Yemen war a 'living hell' for children: UNICEF
9/13/2018, 1:08:23 PMIn the malnutrition ward of a hospital in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, doctors weigh toddlers with protruding rib cages and skeletal limbs. ✔ The coalition has imposed stringent measures on imports into Yemen to prevent the Houthis from smuggling weapons but the checks have slowed the flow of commercial goods and vital aid into the country ✔ Parties to the conflict are obliged to do absolutely everything possible to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure and ensure people have access to the aid they are entitled to and need to survive.‘ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Spain to proceed with Saudi bomb deal days after halting it
9/13/2018, 1:22:04 PMMinisters had said €9m sale would be called off over concerns about use in Yemen ✔ Amnesty International and UN experts have criticised arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which is leading the coalition against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, saying they are having a devastating effect on the civilian population ✔ That must have stood out and meant the contract was looked at
Yemen: 300,000 lives hang in the balance, says UN
9/13/2018, 1:08:26 PMFamilies ‘absolutely terrified’ as Saudi-led offensive resumes on port city of Hodeida ✔ The fighting is being led by the Southern al-Amalka 3rd Brigade, commanded by Hamdi Shukri Alsubaihi ✔ A debate in the UK’s House of Commons on Wednesday revealed Conservative MPs were deeply divided over Saudi tactics, and the damage being inflicted on the reputation of the Gulf States due to the war
Trump Is Dead Serious About Attacking Syria and It's All Because He Wants a Fight With Iran
9/13/2018, 12:26:22 PMI doubt we have to worry about Nikki Haley or even her handler/assistant, Jon Lerner. Most of what they can do at the UN is the equivalent of howling from the trees and flinging their poo at people passing by. Now Brian Hook and his Iran Action Group (IAG) may actually be capable of biting. In addition to the IAG, there is another dangerous beast, James Jeffrey, the State Department’s special representative for Syria. ✔ I doubt we have to worry about Nikki Haley or even her handler/assistant, Jon Lerner ✔ Most of what they can do at the UN is the equivalent of howling from the trees and flinging their poo at people passing by ✔ That means we are not in a hurry, Jeffrey said, adding that he was confident Trump supports what he called a more active approach in Syria
We are due a recession in 2020 – and we will lack the tools to fight it | Nouriel Roubini
9/13/2018, 2:22:32 PMConditions will soon be ripe for a financial crisis, but governments will have their hands tied ✔ As we mark the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, there are still ongoing debates about the causes and consequences of the financial crisis, and whether the lessons needed to prepare for the next one have been absorbed ✔ And high-yield credit is also becoming increasingly expensive now that the US corporate-leverage rate has reached historic highs
Republican chairman says U.S. should do more to hold Russia...
9/13/2018, 2:20:56 PMThe Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Thursday the United States should be doing more to hold Russia accountable for "aggressive acts." ✔ Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to strengthen election security, just eight weeks before the Nov. 6 congressional election, by slapping sanctions on foreign countries or people who try to interfere in U.S. votes ✔ When our messages are confusing or contradictory, we shouldn’t be surprised when others, like Beijing, reportedly resume importing North Korean coal ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Putin watches as Russian and Chinese tanks tear up fields and choppers fill sky
9/13/2018, 1:10:32 PMVLADIMIR Putin today vowed to strengthen his mighty army and supply it with even more weapons as he watched Russia’s biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union. The Vostok 2018 dril… ✔ He declared: Imagine 36,000 military vehicles moving at the same time: tanks, armoured personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles - and all of this, of course, in conditions as close to a combat situation as possible ✔ Halted motorists filmed the amazing scenes as they got a grandstand view for the military exercise close to the Chinese border in the Russian Far East
Thursday Morning Briefing
9/13/2018, 12:47:11 PMGood morning. Hurriance Florence creeps closer toward the East Coast, China welcomes a U.S. invitation for trade talks and global trade hopes lift shares. ✔ REUTERS/Ajay Verma HIGHLIGHTS Hurricane Florence crept closer to the U.S. East Coast, packing tropical storm-force winds across hundreds of miles that threaten the region with potentially catastrophic flooding and torrential rain ✔ WORLD My thought sitting there was that it was a show fit for a god, a tourist told Reuters as he watched the Mass Games in Pyongyang ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Air strike warning app helps Syrians dodge death from the skies
9/13/2018, 3:21:26 PMA Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4.47 pm from Russia's air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east. ✔ Before, whenever there was bombardment, we wouldn’t have knowledge of a strike until the wounded reach us, said Yousef, a 23-year old nurse in a field hospital outside Aleppo ✔ This dispatches messages on channels like Telegram, sometimes with time-stamped warnings for specific towns and villages ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Stowaways and Usain Bolt: Thursday's best photos
9/13/2018, 2:10:20 PMThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you photo highlights from around the world ✔ The Hong Kong observatory has warned residents to prepare for Typhoon Mangkhut, saying it posed a considerable threat Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images Ouistreham, France Migrants try to board a truck in the hope of reaching the UK
Perspective | Is it possible to be a penitent pundit?
9/13/2018, 12:14:04 PMPunditry and atonement are hard to combine. ✔ In the past year I have been stiff-necked and stubborn in my criticisms of the Trump administration and some members of Trump’s family and Donald Trump in particular and populists in general ✔ May your names be inscribed in the Book of Life for the year to come
Turkey works with Russia on Idlib amid lull in air strikes
9/13/2018, 3:28:05 PMTurkey has said it is working with Russia and Iran to stabilize Syria's rebel-held Idlib region, indicating continued efforts to avoid a Syrian government offensive in the area, where Ankara failed to secure a ceasefire last week. ✔ Russian and Syrian warplanes launched waves of air strikes in the northwest last week, killing dozens and uprooting tens of thousands ✔ For the past three days things have been calm, said Abdel Razzaq, a monitor for the Sentry warning service, which operates in opposition-held parts of Syria ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Russia Is Working Overtime to Beef up Syria's Air Defenses
9/13/2018, 1:38:56 PMAs I wrote in Russia As A Cat, Russia will continue to "eat chicken" at her own pace ignoring angry monologues from "democratic world" and will continue extermination of unicorns and humanitarian terrorists in Idlib apace. The process continued today with new airstrikes against those "rebels". ✔ Thus, according to the ministry, militants were planning to simulate the use of chemical weapons against civilians by Syrian government troops to furnish the United States, the United Kingdom and France with a pretext to deliver an airstrike on Syriangovernment and economic facilities
Russians in UK spy case say they wanted to see cathedral; Britain...
9/13/2018, 12:33:51 PMTwo Russians resembling men Britain accuses of jetting to England to murder a former spy said on Thursday that they were innocent tourists who had flown to London for fun and visited the city of Salisbury to see its cathedral. ✔ Britain and dozens of other countries have kicked out scores of Russian diplomats over the incident, and Moscow has responded tit-for-tat in the biggest East-West wave of expulsions since the Cold War ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Corbyn adviser without parliamentary pass and his links to Hezbollah
9/13/2018, 1:22:47 PMAndrew Murray, 60, Jeremy Corbyn's special adviser, who has worked in Parliament for months without a pass, has called for the defeat of Nato and shown solidarity with a Hezbollah terror chief ✔ Jeremy Corbyn's aide who worked for months in Parliament without security clearance called for Nato be 'defeated' and has been linked to a terror group, MailOnline can reveal ✔ His Private Secretary, Iram Awan, a British-born pro-Palestinian activist was not granted full security passes but continued to work for the Labour leader in Parliament for nine months using a visitor's pass
China holds one million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps
9/13/2018, 12:48:37 PMThe world's next major human disaster is in the making in China. This time, we should act before it's too late. ✔ This ban was accompanied, according to Human Rights Watch, by routine state vetting of Uighur imams, close surveillance of mosques, the removal of religious teachers and students from schools, restrictions placed on Uighur Muslims to communicate with family or friends living overseas, and the screening of literature assigned to students in schools in Xinjiang
Threats to Freedom: Facebook’s Atlantic Council censors are more interested in tanks than thinking
9/13/2018, 3:22:13 PMLike all foreign policy and military think tanks, the Atlantic Council exists to manufacture consent for the goals of its paymasters. It hit the jackpot when the world’s largest social media network put it in charge of censorship. ✔ At the time, after Nimmo, instead of apologising, wrote interesting to see the real face of Ian56789, rather than the David Gandy one, at last (referring to his Twitter avatar) ✔ Put plainly, this amounts to a merger of the US national security state and Silicon Valley
Oil production at risk as violent protests rock Iraq's Basra province
9/13/2018, 2:32:14 PMAs home to most of the oil production facilities for OPEC's second-largest producer, Basra in crisis could have a material impact on oil output and prices, analysts say. ✔ Helima Croft tells you what to watch in oil 7:36 AM ET Mon, 10 Sept 2018 | 03:44 But this year's unrest comes at a particularly vulnerable time for the country, just a few months after its May 12 election failed to produce a clear winner and less than a year after the end of its long and bloody battle against the Islamic State
Analysis | The Daily 202: Preexisting conditions take center stage in Democratic attack ads
9/13/2018, 1:35:42 PMPolls show why GOP candidates are changing their tune on health care. ✔ A new ad from Stronger Michigan attacks Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Schuette on preexisting conditions ✔ (Evan Vucci/AP) THE AGENDA: -- The Senate passed a bipartisan spending package, marking a major step forward in avoiding a government shutdown
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