Saudi-led Coalition Admits 'Mistakes' In Yemen Airstrike That Killed 40 Children
9/2/2018, 2:16:00 AMThe United Nations has warned that such attacks "may amount to war crimes." ✔ The military coalition is battling the rebels to restore the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was ousted from the capital by rebels in 2015 ✔ U.N.-sponsored negotiations are being held in Geneva next week in an effort to resolve the two-year-old conflict
Saudi-led coalition admits 'mistakes' made in deadly bus attack in Yemen
9/2/2018, 12:47:00 AMThe Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen acknowledges "mistakes" were made in last month's deadly airstrike on a school bus in northern Yemen, the Saudi Press Agency said Saturday. ✔ Yemenis vent their anger against Saudis and Americans at a mass funeral last month in northern Yemen ✔ CNN learned this week that the Pentagon warned Saudi Arabia it is prepared to reduce military and intelligence support if the Saudis do not demonstrate efforts to limit civilian deaths in airstrikes
Locked in a small room called North Korea
9/2/2018, 5:04:19 AMundefined ✔ It is really hard to move up levels, but very easy to move down ✔ Casey Lartigue Jr., co-founder of the Teach North Korean Refugees Global Education Center, is the 2017 winner of the Social Contribution Prize from the Hansarang Rural Cultural Foundation and the 2017 winner of the Global Award from Challenge Korea
Saudis admit Yemen strike on bus carrying children unjustified
9/2/2018, 6:59:28 AMCoalition expresses regret after investigators call for ‘immediately review’ of rules of engagement ✔ The coalition later announced that it accepted those findings and pledged to hold accountable anyone who was proven to have made a mistake ✔ The UN has convened talks in Geneva on 6 September, the first effort to negotiate the war in more than two years
Hope and caution in N. Korea as Kim Jong Un shifts gears
9/2/2018, 7:26:59 AMMOUNT CHILBO, North Korea--Tanned and wearing a swimsuit, So Myong Il walks to the barbecue pit and ✔ Reports have portrayed Kim as the consummate statesman, firmly in charge of a carefully considered strategy to make his country safer and more prosperous ✔ Kim is ardently wooing South Korean investment to help him build the very things Trump was offering: infrastructure, particularly roads and railways, and the development of selected tourism zones ✔ I think there will be many changes in the coming years
PETER HITCHENS: War on marriage? It's about controlling YOUR children
9/2/2018, 3:00:14 AMOur upper crust hate marriage because it is a fortress of private life, says Peter Hitchens, because they can’t control it, because it is where people learn how to be distinct, thinking individuals. ✔ I am sure Lady Kitty Spencer simply cannot have been aware that the necklace in which she poses (not pictured) is designed to resemble marijuana leaves, or why it matters The Concrete Party's desecration of beauty A gloomy, grey shadow now falls across what has until now been an unspoiled part of our beautiful country
'I saved Prince Harry's superman... but doctor said I should have let him die'
9/2/2018, 12:58:06 AMWHEN medic Charlotte Thompson-Edgar saved the life of Afghan war casualty Mark Ormrod, it was the start of 10 years of agonising doubt over whether she had done the right thing. The Royal Marine wa… ✔ WHEN medic Charlotte Thompson-Edgar saved the life of Afghan war casualty Mark Ormrod, it was the start of 10 years of agonising doubt over whether she had done the right thing ✔ Rex Features 12 Prince Harry dubbed Mark 'Superman' I have the most amazing life, and I cherish it every single day
After Zakharchenko Assassination Signs Moscow Is Washing Its Hands Off Rebel Donbass
9/2/2018, 7:16:07 AMAlexander Zhuchkovsky reports that there has been an explosion at the “Separ” [separatist] restaurant in Donetsk, killing DNR head Alexander Zakharchenko. DNR Income and Collections Minister Alexander Timofeev has also been seriously injured. ✔ We hope that the relevant Ukrainian politicians find the strength to stop the party of war and prevent an escalation of conflict in Donbass ✔ special forces) are getting better, so I don’t consider it technically beyond them ✔ Not to also mention that the bomb blast killed several innocents, including a child
Blasts from area of military airport shake Syrian capital
9/2/2018, 12:05:21 AMDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A string of powerful blasts from the direction of a military airport in Damascus lit up the skies and shook the capital city in the early morning hours on S ✔ The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the explosions came from inside the Mezzeh air base and said they were likely caused by an Israeli missile strike ✔ struck military installations around Damascus in April this year after a chlorine gas attack against rebels under siege outside the capital
Pentagon to cut $300 million in aid to Pakistan
9/2/2018, 7:39:02 AMThe U.S. military plans to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan due to Islamabad's lack of "decisive actions" in support of American strategy in the region, the Pentagon said Saturday. The U.S. has been pushing Pakistan to crack down on militant safe havens in the country, and announced a… ✔ The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools, Trump wrote on Twitter at the beginning of the year ✔ Pakistan is still believed to have the strongest influence over the Taliban, making its cooperation necessary for peace talks
US cancels $300million aid to Pakistan over 'failure to deal with terrorists'
9/2/2018, 6:55:39 AMDonald 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
Pentagon cancels aid to Pakistan amid growing tension over militant havens
9/2/2018, 5:05:27 AMThe Pentagon is pulling $300 million of aid to Pakistan in response to what it said was Islamabad's lack of "decisive actions" in support of regional American strategy. ✔ The White House believes that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency and other military bodies have long helped fund and arm the Taliban for ideological reasons and to counter rising Indian influence in Afghanistan ✔ We continue to press Pakistan to indiscriminately target all terrorist groups, Lt Col Faulkner said
Pentagon to cancel $300m in Pakistan aid over armed groups
9/2/2018, 7:21:56 AMPentagon says aid is reprogrammed due to 'lack of Pakistani decisive actions' in support of US' South Asia strategy. ✔ The impression that has been given in their press release, which mentions terrorists operating in Pakistan, is in contrast with reality ✔ Herein lies the crux of the dysfunction in US-#Pakistan ties: Expectations are hopelessly and endlessly divergent ✔ What does Washington want from Islamabad
The French children forgotten in the Soviet Union
9/2/2018, 7:28:06 AMWhen she set out on a boat for the USSR with her family some 70 years ago, Yanina Stashko had no idea she would never see her native France again. ✔ There were doctors, engineers, teachers, the now widowed mother-of-two remembers ✔ But when they arrived, the passengers in the top two classes were immediately confronted with the realities of Joseph Stalin's regime ✔ And maybe see Paris -- I've never seen Paris, she told AFP
Palestinians condemn U.S. ending funding for U.N. refugee agency
9/2/2018, 12:16:55 AMThe announcement raised new questions about the viability of any future U.S. peace plan. ✔ Palestinians on Saturday condemned the U.S. decision to end its decades of funding for the U.N ✔ The announcement raised new questions about the viability of any future U.S. peace plan ✔ But early this year, it suspended roughly $300 million in planned assistance, pending a review
Weekend fizzer shows Germany's far-right has a long march ahead
9/2/2018, 2:36:46 AMIf the number of people who attended is any gauge, Germany's far-right movement is in the earliest of embryonic stages. ✔ However, the mood at the event bringing together previously isolated clusters of nationalists - from lawmakers to Hitler-saluting skinheads - darkened as the sun set ✔ Some far-right supporters argued before the killing in Chemnitz that migrants are responsible for an increase in serious crimes, especially attacks on women ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
US strips Pakistan of $300mn in anti-terrorism aid
9/2/2018, 4:33:01 AMThe Pentagon has recalled $300 million of aid earmarked to support Pakistan's anti-terrorism efforts, accusing Islamabad of going soft on extremists and providing them with safe havens, Reuters reports. ✔ Due to a lack of Pakistani decisive actions in support of the South Asia Strategy the remaining $300 (million) was reprogrammed, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Kone Faulkner said, as cited by Reuters ✔ No more! Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2018 The January broadside by Trump was met with indignation in Pakistan, its government rejecting the allegations and threatening to cease cooperation altogether
Kim struggles to revive North Korean economy battered by sanctions
9/2/2018, 5:03:13 AMLife in the cities better than on hardscrabble farms, but country still reeling ✔ A shopping center that opened recently in North Korea's Ryanggang Province, near the Chinese border, markets North Korean goods to Chinese tourists ✔ How the North Korean leader approaches the stalled denuclearization talks will offer a clue as to how serious he is about shoring up the economy, as well as how urgent a task he considers it to be
One little Syrian refugee didn't stop drawing. She gave me this message to show you | Ben Quilty
9/2/2018, 2:09:18 AMWhen Ben Quilty and Richard Flanagan saw a picture by six-year-old Heba, they knew they had to share it with the world ✔ In 2016, with my friend Richard Flanagan, I stopped at a transit station halfway across Serbia ✔ Three dirty black buses rolled into the makeshift rest stop and 200 Syrian people climbed down off the big final bus step in need of food and a toilet break ✔ The picture Heba drew of the dreams she had of bombs falling in Syria
Backlash builds against China as Belt and Road ties fray
9/2/2018, 3:06:16 AMTroubled infrastructure projects fuel resentment in Southeast Asia ✔ Traffic enforcers remove an anti-China banner from an overpass in Metro Manila on July 12 ✔ This has spurred countries that have borrowed from China to take steps to resist being pulled into its economic sphere of influence -- including seemingly pro-Chinese governments in Thailand and Myanmar
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