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US identifies 2 Korean War dead from North Korea remains

9/11/2018, 5:35:10 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says that two Korean War dead have been identified from remains turned over to the U.S. in July by North Korea. Mattis ✔ Mattis tells Pentagon reporters Tuesday that experts moved swiftly on analyzing those two sets of remains, as they thought they had a good chance of identifying them because of where they were located and other information ✔ The Defense Department laboratory in Hawaii is working to identify them ✔ Last month, the department identified one service member whose dog tag was returned



Afghanistan: Suicide bomber kills 32 in attack on protesters

9/11/2018, 4:08:20 PM
Blast targets hundreds of demonstrators in eastern Nangarhar province as a series of bombings hits schools. ✔ The reason for the demonstration against the police chief wasn't immediately clear ✔ US says 'mother of all bombs' hits ISIL in Afghanistan Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned the suicide attack among the protesters as well as the school bombings in Nangarhar ✔ UpFront Hamid Karzai on the US, ISIL and war crimes



Al-Qaeda is back and spreading further than ever with SE Asia strongholds

9/11/2018, 5:00:20 PM
LIGHTNING-quick expansion across Iraq and Syria and a shocking propaganda campaign means ISIS has shifted the terror spotlight away from Al-Qaeda over the past five years. But while the west’… ✔ The mountainous areas in the west of Tunisia also continue to harbour elements of ISIS and Al-Qaeda ✔ Despite taking some heavy losses in 2017, groups in the southern Philippines are reported to have regrouped, and reactivated training camps, bringing hundreds of follower from inside and outside the country



Russia begins its largest ever military exercise with 300,000 soldiers

9/11/2018, 5:58:23 PM
Nato condemns Vostok-2018 drills with China as a rehearsal for large-scale conflict ✔ But Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said these exercises were even larger ✔ Russia’s previous military exercise in the region, Vostok-2014, was almost half the size, with 155,000 soldiers participating ✔ Exercises in eastern Europe last year, Zapad-2017, saw 12,700 troops take part, according to Moscow ✔ Ukraine and the Baltic states said the true number was far bigger



International court says it's 'undeterred' by US threats

9/11/2018, 6:04:09 PM
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan rights workers warned Tuesday that a blistering U.S. attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a clim ✔ ISLAMABAD (AP) Afghan rights workers warned Tuesday that a blistering U.S. attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a climate of impunity in Afghanistan, prolong the war and embolden those committing acts of violence ✔ It is the insurgents who are the killers of civilians



The Latest: Iran warns US, UK and France not to attack Syria

9/11/2018, 6:42:52 PM
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local): 21:40 Iran's U.N. ambassador is warning the U.S., Britain and France against using ✔ BEIRUT (AP) The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local): 21:40 Iran's U.N ✔ Khoshroo was addressing a council meeting on last Friday's summit of the presidents of Iran and Russia, allies of the Syrian government, and Turkey, which supports the opposition ✔ He said the three presidents are determined to continue cooperation to eliminate all terrorists



Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens of Afghans Protesting Local Official

9/11/2018, 5:36:36 PM
A particularly deadly suicide attack against a rare political rally in Afghanistan came amid sputtering U.S. peace talks with the Taliban. ✔ Since mid-June, a series of attacks either claimed by Islamic State or believed by Afghan security officials to have carried out by the extremist Sunni Muslim militant organization have rocked Jalalabad ✔ We will kill them in the same manner whenever we get an opportunity, the radio said, according to the monitoring service of the British Broadcasting Corp.



Ethiopia, Eritrea Reopen Border Crossings

9/11/2018, 4:13:56 PM
The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea reopened shared border crossings, restoring direct road transport for the first time in two decades and capping months of whirlwind diplomacy that has thawed a frozen conflict. ✔ Families divided by the conflict will now be able to go and visit each other by crossing the border ✔ Some analysts warn that the radical approach risks upsetting some hard-liners in the system ✔ The prime minister is taking on entrenched interests and making powerful enemies



'Republican' Trump brings in Big Government for war on Big Tech

9/11/2018, 7:15:02 PM
Social media companies are money-grubbing capitalists out to protect their brand. Real Republican Party would have seen the value in that: Our view ✔ He also likes to wrap himself in constitutionalism, arguing that his First Amendment right to peddle sickening fantasies requires tech companies to provide an audience ✔ One by one, social media companies have come to the conclusion that they have no obligation to amplify his voice and that, as a matter of pure self-interest, they should not ✔ If you can't see this reader poll, please refresh your page



Trump seeks Kim summit soon as US elections approach

9/11/2018, 7:15:52 PM
Pyongyang aims for a declaration of the end of the Korean War ✔ The leadership has been seeking another Trump-Kim meeting since Pompeo's last visit in July ✔ Talks with the secretary of state stalled after he pushed hard for movement toward denuclearization, counter to North Korea's expectations ✔ Get unique insights on Asia, the most dynamic market in the world ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th



The Latest: Turkey urges world support for Idlib cease-fire

9/11/2018, 7:08:51 PM
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local): 21:55 p.m. Turkey's U.N. ambassador is urging the international community "to voca ✔ ambassador is urging the international community to vocally and actively support Turkish calls for a complete cease-fire in Syria's last rebel-held stronghold in Idlib province ✔ Sinirlioglu stressed that only a viable cease-fire would allow the creation of an environment to effectively fight terrorism ✔ officials have expressed about a looming battle for Idlib



Washington’s ICC hypocrisy 'without limits,’ US doesn’t care about human rights – analysts to RT

9/11/2018, 5:39:35 PM
Washington’s threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC) are evidence of American hypocrisy, as the US is “continually calling for the heads of others” and doesn’t actually care about human rights, analysts told RT. ✔ What Bolton does care about, however, is protecting the highest level officials of the United States government from investigation and prosecution, Boyle said, while stressing that the national security adviser is not at all concerned with the fate of ordinary servicemen, servicewomen, and CIA agents ✔ It has no respect for law whatsoever, its leadership only respects power...it and its client states in NATO in the Middle East and elsewhere are free to do as they please under their protection



17 years after 9/11, Al-Qaeda rebranded by US government & media as besieged rebels

9/11/2018, 7:07:57 PM
Seventeen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US government and media outlets have decided that Al-Qaeda is now a rebel group worthy of our sympathy. The cynical narrative change is par for the course, experts told RT. ✔ He noted that it's an open secret that the US, UK, France, Saudi Arabia and Gulf states provide direct and indirect support to rebel groups that under normal circumstances would be considered terrorists ✔ Share it with a friend! Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you



Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden tells DMTV how he honors 9/11

9/11/2018, 6:20:38 PM
Rob O'Neill fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid on the al Qaeda leader's hideout in Pakistan. He tells DMTV's Jesse Palmer how he honors 9/11 on the anniversary of the attacks. ✔ The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden has spoken of how the memory of September 11 gave him the courage for the daring 2011 raid on the terrorist leader's compound, which he and his team believed would be their final mission ✔ 'We said it out loud, we knew we were going to die, why are we going



As Idlib offensive looms, Syrians flee to border villages

9/11/2018, 7:22:47 PM
Syrians escaping violence in Idlib have arrived in villages near the Turkish border in droves, fearing Damascus will launch a full-blown assault on the rebel stronghold. ✔ Ankara, which hosts some 3.5 million refugees, has said it could not take any more if an attack on Idlib drove a new surge of people toward its border ✔ President Tayyip Erdogan wrote on Tuesday that an offensive would spark humanitarian and security risks for Turkey, Europe and beyond ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Opinion | It’s time for a coordinated financial response to the Venezuelan exodus

9/11/2018, 5:26:14 PM
We need a substantial source of grants and low-interest loans that governments can use to expand services, speed up processing and gather reliable data on arriving immigrants. ✔ In addition to waiving many traditional visa requirements, the region’s governments have used scarce public resources to provide food and shelter for the Venezuelans, while reassigning thousands of security and health officials to deal with the surge



Monkeypox outbreak fears grow as second case of deadly disease confirmed in UK

9/11/2018, 5:00:19 PM
A SECOND case of monkeypox has been recorded in the UK, health bosses warned today. It is believed the patient contracted the infection while travelling in Nigeria. They first presented at Blackpoo… ✔ Monkeypox has a mortality rate of between one and 10 per cent ✔ We ask that people continue to use our services as normal and that people only come to our emergency department if their condition is serious and/or an emergency ✔ The first human case was diagnosed in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo



Notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary to be released from prison despite remaining 'genuinely dangerous'

9/11/2018, 7:39:04 PM
Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist hate preacher, will be released from jail next month despite a chilling warning from the justice minister that he remained “genuinely dangerous”. ✔ Choudary will likely be tagged and placed in a ‘halfway house’ with restrictions imposed on his use of the internet and on the people he can mix with ✔ But using his legal training and forensic understanding of terrorism legislation he had - until 2016 - always managed to stay just the right side of the law and avoid prosecution



Hurricane Florence: Sporting events impacted by storm

9/11/2018, 6:16:20 PM
Here is a list of some of the key sporting events that could be affected by Hurricane Florence, and where things stand as of Tuesday. ✔ This time-lapsed video shows a NOAA airplane passing through Hurricane Florence near Bermuda ✔ As of early Tuesday afternoon, four Football Bowl Subdivision games have been rescheduled or canceled due to Florence, a Category 4 storm ✔ 12 Carolina League: Potomac (Va.) at Buies Creek (N.C.), 1:05 p.m.  Thursday, Sept ✔ 13 Carolina League: Buies Creek (N.C.) at Potomac (Va.)



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