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How an ICBM commander learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

9/1/2018, 10:06:49 PM
Lt. Col. Stephen L. Meister once protested nuclear weapons. Now he is in charge of them.   ✔ At Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Mont., Lt ✔ In between training for doomsday, the women and men of the 12th Missile Squadron stood at attention when their new commander entered the conference room ✔ The idea of intervening abroad to defend liberal values was in the air ✔ A photo of the family that Dana had taken, just in case, before their son deployed to Afghanistan



Missile strike caused Syria blasts: official in regional alliance

9/1/2018, 10:51:50 PM
Blasts heard at the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus were caused by missile strikes targeting the base and by Syrian air defense systems responding, an official in the regional alliance supporting Damascus said on Sunday. ✔ BEIRUT (Reuters) - Blasts heard at the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus were caused by missile strikes targeting the base and by Syrian air defense systems responding, an official in the regional alliance supporting Damascus said on Sunday ✔ A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the explosions resulted from Israeli air strikes, and that they caused deaths and injuries ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Myanmar refugee children are now at risk of gangs forcing them into prostitution

9/1/2018, 8:13:41 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The plight of the Rohingya Muslims was spelled out in a UNICEF report telling of 'high levels of gender-based and domestic violence' in 12 camps in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh ✔ Now I'm terrified my daughters will be raped She remains haunted by the murder of her parents and added: We saw the military coming into our village ✔ A cholera or measles epidemic is a real possibility ✔ For more information, or to donate, go to unicef.org.uk/donate/rohingya-refugees



Amsterdam stabbings was 'terror attack' after victims identified as US tourists

9/1/2018, 9:09:25 PM
A 19-year-old suspect, named Jawed S, was shot and injured following the attack at Amsterdam's central railway station on Friday ✔ The identities of the victims have not been released ✔ The National Coordinator for Counter-terrorism and Security Policy said the national threat level in the Netherlands was unchanged at substantial, or one notch below the highest ✔ The attack happened shortly before midday yesterday



‘Terrorist motive’ for stabbing of two US tourists in Amsterdam, say Dutch

9/1/2018, 8:11:41 PM
Investigation of 19-year-old German resident from Afghanistan is focused on extremism, confirms PM Mark Rutte ✔ A statement issued late on Friday by Amsterdam’s city council said the Americans did not appear to have been victims of a targeted attack ✔ Friday is one of the busiest days of the week for train travel as tourists arrive for the weekend ✔ The station is patrolled by armed police and other security staff



‘Get the Nazi out of New York.’ The secret operation to deport the last living Nazi defendant in the U.S. was a rare success.

9/1/2018, 10:10:08 PM
Eli Rosenbaum had watched eight Nazi war criminals die on American soil after they were ordered deported. Jakiw Palij’s expulsion would finally mark a victory. ✔ (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) By Debbie Cenziper and Justine Coleman September 1 at 5:49 PM He had watched eight Nazi war criminals die on American soil long after federal judges had ordered them to leave, so when the email came in early July with news that Germany would finally take the last surviving Nazi defendant in the United States, Eli Rosenbaum tried not to worry ✔ Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, shown in Berlin on Aug. 21 ✔ He was instrumental in negotiating Jakiw Palij’s deportation to Germany ✔ Coleman is a student at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs



Pentagon cancels $300m Pakistan aid on inaction over militants

9/1/2018, 9:54:58 PM
Trump administration says Islamabad is granting safe haven to insurgents ✔ The U.S. measures will hurt Pakistan's new prime minister Imran Khan, as he struggles to revive the economy ✔ The Pentagon's decision showed that the United States, which has sought to change Pakistani behavior, is still increasing pressure on Pakistan's security apparatus



US cancels $300million aid to Pakistan over 'failure to deal with terrorists'

9/1/2018, 9:09:22 PM
Donald Trump has previously said the country has rewarded past assistance with 'nothing but lies and deceit' ✔ At the time, the US President accused Pakistan of rewarding past assistance with nothing but lies and deceit ✔ The Pentagon's decision showed that the United States, which has sought to change Pakistani behavior, is still increasing pressure on Pakistan's security apparatus ✔ Pakistan could again be eligible next year for CSF



Reddit says website hosted Iranian influence operation

9/1/2018, 9:28:24 PM
Reddit, one of the world’s most popular websites, discovered scores of accounts linked to a suspected influence operation recently reported to be covertly promoting pro-Iranian political narratives on Facebook and Twitter, Reddit’s chief technology officer said Friday. ✔ These articles would often be posted to far-left or far-right political communities whose critical views of US involvement in the Middle East formed an environment that was receptive to the articles, Mr. Slowe wrote ✔ Reddit is currently the fifth most popular website in the U.S. and 15th worldwide, according to Alexa, the Amazon-owned traffic analytics service



Harry and Meghan will attend gala concert to help troops with PTSD

9/1/2018, 10:00:31 PM
The Royal couple will be guests at the 100 Days To Peace concert at Central Hall Westminster in aid of Help For Heroes, Combat Stress and Prince Harry’s own charity, Heads Together. ✔ The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will attend a gala concert this week that aims to raise £100,000 to help troops with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ✔ The campaign was inspired by the death of Warrant Officer Nathan Hunt, who served with Harry in Afghanistan and who killed himself in January



Idlib: 'If an offensive takes place, it will be a bloodbath'

9/1/2018, 9:12:15 PM
Residents in last rebel-held stronghold brace for potential full-fledged assault by Syrian troops and allied forces. ✔ According to Mohammed, a 24-year-old pro-opposition activist in Idlib, the fierce bombardment has forced local families to leave their villages ✔ They [the opposition] won't be the ones to start, but they will be ready to retaliate ✔ As Syria's Final Battles Looms, What Comes Next



German police end march envisioned as far-right springboard

9/1/2018, 11:03:21 PM
If the number of people who attended is any gauge, the envisioned far-right movement was in the earliest of embryonic stages. It drew about 4,500 participants, Saxony state police reported before citing security concerns as the reason for ending the event early. ✔ The right blames Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow in hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan for multiple problems ✔ Some 70 left-leaning and pro-migrant groups organized the Heart not Hatred rally that got in the way of Saturday's far-right march



US military to cancel $300m Pakistan aid

9/1/2018, 11:31:24 PM
The Pentagon says Pakistan is failing to tackle militancy and the funds should be used elsewhere. ✔ Pentagon spokesman Lt Col Koné Faulkner said the US military would aim to spend the money on other urgent priorities ✔ Who are the militants Pakistan is alleged to support ✔ Its aim has been to limit the influence in Afghanistan of its chief regional rival, India



Loud blasts heard at Syrian air base; cause disputed

9/1/2018, 11:27:30 PM
Syrian state media said loud blasts coming from an airbase early on Sunday were from an explosion at an ammunitions dump caused by an electrical problem, but an official in the regional alliance backing Damascus said they were from Israeli strikes. ✔ Israel has previously acknowledged having carried out air strikes in Syria aimed at degrading the capacity of Iran and its allies, including Lebanon’s Shi’ite Hezbollah group, which are backing Assad in the country’s seven-year civil war ✔ There was no immediate comment from Israel on reports of Sunday’s blasts or that it was behind them ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Arms industry spends millions to promote brands in schools

9/1/2018, 8:11:43 PM
Defence groups sponsor lessons that promote building and sale of military hardware ✔ In addition, they issue teaching materials for use in classrooms that promote the defence sector, sponsor competitions and award prizes ✔ A spokeswoman for BAE defended its interest in schools ✔ They are doing it because they want to improve their reputations and normalise their appalling business



ASIAN GAMES/ S. Korea’s Son avoids military duty with soccer gold

9/1/2018, 11:14:07 PM
JAKARTA--Tottenham forward Son Heung-min will get to skip military service.Son avoided the service o ✔ JAKARTA--Tottenham forward Son Heung-min will get to skip military service ✔ But several other nations closed ground slowly, making the Big Three not quite as dominant ✔ They were followed in the gold-medal ranking order by: Indonesia (31), Uzbekistan (21), Iran (20) and Taiwan (17)



The dark secret of Thailand’s child brides

9/1/2018, 9:13:45 PM
Underage Muslim girls are regularly forced into marriage with Malaysian men, and the government turns a blind eye ✔ But the Thai government appears reluctant to engage with the problem at a senior level, pushing responsibility back to the provincial Islamic councils ✔ But my family needed the money from my dowry to build a house ✔ Sadly, Suranya, stroked the head of her seven-year-old son, Afdon



In one city, two faces of Germany confront each other over migration

9/1/2018, 9:13:47 PM
Far-right protesters do not have things their own way as counter marches emerge ✔ Protests organised by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Pegida continued well past their official end time, leaving police in riot gear facing demonstrators, who chanted resistance in defiance ✔ A small group of refugees from Iraq and Syria had joined the same protest; they said they had experienced hatred and discrimination in their daily lives



A DACA student was struggling to get financial aid. Then Johns Hopkins offered emergency funds

9/1/2018, 10:38:49 PM
Until a few days ago Daniela Gaona didn’t know how she would pay to fulfill her dream of pursuing her masters in mental health counseling. ✔ The pair worked janitorial jobs in malls and cleaned houses to make money ✔ Pacheco has pushed for businesses, states and universities to help ease the burden on these students by offering financial assistance in some form ✔ Baltimore Sun Get updates on your area delivered via email



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