Pompeo says Saudi-led coalition is trying to reduce Yemen casualties
9/18/2018, 6:21:50 AMSecretary of State Mike Pompeo certified to Congress Wednesday that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are making demonstrable actions to reduce harm to civilians in Yemen, averting a move by lawmakers to scale back US support for the Gulf countries' participation in the war there. ✔ MUST WATCH Coalition spokesman: Bus was legitimate target 02:11 Defense Secretary James Mattis praised Pompeo's move in a statement Wednesday: The Saudi-led coalition's commitment is reflected in their support for these UN-led efforts, Mattis said
US says Syria 'accidentally' shot down Russian plane that vanished over Mediterranean
9/18/2018, 7:38:48 AMFrance's military denies any involvement
Russia military jet vanishes from radar off Syria with 14 aboard
9/18/2018, 6:00:06 AMUS officials tell CNN that Syrian forces accidentally shot down the Il-20 aircraft during Israeli attack in Latakia. ✔ Around the time the plane disappeared, the Syrian coastal city of Latakia - near the Russian airbase to which the Il-20 was returning - came under attack from enemy missiles, and missile defence batteries responded, Syrian state media reported ✔ In February this year, Syrian rebels shot down a Sukhoi 25 jet over Idlib province
Experts air new concerns about UN response to Myanmar crisis
9/18/2018, 6:15:55 AMGENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed investigators who examined a crackdown by Myanmar security forces that caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh ✔ On Tuesday, Myanmar has a chance to respond directly to the allegations: its new ambassador in Geneva, Kyaw Moe Tun, was set to speak during an interactive dialogue at the Human Rights Council, after the fact-finding team shared some of its findings with the 47-member body
AP looks at the Koreas' push for formal end to Korean War
9/18/2018, 4:54:59 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — At the heart of the nuclear impasse with North Korea is a seemingly straightforward demand by both North and South for a formal end to the Korean War. ✔ At the heart of the current impasse in nuclear diplomacy with North Korea is a seemingly straightforward demand by both North and South Korea for an end to the Korean War ✔ At the heart of the current impasse in nuclear diplomacy with North Korea is a seemingly straightforward demand by both North and South Korea for an end to the Korean War
Ruling in Ukraine-Russia bond dispute is cause for optimism
9/18/2018, 7:40:46 AMundefined ✔ President Viktor Yanukovych capitulated and took Russia’s reward, giving up Ukraine’s dream of closer relations with the EU ✔ For the financial world, it is one more signal that ethical views do underpin the legal system and can matter where the circumstances demand ✔ For Russia, it shows that the world recognises the danger of its hybrid war and is not going to sit silently and accept it
Russia waging ‘blatant disinformation’ war using Kremlin-funded RT
9/18/2018, 6:34:08 AMJeremy Wright QC will warn that the country’s ability to peddle fake news through state broadcaster RT, which is being investigated over its interview with the GRU's novichok assassins. ✔ Trust is a precious commodity and bolstering it is vital to our future,’ he will add ✔ Why does a man in his luggage have women's perfume?' Truth A small bottle of perfume in hand luggage is not remotely strange, especially as many men buy it as a gift in tax free
South Korean leader in Pyongyang to reboot nuclear talks
9/18/2018, 7:31:15 AMPresident Moon Jae-in seeks to push for 'irreversible, permanent peace' and better dialogue between North Korea and US. ✔ North Korean soldiers and naval troops quick-marched into position to welcome Moon, and the two leaders inspected the honour guard, according to South Korean media pool footage from the site ✔ Trump has indicated he may be open to holding another summit to resuscitate the talks
Kim welcomes South’s Moon in Pyongyang for denuclearisation talks
9/18/2018, 6:35:34 AMNorth Korean’s Kim Jong Un greeted Moon Jae-in with hugs and smiles on Tuesday as the South Korean president arrived in Pyongyang to discuss faltering talks on denuclearisation and the prospect of officially ending the Korean War. ✔ Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of the leader and a key propaganda official, was seen preparing officials for Moon’s arrival and accompanying Kim Jong Un and his wife ✔ Given U.S. scepticism that South Korea may have oversold Kim’s willingness to denuclearise, how President Moon delivers his sincerity toward denuclearisation to Trump would be a key factor for the fate of their second summit, Lee told a forum on Monday in Seoul
Leaders of two Koreas meet for high-stakes summit
9/18/2018, 5:15:10 AMNorth Korean's Kim Jong Un greeted Moon Jae-in with hugs and smiles on Tuesday as the South Korean president arrived in Pyongyang to discuss faltering talks on denuclearisation and the prospect of officially ending the Korean War. Hundreds of North Koreans wearing suits and traditional dresses also greeted Moon, carrying… ✔ Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of the leader and a key propaganda official, was seen preparing officials for Moon's arrival and accompanying Kim Jong Un and his wife ✔ Given U.S. skepticism that South Korea may have oversold Kim's willingness to denuclearise, how President Moon delivers his sincerity toward denuclearisation to Trump would be a key factor for the fate of their second summit, Lee told a forum on Monday in Seoul
Leaders of two Koreas parade through Pyongyang ahead of nuclear talks
9/18/2018, 5:24:22 AMTens of thousands of North Koreans chanted "Unification!" and waved fl... ✔ Moon, himself the offspring of a family displaced by the war, has met Kim twice this year at the border village of Panmunjom ✔ The conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving U.S.-led U.N ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The Four Best Investments We Can Make in the Global War on Poverty
9/18/2018, 4:09:02 AMThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new report maps out a battle plan. ✔ The latter environment is a petri dish for instability, violence, mass migration, andas we’re seeing now with a continuing outbreak of deadly Ebola in a war-torn region of Central Africaa potential threat to global health as well ✔ And that is, for me, female empowerment, not colonialism
US Air Force says it needs more firepower to confront Russia, China
9/18/2018, 5:52:38 AMThe US Air Force wants to add more bombers, fighters, tankers and other front-line units by 2030 to confront rising threats from China and Russia, senior officials said Monday, outlining a proposal for what the service will need to fight and win future conflicts. ✔ Photos: In the U.S. Air Force fleet CV-22 Osprey – The Osprey is a tiltrotor aircraft that combines vertical takeoff, hover and landing qualities of a helicopter with the normal flight characteristics of a turboprop aircraft, according to the Air Force
Russian military jet carrying 14 troops disappears over the Med
9/18/2018, 7:23:13 AMThe Il-20 jet went off radar 22 miles away from the coast as it was returning to Russia's Hmeimim base near the Syrian city of Lattakia. ✔ 'The missiles were not fired by the US military and we have nothing further at this time,' he said ✔ Russia has previously lost aircraft during its Syria campaign ✔ In November 2015, Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, triggering a severe crisis in ties with Moscow
Rodong slams US on first day of Pyongyang summit
9/18/2018, 6:16:39 AMundefined ✔ Rodong said the U.S. unilateral request for North Korea's denuclearization without declaring the end of war was the main cause of the stalled negotiations between the countries ✔ While the editorial appeared only in the Korean edition, the English edition on the same day carried an editorial titled No Obstacle Insurmountable When All Koreans Pool Efforts, where it said the two Koreas should work together to implement the April 27 Panmunjeom Declaration, irrespective of their differing ideologies
Russian aircraft with 14 on board disappears off Syria's coast
9/18/2018, 6:03:55 AMThe military said the plane disappeared as four Israeli fighter jets were attacking targets in the area. ✔ The Observatory said at the time that the September 4 attacks were believed aimed at Iranian military posts ✔ Israel is widely believed to have been behind a series of airstrikes mainly targeting Iranian and Hezbollah forces in Syria that have joined the country's war fighting alongside the government ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
Stakes high in 3rd summit between South Korea's Moon and North's Kim Jon Un
9/18/2018, 7:15:10 AMSouth's President Moon seeking to break stalemate in U.S.-North nukes talks and improve ties with Kim Jong Un's North ✔ Moon is under intense pressure from Washington to advance the denuclearization process ✔ China, signaling its support for Kim's recent diplomatic moves, sent its third-highest party official to those festivities ✔ Those trips produced a slew of inter-Korean rapprochement projects, which were suspended after conservatives took power in Seoul
Moon Jae-in’s grand design for the Korean peninsula
9/18/2018, 5:07:03 AMFor now, sanctions stymie the South Korean president’s ambitious plans for inter-Korean co-operation ✔ To this end, a group of business leaders, including executives from the South’s big conglomerates, have accompanied him to Pyongyang ✔ As Mr Moon was preparing to depart for Pyongyang, America called a meeting at the UN Security Council to discuss how to push back against any violation of the sanctions ✔ However ambitious Mr Moon’s plans may be, for now they are illegal
Extreme Poverty Concentrates in Sub-Saharan Africa
9/18/2018, 4:13:02 AMThe number of people living in extreme poverty is becoming concentrated in some of the most unstable and populous parts of Africa, raising the risk of political violence and devastating disease outbreaks. ✔ A mother carries her sick baby at a camp for displaced persons in Bama, Borno state, Nigeria, in August ✔ German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K ✔ The 21-year-old got married last year and his wife is expecting their first child
U.S., Russia clash over enforcing U.N. sanctions on N. Korea
9/18/2018, 7:01:18 AMUNITED NATIONS--The United States and Russia clashed Monday over enforcing U.N. sanctions against No ✔ UNITED NATIONS--The United States and Russia clashed Monday over enforcing U.N ✔ The acrimonious meeting of the Security Council was called by U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who accused Russia of pressuring independent U.N ✔ The United States has said sanctions won't be lifted until that goal is met
‘Very important evidence': MH17 missile's serial numbers vital to investigation – analysts to RT
9/18/2018, 6:31:00 AMThe Russian military's conclusion that the missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 contained Ukrainian serial numbers is important information that should be considered in the international probe, analysts told RT. ✔ On Monday, the Russian military announced that the serial numbers found on debris of the Buk missile that downed MH17 over eastern Ukraine show it was produced in 1986 and owned by the Ukrainian military ✔ They will have to come up with some answer for that, but also of course if you were going to manipulate that or digitally create it, in other words fabricate that recording, of course that also wouldn't take four years, he told RT
Russia says military aircraft lost over the Mediterranean
9/18/2018, 7:17:42 AMMOSCOW (AP) — Russia's military said Tuesday that one of its aircraft with 14 people on board has disappeared over Syria's Mediterranean Sea coast. The Russian Defen ✔ The ministry also said that it detected missile launches from a French frigate nearby around that time ✔ Officials did not immediately say if the plane was shot down ✔ But for several years, Israel and Russia have maintained a special hotline to prevent their air forces from clashing in the skies over Syria
China's yuan down as U.S. fires fresh trade salvo; stimulus hopes...
9/18/2018, 6:37:14 AMChina's yuan currency edged lower on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Tr... ✔ Chinese infrastructure stocks .CSI300II jumped over 2 percent in afternoon trading, reflecting hopes that Beijing will accelerate investment on tollways and bridges to counter the negative impact from trade frictions ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Bill Gates: 'Trump could be persuaded' on US foreign aid spending
9/18/2018, 6:14:51 AMMicrosoft founder says president has been influenced on value of ‘soft power’ in exclusive interview on launch of global report ✔ But Gates said he believed Trump was open to persuasion about the value of foreign aid ✔ Since 2000 more than a billion people had come out of extreme poverty, defined as living on $1.90 (£1.45) or less a day ✔ But there is a marked variation in the future trajectory, and the report warned that progress depends on future investment
Idlib to further divide Ankara and Moscow - World
9/18/2018, 4:35:59 AMundefined ✔ Children walk in a makeshift shelter in an underground cave in Idlib, Syria, Sept 3, 2018 ✔ The Syrian army is preparing to launch an all-out offensive to wipe out the rebels from their last major stronghold in Idlib ✔ Erdogan said it was vitally important to maintain Idlib's current status as a de-escalation zone
The African youth boom: what's worrying Bill Gates | Polly Toynbee
9/18/2018, 6:23:23 AMThe philanthropist warns that stability in Africa makes a huge difference to the world, and that investing in the health and education of its young people is vital ✔ The booming population of Africa looms over his foundation’s latest global survey ✔ Migration is the other threat to touch Europe’s politics ✔ He sounds perplexed by the forces of darkness that fail to see the need for equality at home and globally, that oppose redistribution through taxes and that sneer at the spirit of philanthropy
Defusing the 'demographic timebomb': the world's population challenges in 13 charts
9/18/2018, 7:53:20 AMPopulation trends have always shaped the world, sparking terrible conflicts but also huge progress. ✔ Population: Proportion of people living in urban areas Of course, people move across borders too, particularly in search of work ✔ Population: Female employment and fertility rates Newsletter promotion - global health security - end of article Protect yourself and your family by learning more about Global Health Security
Michael Moore claims 'evil genius' Trump wrote anonymous NYT op-ed
9/18/2018, 6:56:52 AMMichael Moore, whose documentary on the rise of Trump titled Fahrenheit 11/9 comes out on Thursday, said he fears the president will win a second term. ✔ 'It was not his op-ed,' spokesperson Dana White said ✔ This included wearing a jacket saying 'I really don't care, do u?' when visiting shelters for illegal immigrant children ✔ Her husband Jared is a senior adviser and also could be involved, but it's a long shot that anyone in Trump's family would sell him out
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