Tunisian Muslim women allowed to marry non-Muslims for first time in decades @theindependent
Tunisian women will be allowed to marry non-Muslim men legally for the first time in 44 years, after a controversial ban was lifted. Last month, 90-year-old president Beji Caid Essebsi argued that the ban violated Tunisia’s constitution, and set up a female-led commission to revise the rules. The Independent
formally open @newstalk
The public inquiry into the causes of the Grenfell Tower fire will be formally opened in the UK today. Retired judge Martin Moore-Bick will set out details of how the inquiry will operate. It hasn’t yet been announced when it will begin to hear evidence, or even where future hearings will be held. It is…
the submarine affair @thenewyorktimes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not a suspect in the so-called submarine affair, one of the corruption scandals rocking Israel. But with his personal lawyer, the man he appointed as national security adviser, and now his former chief of staff among the expanding parade of suspects, analysts and critics assert that if Mr. Netanyahu did…
Netanyahu’s No-State Solution @thenewyorktimes
The no-state solution advances. This is unsurprising. No democracy can be immune to running an undemocratic system of oppression for a half-century in territory under its control. Israel was conceived as a state of laws. If it is not, it betrays its 1948 founding charter. This commits the nascent state to “freedom, justice and peace…
