Saudi royal: 'King and heir apparent' responsible for Yemen war
9/4/2018, 2:44:51 PMPrince Ahmed bin Abdelaziz tells London activists wider royal family not to blame for kingdom's foreign policy moves. ✔ Campaigners accuse MBS, who also serves as defence minister, of being the chief architect of the Yemen war, which has led to what the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis ✔ WATCH: Inside Story - Have war crimes been committed in Yemen
Russia sends ‘up to 1,000 tanks towards country’s border with Ukraine'
9/4/2018, 12:47:54 PMMILITARY boffins on social media claim to have spotted “1000” Russian tanks moving west towards Ukraine. Trackers of Vladimir Putin’s army have posted pictures of cargo trains carrying the hulking … ✔ Strategic Sentinel wrote on Twitter: Photos taken in #Russia of trains continuing to send T-62s west towards #Ukraine ✔ Russia’s relationship with NATO is increasingly strained following the annexation of Ukraine in 2014 and the ongoing presence of Putin’s military on the country’s borders
South Korea's Moon, Trump to discuss North Korea at U.N. this...
9/4/2018, 3:01:36 PMSouth Korea's President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump hope to discuss North Korea on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York this month, Moon's office said on Tuesday, amid lackluster progress on the North's nuclear issues. ✔ General Assembly and having in-depth consultations on strategies and how to cooperate on the peninsula issues, Moon’s office said in a statement ✔ Seoul will continue to push for a joint declaration of an end to the 1950-53 Korean War within this year with the United States, Chung told reporters ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Xi to send parliament chief Li Zhanshu to North Korea as envoy
9/4/2018, 1:43:21 PMNational People's Congress chairman to attend country's 70th anniversary celebration ✔ Kim met U.S. President Donald Trump in June and agreed to work toward the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, but negotiations since then appear to have stalled with both sides increasingly criticising the other for a lack of progress ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th
Spain confirms it has halted sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia
9/4/2018, 3:12:17 PMSpain has halted the sale of a shipment of bombs to Saudi Arabia amid concerns about their use in the conflict in Yemen, the Spanish Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. ✔ There was no immediate response from Saudi authorities ✔ The United States and Britain are amongst the main foreign arms suppliers to the Saudi-led coalition fighting to reinstate the internationally-recognized government that was ousted from the capital Sanaa by Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels in 2015 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Rebels ambush South African peacekeepers in Congo Ebola zone
9/4/2018, 1:09:36 PMTwo South African peacekeepers were wounded in a rebel ambush near the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, their U.N. mission said on Tuesday. ✔ Health officials say they have made progress slowing the hemorrhagic fever’s spread with experimental vaccines and treatments ✔ But they cannot be sure the situation is under control due to difficulties accessing some areas ✔ The current Ebola outbreak is believed to have killed 81 people since July and infected another 40 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Pictures tell the story of the first 'Bridge Too Far' in World War Two
9/4/2018, 12:24:11 PMThe Battle of Primosole Bridge in Sicily was fundamental in Britain winning World War Two. But it has been largely overshadowed by the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands - until now. ✔ The heroic tale of when British paratroopers fought to defend Arnhem Bridge in the Netherlands to save Europe from Nazism went down in military history ✔ Both sides identified Primosole Bridge as a key target en route to the city of Messina, which needed to be captured to claim Sicily
UN special envoy on Syria warns against bombing rebel enclave
9/4/2018, 1:53:33 PMStaffan de Mistura echoes Trump warning against bombing Idlib, which Kremlin labels a ‘nest of terrorists’ ✔ Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy on Syria, has echoed Donald Trump in warning against a bombardment of the rebel enclave of Idlib as he set out a series of meetings in Geneva to revitalise the moribund diplomatic process ✔ Late on Monday, Trump warned the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and his allies Iran and Russia not to recklessly attack Idlib province, warning that hundreds of thousands of people could be killed
Trump tweets warning on Syria as offensive targets last rebel stronghold
9/4/2018, 3:51:28 PMThe Kremlin rejected President Trump's warning that an attack on the last major enclave of Syrian rebels would be a "grave humanitarian mistake." ✔ Smoke blows from buildings on fire that were hit by reported Russian air strikes in the rebel-hold town of Muhambal in Idlib province on September 4, 2018 ✔ Peskov called Idlib home to a nest of terrorists, but it is also home to more than 2 million refugees
John Kerry: "I doubt very much I'll be running for office again"
9/4/2018, 1:32:26 PMJohn Kerry has spent most of his life in public service. The former senator and secretary of state fought in the Vietnam War and became an anti-war activist when he returned home. Kerry joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss his new book, "Every Day is Extra," as well as President Trump, the Republican Party, and North Korea.
Turkey says it told U.S. that Kurdish militants must leave Syria
9/4/2018, 2:11:34 PMTurkey told the United States on Tuesday that Kurdish militants must completely abandon Syria, the Turkish defense ministry said, as violence in the rebel-held northern Syrian enclave of Idlib escalated. ✔ During talks in Ankara on Tuesday, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar told U.S. special representative for Syria, James Jeffrey, that Turkey wanted Kurdish militants to fully abandon the region, the ministry said in a statement ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Campaign to bring Afghan interpreter to UK after Home Office said no
9/4/2018, 3:00:45 PMMohammed Nabi Wardak, 30 (pictured) worked as a British Army interpreter between 2008 and 2011 and fled his homeland in 2016 after being threatened by the Taliban. ✔ Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson (pictured outside Downing Street) has been promising the introduction of new measures to ensure those who served with the Army in Afghanistan are given UK visas - but many are still fighting Mohammed is now pleading with the British government to reconsider his case, as he says his wife and children - aged eight, six, five and three - are in danger from Taliban insurgents
Choppy waters ahead as US seeks to ramp up Pakistan pressure
9/4/2018, 2:44:49 PMRelations between the strategic allies are tense after the US announced the cancellation of $300m in aid to Pakistan. ✔ While the Ghazni offensive failed to meet its objective, it has given a serious setback to the efforts at peace in Afghanistan, and has clearly demonstrated the weakness of the US' recent Afghanistan strategy, he said ✔ He tweets @AsadHashim Inside Story What does the US want from Pakistan
Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency
9/4/2018, 3:26:03 PMAides routinely stole documents off Trump’s desk. Military leaders ignored the president’s orders. And the backstabbing went both ways. ✔ Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, is based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews ✔ So, on Jan. 27, the president’s then-personal attorney staged a practice session to try to make his point ✔ The national security team developed options for the more conventional airstrike that Trump ultimately ordered
Trump's Efforts to Break NATO Bear First Fruit, Macron Floats European Security Deal With Russia Instead
9/4/2018, 12:13:20 PMIt's no secret that President Trump believes NATO is an anachronism. It's also no secret that French President Emmanuel Macron wants a Grand Army of the EU and a single EU Finance Minister to further integration of the EU into the United States of Europe. He and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been championing these two things since the day after Macron took office. They are both pushing hard for the EU to conduct independent foreign policy, framing Trump's belligerence as the catalyst for its need now. ✔ It's no secret that President Trump believes NATO is an anachronism ✔ He and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been championing these two things since the day after Macron took office ✔ Trump has made a big show about how the JCPOA is a ‘bad deal.’ This tweet tells you why
Top U.S. Commander Warns Against Syrian-Russian Offensive in Idlib
9/4/2018, 3:49:12 PMThe top U.S. military commander said Tuesday that a precise counterterrorism campaign—not a full-scale military offensive—was the appropriate way to tackle extremist elements in northwest Syria, as an assault by the Syrian regime and its Russian backers appeared imminent. ✔ As he spoke, there were reports in the region of Russian airstrikes west of the city of Idlib, suggesting the start of a full-scale offensive was imminent ✔ Since April 2017, the U.S. has twice conducted one-day airstrike campaigns on regime targets after it suspected the Assad used chemical attacks on civilians
Bogus anti-Semitism smears unmask UK democracy as little more than a fraud - George Galloway
9/4/2018, 12:37:30 PM"Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools," said August Bebel. And fake anti-Semitism is as dangerous as the boy crying wolf argues George Galloway. ✔ The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, whom I have known for 40 years, remains an icon of that tradition as were his parents before him ✔ His own mother fought at Cable St in London's East End against Britain's fascists in 1936 - defending the huge Jewish community then there under the slogan 'They Shall Not Pass' ✔ Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you
Celebrating 30 years of photojournalism at Visa pour l’Image
9/4/2018, 2:40:25 PMAn exhibition of 30 years of photojournalism shows why photography is still powerful ✔ Bacchi, a young tigress, seeks relief from the sweltering 120-degree-Fahrenheit heat in a pool, despite its fetid brew of rotting leaves and monkey urine ✔ Barack Obama rests while campaigning for president in Muscatine, Iowa, on Nov., 7, 2007 ✔ (Callie Shell/Aurora for TIME) Ahmad Shah Massoud in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan
Bob Woodward: Trump's aides stole his papers 'to protect the country'
9/4/2018, 3:48:00 PMPresident Donald Trump's closest aides have taken extraordinary measures in the White House to try to stop what they saw as his most dangerous impulses, going so far as to swipe and hide papers from his desk so he wouldn't sign them, according to a new book from legendary journalist Bob Woodward. ✔ (CNN) WARNING: This story contains graphic language ✔ Trump appears to be lonely and increasingly paranoid, often watching hours of television in the White House residence ✔ They're out to get me, Trump said of Mueller's team ✔ When you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, Priebus is quoted as saying, things start getting nasty and bloody
11 Kind Stories With Plot Twists That Would Even Surprise Hollywood
9/4/2018, 3:44:17 PMIf you feel that you are losing your faith in people, you definitely need to read our article. We have collected the brightest examples of kindness that we could find on the internet. ✔ I was trying to remember where it was and said that I’d probably left it with my boyfriend ✔ If you have ever volunteered in a nursing home, lived in Bangladesh, worked in a Michelin-star restaurant in Paris, or just want to tell the world why it is so important to pick people up at the airport, write an email to hello@adme.ru with the title My Story and let the whole world know about your experiences! Preview photo credit pn6
Analysis | The Finance 202: Trump's attack on Trumka could hurt him in NAFTA talks
9/4/2018, 12:17:23 PMHe needs the AFL-CIO president in his corner. ✔ Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh alluded to this toolbox, which was used in the past, when he said Iran will find ‘other ways’ to keep its crude in the market ✔ #TNYcartoons A post shared by The New Yorker Cartoons (@newyorkercartoons) on Sep 2, 2018 at 1:16pm PDT BULL SESSION Myanmar judge sentences Reuters reporters to prison: Massive fire engulfs 200-year-old museum in Brazil: British Army plays Respect as Aretha Franklin tribute:
Analysis | The Health 202: Debate over future of Affordable Care Act begins anew this week
9/4/2018, 12:05:55 PMTexas lawsuit and Kavanaugh hearing set to kick off. ✔ Collins and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have said they want a justice who will respect that abortion is legal, Phillips writes the pair have already signaled they will support Trump’s pick ✔ SUGAR RUSH Cystic fibrosis activist Claire Wineland dies following lung transplant: From the Fact Checker: Unraveling President Trump's top 5 claims:
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