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Trump: Obama was ready for war with North Korea

9/27/2018, 5:39:39 AM
undefined ✔ Since their first summit in Singapore in June, Washington and Pyongyang have been engaged in denuclearization talks ✔ On the same day, the U.S. State Department said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Pyongyang again next month at North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's invitation


'All the time in the world': Trump says no rush for North Korea to denuclearise

9/27/2018, 4:32:59 AM
Relaxed tone marks change from claims that earlier summit with Kim Jong-un would lead to rapid disarmament ✔ Trump pointed to the current freeze in North Korean testing as a significant achievement that had cost the US nothing as the international sanctions had not be lifted ✔ You know how close he was to pressing the trigger to war ✔ Saying we’ll get it done by 2021 was not a realistic or helpful thing to say


S-300 to Syria: Does the Kremlin Know What It's Doing?

9/27/2018, 5:37:25 AM
It appears evident that it was the Syrians who took down the Russian Il-20 surveillance plane. Russian MoD claims that Israelis misinformed Russia about the target of their strikes, whose fighters used the hapless Il-20 for cover. This would make it a combination of Arab incompetence and Jewish mendacity. A most stereotypical combination. ✔ That said, delivering the S-300PMU to the Syrians isn’t without its risks ✔ Not to mention that Israel has the world’s premier superpower at least half in tow ✔ It may well even launch a strike on the S-300 before it’s even set up, which would be $1 billion down the drain at best, a few more dead Russians at worst ✔ Anyhow, I do hope the kremlins know what they are doing


Short digest of the roots of Ukrainian crisis from 1654 to present

9/27/2018, 7:13:50 AM
The Pereiaslav Treaty proclaiming reunification of Ukraine led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Russia under Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich. ✔ However, some inside and outside forces had a different agenda which resulted in the current tragedy, loss of life and territory, radical nationalism on the rise (The Chairman of Ukraine’s Parliament Andriy Parubiy has recently declared that Adolf Hitler was the torchbearer of democracy and not a single Western leader has condemned this statement), economic devastation, millions of skilled workers forced to leave the country in search of manual jobs in foreign lands to survive and support their families


If Russia Doesn't Quickly Put Its Foot Down It Will Eventually Face the Choice of Total Surrender to the US or Nuclear War

9/27/2018, 7:28:17 AM
One of the reasons that truth is on the decline is that truth is becoming emotion-based, not evidence-based. It is all about feelings. This seems to have begun with feminists, but teaching women to trust their feelings, that feelings are truth, couldn’t be kept just in the women’s locker room. It has spread into the men’s as well and is now also an affliction of some of the younger men. ✔ One of the reasons that truth is on the decline is that truth is becoming emotion-based, not evidence-based ✔ Is it enough movement to compensate for the ever more provocative and ever more insulting behavior of Washington and the British government toward Russia


Maduro says he's ready 'to shake hands' with Trump

9/27/2018, 4:20:47 AM
Venezuela's President, Nicholas Maduro, has said that he is willing to reach out to his US counterpart and discuss mutual grievances. Maduro has been one of Donald Trump's arch-nemeses during Trump's time in office. ✔ Despite the conciliatory tone, Trump said that Washington would prefer to keep all options – including military ones – open ✔ We have not been able to use the international currency of the US dollar ✔ Trends: Donald Trump newsNicolas MaduroUS newsVenezuela news


Expectations high for NK-US big deal

9/27/2018, 7:28:44 AM
undefined ✔ Pompeo's NK visit next month seen crucial By Kim Bo-eun Washington and Pyongyang are moving quickly to find common ground in their denuclearization negotiations after South Korean President Moon Jae-in's landmark visit to Pyongyang last week ✔ Based on talks on North Korea's denuclearization and reciprocal measures from the U.S., a second summit between Kim and Trump is set to take place


A seal slapped a kayaker with an octopus and there's a perfectly reasonable explanation

9/27/2018, 5:20:04 AM
Taiyo Masuda says he was on a GoPro-funded kayaking trip off the coast of New Zealand on Sept. 22 when he shot the now-viral video. ✔ A video shot by Taiyo Masuda shows a New Zealand fur seal slapping a kayaker with an octopus on September 22 near Kaikoura, New Zealand.(Photo: Screen grab of a video shot on a GoPro HERO7 by Instagram user @taiyomasuda showing Instagram user @barekiwi being hit with the octopus) A filmmaker testing out a newly launched camera during a kayaking trip captured an incredible sight: a seal slapping a fellow adventurer with a live octopus ✔ A US-Bangla flight carrying 171 people from Dhaka to Cox's Bazar has been forced to make an emergency landing at the Chattogram airport after the plane's landing gear failed


`Trump can be breakthrough in denuke talks'

9/27/2018, 6:42:36 AM
undefined ✔ ''Determination from one of the two leaders is needed ✔ ''The U.S. will independently make the call based on its own calculation and interest ✔ His challenge is economic growth and prosperity so he may very well pursue things differently.'' Jane Han (jhan@koreatimes.co.kr) writes from Seattle


Trump sees no time frame for N. Korea deal, second summit coming

9/27/2018, 5:37:14 AM
UNITED NATIONS--U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not have a time frame for North ✔ If it takes two years, three years or five months - doesn't matter ✔ Trump's remarks on North Korea this year have been dramatically different from those in his speech last year at the U.N ✔ North Korea had made international inspection of its main nuclear site conditional on corresponding measures


Can Democrats take a Senate seat in Arizona?

9/27/2018, 6:28:10 AM
The state, along with Nevada and Tennessee, offers Democrats the best chance of making gains—and flipping the Senate ✔ McSally versus SinemaCan Democrats take a Senate seat in Arizona ✔ Ms Sinema, dressed in a pink tutu, was speaking at anti-war protests ✔ With Democratic incumbents playing defence in Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia, Arizona offers one of the party’s few opportunities to take a Republican-held Senate seat this year ✔ Outside groups from both sides are spending heavily


Palestinian refugee agency scrambles for funds after US cut

9/27/2018, 7:44:08 AM
Arab and EU states expected to increase donations to UNRWA, as $185m required to keep agency running until end of 2018. ✔ In Gaza, where those needs are very severe and very significant, it is wrong to have to reduce in this way because the needs have not gone away, said Krahenbuhl, referring to the dramatic rise in anxiety, depression and suicide in the besieged territory as residents struggle to cope with the severe restrictions imposed by the 11-year Israeli blockade


Thursday briefing: I'll take a blank Chequers, Corbyn tells May

9/27/2018, 5:59:29 AM
Brexit deal on my terms, says Labour leader … Kavanaugh’s judgment day arrives … seal smacks kayaker with octopus ✔ Top story: Leaving Liverpool, bring on Brussels Good morning, Graham Russell here with a swift gulp of news and views to start your day ✔ One kayaker has the memories, and footage, to prove it after a seal appeared to hurl an octopus at him ✔ For more news: www.theguardian.com Sign up The Guardian Morning Briefing is delivered to thousands of inboxes bright and early every weekday


'At first people said we were terrorists': Fear of migrants in rural France recedes

9/27/2018, 6:29:07 AM
When the quiet French town of Forges-les-Bains was chosen to host a centre for young male asylum seekers in 2016, there was uproar. ✔ The disused hospital earmarked for the project was firebombed, some 250 residents staged a protest and NGO workers assisting the group of Afghans had their car tyres slashed ✔ It's quiet and the people are nice, Gul, who was scarred by police violence on the migrant route in Bulgaria, said as he hoisted his belongings onto a truck bound for a shelter 30 kilometres away


The West Is Deluding Itself, Sino-Russian Rivalries Are on the Way to Becoming a Thing of the Past

9/27/2018, 6:24:02 AM
When writing about Sino-Russian relations, western journalists & academics often write as if the Sino-Russian rivalry of the past are eternal and unchanging constants in international relations. ✔ More importantly, average Chinese wages have recently exceeded those of Russians, particularly Russians in Siberia and the Russian Far East, where wages are lower than those of European Russia ✔ It would be able to ensure pro-Russian governments stay in power & contain the spread of radical Islam, but would be hard-pressed to advance EEU integration without any outside participation and investments


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