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Sanaa airport could be reopened soon: UN envoy to Yemen

9/28/2018, 11:27:02 AM
The main airport, closed for two years due to civil war, could get commercial access, Martin Griffiths tells Al Jazeera. ✔ The UN food agency has warned that Yemen, the poorest nation in the Middle East, is on the brink of a full-blown famine, with 18 million of its 29 million population food insecure ✔ Last month, in a report the panel accused both government forces and Houthi rebels of violations but said that coalition air strikes had caused most of the documented civilian casualties and voiced serious concerns about the targeting process


Trump Administration Split Over Response to Deaths of Yemeni Children

9/28/2018, 11:19:11 AM
The botched bombing of a school bus by a Saudi-led military coalition has ignited a new debate in the Trump administration about how much military support the U.S. should provide its Gulf allies in the conflict in Yemen. ✔ Attorneys at the Pentagon say the law prevents the U.S. from helping with so-called dynamic targetingwhere there is often little time to analyze intelligence and assess the riskssuch as the airstrike that hit the school bus ✔ And it would be very, perhaps, satisfying to some people that we did that, but the fact is more civilians would die


What is it like running a ride hailing app in worn-torn Syria?

9/28/2018, 11:03:04 AM
undefined ✔ What is it like running a tech start up in the middle of a civil war ✔ Finding private taxis for the three-hour journey used to be a cumbersome word-of-mouth business, however ✔ Mr Kahhaleh and his co-founder Omar Alsakka started a mobile-based service with just $5000 to solve this very specific problem


Ringleader of 'Dutch terror cell' was on probation for terror offences

9/28/2018, 10:24:10 AM
Hardi N, 34, an Iraqi living in the Netherlands on a residency permit, was jailed in 2016 for trying to join Al Qaeda in Syria but freed after less than a year because a court heard he had renounced extremism. ✔ Officials said that the investigation sped up this month because of the suspects' 'advanced preparations' ✔ Officers look inside an apartment belonging to one of the arrested terror suspects in Rotterdam Police comb through the apartment of the Rotterdam suspect, as they continue to piece together evidence to convict the men of terror charges Three of the men were from Arnhem, where police are pictured after having secured the scene of the afternoon raid


Russia maintains contacts with Israel over downed plane: agencies

9/28/2018, 10:30:10 AM
Russia and Israel are "in constant contact" regarding the downing of a... ✔ Fifteen Russian crew were killed when an IL-20 surveillance plane crashed near Latakia in northern Syria on Sept ✔ Bogdanov also said that work on the creation of a demilitarized zone in Syria’s Idlib were continuing, Interfax reported ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


UAE foreign minister wants 'Arab presence' at table in any future Iran talks

9/28/2018, 11:00:13 AM
THE INTERVIEW : Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, spoke to FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the UN General A... ✔ Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, spoke to FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly ✔ He denied the baseless accusations that the UAE was involved in last weekend's attack on a military parade in Iran ✔ Finally, he discussed the war in Yemen and blamed the Houthis for the recent debacle of UN-brokered talks in Geneva


Foreign Minister vows continued enforcement of NK sanctions

9/28/2018, 8:17:26 AM
undefined ✔ Kang shared with UNSC member states developments surrounding denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, following the third inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang last week, and sought the international community's support for further progress ✔ They also agreed to halt military drills near the military demarcation line (MDL), withdraw some border guard posts and disarm the Joint security area in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)


Russia Is Depriving the US of Excuses to Keep Occupying Southern Syrian Desert

9/28/2018, 10:18:20 AM
Russia has successfully negotiated the withdrawal of one of only two last remaining US-sponsored rebel groups in al-Tanf and is now in talks to relocate the 60,000 refugees in the nearby Rukban refugee camp -- to their pre-war homes, now largely held by the Syrian government. This is bigger news than you would think. ✔ TASS: Russia’s Foreign Ministry is closely working with the United States on evacuating refugees from the Syrian camp Rukban bordering Jordan to the territory controlled by the Damascus government, the ministry’s representative Nikolai Burtsev said on Thursday


Koreas discuss commemorative event in Pyongyang next week

9/28/2018, 8:26:50 AM
undefined ✔ It was established according to the Panmunjeom Declaration reached between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in their first summit in April ✔ They also agreed to make efforts to boost inter-Korean economic projects and push for humanitarian projects including reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War


Iran warns Saudi Arabia ‘RESPECT red lines or face RETALIATION’- Middle East tensions peak

9/28/2018, 9:42:20 AM
IRAN’S Revolutionary Guards have demanded Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates respect Tehran's "red lines" or face retaliation, as the United States and its Gulf allies increase pressure on Tehran to curb its regional influence. ✔ Iran news: Rouhani has repeatedly threatened his neighbours (Image: GETTY) The warning comes as troops killed four militants at the Saravan border crossing with Pakistan in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province ✔ Shi'ite Muslim Iran and Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia are arch-rivals in the Middle East and support opposing sides in the Syrian and Yemen conflicts


Donald Trump, the UN, and the fracturing of the west

9/28/2018, 9:33:51 AM
undefined ✔ Should further evidence be needed that the old world order is shaking at its core, it was on display at the UN General Assembly in New York this week ✔ There have been other disagreements: over the Palestinian territories, over the 2003 Iraq war ✔ They passed without permanently fracturing the alliance


Syrian man, 21, arrested for 'plotting a chemical attack on Israel' 

9/28/2018, 10:53:06 AM
A Syrian man accused of plotting a chemical attack on Israel and recruiting extremist terrorists to ISIS has been arrested in Berlin. Police arrested the Neukölln around 6pm last Thursday. ✔ 'He is a great danger.' However according to the German website Bild, the assault is only half the story and the Syrian is also alleged to have planned a terrorist attack in Israel with chemical weapons ✔ The two were arrested after Danish police and intelligence services carried out raids, the police said in a statement, without releasing their names


The danger that Russia poses has now become clear, says STEPHEN POLLARD

9/28/2018, 9:42:24 AM
AS revelations go the unmasking of the would-be assassin of Sergei Skripal as a decorated hero of Russian military intelligence is spectacular. On one level it is a simply brilliant piece of investigative journalism. But it is also much more. Because it shows beyond any doubt the deadly seriousness of the battle we are engaged in with Russia. ✔ The Putin regime respects no rules and observes no boundaries ✔ Russia's nefarious activities are many, from an ongoing cyber war to disrupt Western economies and steal secrets to growing interference in elections and politics, again designed to destabilise the West ✔ Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov in Salisbury (Image: PA) As this list shows, the Russians are indeed brutal and ruthless


Tiny Belarus is a throwback to the Soviet Union — and the center of a booming tech economy - Los Angeles Times

9/28/2018, 10:53:10 AM
In many ways, Belarus remains a throwback to the Soviet Union, and President Alexander Lukashenko's political mantra is, "There will be no reforms." What there is, however, is a growing tech sector that is making Minsk the Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe. ✔ Their labor was cheap and its results were oriented toward the West ✔ In early August, 18 journalists working for independent media outlets and a Western broadcaster were detained and questioned for allegedly illegally accessing dispatches from a state-run news agency ✔ Now, you can’t be sure of the future, if some cop or KGB agent does not like you


Will a name-change referendum say yes to North Macedonia?

9/28/2018, 9:55:53 AM
Almost 1.8 million voters registered to decide whether the former Yugoslav Macedonia will change its name. ✔ Despite the fact that the agreement officially only addresses the issue of the country's name, it is the separate issue of identity that could sink it ✔ Alternatively, it could declare a general election to increase its parliamentary majority, but that could be a gamble


Brave New World Revisited Again

9/28/2018, 11:03:55 AM
60 years ago this year, Aldous Huxley published Brave New World Revisited, which concluded that the real world was moving towards the future predicted in his classic dystopian novel much more quickly than he had first imagined. ✔ It featured a collection of articles written from 2009 onwards examining the links between economic collapse, the rise of the BRICS, war on Libya and Syria and 'austerity' ✔ It is worth noting, however, that Huxley was no simplistic moralizer when it came to drugs ✔ The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT


Justice for all? Inside the legal aid crisis

9/28/2018, 9:58:50 AM
undefined ✔ You trip over yourself not to use the huge advantage you have being a lawyer against someone who knows very little not just knowledge of the law but your confidence, your understanding of the rules, the protocols you learn, says Langford, the barrister


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