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Trump warns Syria not to 'recklessly attack' Idlib province

9/3/2018, 10:43:53 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and Russia not to "recklessly attack" Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, saying hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. ✔ REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah/File Photo The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy ✔ Don’t let that happen! Trump said in a Tweet Monday ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Russian tank train pictured ON THE MOVE as Putin sends ‘up to 1000’ to border with Europe

9/3/2018, 10:04:32 PM
RUSSIA has been spotted shipping up to “1000 tanks” to their westernmost border with Europe amid rising tensions with NATO. ✔ Russia has a large military presence in its western borders amid ongoing tensions with NATO ✔ Western nations are at loggerheads with Putin not just over Ukraine, but also Syria, the poisoning of the Skripals, and allegations of election interference in the US



Japan claims China escalating military actions

9/3/2018, 9:34:26 PM
Japan's defense chief on Monday warned the country faces a tough security environment, with China and Russia stepping up military activity and North Korea posing "imminent threats". Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said China had been "unilaterally escalating" its military activities in the past year, including carrying out new airborne operations… ✔ On coming to power, Abe took a firm position on Japan's claims to a disputed island chain in the East China Sea, aggravating tensions with Beijing ✔ Onodera also repeated that North Korea continues to pose a serious and imminent threat to Japan, despite international diplomacy intended to convince Pyongyang to denuclearise



DR Congo's top court confirms Bemba's exclusion from presidential election

9/3/2018, 11:15:51 PM
In a judgment broadcast on national television, the constitutional court said the election commission had rightly invalidated Bemba’s candidacy last month, finding that witness tampering is a form o ✔ But fears persist of further violence with Kabila’s opponents accusing him of trying to rig the vote to ensure Ramazani’s victory ✔ The constitutional court also on Monday upheld the invalidation of former prime minister Adolphe Muzito’s candidacy but reinstated another former prime minister Samy Badibanga as a candidate



Congo's top court excludes opposition leader Bemba from...

9/3/2018, 9:20:26 PM
Democratic Republic of Congo's top court on Monday definitively excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from December's presidential election because of a witness tampering conviction at the International Criminal Court. ✔ But fears persist of further violence with Kabila’s opponents accusing him of trying to rig the vote to ensure Ramazani’s victory ✔ Congo has fallen very low! the secretary-general of Bemba’s MLC party wrote on Twitter after the judgment ✔ Ramazani did not receive enough votes to be included in the results ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



The Latest: Cilic sets up rematch with Nishikori in quarters

9/3/2018, 11:12:39 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 6:55 p.m. Marin Cilic has reached his fifth U.S. Open quarterfinal, an ✔ (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Naomi Osaka, of Japan, reacts after winning a point against Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Monday, Sept ✔ (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) El suizo Roger Federer devuelve un tiro del australiano Nick Kyrgios durante su partido de tercera ronda del U.S. Open el sábado 1 de septiembre de 2018 en Nueva York (AP Foto/Jason DeCrow)



The Latest: Weary Tsurenko reaches US Open quarterfinals

9/3/2018, 10:37:00 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 6:25 p.m. Lesia Tsurenko reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal by ✔ (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, returns a shot to Joao Sousa, of Portugal, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Monday, Sept ✔ (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) El suizo Roger Federer devuelve un tiro del australiano Nick Kyrgios durante su partido de tercera ronda del U.S. Open el sábado 1 de septiembre de 2018 en Nueva York (AP Foto/Jason DeCrow)



Shamed banker branded ‘biggest rogue trader in British history’ faces deportation to Ghana

9/3/2018, 8:45:08 PM
A FORMER bank worker jailed for the biggest ever fraud in the UK is facing deportation. Ghanaian national Kweku Adoboli – dubbed “the biggest rogue trader in British history” – was convicted of losing his employers at Swiss bank UBS £1.8billion. ✔ A FORMER bank worker jailed for the biggest ever fraud in the UK is facing deportation ✔ Adoboli moved to Scotland to stay with friends after being freed and eventually settled in West Lothian ✔ Adoboli left Ghana when he was four and lived in Israel, Syria and Iraq due to his father’s work as a United Nations official



50,000 attend concert against German far-Right amid calls for surveillance of AfD

9/3/2018, 8:06:54 PM
More than 50,000 people attended a special open-air protest concert against the far-Right yesterday (MON) in Chemnitz, the German city that has been the scene of neo-Nazi rallies in recent days. ✔ Local people have staged their own protests, claiming the streets are unsafe at night ✔ But senior members of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) oppose calls to widen the surveillance nationally and say the place to fight the AfD is at the ballot box ✔ Putting the AfD under surveillance could allow the party to play the role of martyr, Daniel Günther, the regional prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein warned



'Trump is checking out of Asia': What Australia should do about it

9/3/2018, 11:13:14 PM
Australia needs to make contingency plans for finding security in a region where the US is increasingly remote and China increasingly present. ✔ Beijing and Jakarta both lay overlapping claim to part of the South China Sea, for instance, the source of some friction in the last couple of years ✔ He faces re-election next year, as does Morrison ✔ And even help create some stability in a region where that quality is fast shrinking



Opinion | Ten Things They Didn’t Tell You at Freshman Orientation

9/3/2018, 11:12:46 PM
Learn how to be a good American, challenge your teachers, study a language, and tackle hard subjects. ✔ Members of Yale’s Class of 2022 move into dormitories in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 24 ✔ But if they keep slipping out, the professor should be in a different line of work, and you should be in a different class ✔ There are only two oppressed minority groups on campuses todaypracticing Jews and Christians



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