UN General Assembly 2018: Key issues from Rohingya to North Korea
9/21/2018, 8:15:47 AMWorld leaders will descend on New York and tackle some of the most pressing issues of our time. What's expected? ✔ The Rohingya humanitarian crisis is expected to feature on the UNGA agenda [Paula Bronstein/Getty Images] World leaders will meet at the United Nations General Assembly from September 25 ✔ The Palestinian National Council has called on governments across the world to use the General Assembly to oppose the US
‘Die If Necessary’; Targeted Afghan Minority Prepares to Fight
9/21/2018, 9:51:26 AMShiite veterans of the Syria war are ready to answer the call of community leaders to protect western Kabul’s Dashte Barchi neighborhood, home to the largest concentration of the minority Shiite sect in Afghanistan. ✔ They also cite the recent arrest of 26 suspected Islamic State militants and President Ashraf Ghani’s proposal this month to create a green zone in Dashte Barchi similar to the one that protects embassies and international organizations in central Kabul
North Korea establishes global fund to fight TB, malaria
9/21/2018, 9:00:08 AMundefined ✔ North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a hospital in Pyongyang in this 2014 file photo ✔ North Korea has been suffering a high incidence and mortality from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis ✔ Experts say this is because North Koreans tend to abuse antibiotics, after the country's drug management system collapsed following the great famine called the Arduous March in the mid-1990s
The fragile diplomatic dance between US and North Korea
9/21/2018, 10:32:19 AMAfter progress between Pyongyang and Seoul, analysts highlight difficulties ahead for US to achieve denuclearisation. ✔ It is remarkable how, in just 12 months, relations have swung around from threats of atomic Armageddon to red carpets, warm embraces and arms reduction talks - especially given the dogged personalities of those involved ✔ Despite this caveat, there was enough progress to revive the fledgling talks between Washington and Pyongyang ✔ At some point … efforts are going to come to a resounding - I'm sad to say - crash, she said
Ukraine to Rename Kiev Street Named After Soviet Hero of Anti-Nazi Resistance for John McCain
9/21/2018, 9:00:03 AMPyotr Poroshenko’s recent proposal to change the name of Kiev’s Ivan Kudrya street to John McCain Street betrays the hidden Nazi agenda among Ukraine’s junta. Ivan Kudrya was Soviet Kiev’s hero during the fight against the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War (Second World War). He was an essential figure in the Kiev Resistance: he blew up a movie theatre full of German soldiers, derailed trains and when caught, was tortured and killed by the Gestapo. ✔ Pyotr Poroshenko’s recent proposal to change the name of Kiev’s Ivan Kudrya stree t to John McCain Street betrays the hidden Nazi agenda among Ukraine’s junta ✔ The Germans [thought] – Veresen explains, – that if you are NKVD, a Red, you are a Jew
If ending Syria’s war means accepting Assad and Russia have won, so be it | Jonathan Steele
9/21/2018, 9:20:33 AMWestern governments bear partial responsibility for prolonging this savage conflict. They must now push for peace, says columnist Jonathan Steele ✔ Described euphemistically as reconciliation agreements, they have permitted thousands of rebels to leave besieged areas ✔ Western governments bear partial responsibility for the carnage ✔ By taking the right course over Idlib, they can begin to make amends
Oil Bulls Should Be Worried About a Trade War
9/21/2018, 10:41:40 AMSanctions on Iran and woes in Venezuela will reduce supplies of oil, but U.S. tariffs on No. 1 energy consumer China could shrink demand. ✔ Iran’s crude and condensate exports averaged 1.92 million barrels a day in August, down from 2.32 million in July, according to estimates from S&P Global Platts ✔ The bigger factor through the rest of the year is likely demand rather than supply, says Brian Youngberg, senior energy analyst at Edward Jones, and the real threat to oil demand comes from the broader economic downturn in emerging markets as a whole, not just China
Trump is beating up on Iran — and it's making Obama look weak
9/21/2018, 11:21:17 AMPresident Donald Trump has, at almost every turn, defied experts on Iran policy to take a very aggressive track against Tehran and has yet to suffer a single tangible consequence. The nightmare scenarios former President Barack Obama warned against have not come to pass. ✔ Iran is struggling and the US is fine Alistair Bell/Reuters Since Trump took office, Iran has weathered a series of withering economic and military setbacks ✔ But under Trump, the US has addressed all of its grievances with Iran, from funding terror, to escalating fighting in Syria, to testing missiles, and even oppressing its own people, all while Tehran stays in the deal
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary due for early release next month
9/21/2018, 9:35:46 AMAnjem Choudary and his right hand man Mohammed Misanur Rahman will be released from jail next month having served half of their five-and-a-half year jail term for terror offences. ✔ KHURAM BUTT: MASTERMIND BEHIND THE LONDON BRIDGE TERROR Khuram Butt, 27, a married father of two, appeared on the Channel 4 documentary The Jihadi Next Door On June 3 last year Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, ploughed into pedestrians in a white van on the bridge before stabbing victims in the nearby market with 12-inch ceramic knives
Russia and China warn US on military sanctions
9/21/2018, 11:57:34 AMundefined ✔ The relevant US practices have seriously violated the basic norms of international relations and seriously damaged the relations between the two countries and military forces, Geng Shuang told reporters ✔ Every time Trump makes such statements in relation to such serious countries that have a population of more than 1bn people, countries that possess nuclear weapons, he only pushes these countries closer to each other, said Alexander Sherin, deputy chairman of the defence committee in Russia’s lower house of parliament
Turkey, U.S. to start joint patrols in Syria's Manbij soon
9/21/2018, 10:14:40 AMTurkey and the United States have almost completed work on joint patrols in nort... ✔ ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and the United States have almost completed work on joint patrols in northern Syria’s Manbij area and those patrols and joint training will begin soon, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Friday ✔ FILE PHOTO: American army vehicles drive north of Manbij city, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria March 9, 2017 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
At U.N. podium, Trump to tout protecting U.S. sovereignty
9/21/2018, 10:42:25 AM- Since U.S. President Donald Trump made his debut at the United Nations a year ... ✔ While the U.S. is generous, we’re going to be generous to those that share our values, generous to those that want to work with us and not those that try and stop the U.S. or say they hate America and are counterproductive, she said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Israeli Air Force Commander Travels to Moscow to Explain Il-20 Shootdown
9/21/2018, 10:42:01 AMundefined ✔ The IDF rushed to explain that their airstrikes targeted a Syrian army facility from which weapons-manufacturing systems were supposed to be transferred to Iran and Hezbollah ✔ Monday’s attack came just hours after Russia and Turkey negotiated a partial demilitarization of the Idlib province, which is the last remaining stronghold of anti-government militants, including the Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (also known as the Jabhat Al-Nusra)
US sanctions provoke Chinese anger
9/21/2018, 10:45:00 AMChina tells the US to withdraw sanctions on its military over Russian weapons purchases. ✔ The US move could just deepen the already tense trading relationship with Beijing ✔ The US says it is committed to a free and open Indo-Pacific and has sailed warships close to artificial islands built by Beijing to challenge what it sees as Chinese efforts to restrict freedom of navigation in a strategically important area
Dow set for best week since July as stock futures imply deeper push into record territory
9/21/2018, 11:56:09 AMU.S. stock-index futures inch higher on Friday, indicating that Wall Street would extend its recent uptrend and push further into record levels. ✔ Don’t miss: Dow, S&P 500 records belie festering fear that China and the U.S. ‘are on a collision course’ While many investors are concerned that the trade issue could escalate into a full-blown trade war, they have so far been heartened by the fact that the issue hasn’t shown much impact in economic data or corporate results
Bull March, Micron Slump, Wells Cuts: CEO Daily for September 21, 2018
9/21/2018, 10:41:43 AMMust-read business news, delivered every morning. ✔ Something smells funny in the pathology labs at Memorial Sloan Kettering ✔ The startup is called Paige.AI, and its mission is to train algorithms on decades of slides from the MSK path labs, so they can learn to detect malignant tumors from benign tumors ✔ USA Today Micron Slump The U.S.’s latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports will soon hit the gross margins of semiconductor firm Micron, CFO David Zinsner said yesterday
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