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War Countries - SERIES 125 {11 articles}

South Sudan’s latest peace deal faces early test

9/15/2018, 11:02:45 AM
undefined ✔ Mr Ahmed, 41, reached his own historic peace deal with neighbouring Eritrea last month and is encouraging peace and greater economic integration in the Horn of Africa, a region plagued by conflict and insecurity for the last two decades ✔ Even before then it had taken eight months for Mr Machar to return to Juba to resume his role as vice-president after the deal was signed


Moon faces toughest challenge yet in third summit with Kim

9/15/2018, 9:23:49 AM
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are scheduled to hold a third summit next week in Pyongyang. ✔ These projects are held back by the sanctions against North Korea ✔ The process can't have anything to do with a plan to denuclearize unilaterally ✔ A failure to get something more specific out of Kim could cause the diplomatic efforts to lose much of their force


RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP - September 13, 2018

9/15/2018, 8:14:39 AM
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? PCR asks. Martyanov and Saker answer. PCR responds. More,  ✔ If you wish wider war, Bolton has put you on the right path ✔ OPCW Report Destruction of declared Syrian chemical weapons completed 4 Jan 2016 ✔ As wannabe Russian poisoning cases pop up, remember Karinna Moskalenko ✔ The leader was killed in an indiscriminate restaurant bombing


Happy Birthday Prince Harry! All we know about the Duke of Sussex - age, height, wedding

9/15/2018, 9:55:13 AM
HAPPY Birthday, Prince Harry! Today is the Duke of Sussex’s 34th birthday, so here is everything we know about His Royal Highness. ✔ Sports featured include wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and indoor rowing ✔ However, he has ever since been involved with the armed forces through his founding of the Invictus Games, as well as with honorary military appointments and other official engagements


Putin flexes military muscles with Russian drills on the Sea of Japan

9/15/2018, 9:56:14 AM
Some 300,000 troops, more than 1,000 military aircraft and two naval fleets are taking part in the Vostok-2018 drills in Siberia and waters off Russia's east coast. ✔ Moscow showed off its military might today as Russian warships, tanks, planes and helicopters staged a mock invasion on a beach in the Kremlin's largest military drills since the fall of the Soviet Union ✔ Scores of paratroopers were seen leaping from a plane and descending from helicopters by ropes in the eastern Siberian territory of Zabaikalsk


Syrians caught between regime and rebels as Idlib offensive looms

9/15/2018, 11:03:45 AM
As a large-scale military campaign in Syria's last rebel stronghold looms, Syrians on both sides of the divide are bracing for a bloody battle. ✔ The hilltop artillery position in northwestern Hama held a cannon, weathered tanks and AK-47s ✔ CNN's Tamara Qiblawi, Frederik Pleitgen and Claudia Otto reported from northwestern Syria, Ben Wedeman reported from Beirut, Lebanon, Waffa Munayyer reported from Atlanta and Kareem Kadder reported from Amman, Jordan


'Idiotic' Ranger Rover driver goes wrong way down motorway hard shoulder

9/15/2018, 9:21:42 AM
Drivers were stuck on the motorway after five vehicles collided and one transporting cows overturned ✔ As a lorry driver you see some stupid things on the roads but this was another level ✔ Read More Top Stories from Mirror Online Hurricane Helene heading to UK Inside Kim's North Korea Terror victim's boyfriend's agony Spray-painted homeless man dies The hard shoulder is there for emergency services ✔ Driving the wrong way on a motorway is an offence in itself


Strangers, lovers and Rihanna in repose: Deana Lawson's intimate portraits

9/15/2018, 8:29:19 AM
From superstars to people in the street, the photographer captures black bodies in all their strength and vulnerability ✔ While her subjects frequently look into the camera, their bodies are more often side on, as if recently engaged in something else ✔ If you would like your comment to be considered for inclusion on Weekend magazine’s letters page in print, please email weekend@theguardian.com, including your name and address (not for publication)


Prince Harry birthday in pictures: ICONIC photos of royal growing up

9/15/2018, 9:16:12 AM
PRINCE Harry today turns 34, so what better time to take a look back at how the Duke of Sussez has celebrated previous milestones. ✔ DEBUT: Prince Harry is held in Princess Diana's arms outside Paddington's Lindo Wing (Image: PA Images) BABY: By the age of one, Prince Harry had mastered the art of crawling (Image: Tim Graham/Getty Images) NURSERY: Harry waves to waiting photographers at Mrs Jane Mynors nursery school (Image: GettyImages) ROYAL: Harry learns to ski on the slopes of Lech, Austria (Image: Getty Images) The nation wept when they saw the 12-year-old walk outside Westminster Abbey during the funeral service alongside the The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince William, Earl Spencer and Prince Charles He turned 18 and marked it both with a visit to West Ham United's Upton Park, where he was presented with personalised jersey, and also with a visit to Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he was photographed with 11-year-old leukaemia patient, Samantha Ledster


Refugees stranded in Bosnia report campaign of police brutality

9/15/2018, 11:13:36 AM
Croatian officers accused of physical and verbal abuse, along with harassment including theft, but deny all allegations. ✔ Shams, who worked as a lawyer in Syria, said Croatian policemen strip-searched her and her 13-year-old daughter Rahma on one occasion after they were arrested ✔ The information board at the camp in Velika Kladusa warns migrants of the dangers they face in the forests - mines and bears [Mersiha Gadzo/Al Jazeera] ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mersiha Gadzo Mersiha Gadzo is a journalist and online producer for Al Jazeera English


Graduate had no idea she was pregnant until two months before due date

9/15/2018, 10:06:55 AM
Zasha Whiteway-Wilkinson, 24, felt like she was "drowning" when a doctor told her she was pregnant ✔ Looking at that scan made the whole surreal experience very, very real ✔ There was my baby, my unwanted, unexpected, unbelievable little human baby ✔ It could happen to anyone, and rather than judgement or opinions, all they really need is a cup of tea and a cuddle


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