Israel extends Palestinian journalist's jail term without charge

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• Israel’s military extends the detention of a well-known Palestinian journalist for four months without charge or trial. The military alleges that Omar Nazzal is under arrest on suspicion of unlawful activity for a Palestinian organization. Nazzal’s lawyer believes that his client is being targeted for political activism.
• Israel has posted demolition notes on the walls of residential and commercial structures in Isawiyah neighborhood in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds. The Israeli military regularly destroys Palestinian homes under the pretext that they have been built without permission from Israeli authorities. Human rights groups have repeatedly condemned the demolitions.
• Activism group Green Peace slams a sweeping free trade deal being negotiated between the E-U and the U-S. It said the agreement lowers food safety and environmental standards. Green Peace argues that the deal would also hand too much power to big businesses at the expense of consumers and national governments.
• Fighting breaks out between Turkish MPs over a government proposal to strip lawmakers of their immunity from prosecution. The clashes erupted between members from the ruling A-K Party and the pro-Kurdish H-D-P. This as the government is seeking to have pro-Kurdish MPs prosecuted over their alleged links with Kurdish militants.
• The embattled editor of Turkey’s Jumhuriyet newspaper accuses the government of launching a media witch-hunt. Jan Dun-dar said the situation for the journalists is currently like QUOTE a hell that Turkey has never seen in recent decades. He is facing espionage charges over disclosing Ankara’s role in arming the terrorists in Syria.
• The leader of the Yemeni Ansarullah movement has slammed former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s loyalists for suspending talks in Kuwait. Abdulmalik al-Houthi said a political solution to the Yemen conflict is close at hand, but the obstinacy of the invading countries is an impediment to that.
• A new poll reveals that Islamophobic sentiment has risen sharply in Germany and France. The poll also shows that an increasing number of people in these countries, which have the two largest Muslim populations in Europe, have negative ideas about Islam. Most of them say Islam has become too influential and visible.
• A Somali refugee is critically wounded after setting herself on fire at an Australian refugee camp on the Pacific island nation of Nauru. The 21-year-old woman was the second refugee in one week to commit self-immolation in an apparent protest against Australia's strict asylum policy.

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