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US braced for STAND OFF with Iran in Syria as Trump recommits troops, risking World War 3

9/25/2018, 1:39:07 AM
VAST swathes of US military personnel will remain in Syria for as long as Iranian-backed troops invited by President Assad remain in the area, US national security adviser John Bolton has insisted. ✔ US national security adviser John Bolton said: We’re not going to leave as long as Iranian troops are outside Iranian borders, and that includes Iranian proxies and militias ✔ It also blamed Hezbollah for what it described as anunfortunate incident ✔ The Syrian government has vowed to remove the US army by force if they fail to leave voluntarily


Donald Trump touts North Korea progress, seizes initiative at U.N. General Assembly

9/25/2018, 2:01:38 AM
President Trump swept into this year’s U.N. General Assembly on a positive note, claiming credit during initial meetings Monday that “tremendous progress” has been made in nuclear talks with North Korea and asserting that he intends to hold another face-to-face summit with Kim Jong-un “in the not-too-distant future.” ✔ Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in ✔ South Korea’s trade surplus with the U.S. was $23 billion last year, down from $27.5 billion in 2016 ✔ Through the first seven months of 2018, the U.S. bilateral deficit with South Korea was just under $10 billion, according to the U.S. government


U.S. accuses Myanmar military of 'planned and coordinated' Rohingya...

9/25/2018, 2:39:12 AM
nt investigation has found that Myanmar’s military waged a "well-planned an... ✔ A declaration of genocide by the U.S. government, which has only gone as far as labeling the crackdown ethnic cleansing, could have legal implications of committing Washington to stronger punitive measures against Myanmar ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Sanctions overuse sapping diplomatic tool’s power, experts fear

9/25/2018, 12:43:15 AM
Since the start of his term, President Trump has aggressively employed one of the most potent weapons of international statecraft to bolster his “America first” foreign policy, but analysts worry that sanctions have been so overused by Democratic and Republican administrations that their effectiveness is blunted. ✔ Announcements of U.S. sanctions and calls from Capitol Hill for more come with numbing regularity, targeting Russian oligarchs, Venezuelan oil executives, Nicaraguan politicians, Chinese coal traders, Iranian bankers, Turkish Cabinet ministers, North Korean shippers, human rights violators in Myanmar and, just this month, any foreigner who tries to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, among others, according to the U.S. Treasury ✔ The sanctions make for an effective political talking point and a signal of U.S. displeasure but leave unaddressed a key question: Do they work


Lord ASHCROFT and ISABEL OAKESHOTT: Our heroes’ new enemy? Lawyers

9/25/2018, 1:51:38 AM
Today, warfare is increasingly accompanied by ‘lawfare’, as individuals at all levels within the military seek to avoid being sued. It began in Iraq, write LORD ASHCROFT and ISABEL OAKESHOTT. ✔ ‘In close contact with the enemy, this could prove fatal.’  The concept, he acknowledged, was good: soldiers always asking themselves ‘should I, could I, must I engage the target?’ with the emphasis on the last one ✔ In a sign of how seriously the MoD took this possibility, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson ordered a stockpile of anthrax vaccines for troops that could be sent to the Korean peninsula


Ex-Army boss blasts UK plans to invite German President to WW1 anniversary

9/25/2018, 1:21:27 AM
PLANS to invite Germany’s President to the Cenotaph for the 100th anniversary of World War One’s end are unnecessary, the ex-head of the Armed Forces says. Field Marshal Lord Guthrie said the Remem… ✔ But Government aides fear the gesture could anger veterans taking part in the two-minutes’ silence and wreath-laying alongside Top Brass, Royalty and politicians ✔ Ring The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or email exclusive@the-sun.co.uk


Iran, major powers labor to keep nuclear deal afloat

9/25/2018, 2:44:24 AM
ning parties to the Iran nuclear deal on Monday agreed to keep working to mainta... ✔ Many diplomats and analysts, however, are skeptical such a vehicle could ultimately thwart U.S. sanctions given that the United States could amend its sanctions laws to prohibit such barter transactions ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


A Key US-Russian Missile Treaty Is Dying a Slow Death

9/25/2018, 2:29:03 AM
One of the arms-control treaties that is little understood is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force treaty signed by the Soviet Union and United States in 1987, which was later modified to incorporate Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Actually, this treaty not only banned Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs)—but also many short-range types and ground-based cruise missiles. But why get excited about banning the shorter-range weapons when the heavier missiles are still capable of laying waste to nations? ✔ Between 1981 through 1983, Moscow and Washington tried to work out an agreement to mutually cut back on the intermediate-range weaponry in the early 1980s, but the United States was unwilling to cancel deployment of the new weapons it intended to achieve parity with Soviet IRBMs, and compromise was complicated by the fact the SS-20 remained relatively more effective than the more numerous Western GLCMs


Chinese blockbuster 'Operation Red Sea' to battle for Oscar

9/25/2018, 3:29:19 AM
Chinese blockbuster Operation Red Sea has been chosen to represent Hong Kong, China for the Best Foreign Language Film honor at the 91st Academy Awards, the film’s official Sina Weibo account announced on Sept 24. ✔ Finally, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, director Dante Lam also said on Sina Weibo ✔ Starring Zhang Yi, Huang Jinyu and Hai Qing, the film raked in 3.65 billion yuan ($532 million) when it premiered in February, making it the country’s top earner of 2018 so far, and the second-highest-grossing film of all time in China


Trump says to announce meeting with DPRK's Kim 'pretty soon,' likely in different location - World

9/25/2018, 1:24:55 AM
undefined ✔ US President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, Singapore on June 12, 2018 ✔ The summit is likely to take place in a different place ✔ I think we' ve made more progress than anybody has made in -- ever, frankly, with regard to North Korea


U.S.' Mattis looks for 'way ahead' after China scraps military talks

9/25/2018, 12:20:38 AM
WASHINGTON-- U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday he was seeking a way ahead for militar ✔ At the Pentagon, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eastburn confirmed that the U.S. military had been informed that China's Navy chief would no longer meet America's top naval officer, Admiral John Richardson ✔ The mobile S-400 batteries, which include radars, a control system, and missiles with a range of up to 250 miles (400 km), were first deployed in Russia in 2007 and are considered Moscow's most effective defense against aircraft, missiles and drones


‘Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy’ Review: Paranoid Imaginings

9/25/2018, 12:39:16 AM
A new show at the Met Breuer examines artists’ responses to the darker currents of contemporary life. ✔ Raymond Pettibon’s ‘No Title (Coup d'etats were...)’ (1984) New York The paranoid thriller, in which a person (or persons) finds sinister intrigue and risks being silenced or killed to expose it, is a bounteous genre ✔ Lutz Bacher’s ‘The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview’ (1976) Luckily, a few artists are equal to the enormity of their subjects


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