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War Countries - SERIES 167 {11 articles}

Corbyn aide ‘banned from Ukraine’ has ties to Stalinist activists

9/23/2018, 7:47:18 AM
Former communist Andrew Murray (pictured) has shared a platform with key members of the Borotba group who have been accused of being ‘agents of influence’ for Moscow. ✔ When Mr Murray addressed a meeting of the Solidarity With The Antifascist Resistance In Ukraine (SARU) group at the Marx Memorial Library in London in November 2014, Borotba’s leader Alexey Albu spoke to the group on a video link ✔ There is no suggestion that Mr Murray was aware of the Surkov instruction, and he says he has been a frequent critic of Putin


Britain's armchair assassins: Remote-control drones kill IS fighters

9/23/2018, 7:47:16 AM
Peter Lee spent five months of the Iraq War as an RAF chaplain at the bedsides of the wounded and dying. He has now witnessed the work of the Reaper Squadron at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. ✔ Ricky the Mission Intelligence Control asked his colleague Brodie to zoom in on black-clothed, armed jihadis herding the locals ✔ To order for £15.19 – a 20 per cent discount plus free p&p – visit mailshop.co.uk/books or call 0844 571 0640 before October 7


Putin’s Hesitation Has Lost Syria’s Idlib Province

9/23/2018, 7:20:05 AM
The provocations that Putin invites are now escalating. Peter Ford, former British ambassador to Syria, points out that Washington has quickly taken advantage of Putin’s hesitancy in Syria to escalate the pretexts on which Washington will launch a military attack on the Syrian forces. Formerly Washington’s pretext was to be a false flag “chemical attack” that would be blamed on Syria. ✔ The provocations that Putin invites are now escalating ✔ Another puzzle is Putin’s decision to pacify Erdogan by substituting a demilitarized zone in Idlib instead of liberating the province ✔ If he backs down again, he can expect a yet more dangerous provocation until the only choice becomes surrender or nuclear war


Brit 'pharmacist' filmed blindfolded after being held for 'joining ISIS'

9/23/2018, 7:33:19 AM
Anwar Miah claims he travelled to the war-torn country to work in hospitals and has been filmed blindfolded while being quizzed by his Kurdish captors ✔ I mean they were controlled by Daesh, I mean I can't do anything about that ✔ Shiraz Maher, director of Kings College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, said Miah's detention raised questions over how many foreigners remain in the region with IS ✔ He tweeted: One of the big questions and dilemmas for security agencies, after Islamic State lost Raqqah and Mosul, is: who died


Bodyguard fans to FINALLY get answers as drama reaches its climax

9/23/2018, 6:10:57 AM
Viewers have been gripped by the series about controversial Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes) and her protection officer David Budd (Richard Madden) ✔ The drama, penned by Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio, centres around Afghanistan war veteran Budd and his personal battles, and Montague, whose decision to hand the investigation of recent terror events to the Security Service ruffles feathers ✔ However, in a trailer for the final episode - which will last for an extended 75 minutes - Budd appears to be at the centre of the manhunt himself ✔ Bodyguard will come to a conclusion at 9pm on Sunday on BBC One


Moon heading to US for Trump summit, UN general assembly

9/23/2018, 7:15:56 AM
undefined ✔ I plan to deliver such messages in detail to the U.S. side ✔ The two Koreas technically remain at war as the 1950-53 war ended only with an armistice, not a peace treaty ✔ He is also scheduled to hold bilateral summits with his counterparts from Chile and Spain on the sidelines of the U.N


Explainer: Why nuclear disclosure is key first step in North...

9/23/2018, 5:19:14 AM
made last week by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to curb his nuclear weapons pr... ✔ TONGCHANG-RI North Korea also said it will permanently dismantle its missile engine testing site and launch platform in the northwestern town of Tongchang-ri in the presence of experts from concerned countries ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Iran vows 'crushing response' over deadly parade attack, blames ‘foreign regime’

9/23/2018, 5:31:00 AM
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed a "crushing" response after assailants sprayed a crowd with gunfire, shooting dead at least 25 people including women and children Saturday at a military parade near the Iraqi border. ✔ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed a crushing response after assailants sprayed a crowd with gunfire, shooting dead at least 25 people including women and children Saturday at a military parade near the Iraqi border ✔ Three attackers were killed at the scene and the fourth died later of his injuries, said armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi


The West Against the Rest or The West Against Itself?

9/23/2018, 6:15:50 AM
What is the bigger story? The West Against the Rest or The West Against Itself? The Illiberal Quartet of Xi, Putin, Rouhani and Erdogan is in the line of fire of haughty homilies about Western “values.” Illiberalism is arrogantly and provocatively depicted in the West repeatedly as a Tartar Invasion 2.0. But closer to home Illiberalism is responsible for the social, civil war in the U.S. as Trump’s America has long ago forgotten what the European Enlightenment was all about. ✔ Quite a few Europeans easily grasp his simplistic concept of Right populism, according to which citizens must be able to get jobs, something impossible when illegal immigration is used as a scam to depress workers’ salaries ✔ They keep on summoning fear of illiberal Putin and his malign behavior undermining the EU, coupled with debt trap neo-colonialism inflicted on unsuspecting customers by those devious Chinese


Tune in soon for Europe’s view of Britain’s post-Brexit apocalyptic future | Kevin McKenna

9/23/2018, 5:31:44 AM
Imagine a European Danny Dyer making a programme about us after we leave the EU... ✔ A wretched characteristic of UK light entertainment has been its obsession with sending our own grands hommes and dames of the television establishment overseas to make programmes ✔ In all of them, the wide-boy presenter gets to meet scary hooligan chieftains with names such as Vlad who are eager to tell him why they want to eviscerate the other chaps and impale their bodies on a telegraph pole near the county line


Who attacked Iran's military parade?

9/23/2018, 7:52:29 AM
Iranian Foreign Minister Javid Zarif had no doubt who was to blame for Saturday's attack on a military parade in Iran that killed at least 25 people. ✔ Iran will respond swiftly and decisively in defense of Iranian lives, he wrote, reflecting his government's frustrations ✔ The UNGA next week, whatever Trump says, is unlikely to break what threatens to become a destabilizing cycle of cross-border attacks


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