Ukraine blames death of separatist leader on conflict between...
8/31/2018, 5:32:19 PMUkraine's security service said on Friday it believed Russia-backed separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko had been killed in east Ukraine as a result of a conflict between the rebels and their Russian sponsors. ✔ Moscow earlier accused Kiev of being behind an explosion that killed Zakharchenko in central Donetsk on Friday ✔ Yelena Gitlyanskaya, a spokeswoman for the Ukraine security service, said all of the accusations that can be heard from the Russian side are not true ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Pro-Russian rebel leader killed in eastern Ukraine blast
8/31/2018, 6:46:29 PMThe death of Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of Donetsk rebels, raised tensions along one of the long-simmering proxy battles between the West and Russia. ✔ By Anton Troianovski August 31 at 2:27 PM MOSCOW A bomb killed the most prominent pro-Russian rebel leader in the breakaway region of eastern Ukraine on Friday, Russian and Ukrainian officials said, heightening the tension in the region’s simmering proxy war ✔ Putin issued a statement Friday praising Zakharchenko as a courageous and decisive person, a patriot
Ukraine separatists report leader killed in cafe explosion
8/31/2018, 6:29:34 PMMOSCOW (AP) — The leader of the Russia-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region was killed Friday by an explosion at a cafe, the separatists' news agency sa ✔ The rebellion in Donetsk and Luhansk arose soon after pro-Russia Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was driven from power amid mass protests in February 2014 ✔ Rebel news agency DAN said the afternoon explosion that killed Alexander Zakharchenko, 42, tore through the cafe in the region's principal city.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
Cafe blast kills pro-Moscow rebel leader in east Ukraine
8/31/2018, 6:21:14 PMThe leader of Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine was killed on Friday in a blast at a cafe in Donetsk city, the separatist administration said. ✔ In Kiev, a spokeswoman for the state Security Service, Yelena Gitlyanskaya, dismissed Moscow’s accusations, saying the killing was a result of years-long internal fighting.. ✔ INFIGHTING Zakharchenko, a 42-year-old former coalmine electrician, became leader of the Donetsk Republic in November 2014 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Alexander Zakharchenko killed in Donetsk cafe explosion
8/31/2018, 6:42:43 PMRussia accuses Ukraine of assassinating separatist leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. ✔ Russia's foreign ministry said it had every reason to believe Kiev was responsible for Zakharchenko's death, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the Rossiya-24 state television station ✔ In the Field Eastern Ukraine: Enduring the suffering of war
Pentagon seeking contractors to train Saudi pilots on US soil amid bloody Yemen air campaign
8/31/2018, 4:16:52 PMThe Pentagon plans to hire private contractors to train Saudi military pilots on US soil, documents show. Human Rights Watch (HRW) called the move disturbing amid outcry over US involvement in Saudi Arabia’s air campaign in Yemen. ✔ Despite Mattis’ warning, the government solicitation for training RSAF pilots was posted two weeks after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike killed 40 children ✔ Since then more than 5,500 civilians have been killed and over 9,000 injured, according to UN estimates
Leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic killed in E. Ukraine blast
8/31/2018, 4:41:15 PMAn explosion that rocked a cafe in central Donetsk city, in eastern Ukraine, has killed Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, and injured several other top officials. ✔ Media reports said that Zakharchenko was severely injured as a blast hit a restaurant called ‘Separ’ in Donetsk city center ✔ Moscow condemned 42-year-old Zakharchenko’s murder, adding that it could be detrimental to the whole peace process in Ukraine ✔ He previously survived several assassination attempts
BREAKING: Head of Donetsk Republic Zakharchenko Killed in Bomb Blast in Downtown Donetsk
8/31/2018, 4:20:40 PMMOSCOW, August 31 (Sputnik) - Leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine Alexander Zakharchenko was killed on Friday in an explosion in downtown Donetsk, a local security source told Sputnik. "According to preliminary data, one dead and three wounded," the source said. Later a lawmaker of the People's Council of the DPR confirmed reports about the death of DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko in a bomb explosion in downtown Donetsk on Friday. ✔ According to preliminary data, one dead and three wounded, the source said ✔ The DPR leader died in the explosion at the Separ cafe, Vladislav Berdichevky told reporters ✔ DOglbfuW0AEVMC9.jpg A blast occurred earlier on Friday in a restaurant several hundred meters from the residence of DPR head Alexander Zakharchenko
Myanmar’s army releases fake photos of Rohingya refugees
8/31/2018, 4:32:38 PMThe 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 ✔ The photographer, Martha Rial, working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, won the Pulitzer Prize ✔ It was sourced from Myanmar's own Ministry of Information
Syrians brace as decisive battle for Idlib looms
8/31/2018, 8:00:34 PMBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition fighters blew up bridges Friday and dug trenches around their bases to impede an anticipated ground offensive on their last major stronghold in the ✔ Bassam Abu Bashir, an anesthesiologist, said fuel is already in short supply in Maaret al-Numan where he lives after having been displaced from eastern Ghouta near Damascus earlier this year following a military campaign ✔ (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)
Eyes in the sky: the new way to identify human rights abuses
8/31/2018, 4:40:59 PMThe "firehose" of satellite imagery now available is helping to corroborate eyewitness testimony and disproves counter-claims from the perpetrators. ✔ Photo: Kate Geraghty Lyons has been with HRW since April 2012 – and he is about to expand from a one-man operation into a team of geospatial researchers ✔ Josh Lyons appears at the Sydney Opera House's Talk and Ideas festival, Antidote, on Sunday, September 2 ✔ The Sydney Morning Herald is a media partner of the festival
Ukrainian separatists report killing of Alexander Zakharchenko
8/31/2018, 6:16:35 PMAlexander Zakharchenko is said to have died in an explosion in Donetsk. Rebel news agency DAN said the explosion that killed Zakharchenko, 42, tore through a cafe in the region’s principal city. ✔ Encouraged by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which also came after Mr Yanukovych was ousted, rebel leaders initially hoped their regions would be absorbed by Russia as well ✔ Denis Pushilin, the speaker of the separatists’ parliament, blamed Ukrainian forces for the explosion, calling it the latest aggression from the Ukrainian side, according to DAN
Separatist group leader killed in Donetsk explosion
8/31/2018, 4:52:17 PMundefined ✔ There is every reason to believe that the Kiev regime was behind this murder ✔ It has repeatedly used similar methods to eliminate dissidents and inconvenient people, Maria Zakharova said, without providing evidence ✔ The explosion at Separ café in central Donetsk also injured Alexander Timofeev, the finance minister of the breakaway region, local media reported
Who are the Isis Beatles Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh and what happened to Jihadi John?
8/31/2018, 6:55:16 PMTHE last two fanatics in a bloodthirsty British ISIS gang dubbed “The Beatles” have been captured in Syria. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh – whose group slaughtered at least 27 p… ✔ Speaking from a jail in Kurdish-controlled Syria, Kotey also likened the execution of unarmed captives to coalition airstrikes, saying the victims were collateral damage ✔ The twisted British militant was evaporated after being targeted by a US drone in 2015
DRC's struggle for democracy enters new era
8/31/2018, 7:24:12 PMElevation of sanctioned official and opposition bans prompt analyst fears ahead of December 23 presidential election. ✔ I don't see the [possibility] that the elections are going to be free, fair, transparent and democratic, he said, adding that upcoming poll promised more of the same following the votes in 2006 and 2011 ✔ The level of violence, and the fact that there is an Ebola crisis going on, is going to mean in effect a lot of the election is about firefighting, Loffman said
EU Army? Macron proposes ‘EUROPEAN NATO’ to free bloc from reliance on US
8/31/2018, 4:38:05 PMFRENCH President Emmanuel Macron yesterday called for an “almost automatic” defence solidarity between European member states amid growing concerns over the United States’ wavering commitment to international security. ✔ Mr Macron, however, stressed that his proposal was not a thinly veiled attempt to undermine the Nato agreement, which remains an important and strategic alliance, but an attempt to persuade EU states to take part as much as possible in EU defence cooperation outside Nato
Dark tourism on your doorstep - Europe’s darkest and weirdest weekend breaks
8/31/2018, 5:14:39 PMNETFLIX’S latest hit, Dark Tourist, has put “dark tourism” on the map with search results in the UK increasing by 1000 per cent since it launched. If you’re feeling inspired, Sun Online Trave… ✔ The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has even gone so far as to send investigators to the bridge to determine the cause of the dogs' suicides ✔ Sun Online previously revealed chilling photos of the world's most morbid dark tourism sites
Shipwrecked 'North Korean' sailor washed ashore alive after storm destroys boat
8/31/2018, 5:09:55 PMHis boat had been destroyed in a heavy storm before it appeared in the Primorsky Krai region ✔ The footage was taken in the village of Livadia in south-eastern Russia's Primorsky Krai region ✔ He is said to be North Korean, but this could not be confirmed as he did not understand Russian ✔ Footage of his rescue was recorded on a smartphone by an onlooker and shows the shocked man being helped out of the destroyed marine vessel
Russia submitted proof of false-flag chemical-weapons plot to OPCW & UN – Lavrov
8/31/2018, 4:41:14 PMThere is “no doubt” that militants are plotting a false-flag chemical-weapons attack in Syria’s Idlib province, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that Moscow has provided proof of the plot to the UN and OPCW. ✔ Earlier, Russia’s representative to the OPCW, Aleksandr Shulgin, told journalists that Moscow had handed evidence of the planned false-flag attack to the OPCW Director General Fernando Arias ✔ It accused the White Helmets group of assisting the terrorists with the delivery
Briton jailed for life over plot to kill PM May
8/31/2018, 4:49:00 PMA British man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday over a plot to kill Prime Minister Theresa May by first detonating an explosive device to get into her Downing Street office and then using a knife or a gun to attack her. ✔ However, he was actually talking to undercover officers from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Britain’s MI5 domestic spy agency ✔ He was arrested last November shortly after unwittingly meeting an undercover police officer and collecting what he believed was a homemade bomb but was in fact a harmless replica ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Austrian minister to give PM dancing lessons after Jeremy Hunt meeting
8/31/2018, 4:16:40 PMAustria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, danced samba with her British, Greece, Polish and Romanian counterparts at an EU foreign ministers' meeting at Hofburg Palace in Vienna, yesterday. ✔ Kneissl was widely criticised over a wedding invitation and dance with Russian President Vladmir Putin ✔ Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who is not in the FPOe, has insisted his country, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, shares the bloc's stance on Russia, which has been sanctioned over its role in the Ukraine conflict ✔ Theresa May has been videoed dancing during her visits to Nigeria and Kenya, most recently twirking while at the UN offices in Nairobi yesterday
US will 'cut all funds to UN agency for Palestinian refugees'
8/31/2018, 7:21:09 PMThe US is reportedly preparing to slash all funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, prompting outrage from Palestinians and warnings that the move could spark unrest in region. ✔ Mr Netanyahu argues the refugees are used as a political pawn by Arab leaders, who have encouraged them to hold on to false hopes of one day returning to Israel ✔ European governments have signaled they will boost funding for UNRWA to make up some of the shortfall and the agency also hopes to extract more money from Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Arab governments
Poland asks to see US documents on deported ex-Nazi guard
8/31/2018, 4:18:53 PMWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has asked the U.S. to share all the documents gathered on a deported former Nazi concentration camp guard in the hope they may provide grounds for cha ✔ WARSAW, Poland (AP) Poland has asked the U.S. to share all the documents gathered on a deported former Nazi concentration camp guard in the hope they may provide grounds for charging the 95-year-old with World War II-era crimes, a prosecutor said Friday ✔ Palij, an ethnic Ukrainian born in a part of Poland that is now Ukraine, said in 1993 that he would have never received his U.S. visa if had he told the truth about his past
Trump's UN funding move risks damage to Palestine, Israel and US
8/31/2018, 5:54:57 PMNo one will be immune from the political consequences of severe cuts to Palestinian aid ✔ The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the child of both catastrophe and failure ✔ A second theory is predicated on a reading that Kushner and his team are more realistic, anticipating the failure of Trump’s boast that he can secure the deal of the century between Israelis and Palestinians
Photos of the week | Pictures | Reuters
8/31/2018, 6:21:26 PMMcLaren's Fernando Alonso and Sauber's Charles Leclerc crash at the first corner of the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir ✔ McLaren's Fernando Alonso and Sauber's Charles Leclerc crash at the first corner of the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix ✔ REUTERS/Darren Whiteside Reuters / Monday, August 27, 2018 Extreme Vespa enthusiasts drive their bike near the site of a weekend festival for extreme Vespas in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
Trump administration to drop funding next week for U.N. body...
8/31/2018, 5:57:25 PMThe Trump administration will announce a decision within days to cancel funding for a U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees, several people familiar with the decision said on Friday. ✔ The loss of this organization could unleash an uncontrollable chain reaction, Maas said ✔ UNRWA has faced a cash crisis since the United States, long its biggest donor, slashed funding earlier this year, saying the agency needed to make unspecified reforms and calling on the Palestinians to renew peace talks with Israel ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
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In The Hunt for Red October, Alec Baldwin is the definitive Jack Ryan
8/31/2018, 4:16:48 PMHulu’s Jack Ryan movies, based on Tom Clancy’s novels, are the perfect primer for the new Amazon Prime show starring John Krasinski. ✔ Image: Paramount Pictures There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching ✔ In that sense, the closest analog to Krasinski’s small-screen Ryan is the first actor to play him
It's A Cultural Moment For Asian Representation – As Long As You're Light Skinned
8/31/2018, 4:39:17 PMHollywood is making strides, but let’s not overlook the folks outside the margins — the ones who look like me. ✔ Brown and dark-skinned Asians are often dislodged from the Asian-American label ✔ Anti-blackness is a global issue that co-exists with white supremacy ✔ Dismantling this notion means unlearning what you know ✔ Have a compelling first-person story you want to share
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