US-North Korea talks and Beijing
undefined ✔ It would also force Beijing to grapple with the strategic challenges associated with yet another nuclear-armed state on its border that pursues a foreign policy divergent from Chinese interests ✔ is associate director of the Tribal Administration program at Claremont Graduate University
The fate of millions in doubt as Syria prepares for final showdown with rebels
With the government preparing for a multi-front offensive on the province, Idlib’s fate as the opposition’s last redoubt has become the subject of diplomatic jockeying among the world powers involved in the war. ✔ No one planned for this verdant region in Syria’s northwest to become the site of the rebels’ last stand ✔ Al Qaeda destroyed the revolution, but we didn’t invite them in ✔ Millions of dollars worth of goods pass every day through Bab Hawa, the opposition-controlled crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border
EBOLA CRISIS: Warning as deadly disease set to be WORST EVER in Congo - 75 dead
EBOLA has a deadly grip on the Democratic Republic of Congo spreading at an “alarming rate” with 75 new deaths and a further 112 cases - with armed conflict in the region crippling aid operations. ✔ Health workers burn mattresses used by patients with Ebola virus (Image: getty) Health workers burn medical waste generated during care of patients (Image: getty) She said: The news of two confirmed cases in Oicha is extremely distressing, because the area is almost entirely surrounded by armed militants
63,000 Russian Troops, Including 90 Percent of Its Combat Pilots, Have Rotated Through Syria Since 2015
The Russian military has revealed that over 63,000 troops from its armed forces have fought in Syria since Moscow entered the conflict in 2015, involvement that has turned the tide of the war in the regime’s favour. The deployment has included some 434 generals over the past three years, and about 90 percent of Russian combat pilots have flown in Syria. The Russian military has also used the conflict to test some of its most advanced weapons, including its latest jets and cruise missiles. ✔ I think their frenetic diplomatic activity in Europe indicates that they’d like to find somebody else, for example, to bear the cost of reconstructing Syria – which they may or may not succeed in doing, he told Reuters ✔ As Syrians in the north-eastern province of Idlib are bracing for an imminent offensive by the Assad regime, supported by Moscow, when asked how the US might respond should there be a chemical or biological attack on Idlib, Bolton said only: strongly
Call for Rohingya Genocide Prosecution Lets China Rush to Myanmar’s Rescue
A recommendation by investigators that Myanmar’s military leaders be prosecuted for genocide over their campaign against Rohingya Muslims is dragging China into another fight at the United Nations. For Beijing, that could be a good thing. ✔ The entry point is that there shouldn’t be any international interference in ethnic conflicts in Myanmar, because that might affect what’s happening at the border, said Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s East Asia director ✔ If we can’t take care of them, then who are we?’
Russia Will Hold Its Biggest War Games Since The End Of The Cold War
The military drills will involve almost 300,000 troops. ✔ 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 ✔ (Additional reporting by Katya Golubkova and Andrey Kuzmin in Moscow, Robin Emmott in Brussels and Elaine Lies in Tokyo; Editing by Andrew Bolton) Download
US to continue military drills with South Korea: Mattis
US last week cancelled a meeting with North Korea, citing insufficient progress on denuclearisation. ✔ Stalemate Trump's June decision to unilaterally suspend drills with South Korea was broadly criticised as a premature concession to Kim, who Trump wants to give up his country's nuclear weapons ✔ Following that announcement, more sanctions were imposed by the UN in December
How Met Office weather data is being used to predict cholera outbreaks
Sophisticated computer models of weather data and population movement are being used to predict future outbreaks of cholera. ✔ As a result of this support and our other preparedness and response work, we have been able to avoid a resurgence of cholera on the scale seen in 2017 ✔ Newsletter promotion - global health security - end of article Protect yourself and your family by learning more about Global Health Security
Russia admits 300,000-man war games biggest in 36 years are DIRECT WARNING to US
RUSSIA has admitted its 300,000 man war games which are the biggest of their kind in 36 years are directly aimed at the US. ✔ He said: It is an attempt to hinder its inevitable rise, its transformation into a leading global power ✔ It is second only to the US in firepower – and is currently being given a big investment boost by Kremlin ✔ Putin’s government have warned of an impending chemical incident that could trigger further US strikes on ally Bashar al-AssadIraq official: Suicide bomber kills 7 at checkpoint in Anbar
BAGHDAD (AP) — Seven people were killed in a car bomb blast in a former stronghold of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, a security official said on Wednesday. ✔ Iraqi officials declared victory over the jihadists late last year after recapturing Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in a grinding battle supported by the U.S.-led international coalition against IS ✔ Millions of Iraqis have not been able to return to their homes, including hundreds of thousands still living in displaced persons camps
The world's least visited countries – have you been to any of them?
The world's least visited countries – have you been to any of them? ✔ Telegraph Travel's Caribbean expert, Fred Mawer, recommends visiting in March, as the island is known as The Emerald Isle after the Irish settlers who came in the 17th century ✔ Yes - British nationals travelling by air can get a free 30-day entry permit/tourist visa on arrival
Don’t tell him, Pike! The laughable (yet sinister) list of ‘International Assadists’
A newly-compiled directory of 151 ‘International Assadists’ is both hilarious - for all the mistakes in it, but disturbing too, as it represents a McCarthyite attempt to police the debate on Syria. ✔ It was voted the funniest comedy scene of all time and with good reason ✔ The young Private Pike sings a little ditty mocking Adolf Hitler ✔ By that measure anyone who writes about a poll which shows Trump in the lead is a ‘Trumpist’ ✔ For the Battle of Stalingrad, read the Battle of Aleppo
Analysis | The Trump administration’s new ‘Iran Action Group’ won’t work — for these 3 reasons
Trump officials surely know this. Are they trying to force an overthrow? ✔ Indeed, nations tend make such comprehensive and radical policy changes only after a revolution or a catastrophic defeat in war ✔ Nicholas Miller is an assistant professor in the department of government at Dartmouth College and author of Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and Effectiveness of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy, (Cornell University Press, 2018)Editors Choice Pictures | Pictures | Reuters
A reveller plays with tomato pulp during the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, near Valencia, Spain. REUTERS/Heino Kalis ✔ A reveller plays with tomato pulp during the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, near Valencia, Spain ✔ REUTERS/Mohammed Salem Reuters / Wednesday, August 29, 2018 Palestinian schoolgirls participate in the morning exercise at an UNRWA-run school, on the first day of a new school year, in Gaza City
ISIS looks to revamp itself with 'global vision' after defeats
The jihadist group has been pinned down to its last desert holdouts in Syria having lost all urban centres previously under its control in neighbouring Iraq. ✔ After years battling ISIS, Iraqi troops are now redeployed along most of the border with Syria, across which jihadists and weapons have long flowed unimpeded ✔ Tore Hamming, a jihadist specialist at the European University Institute, said Baghdadi's speech falls into the same category as his last three - 'crisis management'
Trump told Japan’s Abe he ‘remembers Pearl Harbor,’ Washington Post says. Didn’t happen, Tokyo says
Japan denies that US President Donald Trump launched a surprise attack against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by bringing up Pearl Harbor during trade talks, contrary to a report by the Washington Post. ✔ The episode described by the Washington Post allegedly happened during a Trump-Abe meeting in June to discuss trade ✔ https://t.co/BMjvXGm3QZhttps://t.co/9UlwcK3RaApic.twitter.com/APvw280K28 Elise Foley (@elisefoley) August 28, 2018 The accuracy of the account about the Pearl Harbor tirade is, however, questionable
South, US didn't discuss resumption of joint drills: Cheong Wa Dae
undefined ✔ The U.S. and South Korea agreed to halt their joint military exercises in South Korea in June on the condition the North maintained good faith in its denuclearization efforts ✔ Meanwhile, spokesman Kim said the decision to suspend drills such as Key Resolve only affected those scheduled for this yearChina denies Trump's claim it hacked Clinton's emails
BEIJING (AP) — China has denied an accusation by U.S. President Donald Trump that it hacked the emails of Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent in the 2016 election. ✔ Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ, he tweeted ✔ Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Russia's role in the election and whether there was any collusion between it and Trump's campaign ✔ The report said China's People Liberation Army could send hundreds of military personnel into Afghanistan after the base is completed
Here Are the Factors That Drive Gun Deaths Around the World
The global drug trade and suicides make wars look small by comparison. ✔ Gun deaths are part of why the U.S. has lower life expectancy than other rich countries ✔ The rates also vary within populations: nobody will be surprised to learn that young men are likelier to pull the trigger than are older men or women ✔ And Australia has achieved decades without mass shootings since a 1996 reform
Who will challenge and check the military now that Sen. John McCain is gone?
The military shouldn't be an unchecked institution. John McCain was one of few politicians with the knowledge and backbone to stand up to the Pentagon. ✔ And he supported a faster rollout of MRAP vehicles to protect soldiers in Iraq ✔ By contrast, 45 years ago, during the height of the Vietnam War era, the numbers of veterans in Congress exceeded 75 percent ✔ Like any other agency in Washington, it requires oversight and monitoring ✔ What we need are more mavericks like him in Congress
Russia Is Playing the Long Game, With No Room for Instant Gratification Strategies of Super Patriots
We live in the world of models, all kinds of them. Some models are simple, others—very complex. The main task of those models is to predict how things, those models describe, will behave depending on the circumstances. Some of those models work brilliantly, others fail miserably. Worst models in terms of reliability are those dealing with geopolitics. A record of dismal failures of Western in general, and American in particular, geopolitical models to predict anything right is widely available for everyone to see. Time after time those models and predictions turned out to be wrong. ✔ His strategic dictum was simple to grasp: Give Russia 20 years of internal and external peace and quiet and it will change beyond recognition ✔ The fact that West, or at least some very influential people here, begin to understand this dynamics made even US mainstream media news when on July 3 Republican Senator from Alabama, a chair of an immensely powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, Richard Shelby was explicit in summarizing new 2018 geopolitical reality in his impromptu interview to the media on the stairs of Russia’s Foreign Ministry building: US Must View Russia as Superpower
Transcript: Sen. Mark Warner talks with Michael Morell on "Intelligence Matters" podcast, Aug. 28, 2018
The top Democrat on Senate Select Intelligence talked with Morell about topics ranging from the committee's Russia probe to the politicization of security clearances ✔ Mark Warner, D-Virginia, talks with CBS News senior national security contributor and former Acting Director of the CIA Michael Morell ✔ I think most of your listeners would realize we're moving into what's called the Internet of Things, where all of our devices-- MICHAEL MORELL: Everything's connected
A Senator Masquerading as a Gas Station
Orlov is one of our favorite essayists on Russia and all sorts of other things. He moved to the US as a child, and lives in the Boston area. ✔ Orlov is one of our favorite essayists on Russia and all sorts of other things ✔ But he did his thing, and is therefore twice the hero ✔ The profits that would have otherwise been pocketed by Western investors are now flooding into the Russian treasury, to be spent on health, education, housing, roads and bridges and so on
Novak Djokovic enjoys ice bath as US Open players wilt in heat
The US Open is set for another sweltering day after players and fans wilted in temperatures that soared over 100 Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and five players retired due to heat. ✔ I feel like a warrior princess in it, she told reporters ✔ I always wanted to be a superhero, and it's kind of my way of being a superhero ✔ Naomi Osaka, the 20th-seed from Japan who trains in Florida, couldn't see what all the fuss was all about ✔ I'm really glad that I was training in Florida before this>>> Open This Series
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