This Week in War: 1st Week, June 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to U.S. President Donald Trump during the second day of the G7 meeting in Charlevoix city of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada. Bundesregierung/Jesco Denzel

1st week, June 2018.

This Week in War:  A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week.  

• Saudi Arabia issues first driving licences to women.

• US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has accused Paul Manafort, of trying to tamper with witnesses while under house arrest.

• UN calls on US to stop separating migrant children from parents

• Israeli army says didn't deliberately kill Palestinian nurse in Gaza. Israeli snipers shot dead 21-year-old Razan al-Najar, a volunteer medic, as she tried to help a wounded protester at the Gaza border.

• Gaza children on brink of mental health crisis.

• Up to 60% of Afghan girls out of school.

• June 6th was the 74th anniversary of WWII’s D-Day.

• Russia is trying to expand its footprint by building military ties with Africa.

• Despite the USA having the most deaths due to gun violence in any modern country, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says school safety commission will not study the role of guns in school safety.

• Syria's President Assad 'to visit North Korea’.

• Guatemala volcano: at least 62 killed and 300 injured after Fuego, the volcano, erupts.

• At least 5 more people have been killed in Nicaragua as death toll since anti-government protests began over a month ago climbed to more than 110.

• Ethiopia accepts peace deal with longtime rival Eritrea.

• It’s the 1 year death anniversary of farmers who had been protesting over low produce prices, when Indian police officers opened fire on them.

• French leader, Macron, uses food analogy to describe chats with Trump after report claims their tariffs conversation ‘terrible’ because 'Trump can’t handle being criticized like that’. 

• Israeli army shot dead a Palestinian during a raid who they claim ‘pelted a rock’.

• Pablo Escobar's widow and son held on money laundering charges in Argentina.

• The conflict on the border of both Sudan’s could reignite South Sudan’ civil war. 

• President Donald Trump has tapped a conservative filmmaker who is a close ally of former White House strategist Steve Bannon to lead the broadcasting arm of the U.S. government.