Russia and US BRACE for conflict in Syria as tensions boil over sparking ALL-OUT WAR fears
RUSSIA has deployed its largest naval contingent to Syria since it entered the conflict in October 2015, as the US ramped up its rhetoric about an imminent chemical weapons attack that Washington cautioned would result in a military response. ✔ Mr Trump responded with the full force of the US military after chemical attacks were reported in Syria ✔ The ministry stated: The West is ready once again to support terrorists and, in violation of all norms of international law, to commit an act of aggression against a sovereign state, which will inevitably cause another sharp deterioration of the situation in the Middle East region and a breakdown in the process of a peaceful settlement of the Syrian conflict ✔ We gain nothing by keeping troops in Syriaat alland it would be in our national interests to withdraw them immediately
Many Afghans are ready for an end to conflict. Is the region?
Pakistan, India, China and Iran are jockeying for influence but would benefit from peace ✔ So much Western money ended up (via unscrupulous local barons to whom logistics and other contracts were granted) helping the insurgents that a common myth in Helmand province in the south, where the British force was concentrated, was that Britain was working with the Taliban
North Korea vows to deepen relations with Cuba
undefined ✔ The newspaper also heaped praise on Cuba for making progress in improving its economy, which it said have been devastated by oppression from imperialists, apparently pointing to the sanctions imposed by the United States ✔ The North recently sent high-ranking officials, including its No. 2, Choe Ryong-hae, to the island country in a bid to demonstrate their long and friendly relations
Donald Trump told Shinzo Abe: ‘I remember Pearl Harbour’ before North Korea Jong-un summit
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump told Japanese Prime Minister “I remember Pearl Harbour” at a meeting between the US and Japan in the summer before the summit with North Korea, according to The Washington Post. ✔ Mr Abe has been worried Trump may go too soft on North Korea ✔ There is no change in our basic recognition about the threat of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles ✔ The US recently announced there are no plans to spend any more money on major military exercises on the Korea peninsula adding to concerns Trump is softening his position
Myanmar's military must be prosecuted for Rohingya 'ethnic cleansing', UN told
UN secretary general calls for action and accountability to tackle on one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises ✔ The UN report, released on Monday, called for the prosecution of the country’s commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and five generals ✔ António Guterres (@antonioguterres) I cannot forget the stories I heard from Rohingya refugees ✔ One father broke down as he told me how his son was shot dead in front of him ✔ Reuters and Agence France-Presse contributed to this article
U.N. chief urges accountability for Myanmar crimes on Rohingya
UNITED NATIONS--Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for accountability for the ✔ Ambassador U Hau Do Suan said the government refused to cooperate with the fact-finding mission because of concerns about its impartiality ✔ It is led by former Philippines deputy foreign minister Rosario Manalo, an expert on women's rights, and includes Japan's former U.N ✔ and Myanmar's government whose relations had been at a very low ebb
Asiad offers respite from conflicts
undefined ✔ Azad Al Barazi of Syria swims a men's 100m breaststroke heat at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on Aug 22 ✔ For many years I trained so hard, not just to stand on this podium but also for my countrymen, to show them we are still strong and we can make a better life, said Aljumaili
Russia to hold its biggest war games since fall of Soviet Union
Asia-focused English-language publication that brings you insights about business, finance, economic and political news, comments and analysis for Asia, by Asia on asia.nikkei.com ✔ The country's ability to defend itself in the current international situation, which is often aggressive and unfriendly towards our country, means (the exercise) is justified, Peskov told reporters on a conference call ✔ Imagine 36,000 armoured vehicles - tanks, armoured personnel carriers and armoured infantry vehicles - moving and working simultaneously, and that all this, naturally, is being tested in conditions as close as possible to military ones, Shoigu said on Tuesday
Belt and Road debt trap spreads to Central Asia
China exploits rift between US and Russia to court Ukraine ✔ Kyrgyzstan reportedly has a contract with a state-run Chinese bank for a power plant in the capital of Bishkek that includes a clause giving Beijing control of wide-ranging assets if the country defaults on its repayments ✔ Concern exists that more Chinese money will stall Western reforms in these countries
Angelina Jolie: A tale of two refugee girls
If we help refugees get an education, they themselves will take on the hard task of rebuilding the countries whose future peace and security is so important to our own, writes Angelina Jolie. It is the wise as well as morally right course of action. ✔ We do not see the intricate mosaic of individual men, women and children with their diverse backgrounds and immense human potential ✔ There are millions of young refugees with the energy and desire and commitment to study and work, who want to contribute to the societies that host them and ultimately help rebuild their home countries ✔ It is the wise as well as morally right course of action
What if Trump did actually shoot someone on Fifth Avenue?
President Donald Trump stopped his motorcade in Manhattan today, jumped out of his limousine and shot a man on Fifth Avenue who was shouting anti-Trump epithets. ✔ Worrying that readers wouldn't realise it was made up ✔ Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia's ✔ Because what we are seeing in the behaviour of Trump and his toadies in the GOP is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics ✔ Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is another confessed tax cheat ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
China and Asia-Pacific fuel global military spending binge
Beijing's buildup spurs neighbors to follow, while Trump urges increases by West ✔ But President Donald Trump, who has pledged to rebuild our military, signed a bill Monday allocating $717 billion in defense spending for the next fiscal year, one of the largest amounts in several years ✔ Nikkei staff writers Junnosuke Kobara and Saki Hayashi in Tokyo contributed to this report
No plans to suspend more major exercises on Korean peninsula, says US
The US military has no plans yet to suspend any more major military exercises with South Korea, the defence secretary said on Tuesday. ✔ Loading With North Korea and the US remaining stalemated, there is an even bigger need for an inter-Korea summit, Kim Eui-kyeom, a spokesman for the presidential Blue House, told a briefing ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
‘UN was obliged to punish US for sanctions against Iran, but did nothing’
Unilateral US sanctions against Iran resemble an act of war and it was the UN's obligation to interfere, but it chose to do nothing, putting its own credibility in doubt, political commentator Seyyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm told RT. ✔ The US is incapable of fighting a hard war when people are killed with missiles, bombs and bullets against Iran, considering their failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, he pointed out ✔ However, other signatories, including Russia, China, the UK, France and Germany, are working to maintain the agreement, which envisaged the lifting of economic pressure against Tehran in exchange for it curbing its military nuclear program
Navy reestablishes 2nd Fleet to face Russian threat
The Pentagon has brought the 2nd Fleet back to counter an increasingly aggressive Russian military around the world. ✔ Sources say the Pentagon’s concern centers on the potential threat that the Russian subs pose to some 550,000 miles of underwater fiber-optic cables that crisscross the Atlantic and Arctic ocean floors and transmit some of America’s most sensitive military secrets
Ban 'felon' Chelsea Manning from New Zealand, urge opposition MPs
National party calls for whistleblower to be blocked from entering the country on a speaking tour because of her convictions ✔ Manning (@xychelsea) so, i guess canada has permanently banned me ✔ In early August Auckland mayor Phil Goff banned far-right Canadian speakers Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern from speaking in any council buildings in Auckland and Ardern describing New Zealand as hostile to their views
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