $500m annually. But Jordanians who are protesting reject the deal, saying they resent being forced to deal with a country they still consider an enemy. The sentiment saw the Muslim worlds and the actions and of our rulers once again are at opposite ends.

Iranian Politician Offers '$3m to whoever kills Trump'

According to ISNA, Iran's semi-official news agency, Ahmad Hamzeh said: "On behalf of people of Kerman province, we will pay $3m award in cash to whoever kills Trump." Kerman is the hometown of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike on 3 January in Iraq. Iran has used a strategy which has plenty of noise but lacks any bite ever since the US killed its top general. After numerous fiery speeches, Iran responded with a strike on a US base in Iraq, but after informing them of the planned attack. Iran made a mockery out of its people by lying about downing its own commercial airliner, knowing full well what it had done. Iran is all talk and little action, the actions it does to seem to always aid US plans.