Yemen's skies of terror: Three years of war in Yemen
9/16/2018, 7:34:54 AMMore than 10,000 people have died in the Yemen war which has now entered its fourth year. ✔ The war in Yemen has entered its fourth year ✔ All of us fear the raids and shelling, said 15-year-old Akram who was woken up and rocked by a large explosion on September 18, 2015 ✔ If the Saudis want to defeat the Houthis in Sanaa like they say, they should target the military ✔ As many as 76 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian aid
French army in Deir ez-Zor? Photo shown by media raises questions about France’s role in Syrian war
9/16/2018, 5:02:11 AMA French army vehicle spotted in a photo taken in Deir ez-Zor province has led to questions about the extent of Paris’s involvement in the Syrian conflict. The image was reportedly shared by the US military on social media. ✔ The vehicle in question is a wheeled armored personnel carrier equipped with a turret, which resembles the French army’s Aravis infantry mobility vehicle ✔ #Syrie un #Aravis des forces françaises #France ds une photo @SOJTFOIR US à l’extrême est de l’Euphrate un des derniers réduits de l’#EIpic.twitter.com/frqhLSLUjA Wassim Nasr (@SimNasr) 12 septembre 2018 France 24 journalist Wassim Nasr was the first to draw attention to the picture ✔ But, the military vehicle in the photo has to be French, according to Nasr
PETER HITCHENS: We're on the brink of war... and nobody has noticed
9/16/2018, 1:34:13 AMIn Parliament last week, Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt gave us a glimpse of the Government’s thinking on Syria. They'll go to war without waiting for the facts to be checked. ✔ So, yet again, there’s a rival report, by people who did not actually go to Douma ✔ I’d suggest MPs do a bit of homework on the issue, too ✔ She plays a judge faced with severe moral dilemmas, and does it wonderfully ✔ If you want to comment on Peter Hitchens click here
US-backed forces storm IS village in east Syria as Israel hits Damascus
9/16/2018, 6:45:59 AMDespite losing most of the territory it held between Iraq and Syria since its peak in 2014, the jihadist IS remains a disruptive force in both countries. ✔ Israel says it is alarmed by the expansion of operations by Iran and Hezbollah in Syria ✔ In the east of the country, SDF launched with the help of the US-led coalition a wide offensive this week to capture the last pocket held by IS in Syria ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
Blood on the dance floor as Spartacus gives ballet a political update
9/16/2018, 12:18:34 AMThe Australian Ballet reworks Spartacus with contemporary themes and some expertly choreographed fight sequences. ✔ Entertainment Dance Arts Blood on the dance floor as Spartacus gives ballet a political update By Stephen A ✔ It’s hard not to, he says, when the US President attacks the media and the judiciary on a near-daily basis, and an accidental parliamentarian raises the spectre of the final solution in his maiden speech in Canberra ✔ But after less than a year out in the cold, Spartacus was his big comeback
Third inter-Korean summit is toughest challenge yet
9/16/2018, 1:30:41 AMThe first inter-Korean summit of 2018, a sunny spectacle in late April, reduced war fears on the peninsula. The second, an emergency one in May, helped ensure a historic meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump came off. ✔ The first inter-Korean summit of 2018, a sunny spectacle in late April, reduced war fears on the peninsula ✔ The wave of optimism that surrounded the first two inter-Korean summits in April and May and the Singapore meeting between Trump and Kim in June conveniently overlooked disagreements about what exactly Kim had committed to
Author who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' indicted over murder of husband
9/16/2018, 2:28:20 AMNancy Crampton-Brophy, 68, was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of killing her chef husband Daniel Brophy, who was shot dead at the ulinary school where he worked ✔ Crampton-Brophy, 68, addresses mourners two days after the murder The cover of the romance novel The Wrong Husband My husband and best friend, Chef Dan Brophy was killed yesterday morning ✔ She appeared in court on Thursday September 6, wearing a blue jail outfit and speaking only to confirm her name
Turkey faces prospect of Syrian refugee wave amid currency crisis
9/16/2018, 7:52:17 AMAt Turkey's southern border, locals fear another wave of refugees could damage the struggling local economy even more. ✔ Its economy for a long time was tied to trade with Syria and shuttling goods across the border ✔ Follow Mariya Petkova on Twitter: @mkpetkova ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mariya Petkova Mariya Petkova is a Bulgarian journalist covering the Middle East, the Balkans and Eastern Europe
Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump: Each other's enabler
9/16/2018, 7:52:43 AMDenuclearization has stalled but the men remain on their eerie honeymoon ✔ Mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Trump and Kim said in a joint statement issued after their Singapore meeting ✔ Get unique insights on Asia, the most dynamic market in the world ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th
Shinzo Abe has earned time to draw his third arrow
9/16/2018, 5:22:29 AMundefined ✔ Former US president Barack Obama joked that as soon as he had greeted one Japanese leader at the White House another was being anointed in Tokyo ✔ Tokyo rightly has been alarmed by White House readiness to lump together trade and security issues when dealing with China and to discount Japanese interests in talks with North Korea
South Korea, US nuclear envoys meet ahead of inter-Korean summit
9/16/2018, 12:44:14 AMundefined ✔ The two officials are said to have focused on discussing denuclearization steps that the North should take and the declaration of an end to the 1950-53 Korean War ✔ Biegun earlier said that a tremendous opportunity has been created by the various summit meetings between the leaders of the two Koreas and the U.S. (It is necessary to) do everything we can to make the most of this moment of opportunity, he emphasized
Refugee debate intensifies in South Korea
9/16/2018, 7:47:22 AMundefined ✔ Asylum seekers, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa, were also present ✔ We can't return home, just like Koreans 50 years ago ✔ Accepting refugees will create a route for Islam and IS to enter our country ✔ All they have is a temporary guarantee not to be kicked out
Former Disney princess convicted of helping boyfriend cover up murders
9/16/2018, 2:28:09 AMRachel Mae Buffett, 31, was convicted of accessory to murder after the fact on Wednesday by a jury in Orange County, California, in connection to the two murders in May of 2010. ✔ Prosecutors said Wozniak shot Herr, an Army veteran, with a shotgun at a Los Alamitos theater, and then dismembered the body in a scheme to steal $62,000 in hazard pay he had saved up while serving in Afghanistan ✔ She is being held in the Orange County Jail and is set to be sentenced on November 8
The four men who hold the PM's fate in their hands, writes DAN HODGES
9/16/2018, 1:34:20 AMThree years, and a lifetime later, a new and powerful quartet is emerging: Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab and Matt Hancock. ✔ 'He's already been trying to cut deals with people,' a Minister confides ✔ 'Here's a real student starter pack – beans, chicken nuggets, pizza and frozen avocado if you're feeling fancy.' Supermarket chain Iceland pokes fun at rival Waitrose after its 'university essentials' list included bouillon powder and rose harissa ✔ 'It seemed vulgar to join the 326 colleagues already taking part.' Newsreader Huw Edwards explains why he isn't appearing in BBC drama Bodyguard
Angry single mum says council destroyed £575 pram - and can't believe reason why
9/16/2018, 7:25:41 AMMum-of-two Georgia Mosley, who lives in Chaddeson, says she was distraught when she discovered her Silver Cross Wayfarer pram was missing ✔ Miss Mosley was storing her pram in a downstairs electrical metre room as she is unable to take the pram and her children upstairs to her apartment ✔ In the interest of health and safety, Derby Homes operates a clear communal area policy, to reduce the risk of people being hindered when evacuating in an emergency
The slavery incentive
9/16/2018, 6:33:09 AMundefined ✔ Even after the U.S. Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect Native Americans: in the 1880s, the Supreme Court ruled that it did not cover them, and they gained citizenship rights only in 1924 ✔ Copyright belongs to Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org)
‘We’re brothers, sisters and activists’: the Greek collective of gay and trans refugees
9/16/2018, 7:12:57 AMFor persecuted gay and trans refugees, getting together has given them a safe space as well as vital support. Edward Siddons hears how the group became family they never had ✔ Before long Abdelsamie, with the help of her then-boyfriend and two gay Syrians she’d met in Istanbul, began hosting open-house events for other LGBT asylum seekers in her flat ✔ It gives you all this groundwork, in order for you to self-exist at some point
Ten years after the crash, the US economy has bounced back
9/16/2018, 3:27:18 AMWall Street is thriving again, as Trump never stops reminding us, but the US has had to accept that China now rules the world, writes FREDDY GRAY, Deputy Editor of The Spectator. ✔ We will soon be taking in Billions in Tariffs & making products at home.’ Of course, lots of experts say this is economic suicide: ‘Trumponomics’ is protectionism and will destroy America’s ability to innovate and create endless wealth ✔ The trouble is, ten years on from the crash, there is much to fear
Killer Performance: Investigation of Calif. murders unfolds like a big-screen mystery
9/16/2018, 2:48:01 AMAfter a young woman's murder, police thought her killer was on the run … or was he? ✔ Produced by Liza Finley, Jamie Stolz, Gayane Keshishyan Mendez and Chris Young Ritzen [This story originally aired on Oct. 8, 2016 ✔ 17 Photos Clues and evidence in the murders of Julie Kibuishi and Sam Herr A young woman brutally shot in the apartment of a war hero; detectives were sure he was on the run, but when they found him an entirely different..
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