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War Countries - SERIES 39 {11 articles}

US extends travel ban on North Korea

8/31/2018, 12:22:06 AM
undefined ✔ The travel warning for North Korea remains in place ✔ He was released in June last year, but he was in a coma ✔ Speaking about North Korea at a Washington forum earlier this week, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said, We knew this was going to be a slow, tough process


Russia military drills point to imminent Syria offensive

8/31/2018, 12:33:57 AM
Russia’s navy announced it will open “large-scale drills” in the Mediterranean on Saturday in the latest sign that a major Syrian government offensive against one of the last rebel strongholds in the country is imminent — a development that the United Nations warns could trigger a fresh refugee crisis in the Middle East nation’s 7-year-old civil war. ✔ Tracking Russian warships The drills come amid a regional buildup of warships that Russian news outlets have described as the largest of its kind since Moscow’s forces entered the Syrian conflict in 2015 ✔ ⦁ This article is based in part on wire service reports


Jihadis' dad jailed for threatening wife if she testified against him

8/31/2018, 1:55:31 AM
THE father of two British jihadis who died fighting in Syria was jailed yesterday for threatening to have his wife shot if she gave evidence against him at his trial for allegedly assaulting her. E… ✔ Rouco 1 Abubaker Deghayes was convicted of perverting the course of justice after threatening his wife But yesterday he was convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice at London’s Blackfriars crown court and jailed for 18 months ✔ Three of Deghayes’s UK-born sons went to Syria to fight ✔ Two others are serving prison sentences for drug dealing ✔ Ring The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or email exclusive@the-sun.co.uk


Myanmar army fakes photos and history in sinister rewrite of Rohingya crisis

8/31/2018, 2:38:23 AM
Propaganda unit’s 117-page book contains pictures purportedly taken in Rakhine state that are really from Tanzania and Bangladesh ✔ A Reuters investigation reveals that the provenance of three of the eight historical photographs contained in the book were faked ✔ Bengalis entered Myanmar via the watercourse, the caption reads ✔ 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


Asian stocks bruised by Trump's trade war threats

8/31/2018, 1:17:54 AM
Asian shares came under renewed pressure on Friday after reports U.S. President Donald Trump was preparing to step up a trade war with Beijing and ready to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports. ✔ REUTERS/Yuya Shino/File Photo Many emerging market currencies were also frail after Argentina’s peso sank on Thursday despite the central bank’s interest rate hike ✔ The cautious mood helped lift the yen, which rose 0.6 percent on Thursday, its biggest daily rise in about six weeks ✔ In early Friday trade, it changed hands at 111.04 per dollar JPY= ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Fascinating images show the changing world of the 1960s and 1970s

8/31/2018, 2:29:29 AM
The photos were taken by pioneering photojournalist John Bulmer - grandson of the founder of the famous cider company. They chronicle life in countries including North Korea, China and Ethiopia. ✔ The junta would eventually be overthrown in 1966 Harvesting salt in the salt flats at Massawa in Ethiopia circa 1965 ✔ At a time when a photographer would often not know for many weeks, or even months, whether they had successfully captured the image they had seen in their mind's eye, timing was everything


National security goals in John McCain’s wake

8/31/2018, 12:48:05 AM
Sen. John McCain was the dominant Republican voice on national security since the end of George W. Bush’s presidency. Mr. McCain’s policies, however, were an inconsistent hodgepodge of immigration amnesty, dedication to the failed nation-building strategy and politically second-guessing the Pentagon which didn’t deserve it as often as it did. ✔ But the Air Force was correct in not trusting our crown jewels, what former chief of staff Gen ✔ But, like any politician, his views were often more political than substantive ✔ Jed Babbin, a deputy undersecretary of defense in the George H.W ✔ Bush administration, is the author of In the Words of Our Enemies


I pledged loyalty to Bin Laden, then spied for MI6

8/31/2018, 2:29:08 AM
Aimen Dean who spied on al-Qaeda on behalf of the British Secret Services for almost eight years recalls the impending danger in a new book. He also managed to infiltrate radicals in Britain. ✔ Aimen (pictured) began secretly working for MI5 and MI6 from 1999 onwards after witnessing more than 200 people be killed at the hands of suicide bombers in 1998 Brought up in Saudi Arabia and schooled in the Koran, which he knew word for word, he started out as an extremist at the age of 16, committing himself to defending Muslim people from attack


US Open umpire's Kyrgios visit scrutinized; Wozniacki loses

8/31/2018, 3:38:53 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Nick Kyrgios was losing big at the U.S. Open on Thursday, and barely even trying. Didn't move while so-so serves flew by for aces. Casually put groundstrokes into ✔ NEW YORK (AP) Nick Kyrgios was losing big at the U.S. Open on Thursday, and barely even trying ✔ It was, to be sure, the most conversation-worthy topic on Day 4 at Flushing Meadows, where the most notable result was No. 2 seed Caroline Wozniacki's 6-4, 6-2 loss to Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine at night


Airplane sex assault charges: Man allegedly used a coat to hide assault of sleeping woman

8/31/2018, 12:47:41 AM
Federal prosecutors announced two separate cases on Thursday where men are charged with abusive sexual contact on an aircraft. ✔ The FBI offers a number of tips for preventing and responding to sexual assault crimes aboard an aircraft: Reprimand bad behavior : The FBI says offenders often test their victims, sometimes pretending to accidentally touch them ✔ You may also want to view these photo galleries: Replay Last SlideNext Slide


Trump administration to end U.S. funding to U.N. program for Palestinian refugees

8/31/2018, 12:19:37 AM
The decision will include a call to reduce the number of Palestinians recognized as refugees, an effort to eliminate the ‘right of return’ to land contested with Israel. ✔ The goal, officials have said, is both to woo Palestinians away from Hamas, by appealing to their desire for better lives amid seemingly endless strife and deprivation under terrorist leaders, and to make it more difficult for Abbas, a Hamas rival, to continue to rebuff U.S. overtures


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