Missed the headlines? Catch up quick, with Debrief. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced the UK has slapped historic sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements and violent settlers, calling them out in detail for war crimes. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham backed him up after Israel’s backlash. And it’s uncertain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career will survive a new report published Tuesday that he was warned about the October seventh attack before it happened. Plus, the US-Iran war tit-for-tat continues, with even more maneuvers that haven’t really moved the needle either way – Iran expands its exclusion zone stretching across the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and beyond. And on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said he thinks the war will end ‘immediately after’ the US midterm elections. The next day, he added ‘maybe sooner’.
All that plus more stories from the week: Big gains for Yemen’s Ansarullah Houthis in their war against the Saudi-backed government and its forces, US announces ban on Canadian products, Trump promises to pay every American $5000 if Republicans win the US mid-term election, and Africa finally gets to be the size it actually is on the world map.