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Yemen war: 'Nowhere left to hide' for 400,000 trapped in Hodeidah


Several residents say they can't afford to flee and are instead trying to live 'normal lives' amid the chaos of war. ✔ 'Can't afford to leave' With the Saudi-UAE alliance intensifying their bombing campaign on Houthis-held areas, several residents told Al Jazeera they had grown tired of trying to flee, only to find their next refuge becoming a target as well ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHORS Manal Qaed Faisal Edroos

US to resume war games as North Korea negotiations stall


Restarting drills with South Korea likely to infuriate regime, which has in the past responded with threats of force ✔ If future exercises are suspended, [North Korea] will say it was expected, perhaps required for talks to continue ✔ If the exercises resume, it will damage talks and relations with Seoul ✔ Any work toward denuclearisation had to be preceded by trust/peace building, he wrote in a Twitter post

Ditch identity politics: fight for one person’s rights at a time | Natalie Nougayrède


A force capable of rallying public opinion, NGOs and politicians across borders – how distant that feels in the time of Trump, writes Guardian columnist Natalie Nougayrède ✔ Some people will be more scandalised by violations in Yemen than by Syria, or by Venezuela rather than by the Saudi regime, or discrimination against LGBT groups or any other minority than that suffered by a dissident such as Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese human rights hero who died as a result of being denied adequate medical attention after imprisonment and torture

WaPo column praises McCain as human rights champion with photo of him next to 'literal neo-Nazi'


Mainstream US media have been singing eulogies to the late Senator John McCain after he succumbed to brain cancer last weekend. Among them is a column in the Washington Post titled 'The human rights community lost a champion.' ✔ They hung out quite a bit: https://t.co/QY8K5qPVVihttps://t.co/X9h5e9Tmhl Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 28, 2018 #IgnorantFool Clearly you have no idea of what you speaking about... ✔ The sentiment was magnified by McCain's passing, which sparked a fresh feud between Trump and the senator's supporters, who wanted flags to stay at half-mast until his interment

With McCain Gone Are Imperialists Now Leaderless?


“McCain’s Death Leaves Void” ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began: “The death of John McCain will leave Congress without perhaps its loudest voice in support of the robust internationalism that has defined the country’s security relations since World War II.” Certainly, the passing of the senator whose life story will dominate the news until he is buried at his alma mater, the Naval Academy, on Sunday, leaves America’s interventionists without their greatest champion. ✔ McCain’s Death Leaves Void ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began: The death of John McCain will leave Congress without perhaps its loudest voice in support of the robust internationalism that has defined the country’s security relations since World War II ✔ Lindsey Graham, and nominate Donald Trump, who said he would seek to get along with Russia and extricate America from the wars into which McCain had helped plunge the country

Myanmar rejects UN findings in Rohingya genocide report


The government denies any allegations of purported genocide of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar armed forces. ✔ Speaking in Geneva on Monday, Marzuki Darusman, the mission's chairman, said his researchers amassed evidence based on 875 interviews with witnesses and victims, satellite imagery, and verified photos and videos ✔ Inside Story Will the Rohingya ever get to go home

Eight killed in car bomb attack at Iraqi checkpoint


At least eight people were killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint in western Iraq, the local mayor said on Wednesday. ✔ Qaim lies 300 km (185 miles) west of Baghdad in the Sunni province of Anbar ✔ The Iraqi military put its initial death toll at seven ✔ The group’s fighters have since then waged a campaign of kidnappings and killings ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles

US pulls back on pledge to suspend South Korea war games


undefined ✔ Officials in South Korea, however, reacted with caution to the comments, saying the resumption of drills would need to be discussed ✔ In its negotiations with both Seoul and Washington, Pyongyang has made clear that it wants a declaration ending the Korean war and possibly an official peace treaty before denuclearisation talks can proceed

Foreign-friendly health-care system needed to fight rise in TB


The number of foreign nationals suffering from tuberculosis in Japan is sharply increasing, raising ✔ Some come to Japan after the onset of the illness, said Seiya Kato, director of the Anti-tuberculosis Association's Research Institute of Tuberculosis of Japan ✔ In other cases, the foreign patient contracts the disease while residing in poor living conditions (in Japan) and it spreads ✔ (This article was written by Sokichi Kuroda and Akiyoshi Abe.)

Israel reaps rewards of unlikely alliance with Putin


undefined ✔ At the same time, Israel’s Soviet-born defence minister and ex-nightclub bouncer Avigdor Lieberman, whose father served in the Red Army, has helped smooth regular meetings between Israeli and Russian military brass with references to famous Russian battles, literature and cinema, said Mr Selsky

I survived building the 'death railway'


A former British prisoner of war describes building the bridge over the River Kwai during WW2. ✔ Tens of thousands died during the construction and it became known as the death railway ✔ Former British POW, Cyril Doy, describes in graphic detail how he survived sickness, starvation and humiliation while building the famous railway bridge over the River Kwai ✔ : The stories of our times told by the people who were there

Trump's bet on Kim Jong Un is looking increasingly shaky


President Donald Trump took a huge risk by holding a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and hailing it as a stunning history-changing success. ✔ After all, while those concessions from North Korea are welcome, it's obvious that the fundamentals of the threat -- Pyongyang's arsenal of atomic weapons and missiles -- have not fundamentally changed ✔ Therefore, it will be crucial for Kim, seeking to play on Trump's need for breakthroughs, not to push the President too far or to give him the impression that he is being taken advantage of

Wednesday briefing: Back off, Boris – May 'in for the long term'


‘I was pleased he was foreign secretary for the period he was foreign secretary’ … scallop war flares off Normandy … and the teen social media refuseniks ✔ Top story: PM’s past-tense praise for Brexit critic Hello, Warren Murray with your Wednesday news sampler ✔ You’re one election away from losing everything you’ve got … They will overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly and violently

Iraq: Eight killed in Anbar province suicide bombing


At least eight killed, 12 wounded in attack on security checkpoint in Qaim district of Iraq's Anbar province. ✔ At least eight people were killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint in the Qaim district of Iraq's Anbar province, a local official told Reuters news agency ✔ The checkpoint near the border with Syria was manned jointly by the army and government-backed militias, the official said on Wednesday ✔ The death toll could climb because some of the wounded were in a critical condition, he said

‘It’s paid political advertising!’ - Regulator CONDEMNS Saudi Arabian adverts on UK TV


CONTROVERSIAL TV adverts paid for by Saudi Arabia violated the UK ban on paid political advertising and should not have been aired according to a ruling by regulator Ofcom. ✔ The adverts were intended to influence public opinion on matters of public controversy (Image: GETTY) An investigation by the regulator found that the adverts were intended to influence public opinion on matters of public controversy ✔ The Ofcom ruling overturns the original decision from Clearest, which screens adverts in the UK and approved the Saudi one for broadcast

'Moon should show leadership during inter-Korean summit'


undefined ✔ Against this backdrop, the role of President Moon is very crucial during his planned meeting with Kim next month, with Park urging Moon to show strong and smart leadership at the third inter-Korean summit ✔ But with the North expressing complaints over what it calls unilateral demands from the U.S., their dialogue momentum has been losing steam

Korea, US - allies no longer?


undefined ✔ No, he said, when asked whether there was the problem with the alliance ✔ Then, as now, Seoul was not informed beforehand, but soldiered on without reacting emotionally after being slighted by its ally ✔ That is a moot point for Americans who plan for after Trump

Syrians must be given the truth about their missing loved ones


undefined ✔ Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria is well-known for its cruelty ✔ It is not clear why the regime has begun to release the lists, statements and certificates ✔ With more families set to receive the same news over the coming months, now is the time for action ✔ International organisations must be allowed to inspect the detention centres

Germany reels as far-right 'mobs' go on rampage


Germany was reeling Tuesday as xenophobia reared its head with far-right protests degenerating into attacks against foreign-looking people, adding fuel to ✔ Saxony state, where Chemnitz is located and which is the birthplace of the Islamophobic PEGIDA street movement, has repeatedly come under intense scrutiny as it is a hotbed for hate crimes ✔ But that can’t mean that the interior minister and leader of the CSU party ducks under cowardly, Spiegel said

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