Jared Kushner, Syria, Gibraltar: Your Monday Briefing
[The New York Times] • Israel is "systematically" preventing researchers from
entering the Gaza Strip to document rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said.
[Associated Press] • President Trump will host President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi today in the Egyptian
leader’s first visit to the White House since seizing power in a military takeover in 2013.
_____ • In the Russian region of Chechnya, at least three people have been killed and more than 100 arrested in a sweep of detentions of gay men.
Boris Johnson, the British foreign minister, said London’s support for Gibraltar was "rock-like." Spain also signaled
that it would not oppose an attempt by Scotland to join the E.U.
The mission was straightforward: pilot the first flight over Mount Everest.
_____ • The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria said it was likely
that at least 229 civilians had been unintentionally killed since their operations began in August 2014.