Kim's olive branch to Abe looks part of larger strategy
9/26/2018, 10:39:13 PMNorth Korea sees Japan as hurdle to war-ending declaration ✔ Kim's message to Japan appeared aimed at helping tilt the international situation in the favor of de-escalation ✔ Pyongyang has betrayed deep sensitivity over Japan's coolness toward an end-of-war declaration and relaxing sanctions ✔ Get unique insights on Asia, the most dynamic market in the world ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th
The UN needs a new body to investigate war crimes so that no one can escape justice
9/26/2018, 9:20:59 PMThe UN General Assembly is viewed each year through the prism of speeches by world leaders at the marble podium. ✔ In principle, the UN belongs as much to the poorest refugee as it does to any President or Prime Minister ✔ Much of the same could be said of the conflict in Yemen ✔ Lord William Hague and Angelina Jolie are co-founders of the Preventing Sexual Violence In Conflict Initiative, a global campaign to end the use of rape as a weapon of war
Trump sees no time frame for North Korea deal, second summit coming
9/26/2018, 11:10:10 PMDonald Trump said on Wednesday he did not have a time frame for North Korea to d... ✔ U.S. President Donald Trump holds a news conference on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 26, 2018 ✔ REUTERS/Carlo Allegri SANCTIONS In his address to the General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump praised Kim for his courage in taking steps to disarm, but said much work still had to be done and sanctions must remain in place on North Korea until it denuclearizes ✔ REUTERS/Darren Ornitz Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
'We WILL respond' May fires warning shot at Russia in chemical weapons row
9/26/2018, 10:52:07 PMTHERESA May has warned Russia the international community will take tough action against Vladimir Putin’s regime and its allies if they continue to use weapons of mass destruction. In a uncompromising speech to the UN Security Council chaired by US President Donald Trump, Mrs May attacked Russia’s use of a nerve agent in Salisbury against former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. ✔ Theresa May accused Russia of obfuscation and desperate fabrication (Image: John Moore/Getty Images) The attack led to the death of Dawn Sturgess who was unwittingly exposed to the Novichok nerve agent which had been hidden in a perfume bottle ✔ If they do not want to cooperate, does this mean they have something to hide
Senate panel advances Syria sanctions that also target Russia
9/26/2018, 8:48:22 PMThe bill, meant to push the Assad regime and its supporters for mass atrocities, has passed the House twice, but the Senate has never taken it up. ✔ Those sessions have taken place over the last few weeks, and have included a hearing on Russia’s support of the Syrian government's war effort ✔ Russian authorities have shown no interest in backing down in Syria, however, pledging to send the Assad government antiaircraft missiles to ward off potential attacks from U.S.-allied Israel and stepping up financial investments in Syria as well
U.S. pressure could work only if Iran deal survives: France
9/26/2018, 8:36:18 PMpresident said on Wednesday that the United States' sanctions policy on Ira... ✔ They accuse Iran of supporting destabilizing proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq ✔ However, Macron warned that unlike North Korea, Iran was not ruled by one dictator and diehard elements were determined to kill the nuclear deal ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The Latest: Ukrainian leader rails at Russia in UN speech
9/26/2018, 9:35:32 PMUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the United Nations General Assembly (all times local): 5:10 p.m. Ukraine's president has used his speech to world l ✔ (AP Photo/Richard Drew) In this photo released by the Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, left, and his wife Cilia Flores greet supporters upon their arrival to a meeting with Colombian citizens that reside in Venezuela, In Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Sept
Moon urges UN to recognize NK leader's sincere denuclearization commitment
9/26/2018, 11:05:59 PMundefined ✔ President Moon Jae-in speaks to the UN General Assembly on Sept ✔ But (the region) is not moving toward great cooperation due to conflicts ✔ I hope bold steps for denuclearization will be taken by related countries in the future and that they will lead to a declaration of the war's end, Moon told the U.N
Cuba's new president sticks to old script at United Nations
9/26/2018, 9:13:47 PMIn first speech before the UN, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the US is headed in the wrong direction by trying to bully Cuba, other nations ✔ In spite of the blockade, the hostility and the actions carried out by the United States to impose a regime change in Cuba, the Cuban revolution is right here, alive and kicking, true to its principles, he said ✔ He blasted the world's superpowers especially the U.S. for the looming militarization of space, the unchecked advance of climate change, and for moving the world further away from a world order that can benefit all nations and all people
Salisbury poisoning carried out by 'hero' spy 'suggests orders came from top'
9/26/2018, 10:22:28 PMOne of Russia's Salisbury "tourists" Ruslan Boshirov is now claimed to be Chepiga, a colonel given a Hero of the Russian Federation medal by Putin ✔ Its website lists all past students who have received the award, with a detailed citation ✔ Bellingcat suggested the 2014 award may have been given for service in Ukraine, where Putin’s troops are accused of backing pro-Moscow rebels fighting government forces ✔ Her boyfriend Charlie Rowley, 45, was left seriously ill ✔ No10 and the Met Police refused to comment last night
Suspect in U.K. poisoning is colonel in Russian military intel agency, investigative group says
9/26/2018, 10:20:51 PMGroup says man charged with trying to kill Sergei Skripal used false passport name and is in fact Col. Anatoliy Chepiga, who was awarded Russia's highest medal in 2014 ✔ It identified the man as Chepiga, and eventually tracked down his passport file, dated 2003, with a picture bearing a strong resemblance to Boshirov ✔ Two local residents who touched a discarded bottle containing the nerve agent were also sickened and one of them, Dawn Sturgess, died
Pompeo to return to N. Korea next month to prepare summit
9/26/2018, 11:44:54 PMUNITED NATIONS--U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had a ✔ Security Council that many positive things were happening behind the scenes on North Korea, away from the media ✔ Moon said declaring a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War would encourage North Korea to move further with denuclearization and a timetable for such steps would be a task for a second Trump-Kim summit
In a sweltering hotel ballroom, President Trump holds a freewheeling news conference - Los Angeles Times
9/26/2018, 11:55:58 PMPresident Trump answers questions about Syria, Brett Kavanaugh, whether he was laughed at at the U.N. and other topics in a freewheeling session with hundreds of reporters in New York. ✔ He said he couldn’t disclose what evidence he had, but that it would come out ✔ The administration said China is hurting farmers and workers in pro-Trump states and districts ✔ Some estimates put the number of radical fighters at about 10,000 ✔ pic.twitter.com/xFMdm7zeKF Mark Knoller (@markknoller) September 26, 2018
The Latest: Iran leader says US will return to nuclear deal
9/26/2018, 8:20:51 PMUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the United Nations General Assembly (all times local): 3:55 Iran's President Hassan Rouhani is calling the U.S. wit ✔ The Trump administration has slapped financial sanctions on four members of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's inner circle, including his wife and the nation's vice president, on allegations of corruption ✔ Governments from around the world will gather Wednesday to discuss the persistent scourge of tuberculosis, which last year claimed more lives than any other communicable disease
The Latest: Eswatini stands up for Taiwan at the UN
9/26/2018, 9:19:01 PMUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the United Nations General Assembly (all times local): 4:50 p.m. One of the few countries that have full diplomatic ✔ (AP Photo/Richard Drew) South Korea's President Moon Jae-in arrives to address the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N ✔ Governments from around the world will gather Wednesday to discuss the persistent scourge of tuberculosis, which last year claimed more lives than any other communicable disease
Donald Trump defends Brett Kavanaugh as he cites personal experience of 'false accusations'
9/26/2018, 11:25:30 PMDonald Trump has strongly defended his embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but also, for the first time, raised the possibility of being convinced by the women accusing him of sexual assault. ✔ Donald Trump has strongly defended his embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but also, for the first time, raised the possibility of being convinced by the women accusing him of sexual assault ✔ Mr Trump said he sympathised with the embattled judge’s situation
At U.N., Trump’s foreign policy agenda takes back seat to controversy at home
9/26/2018, 11:51:34 PMTime and again, world leaders were reduced to bit players and key foreign policy issues were lost amid the spectacle of a president consumed by the twin crises engulfing the White House. ✔ By David Nakamura David Nakamura Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow September 26 at 7:25 PM NEW YORK President Trump had just announced high-level trade talks between the United States and Japan at a photo op here Wednesday when a reporter shouted a question about the troubled Supreme Court nomination of Brett M ✔ Aides scheduled a busy itinerary for Trump, including bilateral meetings Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and British Prime Minister Theresa May, as well as with Abe
Trump calls Kurdish journalist 'Mr. Kurd' during freewheeling press conference
9/26/2018, 11:03:38 PMPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday referred to a Kurdish journalist as "Mr. Kurd" during a marathon press conference following the United Nations General Assembly in New York. ✔ The Kurds are indigenous to a mountainous region in the northern part of the Middle East and span across Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia ✔ Trump addressed an array of topics during Wednesday's lengthy press conference, taking questions on everything from the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to his stance on the ongoing tensions between Israel and Palestine
Unmasked: Putin’s hitman
9/26/2018, 11:35:15 PMONE of the smirking assassins involved in the Salisbury nerve agent attack has been identified as a high-ranking Russian secret service agent. The man, who used the alias Ruslan Boshirov to travel to the UK, was yesterday unmasked as Colonel Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga, an officer who has received Russia’s highest military award. ✔ Bellingcat said it believed that Boshirov was in fact Chepiga after obtaining documents relating to his passport ✔ I want to thank all the people who are working so tirelessly on this case ✔ The Ministry of Defence said Mr Williamson’s social media profile was personal and it did not know why the tweet was deleted
Trump denounced 'globalism' at the U.N. — but what does that word really mean? - Los Angeles Times
9/26/2018, 11:16:27 PMWhen President Trump condemns 'globalism,' is he talking about the postwar institutions that have underpinned decades of peace and prosperity for the U.S. and the world? Or has it become a code word for things he dislikes? ✔ Some commentators also saw Trump’s tirade against globalism – combined with the speech’s overtones of isolationism and nationalism -- as a retreat from the principles the United States has long sought to export to the rest of the world, such as individual liberties and human rights
Trump accuses China of trying to interfere in upcoming U.S. congressional elections
9/26/2018, 9:38:40 PMTaking center stage at the United Nations, President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of trying to interfere in the upcoming U.S. congressional elections because it opposes his tough trade policies. The White House provided scant evidence of anything akin to the level of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential… ✔ Facebook announced in July that it had uncovered sophisticated efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to influence U.S. politics on its platforms ✔ Jim Himes, D-Conn., a member of the House intelligence committee ✔ This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Prime Minister Theresa May blasts Vladimir Putin at UN
9/26/2018, 11:46:17 PMThe Prime Minister used a UN Security Council meeting on chemical weapons to point the finger of blame of Russia for the 'reckless' nerve agent attack. ✔ Theresa May last night launched a furious attack on Vladimir Putin over the Salisbury poisonings, accusing him of using 'desperate fabrication' to hide the identities of his would-be assassins ✔ The Prime Minister, who had earlier told the Commons the men were members of Russia's feared GRU, said Russia's denials 'insulted the public's intelligence'
Trump to world leaders: China out to meddle in 2018 election
9/26/2018, 8:20:40 PMUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Taking center stage at the United Nations, President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of trying to interfere in the upcoming U.S. congressional electi ✔ With the elections less than two months away, U.S. intelligence and election-protection officials have not cited any specific, credible Chinese efforts ✔ Trump made the comments upon his arrival at the United Nations to make a speech at an annual gathering
Iran's Rouhani dismisses US, saying 'America is alone'
9/26/2018, 10:45:48 PMIran's President Hassan Rouhani said today that the US is the problem: an isolated violator of international laws led by a team of political and diplomatic novices that is earning the world's disapproval. ✔ The one who has been newly appointed Secretary of State, he wasn't a diplomat before this, Rouhani noted ✔ If America returns to abiding by laws we have no problem with them ✔ MUST WATCH Bolduan: World laughed at Trump .. ✔ This does not benefit the Iranian people, it does not benefit the American people or Europe
‘When will the US learn its lesson?’ Highlights from UNSC meeting chaired by Trump
9/26/2018, 11:46:51 PMHe arrived late and left early, but otherwise Donald Trump was affable enough as moonlighting chair of the UN Security Council. The same cannot be said of the speeches delivered by the members – including Trump himself. ✔ The same cannot be said of the speeches delivered by the members – including Trump himself ✔ But the accusations had never been aired with such passion, or in front of such highly-placed diplomats ✔ Trends: Donald Trump newsRussia news Sergey Lavrov news Theresa May news UK newsUN newsUS news
Analysis | President Trump’s U.N. press conference, annotated
9/26/2018, 10:32:09 PMThe full transcript, with highlights and analysis. ✔ President Trump holds a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday ✔ It’s going to go very well on Monday or Saturday or Sunday or whenever they vote, but I could pick a woman and she could have charges made from many years ago also
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