“Some of the forces that helped the disinflation in the 1990s and the 1980s and the 2000s will be going into reverse,” Donald Kohn, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said.

“We see already adverse supply shocks, and the threats of adverse supply shocks, from the tariffs threatened by the Trump administration,” Kohn told a conference in Cape Town. “The tailwinds that helped with the disinflation earlier are turning potentially into headwinds and that’s going to present some difficult decisions for the Fed.”

80-year-old French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years in prison by an Algerian court for “undermining national unity and territorial integrity.”

The charges stem from an interview in which Sansal echoed Moroccan claims about Algerian territory—remarks seen as insulting to Algeria’s sovereignty.

Sansal, detained since November 2024, suffers from cancer.

His imprisonment has strained France-Algeria relations, especially after France recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.

President Macron and other figures have called for Sansal’s release on humanitarian grounds.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts and Fulbright scholar, was detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents in Massachusetts over alleged ties to Hamas — without public evidence.

She was reportedly moved to a Louisiana detention center despite a court order banning her removal.

Her only known “offense”? A 2024 article criticizing Israel and calling on Tufts to divest from companies with ties to it — later listed on a pro-Israeli blacklist.