US to bomb Syria to protect Al-Qaeda? Tucker Carlson marvels at Washington’s Idlib logic (VIDEO)
9/14/2018, 11:55:32 AMWashington’s threats to take military action to deter a Syrian assault on Al-Qaeda-held Idlib province has prompted Fox News host Tucker Carlson to ask the obvious question: Why would the US bomb a country to protect terrorists? ✔ #Syriapic.twitter.com/ciz6IV9v3f Walid (@walid970721) September 13, 2018 His sentiments echo a similar observation made by Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who marked the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by pointing out the troubling double standard on display by the Trump administration ✔ I’ll never reconcile how the biggest post-9/11 hawks turned into the biggest boosters of the jihad in Syria, professor Max Abrahms noted in his own tweet marking the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon
A Third Attack on Syria Would Be Just as Illegal as the Last Two
9/14/2018, 10:31:42 AMThe Trump administration is once again threatening to launch an illegal attack against the Syrian government: ✔ One of these times they are going to be wrong about that, and the U.S. will find itself stumbling into a bigger conflict than it bargained for ✔ There is likewise no justification for committing acts of war against the Syrian government when it is completely unrelated to self-defense
Picking leaves from a vine, Yemenis try to stave off famine
9/14/2018, 11:07:42 AMCAIRO (AP) — In a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves of a local vine, boiled into a sour, acidic green paste. ✔ CAIRO (AP) In a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves of a local vine, boiled into a sour, acidic green paste ✔ Under heavy pressure from Houthi authorities, international agencies like WFP and UNICEF and their Yemeni partners are required to use lists of needy provided by local officials
Putin watches as Russian and Chinese tanks tear up fields and choppers fill sky
9/14/2018, 8:16:46 AMVLADIMIR 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
Koreas Expand Cooperation by Opening Liaison Office as U.S. Talks Stall
9/14/2018, 9:15:12 AMNorth and South Korea opened a liaison office north of the demilitarized zone on Friday, an unprecedented step for political cooperation between the sides that comes as talks between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled. ✔ As a detente on the peninsula blossomed this year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in has pushed for increased economic cooperation with the North to advance relations, ease military tensions and establish a permanent peace ✔ Despite on-and-off talks between the Koreas over the years, neither side has formally recognized the other
At summit, Moon seeks to play ‘chief negotiator’ for Kim-Trump talks
9/14/2018, 8:51:16 AMSEOUL--Next week's inter-Korean summit will test whether South Korean President Moon Jae-in can pull ✔ Trump last week asked Moon to act as chief negotiator between Washington and Pyongyang, according to Moon's spokesman, after Trump canceled a visit to Pyongyang by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month ✔ U.S. officials say they have already made their own conciliatory gestures, including halting joint military exercises with South Korea ✔ How will President Trump feel if South Korea is responsible for undermining his campaign
F-4 jets rehearse for Incheon Landing Operation event
9/14/2018, 8:13:05 AMundefined ✔ The South Korean Air Force's F-4 fighter jets fly during a rehearsal for the 68th anniversary of the Incheon Landing Operation, above Wolmi Island, Incheon, Friday ✔ The event, scheduled to take place on Saturday, is to celebrate one of the famous operations commanded by U.S. Gen
Jeju grants humanitarian stay permit to 23 Yemenis
9/14/2018, 9:24:49 AMundefined ✔ Asylum seekers can acquire refugee status if they are under oppression for their race, religion, nationality, political stance or position in a particular social group ✔ However, it has decided to grant humanitarian stay permits and temporary protection status to 1,250 Yemenis considering the civil war going on in their country
Turkey is working to reach ceasefire in Syria's Idlib: foreign...
9/14/2018, 8:35:37 AMTurkey is working to achieve a ceasefire in Syria's rebel-held northwest an... ✔ REUTERS/Umit Bektas Speaking at a joint news conference with his Pakistani counterpart, Cavusoglu said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the topic of Syria on Monday ✔ Erdogan met with the leaders of Iran and Russia last week in Tehran to discuss Syria, but failed to win a ceasefire pledge ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
10 Things to Know for Today
9/14/2018, 10:18:01 AMYour daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. FLORENCE'S OCEANWATER, FRESH WATER SURGES THREATEN CAROLINAS ✔ Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1 ✔ Few places in South Carolina are more worried about the possibility of disastrous inland flooding from Hurricane Florence’s heavy rain than the town of Nichols
Analysis | John Bolton attacked the ICC. Cooperating with it might be a better way to protect U.S. interests.
9/14/2018, 10:21:38 AMPowerful governments can guide international institutions as stakeholders. ✔ That means the court can investigate only when a nation’s own authorities are unable or unwilling to do so ✔ That makes it legally difficult to target the personnel or citizens of democratic countries with well-established rules of law, such as the U.S. legal system or the Uniform Military Code of Justice ✔ Stephen Chaudoin ( @ StephenChaudoin) is assistant professor in the department of government at Harvard University
Dozens trapped on roofs and in attics as Hurricane Florence floods homes
9/14/2018, 9:15:07 AMFamilies trapped in or on top of their homes have posted urgent pleas on social media as rescue teams go from home to home in a race against time and rising floodwaters ✔ Locals residents and volunteers joined the rescue, asking people who were trapped or whose loved ones were trapped to call them or message them on social media and tell them where to go ✔ Forecasters had warned that the storm surge and inland flooding could prove to be deadly
Taboo-breaking documentary films the moment of death
9/14/2018, 9:15:09 AMThe moment of death has been filmed by director, Steven Eastwood, in his new documentary Island, which shows hospice patients confronting their final days ✔ The nurses gently wash the former London bus depot manager's face and comb his hair ✔ She knows I'm going to die, she's knows I'm going to heaven ✔ Roy Howard died in December 2015; Alan Hardy died in April 2016; Jamie Gunnell died in July 2016; and Mary Chessell died in September 2016
Cynthia Nixon, Michelle Obama, Stormy Daniels: Broadsheet September 14
9/14/2018, 11:15:03 AMThe Broadsheet for Sept. 14 ✔ In a well-timed bit of research (we New Yorkers were at the polls yesterdaymore on the outcome below), polling firm Morning Consult asks: What makes an ideal candidate ✔ Increased spending at the Pentagonand Boeing’s recent win of an $805 million deal to build refueling drones for aircraft carriersis behind the boost ✔ - Rihanna, before her Savage x Fenty show at New York Fashion Week
Bezos Philanthropy, Goldman Team, Takeda Approval: CEO Daily for September 14, 2018
9/14/2018, 9:37:32 AMMust-read business news, delivered every morning. ✔ Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and President Trump over who’s smartest, you can read it here ✔ Investment Banking Division co-chief John Waldron will be president and COO, and Stephen Scherr, global head of the Financing Group, will become financial chief ✔ Find previous editions here, and sign up for other Fortune newsletters here
Russian ‘spies arrested on way to Swiss lab testing Salisbury novichok’
9/14/2018, 9:28:26 AMTWO Russian spies were arrested while on their way to break into a laboratory testing nerve agent samples from the Salisbury attack, it’s been reported today. The two suspects – who ar… ✔ Yesterday we told how the suspected Russian assassins wanted over the Novichok poisoning claimed they visited Salisbury to see Stonehenge as tourists in a bizarre interview ✔ In an escalating war of words, Russia claims the moves are to prepare the British public for aggressive measures against its country
Photos of Britain that prove just how dramatic its landscape is
9/14/2018, 11:21:44 AMPhotos of Britain that prove just how dramatic its landscape is ✔ It's easy to forget, from the ground, just how varied and impressive our great kingdom is - but these images serve as a good reminder ✔ It comprises 1,000 hawthorn trees, and for obvious reasons, is best admired from the air ✔ Telegraph Travel's Caroline Shearing headed there in June to volunteer with the clean up, and wrote about what she found
Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: Lawmakers want intelligence chiefs to help counter threat from doctored videos
9/14/2018, 11:35:24 AMThere's no easy way to rein in deepfakes through legislation. ✔ (Jeff Chiu/AP) PATCHED: A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Thursday expressed serious concerns in a letter to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai over reports that the company is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China
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Stop calling Facebook’s effort to fix itself an "arms race"
9/14/2018, 10:05:29 AMHow Facebook flattered itself with an election-security report card ✔ Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy ✔ At a rally, Mr. Trump can vary his tone, playing off the audience and its response his voice rising into outrage and dropping into cutting asides
Keeneland Yearling Sale: Buyers seek next Justify
9/14/2018, 8:36:55 AMIt's known as the "Superbowl" of horse sales, but instead of helmeted hardmen it is royals and millionaires who lock horns at Keeneland to snap up the next Triple Crown winner. ✔ More than $300M is expected to be turned over at Keeneland during the 13-day yearling sale ✔ For six races as a two-year-old, his handicap of 130 pounds was one of the heaviest ever carried ✔ Visit CNN.com/horseracing for more news, features and videos ✔ It's created another element of reach into folks as a possible investment
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