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China's Xi to send top ally to North Korea anniversary

9/4/2018, 11:09:46 PM
BEIJING-- Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend celebrations of the 70th anniversary of North ✔ That made Kim's three visits to China this year all the more striking, a sign that the relationship was back on track ✔ A visit by Xi on such a symbolic occasion would have further underscored the unique historical ties between the two countries' ruling parties ✔ This relationship is full of mutual distrust, but they keep it within certain bounds



Trump to Host U.N. Security Council Meeting on Iran

9/4/2018, 11:44:03 PM
President Donald Trump will chair a United Nations Security Council debate about Iran during the world body’s annual gathering of international leaders later this month, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said. ✔ Security Council regulations allow countries to be represented if they are a topic of discussion ✔ has accused the country’s military of genocide, and North Korea, which maintains nuclear weapons, aren’t on the agenda for September ✔ Officials from those countries have said the report is on hold to resolve disagreements



US appoints veteran envoy for Afghan peace effort

9/4/2018, 10:44:17 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has named veteran diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad as a special adviser on seeking reconciliation in war-battered Afghanistan. ✔ Pompeo made the announcement on Tuesday as Khalilzad joined him on a trip to Pakistan and India ✔ An Afghan native, Khalilzad was tapped by President George W ✔ Bush to be his ambassador to Afghanistan after the overthrow of the Taliban following the Sept ✔ He then served as ambassador to Iraq and the United Nations



U.S., Turkey spoke about Syria, American pastor: State Department

9/4/2018, 8:51:14 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke on Tuesday about the Syrian conflict and the detention in Turkey of American pastor Andrew Brunson, the State Department said in a statement. ✔ REUTERS/ Leah Millis Both diplomats agreed the Syrian government’s expected military offensive in Idlib would be an unacceptable, reckless escalation, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said ✔ They also agreed to continue discussions to resolve Brunson’s detention, she said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Wives appeal for jailed Myanmar journalists

9/4/2018, 8:34:00 PM
The wives of the two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years of hard labor in Myanmar said their husbands were innocent Tuesday as their lawyer confirmed they would appeal the sentence. ✔ The journalists' lawyer confirmed they would appeal the sentence ✔ Human Rights Watch Deputy Asia Director Phil Robertson also condemned the decision as a display of the government's fear of the kind of critical commentary customarily found in a real democracy ✔ In a free country, it is the duty of a responsible press to keep people informed and hold leaders accountable



Vice President Pence calls for release of jailed Reuters journalists

9/4/2018, 11:00:34 PM
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called on Myanmar's government to reverse a court ruling that imprisoned two Reuters journalists for seven years and to release them immediately. ✔ Speaking at a news conference in New York marking the U.S. assumption of the rotating chairmanship of the Security Council for September, Haley said the reporters were in prison for telling the truth ✔ Mark Green, administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said these convictions are an enormous setback for democracy and the rule of law in Burma ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Donald Trump threatened to ‘kill the f***ing lot of them’ in rant on Syria, insider claims

9/4/2018, 8:18:34 PM
DONALD Trump allegedly told his top general he wanted to “go in and kill the f***ing lot of them” in Syria, a bombshell book has claimed. ✔ Trump allegedly went on a shocking rant after a chemical weapons attack in the war torn nation – calling for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to be assassinated ✔ I'll just take the paper off his desk, economic advisor Gary Cohn told another White House aide, according to the book



U.N. Security Council to discuss Syria's Idlib on Friday: Haley

9/4/2018, 8:33:10 PM
The U.N. Security Council will hold a meeting on Friday on the situation in Syria's Idlib province, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday, warning Syria's government not to use chemical weapons ahead of a widely expected military offensive there. ✔ REUTERS/Carlo Allegri Russian and Syrian planes pounded areas on the western edge of Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold, on Tuesday, according to The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel source ✔ They can’t do it assaulting their people and we’re not going to fall for it, she added ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Syrian and Russian warplanes pound Idlib before talks: monitor

9/4/2018, 8:27:44 PM
Russian and Syrian jets hammered a rebel stronghold days before leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey meet to discuss an expected Syrian government offensive. ✔ Replay Replay Video Loading Play Video Play Video Playing in 5 ...Don't Play The U.N ✔ The Kremlin dismissed his comments on Tuesday, describing Idlib, where jihadist insurgent factions dominate, as a nest of terrorism ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes



Ross Kemp dons Iraq body armour to meet gangsters on the streets of Birmingham

9/4/2018, 11:35:38 PM
PUTTING on body armour, Ross Kemp is preparing for one of his most ­dangerous missions yet. But the TV hardman isn’t filming a new documentary in Iraq or Syria — he’s heading to a quiet suburban st… ✔ PUTTING on body armour, Ross Kemp is preparing for one of his most ­dangerous missions yet ✔ He said he wouldn’t trust a lot of the people he worked alongside with a sharp pencil, let alone a firearm ✔ Let’s charge them a fee for every time someone threatens to kill someone on their network



Trump hits back at bombshell Bob Woodward book, calls it 'just another bad book' and claims Woodward has 'had a lot of credibility problems'

9/4/2018, 10:23:19 PM
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders shot back at explosive claims in veteran journalist Bob Woodward's new book "Fear: Trump in the White House." Sanders said the book is "nothing more than fabricated stories" from "former disgruntled employees." ✔ As I stated back in May and still firmly stand behind: 'I spend more time with the President than anyone else, and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship ✔ Check out some of the details from Woodward's book: John Kelly was reportedly enraged with Trump over his handling of Charlottesville, said he would have taken a resignation letter 'and shoved it up his ass 6 different times' Gary Cohn reportedly snatched documents off Trump's desk to prevent him from wrecking 2 massive trade deals Trump reportedly called his attorney general Jeff Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and a 'traitor' Trump has reportedly said that his speech after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville was the 'biggest f---ing mistake' he's made 'It's either that or an orange jumpsuit': Explosive Bob Woodward book reportedly recounts Trump's lawyer's effort to keep him from interviewing with Mueller Trump reportedly told Mattis that he wanted to assassinate Bashar al-Assad after his chemical weapons attack on Syrians last year



S.Korea's Moon, Trump to discuss N.Korea at U.N. -Blue House

9/4/2018, 10:47:34 PM
SEOUL-- South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump plan to discuss North Ko ✔ 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 ✔ Seoul will continue to push for a joint declaration of an end to the 1950-53 Korean War this year with the United States, Chung told reporters



MPs call for inquiry into UK Home Office treatment of foreign students

9/4/2018, 8:34:42 PM
A group of UK lawmakers are calling for an independent inquiry into the Home Office's treatment of tens of thousands of foreign nationals, mostly students, whose visas were revoked or refused after they were accused of cheating on an English language test in 2014. ✔ I regret that innocent applicants may have been caught up in widespread fraud, she said, adding in response to a question from a lawmaker that no compensation had been offered to those who had won their cases and cleared their names, despite the years-long legal process they had undergone



'How sickening that, as a British Jew, I’m now being told to

9/4/2018, 9:37:38 PM
London journalist Natasha Pearlman, pictured with her daughters Thea, four months, and Rose, aged four, said she has been forced to speak out against anti-Semitism within the Labour Party. ✔ What happened to my granny and grandfather was so horrific I find it hard to believe anything so revolting could happen again ✔ He calls terrorist leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah his friends, yet doesn’t engage with Israelis ✔ The weight of history is on all of us to rectify this



Trump Really Seems To Wish He Were An Actual Dictator

9/4/2018, 10:47:30 PM
Authoritarian leaders talk about closing down the media, going after political foes and being the only source of truth. ✔ BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty ImagesWhat you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening, President Donald Trump told his supporters ✔ The complaint about Zaccaro, however, came only as his wife was about to become the very first female vice presidential nominee for a major party



‘He would be the first to kneel’: Pat Tillman exploited to attack Kaepernick, biographer says

9/4/2018, 8:26:42 PM
The death of Pat Tillman has been used to strengthen political talking points since he was killed in 2004. ✔ Even if it means sacrificing everything, a new ad says, with Kaepernick's face in stark black and white ✔ The administration needed a symbol to change the discussion ✔ Read more: Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency Colin Kaepernick to star in Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ campaign



The Women in Parliament

9/4/2018, 10:10:51 PM
Newer governments do more to include women in their legislatures than countries with older institutions. ✔ Members of the National Assembly are sworn in at the South African Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa on May 21, 2014 ✔ The WEF’s Global Gender Gap Index compares gender disparities across four dimensions -- health outcomes, educational attainment, economic participation and political participation – for 144 nations



‘Aide said of trade threat: I can stop this... I’ll just take the paper off Trump’s desk’

9/4/2018, 11:41:20 PM
DONALD Trump has been rocked by a damning new book about his presidency, in which top aides ridicule his reign at the White House. ✔ Mr Woodward writes that the President was dismissive about having the US military on the Korean peninsula, even though it allowed them to detect a North Korean missile launch in seven seconds rather than 15 minutes from Alaska ✔ You’re like a little baby that needed to be changed



India ‘assassination’ plot reaches Paris, but credibility is lost in translation

9/4/2018, 8:24:01 PM
The arrests of prominent Indian activists last week sparked condemnations across the world. But as details of police attempts to link them to an international assassination plot are starting to emerge, they’re triggering howls of laughter. ✔ The arrests of prominent Indian activists last week sparked condemnations across the world ✔ Bharadwaj immediately dismissed the letter as a fabrication and served a news channel, Republic TV – which has been on the forefront of police leaks on the case – a legal notice for their false, malicious and defamatory allegations against her



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