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U.N. Cites New Evidence That North Korea Is Violating Sanctions

9/15/2018, 5:33:57 PM
North Korea is poking significant holes in global economic sanctions, according to a new United Nations report that cites fresh evidence of illicit arms sales, disguised fuel shipments and outlawed financial dealings. ✔ Yet there are some signs the pressure is now less acute ✔ Financial sanctions remain some of the most poorly implemented and actively evaded measures of the sanctions regime, the report says, with agents operating in at least five countries with seeming impunity


Vostok 2018: Russia ‘rehearses for large-scale conflict' with Sea of Japan ‘INVASION’

9/15/2018, 4:27:55 PM
MOSCOW is continuing to flex its military muscles, with Russian warships, tanks, planes and helicopters taking part in the nation’s largest-ever military war games since the fall of the Soviet Union. ✔ AFP/Getty Images FIREPOWER: Russian military forces storm the Sea of Japan's coast (Pic: AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images KILLING MACHINES: Two Russian soldiers take a pause during the Vostok 2018 (Pic: AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images MILITARY: A Russian sniper take aim (Pic: AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images INVASION: Russian soldiers look at the landing site (Pic: AFP/Getty Images) Scores of paratroopers were seen leaping from a plane and descending from helicopters by ropes in the eastern Siberian territory of Zabaikalsk


Yemen Houthis fire missile into Saudi Arabia's Jizan province:...

9/15/2018, 7:53:01 PM
Houthi forces fighting a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen have fired a miss... ✔ There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties ✔ The Houthis say their missile attacks on the kingdom are in retaliation for air raids on Yemen by the Western-backed coalition, which entered Yemen’s war in 2015 to try to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi ✔ Hadi was ousted from the capital Sanaa by the Houthis in 2015 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Russian Orthodox Church cuts ties with Constantinople Patriarch in bitter row over Ukraine

9/15/2018, 5:21:13 PM
Russia’s Orthodox church has announced it will cut ties with the head of the church in Constantinople in a bitter row over plans to recognise a rival branch in the pro-Western portion of Ukraine. ✔ The split has deepened following the Russian annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of a separatist uprising in Ukraine's east in 2014 ✔ Of course for Moscow and indeed for the entire Orthodox world the single preferable scenario is the preservation of unity of this Orthodox world, said a Kremlin spokesman


Russia stages mock invasion of the Sea of Japan during joint war games with China panicking Tokyo

9/15/2018, 5:15:31 PM
VLADIMIR Putin today showed off Russia’s awesome military might by staging a mock invasion of the Sea of Japan. The vast war game – run in partnership with the Chinese Army – was … ✔ AP:Associated Press 12 The exercise sparked fury in Tokyo TASS / Barcroft Media 12 Tanks and landing craft were seen swarming the shore at Klerka training ground AFP or licensors 12 Some 300,000 troops joined more than a thousand military aircraft for the Vostok-2018 drills off Russia's east coast AP:Associated Press 12 NATO has vowed to monitor the exercise closely amid renewed tensions with Moscow AFP or licensors 12 The drills are thought to be the largest since 1981 Getty - Contributor 12 They were dubbed 'Vostok-18' Getty - Contributor 12 Russian fleet also deployed several frigates equipped with Kalibr missiles - just like those used in Syria AFP or licensors 12 The excercise involved a simulated invasion of The Sea of Japan AFP or licensors 12 It was condemned by NATO spokesman Dylan White AFP or licensors 12 Thousands of tanks were involved in the massive operation Getty - Contributor 12 The Russian troops were joined by 3,500 Chinese soldiers The drills were finished by a spectacular display of Buk and S-300 surface-to-air missiles


Indian vice president brands English language a 'disease'

9/15/2018, 6:15:01 PM
Venkaiah Naidu shot down the use of the English language to promote Hindi as mother tongue instead ✔ India's vice president has labelled the English language a disease left behind by British coloniers ✔ That’s why one should speak in one’s mother tongue at home, the Vice President said ✔ He acknowledged that all Indian languages are vibrant and called for literary text in regional languages to be translated into Hindi


China’s pitiless war on Muslim Uighurs poses a dilemma for the west

9/15/2018, 4:43:11 PM
Europe seeks a ‘golden era’ of trade and investment with a country that is holding a million people in ‘re-education’ camps ✔ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Beijing was taken by surprise ✔ European countries seek a golden era of trade, investment and new markets, exemplified by Theresa May’s Beijing visit in February ✔ Its UN security council veto protects it from meaningful censure ✔ But who among western leaders will admit that the price of doing business is too high


Facebook is hiring a human rights policy director

9/15/2018, 6:37:41 PM
The new leader will help promote peace and make the social network a better supporter of human rights. ✔ Six organizations blasted the social site for taking over a year to respond to misinformation that helped fuel the genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar -- the company doesn't want to be put in that position again ✔ It's simultaneously an acknowledgment that Facebook's efforts to curb fake news and propaganda won't just affect election results ✔ https://t.co/vgetonFEzz Sara Su (@sarasous) September 14, 2018


Ex-Brit soldier who fought ISIS jailed in Turkey for seven-and-a-half years

9/15/2018, 5:07:55 PM
AN ex-British Army soldier who fought against the ISIS terror group in Syria has been jailed for nearly eight years in Turkey. Joe Robinson, 25, was arrested on holiday accused of fighting the deat… ✔ Facebook 5 The former British squaddie was arrested as he relaxed on a beach with his girlfriend and her mum Facebook 5 Robinson, far left, fought alongside the YPG against ISIS extremists in Syria Facebook 5 The Accrington-born soldier felt he had to fight the terror maniacs Rojkan was given a suspended sentence, the BBC reported Robinson's mother as saying


South Korea's Moon faces tough challenge in 3rd summit with Kim Jong Un

9/15/2018, 5:56:46 PM
Negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have sputtered in recent weeks, putting pressure on Moon to broker progress ✔ The first inter-Korean summit of 2018, a sunny spectacle in late April, reduced war fears on the peninsula ✔ These projects are held back by the sanctions against North Korea ✔ The fighting stopped with an armistice that has left the peninsula technically at war ✔ The process can't have anything to do with a plan to denuclearize unilaterally


DARPA helped create the internet, Siri and drones. Here's what they're working on now

9/15/2018, 5:32:00 PM
The agency is also developing drones that can navigate on their own ✔ Today, American soldiers must be inches away to identify a chemical warfare agent or a homemade bomb ✔ By next year, they'll be able to do that from as far as 100 feet away ✔ We're driven by crazy, that's for sure, Fischer said ✔ We're being challenged, no question, in certain areas


Here's how Paul Manafort might be helpful to the Russia investigation

9/15/2018, 4:11:28 PM
Paul Manafort has worn many hats: an international political operative, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Trump confidant Roger Stone's business partner and now government witness. ✔ Stone claimed in 2016 to have a back channel to WikiLeaks and seemed to predict some of the email dumps that roiled the final stretch of the presidential campaign and damaged Clinton ✔ If Papadopoulos did in fact tell the campaign about the emails -- which Manafort might know -- it would undercut all the denials


Manafort plea deal raises key question: What does he know?

9/15/2018, 5:38:56 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Trump associates folded one by one over the last year under the pressure of federal investigators, there was always Paul Manafort. Until suddenl ✔ WASHINGTON (AP) As Trump associates folded one by one over the last year under the pressure of federal investigators, there was always Paul Manafort ✔ In a way, it's another indication there is no evidence of collusion ✔ AP Justice reporter Eric Tucker explains what it all means


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