Donald Trump, South Korea’s Moon Jae-in talk North Korea denuclearization
9/4/2018, 7:00:31 PMPresident Trump spoke Tuesday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, with the two leaders discussing the ongoing effort to denuclearize North Korea, the White House said. ✔ He promised to update the president after the meeting, the White House said ✔ After early signs of progress, including North Korea returning the remains of 55 U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War, progress stalled ✔ Both sides look to the other to make the next move ✔ Last month, Mr. Trump cancelled a planned visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang for continue talks
Spain halts major missile sale to Saudi Arabia over Yemen fears
9/4/2018, 6:36:51 PMLaser-guided missile transfer to Saudi Arabia stopped amid increasing concerns for slain Yemeni civilians. ✔ It sets an incredibly important precedent across Europe and to the governments who are continuing to arm and support this brutal bombardment, such as the US and the UK who have sold by far the most weapons, Smith told Al Jazeera ✔ Inside Story Have war crimes been committed in Yemen
South Korea's Moon, Trump to discuss North Korea at U.N.: Blue House
9/4/2018, 6:39:41 PMSouth Korea's President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump plan to discuss North Korea during the U.N. General Assembly in New York this month, Moon's office and the White House said on Tuesday, amid lackluster progress on the North's nuclear issues. ✔ In Washington, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement that Moon briefed Trump on his plan to send a special envoy to Pyongyang on Wednesday to meet Kim ✔ They agreed to meet later this month on the sidelines of the U.N ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Kim Jong-un MISSING? Mystery as North Korea dictator not seen for FORTNIGHT
9/4/2018, 5:17:20 PMMYSTERY surrounds the fate of Kim Jong-un, prompting speculation the North Korea dictator is in hiding while plotting how to tackle Donald Trump's denuclearisation demands. ✔ The dictator was busy making high-profile public engagements during June and August, in a bid to boost the country's output and publicise improved infrastructure ✔ North Korea is set to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding this weekend and there is speculation that Kim will appear to make a speech
Damascus says Israeli planes target military positions in Syria
9/4/2018, 6:53:39 PMIsraeli planes targeted military positions in Syria on Tuesday, but Syrian air defenses confronted and downed some of the rockets, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. ✔ The Observatory’s head Rami Abdulrahman said the attack had also targeted around the coastal city of Baniyas for the first time, with two rockets hitting around one kilometer from an oil refinery ✔ Syrian state television said air defenses downed five rockets ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Ukraine peace talks with EU partners inappropriate after Donbass leader’s death – Lavrov
9/4/2018, 6:50:29 PMHolding Ukraine peace talks with Germany and France after the recent murder of a Donetsk rebel leader would be extremely inappropriate, considering neither has condemned the killing, the Russian Foreign Minister has said. ✔ Leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Aleksandr Zakharchenko was killed by an explosion at a café in the city of Donetsk on Friday ✔ His bodyguard was also killed, and 11 other people were injured ✔ Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko continues to dodge his responsibilities, and the only country that could set him straight is the US, Lavrov said
White House warns Syria against chemical weapons use
9/4/2018, 7:25:19 PMWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House warned Syria's President Bashar Assad on Tuesday that if he chooses to use chemical weapons, the U.S. and its allies "will respond swiftly and ap ✔ The U.S. has twice struck Syrian military installations in response to alleged poison gas attacks ✔ Russia has been a key supporter of Assad and complained about militants in Idlib targeting its own facilities ✔ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the militants pose a terrorist threat, calling Idlib a hornets' nest of terrorists
Israel says struck Iranian targets in Syria 200 times in last two...
9/4/2018, 6:27:30 PMIsrael has carried out more than 200 attacks against Iranian targets in Syria in the last two years, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday, in a rare summary of its campaign. ✔ Asked to confirm Katz’s comments, an Israeli military spokeswoman said Israel had carried out around 200 attacks within Syria over the past year and a half ✔ In August 2017, the outgoing chief of Israel’s air force told Haaretz newspaper that his corps had carried out nearly 100 strikes in Syria ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Leader of breakaway Abkhazia meets Assad in Syria
9/4/2018, 6:39:42 PMThe leader of Abkhazia, a Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia, met Moscow's ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Tuesday, Syrian state news agency SANA said. ✔ Georgia and Russia fought a short war over the regions in August 2008 and Moscow, whose forces triumphed, recognized both as independent countries ✔ Syria in May joined Nicaragua, Venezuela and Nauru in also recognizing them ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Israeli jets fly over Lebanon in rare daytime raid on Syria
9/4/2018, 6:20:26 PMDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israeli jets flying high over Lebanon struck at targets inside Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media reported, in a rare daytime raid that killed at least on ✔ Turkey, which has financed and organized rebels in Idlib and keeps 12 military posts in the province, has been less clear about where it stands ✔ Asked about Trump's tweet, Peskov said such warnings do not consider the dangerous and negative potential of the rebel-held enclave and show that the White House does not have a comprehensive approach to solving the Syria crisis
City of Joy: the powerful Netflix documentary where 'everything is about love'
9/4/2018, 4:03:37 PMThe team involved with a centre in the eastern Congo that acts as a refuge for women who have survived violence discuss the impact of their work ✔ While well-intentioned, regulating the minerals did not successfully snuff out the violence or existence of various militia groups ✔ And there’s hope that the film will inspire more to join the movement ✔ City of Joy will be available on Netflix on 7 September
Turkey preparing aid inside Syria to help Idlib displaced
9/4/2018, 4:06:18 PMTurkey's Red Crescent is stepping up preparations inside Syria to shelter people displaced by an expected military offensive against the rebel-held region of Idlib, the organization's head said on Tuesday. ✔ Pro-Syrian government forces have maintained weeks of aerial bombardment and shelling ✔ Idlib is one of the last major rebel enclaves in Syria and President Bashar al-Assad has sworn to recapture every inch of the country ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Kurdish militants must leave Syria, Turkey tells U.S. envoy
9/4/2018, 7:23:09 PMTurkey told the United States on Tuesday that Kurdish militants must completely abandon Syria, as violence in the rebel-held northern Syrian enclave of Idlib escalated. ✔ Ankara sees the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has fought an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 and is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Turkey and Europe ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
One dead, four wounded in new Israeli air strikes in Syria - state media
9/4/2018, 6:07:58 PMAn Israeli air raid has targeted government-held areas in central and western Syria, killing one and wounding four, state-run SANA news agency has reported. ✔ The attack, which reports said killed at least one person, began at around dusk on Tuesday ✔ Asked on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called Idlib a hornets’ nest of terrorists and said that the White House does not have a comprehensive approach to solving the Syrian crisis
Syria's Kurdish-led northeast to be treated like rest of country:...
9/4/2018, 7:04:45 PMSyria's Kurdish-led northeast will not be given special treatment and will be dealt with in the same way as other parts of Syria, a government minister said on Tuesday. ✔ President Bashar al-Assad’s government has recaptured most areas from rebels opposed to his rule, frequently using what Damascus calls reconciliation deals under which insurgents agree to give up territory in return for safe passage out, often after intense air and ground campaigns
'Isil-supporters' accused of plotting terror attack using driverless car bomb to spare their own lives
9/4/2018, 5:15:24 PMTwo men accused of jointly plotting a terror attack were attempting to manufacture an explosive device involving a driverless car to spare their own lives, a court has heard. ✔ The bomb squad in Chesterfield On November 29 last year, he is said to have shared a 58-minute long propaganda video designed to inspire supporters of IS but also designed to frighten those who do not support IS, which showed scenes of warfare, beheadings and executions
False-flag failure… US cuts to the chase to defend its terrorists in Syria
9/4/2018, 4:43:56 PMLast week the US warned of military strikes on Syria "if" government forces use chemical weapons (CW). This week, Trump comes clean by dropping any mention of a CW pretext – simply warning Syria not to attack terrorists. ✔ Trump tweeted his warning to Syria, as well as its allied Russian and Iranian forces, to not launch a military offensive to retake control of the northwest province of Idlib ✔ As Trump's latest warning admits, any offensive operation by the Syrian Army and its allies to defeat the residual militants in Idlib is, in the American view, unacceptable
UN warns of a 'bloodbath' in Idlib as Russia bombs rebels' stronghold
9/4/2018, 4:27:24 PMThe UN's Syria peace envoy called Tuesday on the Russian and Turkish presidents to urgently speak to each other to help avert a 'bloodbath' in rebel-held Idlib, over an impending offensive. ✔ to make a telephone call,' even before they are set to meet with their Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Friday ✔ The Observatory blamed the strikes on Russia, which has been waging an air campaign on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces since 2015 ✔ Pictured: Damage from a bomb at the Kamuna refugee camp near Sarmada, Idlib 2016
Pompeo's pending visit to Pakistan may have prompted the Taliban to report death of leading militant
9/4/2018, 5:07:31 PMJalaluddin Haqqani’s death had been reported as far back as 2014, but the militant group he founded has remained one of the most lethal branches of the Taliban. ✔ His son Sirajuddin has risen to become the Taliban’s deputy commander, helping to lead a resurgent militant group that now controls more Afghan territory than at any point since 2001 ✔ Although Haqqani’s death had been rumored for years, the Taliban might also have waited to confirm it in order to give Sirajuddin a chance to emerge from his father’s shadow, Yusufzai said
Russia Launches Strikes Ahead of Offensive on Syrian Rebel Bastion
9/4/2018, 5:28:36 PMRussian warplanes struck Syria’s Idlib province on Tuesday as residents and rebels in the country’s last major opposition stronghold steeled for a regime offensive that the U.S. has warned could trigger a humanitarian disaster. ✔ Firefighters sprayed a building Tuesday that was hit by reported Russian airstrikes in a rebel-hold town southwest of the city of Idlib ✔ I think the Americans have arrived at the position that Idlib is not a core interest for them in Syria, said Mr. Heller
Syrian and Russian warplanes pound Idlib before talks: monitor
9/4/2018, 4:48:52 PMRussian and Syrian jets hammered a major rebel stronghold on Tuesday, a war monitor said, days before leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey meet to discuss an expected Syrian government offensive that could spark a humanitarian disaster. ✔ He said he had heard reports that Damascus had set a Sept ✔ It has staged two major incursions into Syria, creating a buffer zone along its border in an area north of Aleppo that adjoins Idlib, where it has set up a local administration alongside Syrian rebel groups ✔ 7 summit meeting between Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
FRANCE 24 exclusive: DR Congo’s Bemba calls upcoming election a ‘parody’
9/4/2018, 4:50:20 PMJean-Pierre Bemba, a former DR Congo warlord-turned-politician who has been banned from running in the country’s upcoming presidential election, on Tuesday told FRANCE 24 that the December vote will be nothing but “a parody”. ✔ Bemba appealed the ruling, but on Monday, the Constitutional Court upheld the decision, citing his International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial ✔ This is how the stage has been set for what should be democratic, transparent and inclusive elections
Death of Afghan group's founder unlikely to weaken militants
9/4/2018, 4:31:33 PMISLAMABAD (AP) — The death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of Afghanistan's outlawed militant network that bears his name, is unlikely to weaken the group that is considered th ✔ ISLAMABAD (AP) The death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of Afghanistan's outlawed militant network that bears his name, is unlikely to weaken the group that is considered the most formidable of the Taliban's fighting forces ✔ Forced to leave Afghanistan because of his agitation against the monarchy, which was eventually overthrown, Haqqani set up a madrassa in Miran Shah, in Pakistan's North Waziristan
Opinion | President Trump is unfit for office. Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ confirms it.
9/4/2018, 7:20:11 PMWelcome to Crazytown. ✔ Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had to gently explain to Trump that you’ve got it reversed ✔ The really crazy people are the Republicans who think we should continue to entrust a man manifestly unfit to be Queens Borough president with the presidency of the United States of America
Trump and South Korean President Moon Discuss Progress of North Korean Denuclearization
9/4/2018, 7:12:17 PMThe two leaders spoke by phone about negotiations with Pyongyang and agreed to continue the conversation during United Nations meetings on Sept. 23-24, the White House said. ✔ The two leaders spoke by phone about negotiations with Pyongyang and agreed to continue the conversation during United Nations meetings in the second half of September, the White House said ✔ Pyongyang has said the U.S. needs to reciprocate North Korea’s gesturesamong them, the dismantling of its underground nuclear test site and the return of U.S. war remainswith a statement declaring an official end to the Korean War
'Crazytown': Trump's chief of staff privately called him 'idiot', explosive new book claims
9/4/2018, 5:29:17 PM“He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had," chief of staff John Kelly said. ✔ A near-constant subject of withering presidential attacks was Attorney-General Jeff Sessions ✔ Cohn, a Wall Street veteran, tried to tamp down Trump’s strident nationalism regarding trade ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
Bob Woodward’s new book claims Trump aides snatched away president's papers to protect national security
9/4/2018, 5:36:37 PMBob Woodward depicts President Trump's anger and paranoia about the Russia inquiry as unrelenting, and a 'nervous breakdown' of the executive branch. ✔ John Dowd was convinced that President Trump would commit perjury if he talked to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III ✔ In the White House residence, Dowd peppered Trump with questions about the Russia investigation, provoking stumbles, contradictions and lies until the president eventually lost his cool ✔ Mattis told the president that he would get right on it
Woodward on Trump - the explosive quotes
9/4/2018, 6:20:19 PMThe Watergate reporter's book depicts an administration in the midst of a "nervous breakdown". ✔ The picture revealed - of an administration having a nervous breakdown of executive power - is unflattering in the extreme ✔ - Donald Trump One of the sources of considerable consternation for the president's staff, per Woodward, was what they viewed as his dangerous impulses on foreign policy ✔ He couldn't even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama
Venezuelan drivers face long lines for fuel as new payment system...
9/4/2018, 7:23:10 PMFrustrated Venezuelan drivers faced lengthy lines for gasoline in border states on Tuesday as the government struggled to roll out a new payment system that President Nicolas Maduro says will reduce smuggling of heavily-subsidized fuel. ✔ The Information Ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment ✔ Experts estimate Venezuela - where shortages of food and medicine have fueled hunger, disease and a mass exodus of citizens - loses at least $5 billion per year as a result of not selling gasoline at international prices ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Chinese Navy Flexes Its Muscle In Taiwan Strait
9/4/2018, 4:21:22 PMThe live-fire drills were conducted 65 kilometres (40.3 miles) off Taiwan’s Kinmen Island. ✔ Li Zhenguang from the Institute of Taiwanese studies said the cross-strait relations are at its lowest and the drill was the mainland’s response to those who are seeking independence of the Island ✔ The Indian navy then added happy hunting to its welcome message to the Chinese ships, which Beijing said belonged to the 29th Anti-Piracy Escort Force in the PLA-N in the Indian Ocean Region
Bob Woodward’s new book describes Mattis, Kelly criticizing Trump as incompetent: ‘He’s an idiot’
9/4/2018, 5:16:56 PMA new book about the Trump White House portrays top aides such as Defense Secretary James N. Mattis and White House chief of staff John F. Kelly criticizing President Trump behind his back as incompetent and attorney John Dowd warning the president that he would end up in “an orange jumpsuit” if he testified in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. ✔ A new book about the Trump White House portrays top aides such as Defense Secretary James N ✔ The economy is the best it’s been in many, many decades ✔ Mr. Woodward ended the conversation by telling the president, I believe in our country, and because you’re our president, I wish you good luck
CONMEBOL teams look forward after World Cup disaster
9/4/2018, 5:15:09 PMSouth America's powers failed to make it to even the semifinals of the 2018 World Cup, and they're all looking to reset and take a leap forward with Copa America looming next summer. ✔ The 22-year-old forward has a powerful shot, but given his ability to quickly cut inside, he loves to push out wide and penetrate from the left wing ✔ These friendlies represent the beginning of a new chapter for South American teams and bring the hope of a stronger set of results the countdown to next year’s Copa America and, eventually, qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
Bob Woodward book says John Kelly called the president an ‘idiot’
9/4/2018, 7:59:19 PMAn explosive book by journalist Bob Woodward has revealed new accounts of backbiting and insults among Donald Trump's senior staff, including shots at Trump's mental capacity. ✔ What are we dealing with this idiot for?'' According to Woodward, Mueller replied: 'John, I understand.' According to another anecdote, Trump told former staff secretary Rob Porter former chief of staff Reince Priebus was 'like a little rat ✔ 'That's okay, I'll just end up with another bad book
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