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Syria says it shot down Israeli missiles over airport

9/15/2018, 10:00:04 PM
undefined ✔ The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported multiple explosions in the vicinity of the airport Saturday night, and said the missile strike caused significant damage to warehouses and a weapons shipment ✔ Israel has sworn to prevent Hizbollah from obtaining strategic arms capable of altering the balance of power, and to keep Iranian forces aiding Assad from entrenching near its borders


Corbyn's top adviser is banned from entering the Ukraine

9/15/2018, 9:36:58 PM
Andrew Murray played a key role in a campaign to support pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine but has sinceangrily denied being part of any 'so-called propaganda network'. ✔ Mr Corbyn, whose socialist beliefs came under close scrutiny earlier this year when he initially questioned the Government's belief that the Kremlin was responsible for poisoning former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, relies heavily on Mr Murray for advice and has praised his 'enormous abilities'


Syria: Israel launched missile attack on Damascus airport

9/15/2018, 8:04:58 PM
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's state media says Israel has launched a missile attack on Damascus International Airport adding that air defenses shot down some of them. ✔ The Saturday night attack shook the capital Damascus as blasts were heard in the city ✔ State media quoted an unnamed military official without giving further details ✔ Israel is alarmed by the expansion of operations by Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to support President Bashar Assad in Syria's seven-year-long civil war


Opinion | The Trump administration vouches for its Saudi friends as civilians die in Yemen

9/15/2018, 11:15:49 PM
Certifying that the Saudi-UAE coalition is trying to avoid civilian casualties flies in the face of evidence. ✔ By Editorial Board September 15 at 5:24 PM LAST SUNDAY, forces backed by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia launched a new offensive around Yemen’s port of Hodeida, through which flows 70 percent of the supplies for 8 million people in danger of starvation ✔ After the legislation passed, and with this week’s deadline for certification looming, the Saudi-UAE coalition issued a statement Sept


Israeli missiles strike near Damascus airport, says Syrian state media

9/15/2018, 10:41:59 PM
A Syrian military source claims air defences shot down some of the missiles ✔ Earlier this month, Israel acknowledged having carried out more than 200 strikes in Syria over the past 18 months, mainly against Iranian targets ✔ But Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov denied that Syrian troops were planning a major offensive for the area


Yemen Houthis fire missile into Saudi Arabia's Jizan province

9/15/2018, 9:54:51 PM
Houthi forces fighting a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen have fired a missile over the border targetting the Jizan Industrial City in southern Saudi Arabia, the Houthi's Al-Masirah TV station on Saturday. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. "The rocket force fired a Badr ballistic missile at… ✔ 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


OAS chief threatens military force against Venezuela

9/15/2018, 11:08:46 PM
The head of the Organization of American States has joined President Trump in holding out the threat of a military intervention in Venezuela to restore democracy and ease the country's humanitarian crisis ✔ Almagro in his visit Friday said countries in the Western Hemisphere should work together to provide relief to the droves of Venezuelans who every day are fleeing hyperinflation and food shortages in their homeland ✔ Colombia’s Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, said Friday that it was investigating preliminary reports that 20 soldiers from Venezuela’s national guard illegally entered a remote Colombian river hamlet and captured three civilians


Saudi says it destroyed missile Houthis fired at Jizan province

9/15/2018, 11:44:00 PM
Houthi forces fighting a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen fired a missile o... ✔ No casualties or damage were recorded when the missile was intercepted, Colonel Turki al-Maliki said ✔ The Iran-aligned Houthis regularly announce they have fired missiles over the Saudi-Yemeni border into Jizan province in an effort to hit important facilities, including an oil refinery operated by Saudi Aramco ✔ Hadi was ousted from the capital Sanaa by the Houthis in 2015 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


South Korea forges ahead with charm offensive to Kim regime even as U.S. outreach cools

9/15/2018, 8:33:26 PM
The next North-South summit has been planned for Tuesday in Pyongyang. But the coalition that Trump assembled to put pressure on Kim Jong Un is fraying. ✔ Trump’s starting a trade war with Beijing has not helped ✔ He also has faith in Kim but argues that the question of whether he is sincere is, at this point, irrelevant ✔ If the North Korean leader says ‘I want to get rid of my nuclear weapons,’ then we’ve got to talk to him, he said


‘Chlorine delivered’: Idlib militants ‘readying false flag attack’ in Syrian village – Russian MoD

9/15/2018, 8:14:38 PM
Militants in Syria’s Idlib have transported several canisters containing chlorine to the village of Bsanqul, apparently preparing to stage a false flag chemical attack, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. ✔ Those planned strikes are said to be much larger in scale than those launched against the Syrian military by the US, the UK and France in April ✔ Most recently, the USS Bulkeley (DDG-84), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, entered the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar ✔ READ MORE: Merkel reportedly weighing German involvement in Syria, coalition partner says ‘Nein’


Memorial for gangster Paul "Mr Big" Massey is vandalised

9/15/2018, 8:51:44 PM
EXCLUSIVE Hammers were used to destroy a ­marble bench which included two commemorative plaques in Agecroft cemetery, Salford ✔ A memorial at the grave of gangster Paul Mr Big Massey has been smashed up ✔ Police are investigating the attack at Agecroft cemetery in Salford, Manchester ✔ Louise Lydiate, mum of the gangster’s kids, said the graveside attack was too upsetting to talk about in detail but described it as disgusting


Louis Marin, GOP official, says he shared conspiracy theories on Facebook to ‘stimulate discussion’

9/15/2018, 8:48:22 PM
Louis Marin, the vice chairman of the Republican Executive Committee in Orange County, Florida, offered an explanation Friday for sharing articles on social media touting conspiracy theories involving topics ranging from school shootings to white supremacists. ✔ On Aug. 19, less than a week after a woman was killed while protesting the Unite the Right rally, Mr. Marin shared another article in the group alleging ties to Mr. Soros and the U.S. government ✔ I do not want to waste any more time on a ‘nothing burger’ biased story designed as a hit piece, he told reporters


Mum only discovered she had cancer after breastfeeding son

9/15/2018, 11:07:04 PM
Lisa is now celebrating five years of being free of the disease after discovering she has stage-3 cancer ✔ Her ultimate aim was to take Harrison to Disneyland when he turns 10 ✔ She’s an inspiration and a great example of how our research can save lives ✔ All profits raised will go towards funding Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work to help more men, women and children survive the disease


Severely ill Pussy Riot member to be treated in Germany

9/15/2018, 8:04:54 PM
MOSCOW (AP) — A member of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group says a severely ill fellow activist was being taken to Germany on Saturday for treatment after his suspected poisoning. ✔ MOSCOW (AP) A member of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group says a severely ill fellow activist was being taken to Germany on Saturday for treatment after his suspected poisoning ✔ Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, became sick after drinking tea on an Aeroflot flight in 2004


Russia is mocking us. First the Salisbury attack, then information warfare. Time to wake up | Carole Cadwalldr

9/15/2018, 8:23:58 PM
Its ambitions are to disrupt Britain’s politics, so why are the government and security services seemingly in denial about the threat? ✔ It’s also the heart of the British military establishment.’ Photograph: merlinpf/Getty Images/iStockphoto These intelligence officers, we now know, worked for the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency that, in July, special counsel Robert Mueller identified as responsible for hacking the emails of the Democratic National Committee, an act that went on to play a defining role in the US election


Exclusive - Mirror Sport goes behind the scenes as Super League referee

9/15/2018, 9:12:11 PM
Rugby league match officials provide revealing insight into life with a whistle ✔ People don’t see the person behind the referee when they’re screaming obscenities at them ✔ The 29-year-old was shot while serving in Afghanistan in 2010, and woke up in hospital two weeks later with a damaged liver, diaphragm and right lung, and 10 broken ribs ✔ Super League referee Robert Hicks takes charge at Magic Weekend in May (Image: X03816) The level of analysis of everyone’s performance is eye-opening


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