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John McCain will be laid to rest among other Navy heroes, from the Civil War to Afghanistan

8/30/2018, 11:19:35 PM
✔ (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) The black tombstone of the legendary World War II skipper Arleigh A ✔ At the chapel service Sunday, McCain’s longtime friend Mark Salter is to read from Psalm 107: They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep ✔ The Naval Academy Cemetery sits on a hill at Hospital Point, where College Creek meets the Severn River


Exclusive: Fake photos in Myanmar army's 'True News' book on the...

8/30/2018, 9:14:19 PM
The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally", reads the caption. ✔ The book also seeks to trace the history of the Rohingya - who regard themselves as native to western Myanmar - casting them as interlopers from Bangladesh ✔ It was sourced from Myanmar’s own Ministry of Information ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Spain's Sanchez offers Colombia help to reach peace with ELN rebels

8/30/2018, 9:27:55 PM
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, on his first tour of Latin America since taking office in June, on Thursday offered any necessary support to push forward a peace deal between Colombia and ELN rebels. ✔ Spain has also suffered terrorist violence, has also suffered the migration of many people from certain regions of our country because of not switching to the ideology of the terrorist band, he said ✔ Latin American countries have repeatedly called on Maduro to enact democratic reforms and accept international aid ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


MUST SEE: Top Russian Politicians CRUSH McCain's Evil Legacy on #1 Russian TV Show

8/30/2018, 8:27:36 PM
How refreshing when a country’s mainstream TV tells the truth, instead of the dishonest and deluded eulogies spouted by the American mainstream … These Russians were absolutely brutal: “He's a monster! …  He should have been put in a cage and shown around the world as an example of human depravity!” “We must always call the scoundrels out! call (people like McCain) what they are: SCOUNDRELS!, BASTARDS!, CRIMINALS! ✔ He's the spirit of war which is integral to American imperialism ✔ As they say: about the dead or speak well or speak nothing at all ✔ Vladimir Zhirinovsky, LDPR: - No way! Just the opposite! We SHOULD call the scoundrels like McCain out! Call them what they are!: SCOUNDRELS!, BASTARDS!, CRIMINALS!


ASIAN GAMES/ Combined Koreas basketball team to play for gold

8/30/2018, 10:33:31 PM
JAKARTA-- The combined Koreas women's basketball team reached the Asian Games final, giving one of t ✔ South Korea was in third place in the medal standings after 389 events and North Korea was ninth, both well behind China, which had 111 gold medals and 239 overall ✔ A China team featuring NBA players Zhou Qi and Ding Yanyuhang will play the men's basketball final against Iran, which beat defending champion South Korea


Trump wants tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods next week, sources say

8/30/2018, 8:24:03 PM
President Trump wants to move ahead with a plan to impose tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports as soon as a public-comment period concludes next week, according to six people familiar with the matter. ✔ 6 to submit comments on the proposed duties, which cover everything from selfie sticks to semiconductors ✔ Trump’s plan to bring down his biggest hit yet on China comes as two-way trade talks show little signs of progress ✔ If the president hands the China file to Lighthizer, there’s a chance of real progress, Alden said


Afgan interpreters betrayed again as promises of sanctuary is delayed

8/30/2018, 10:55:10 PM
Britain’s longest serving translator was recently attacked by a suspected Taliban gunman outside his home in Kabul, the Afghan capital. ✔ ‘My best chance of living a safe life will be to try and come to the UK with people smugglers.’ Shaffy, 28, who was branded an ‘infidel spy’ and told he would ‘die like a dog’ days after he was shown on TV with then prime minister David Cameron during a visit to Helmand, said: ‘It is nearly three months since I gave my details to the unit and applied under the policy but I have heard nothing.’ Under the old relocation scheme, interpreters had to be serving on an arbitrary date in December 2012 to qualify


Trump administration ‘considering sending alleged Isil Beatles fighters to Guantanamo Bay'

8/30/2018, 9:05:59 PM
Donald Trump's administration is considering sending two suspected Isil ‘Beatles’ fighters to Guantanamo Bay rather than having them face the death penalty, NBC News has reported. ✔ Both men were allegedly part of the notorious terror cell dubbed ‘The Beatles’ who beheaded US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning ✔ However it believes that any evidence it hands over cannot be used in a trial at the facility ✔ The UK’s general policy remains that Guantanamo should close ✔ We have no further specifics to provide at this time


‘Totally dishonest’: Trump asserts only he can be trusted over opponents and ‘fake news’

8/30/2018, 11:51:49 PM
The president and his supporters are under siege, Trump’s tweets imply, from pernicious forces conspiring against them. ✔ I think that problems of us are exaggerated into big national scandals, and problems for them are just not looked at ✔ The danger to him is that at some point, it just wears so thin or rings so hollow or is so devalued by the constant repetition of it that it either loses impact or boomerangs


U.S. stocks drop on fear of escalated trade spat; Argentine peso...

8/30/2018, 8:51:34 PM
The rally in U.S. stocks came to a halt on Thursday on new concerns that the U.S.-Chinese trade dispute will intensify, while economic turmoil in Argentina and Turkey sent those countries' currencies tumbling. ✔ Earlier this month, Turkey’s currency crisis sent the lira to a record low against the U.S. dollar and sparked concerns about emerging markets investments ✔ [O/R] (Graphic: World FX rates in 2018 tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Josef Martinez makes scoring look easy for Atlanta United

8/30/2018, 8:03:14 PM
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Listed at 5-foot-7 but surely a bit of an exaggeration, Josef Martinez easily gets lost in the crowd. Especially when he's in front of the goal, ✔ (AP) Listed at 5-foot-7 but surely a bit of an exaggeration, Josef Martinez easily gets lost in the crowd ✔ A towering header that winds up in the back of the net ✔ Joe thought he would be a good goal scorer, and he gave him a great character reference, Eales recalled


ISIS Militants Likely To End Up In Iraqi Prison, Guantanamo: Reports

8/30/2018, 10:23:45 PM
A former hostage said he and victims' family members oppose the possibility. ✔ What I want is an incontestable trial, as fair as possible, where my captors would have all the chances to defend themselves, he told the paper ✔ We must absolutely prevent them reversing the situation by depicting them as victims ✔ The one thing that’s guaranteed is it will create years more of litigation


China rejects US call for sanctions call over Muslim camps

8/30/2018, 9:01:54 PM
US lawmakers urged President Donald Trump's administration to impose sanctions on Chinese officials allegedly tied to the mass internment of ethnic minority Muslims. ✔ China was one of seven countries up for review in the latest session of the group of independent experts linked to the U.N ✔ The committee has been alarmed by numerous reports of detention of large numbers of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities held incommunicado and often for long periods, without being charged or tried, under the pretext of countering terrorism and religious extremism, committee member Nicolas Marugan said at a news conference in Geneva ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes


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