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Perspective | Russia is advancing on Ukraine again — and Ukraine isn’t going quietly

9/13/2018, 10:56:35 PM
President Petro Poroshenko tells the Post how he wants the war to end. ✔ By Lally Weymouth Lally Weymouth is a senior associate editor for The Washington Post ✔ Look, if anybody says they can do more in one year, I want to see it ✔ And the scale, the volume, the size of this intervention is much bigger than ✔ A: To undermine the stability and to change its course



As U.S.-backed forces renew Yemen offensive, U.N. warns of ‘incalculable human cost’

9/13/2018, 9:51:32 PM
Days after the collapse of peace talks, fighting has erupted again over the strategic port city of Hodeida. ✔ He and other residents said that the city was suffering shortages of food and medicine and that the rebels were patrolling the streets ✔ In the last six weeks alone, houses, farms, livestock, businesses, roads, a water facility and a flour mill have all been hit



Spain to ‘honor’ sale of 400 bombs to Saudi Arabia despite halting it over rights groups outcry

9/13/2018, 8:53:40 PM
Just about a week after halting a bombs’ sale to Riyadh following a widespread indignation over Saudi Arabia’s indiscriminate bombing in Yemen, the Spanish government said it would still go ahead with the deal. ✔ We found no reason not to carry it out, Borrell said ✔ The UN report also found that the coalition regularly failed to use its own no-strike list when selecting targets ✔ Spain is the fourth-largest arms seller to the Saudi kingdom, behind the US, the UK, and France



Putin attends Russia-China war games amid tensions with U.S.

9/13/2018, 11:34:02 PM
TSUGOL FIRING RANGE, Russia--President Vladimir Putin on Thursday attended Russia's biggest-ever war ✔ TSUGOL FIRING RANGE, Russia--President Vladimir Putin on Thursday attended Russia's biggest-ever war games, which involved some 300,000 troops as well as a significant contingent of Chinese forces ✔ The Chinese media have described the People's Liberation Army involvement in the drills as the country's largest-ever dispatch of forces abroad for war games



Watch out Kim! South Korea agrees BILLION DOLLAR military deal with US

9/13/2018, 10:24:37 PM
THE US State Department has approved military sales worth up to $2.6 (£1.98) billion to South Korea, as North Korea shows no sign of living up to its pledge to denuclearise. ✔ Mr Trump announced this week that he still thought North Korea had taken some steps, and that he would most likely meet again with the dictator ✔ The document committed the two countries to a nuclear-free peninsula and talks to bring a formal end to the Korean War



Ex-Disney Princess Lied to Police Hoping to Help Actor Fiancé Get Away with Double-Murder

9/13/2018, 8:52:49 PM
Rachel Buffett was found guilty of two counts of being an accessory after the fact in the murders of Afghanistan veteran Sam Herr, 26, and 23-year-old Juri “Julie” Kibuishi ✔ Just hours after Herr’s killing, Wozniak performed as the lead in the local play  Nine  at the Hunger Artists Theatre Company in Fullerton, California ✔ Medina, Buffett’s attorney, did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment and it was not clear if Buffett intends to appeal



Islamist extremism caused 84,000 deaths worldwide in 2017, new report says

9/13/2018, 10:32:36 PM
In 2017, there were a total of 7,841 attacks – an average of 21 per day –in 48 countries, according to the "Global Extremist Monitor," produced by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change ✔ Blair, who was Britain's prime minister at the time of the September 11 attacks, and under whose leadership the country engaged alongside the U.S. in the Iraq war, called on the international community to rely less on security measures and more on soft power and development initiatives to combat violent extremism



Russia may be telling 'true lies' about its 'unprecedented' war games with China — and it wouldn't be the first time

9/13/2018, 10:24:51 PM
Russia has touted this week's Vostok-18 exercise as "unprecedented in scale." And while it's no doubt big, Moscow may be using old tricks to inflate the numbers for political purposes at home and abroad. ✔ REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk The stated total 297,000, to be precise likely includes all units stationed in the Central and Eastern military districts, as well as those in the Northern and Eastern Fleets and in the airborne units that are taking part



Dying daughter left without pain medication as mom took the meds for herself, police say

9/13/2018, 11:52:36 PM
A Missouri woman failed to give her dying daughter pain medications and instead took the meds herself, according the Troy Police Department. ✔ Thousands of people suffer from encephalitis, malaria, typhoid and other mosquito-borne diseases each year during the summer monsoon ✔ Rajesh Kumar Singh, AP Fullscreen Chinese troops parade during military exercises on training ground Tsugol, about 156 miles south-east of the city of Chita during the military exercises Vostok 2018 in Eastern Siberia, Russia, Thursday, Sept ✔ You may also want to view these photo galleries: Replay Last SlideNext Slide



Watch North Korea's 'Greatest Show on Earth', the Mass Games

9/13/2018, 9:34:14 PM
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Places streak overhead, soldiers' boots slam the ground and 300,000 people roar with devotion difficult to comprehend, as our exclusive video reveals ✔ There’s nothing like a few generations of dictatorship to get everyone dancing and marching in unison ✔ The parade of 300,000 people roaring a war cry, the sound of soldiers’ boots smashing into the ground, the planes overhead; it sent shivers down my spine ✔ More than 110,000 acrobats, gymnasts and dancers, four and five-year-olds riding unicycles, all in perfect harmony



Kurdish YPG militia may aid Syrian government in Idlib operation:...

9/13/2018, 10:45:08 PM
Turkey's foreign minister said in a letter to New York Times editors publis... ✔ Ankara has repeatedly expressed its anger over the U.S. support for the YPG ✔ Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with the leaders of Iran and Russia last week in Tehran, but failed to win a ceasefire pledge ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



10 titles in the running for the National Book Award for nonfiction are announced

9/13/2018, 11:30:29 PM
Carol Anderson, David Quammen and Adam Winkler are among the 10 authors whose books have been longlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction. ✔ The longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction was announced on Wednesday, with books on history and social issues making up the bulk of the nominations ✔ Stewart's The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke and Victoria Johnson's American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic



US and China seek new opening on trade as tensions mount

9/13/2018, 9:33:22 PM
Shrinking room for retaliation pushes Beijing back to the table ✔ This third round and the previous two would together affect $250 billion -- around half -- of China's annual exports to the U.S., and would inevitably have a severe impact on global supply chains ✔ Beijing has said it will retaliate against Washington's third round with duties on $60 billion in American products ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th



Eight days inside the world’s most secretive nation

9/13/2018, 8:26:10 PM
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: This report is the first in a series by The Mirror's Chief Investigative Reporter and photographer Rowan Griffiths ✔ He said: The Supreme leader will never do anything that reduces our position when the threat against us is continual ✔ The Pyongyang parade involving 300,000 military and civilians was followed by a Mass Games in the world’s largest stadium featuring 100,000 performers, many of them children ✔ The building has cost an estimated £500million to construct but it is just a mere shell



Russians in UK spy case say they wanted to see cathedral; Britain calls it lies

9/13/2018, 10:23:31 PM
Two Russians resembling men Britain accuses of jetting to England to try 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 said it was clear the two men,… ✔ They visited Salisbury twice by train on day trips -- on the Saturday for reconnaissance and on the Sunday to poison Skripal ✔ It could be a way of signalling defiance to the UK government, effectively saying, 'There’s nothing you can do about this', he said ✔ Britain charged two Russians with his murder but both remain in Russia, and one later won a seat in parliament



Worst serial killers in the world - the most prolific murderers and their crimes

9/13/2018, 10:51:56 PM
The most prolific modern serial killer is Harold Shipman, with 218 proven kills - we take a look at the modern serial killers as Doctor Death airs on ITV ✔ 'Doctor Death' who murdered hundreds of vulnerable patients over two decades 'would inject heroin into his penis' to get high Alexander Pichushkin Alexander Pichushkin (Image: Getty) 1992-2006 Russia Proven victims: 48 Pichushkin was known as the Chessboard Killer, because he wanted to kill 64 people, which is the number of squares on a chessboard



RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: If Anjem Choudary is 'dangerous' keep him in jail 

9/13/2018, 11:18:31 PM
Prisons minister Rory Stewart insists that Ram Jam remains a ‘deeply pernicious, destabilising influence’ but says the UK authorities are powerless to prevent him being let out on licence. ✔ Last year, a sentencing review recommended tougher penalties for a range of terrorism offences ✔ Over the weekend, the NHS said it had only a limited supply of winter flu vaccines for the over-65s ✔ How long before Labour and the unions start warning that because of Tory spending cuts Britain is facing an epidemic of Camel Flu and Monkeypox



Thailand's slave fishermen: What's needed to solve the crisis?

9/13/2018, 8:54:06 PM
The government favours technological solutions, but workers say collective action is essential to stopping abuse. ✔ The 40-year-old, from Thailand's central Phetchaburi province, went to see a boat owner in Samut Song Kram Province, whch straddles the Gulf of Thailand, and was hired quickly ✔ In 2017, trawler owners have had to ensure, by law, that there is adequate communications technology on every ship and to allow all workers to freely contact families while on board ✔ The solution is that the workers have to have power



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