The British military, a shadow of its former self, beset by budget deficits, deteriorating equipment, and a very demoralised staff, has been turned into a training facilitator for paying customers.

Under the Kafala system, the legal status of migrant workers is controlled by their employers, leaving them prone to abuse and exploitation.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar have signed an agreement in an effort to bring three years of hostilities to an end. The Saudi-initiated move is seen by many as an attempt to establish an anti-Iran bloc to stand against Iran's influence in the West Asia region.

In June 2017 Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic, trade, and travel ties with Qatar, a tiny, yet gas-rich country in the Persian Gulf. The anti-Qatar quartet accused Doha of funding terrorism and fostering instability in the region.

There are numerous reports that Yemeni children as young as seven are being recruited by the Saudi-led campaign to kill or be killed while fighting against their will and against their homeland.

Yemen’s popular Ansarullah forces have hit back hard very deep inside Saudi Arabia. Yemen’s latest reprisal attack has once again reminded the oil rich kingdom that it cannot hit and run any more since Yemen’s capabilities to respond to the Saudi-led war have been improving fast.

I’m LembitÖpik and welcome to Cats & Dogs, where we take another look into the animal magic of global politics and try to housetrain the trainable, and return the rest back into the wild where they can do no harm.

Despite Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden having officially been declared the winner of the US 2020 presidential elections the incumbent, President Donald J Trump asserts the election has been fraudulent and refuses to accept defeat.

Since the formation of the UNHRC in 2006, Saudi Arabia, despite having the worst human right record in the world, has been elected as a council member for four terms, between 2006 and 2012, and again from 2014 to 2019.

While Saudi Arabia and its child-killing accomplices are under fire for igniting the war in Yemen, in a shocking move, UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has recently praised Riyadh for its “”humanitarian”” role in the war-torn country.