The Local it. – Italy: Unemployment up, economy just contracted for the first time since 2014

It will be interesting how far the 5-Star Movement fulfils its promises and how Italian companies react, should that be the case. Read here

New sanctions on the Houthis will make it impossible for the first phase of the Saudi-Houthi peace deal to be implemented. Read HERE Saudi Arabia Armed Forces. Qrmoo3, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Analysis of the botched coup in South Korea. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.