Bury McCain's dangerously belligerent foreign policy
9/5/2018, 6:56:10 AMundefined ✔ McCain defined success in Afghanistan and Iraq as the establishment of peaceful, stable, prosperous, democratic states that pose no threat to neighbors and contribute to the defeat of terrorists ✔ A former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire
Ukraine presidential candidate Oleksandr Onyshchenko
9/5/2018, 7:15:53 AMAs the Ukrainian presidential election approaches, we are continuing to discuss the participants. What follows is a recent follow-on interview with presidential candidate Oleksandr Onyshchenko. ✔ As the Ukrainian presidential election approaches, we are continuing to discuss the participants ✔ A: Yes, I plan to publish the book in the US, as these stories serve as a good example of what it means to be ranked #130 in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2017
North Korea trumpets self-reliant economy before Sept. 9 foundation day
9/5/2018, 7:06:20 AMundefined ✔ This has been seen as part of moves for reconciliation with the South and the United States ✔ Since then there have been hurdles in discussions between the North and the U.S. over denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and declaration of the official end of the 1950-53 Korean War ✔ The Russian delegation will be led by Valentina Matvienko, chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council
For US diplomacy, special envoys make a comeback
9/5/2018, 5:13:53 AMWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. special envoy is back. The Trump administration, which had steered away from appointing high-level diplomats to focus on particular world ✔ More than 70 positions at the department including ambassadorships, undersecretaries and assistant secretaries of state who are critical to framing and executing policy were vacant when Pompeo took office in April ✔ It announced Tuesday that Bush-era ambassador Khalilzad will run U.S. efforts for an Afghan-Taliban peace process to end the 17-year war
Mike Pompeo Taps Top Envoy for Afghan Peace
9/5/2018, 4:11:06 AMSecretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the appointment of Zalmay Khalilzad as the top envoy for Afghan peace on Tuesday, tapping a foreign-policy veteran who has been involved in the conflict for decades. ✔ Mr. Khalilzad was born in Afghanistan and spent the formative years of his life in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif ✔ We need Pakistan to seriously engage to help us get to the reconciliation we need in Afghanistan, he said, adding he was hopeful that Pakistan would move to provide assistance fighting terrorism
N. Korean parade a tricky prelude to inter-Korean summit
9/5/2018, 5:13:37 AMSEOUL--As North Korea prepares for a massive parade Sunday featuring thousands of goose-stepping sol ✔ Moon's critics say he puts too much faith in North Korea ✔ The Koreas have staged emotional reunions between aging relatives separated by the war, fielded combined teams in sports competitions and held military talks to ease border tensions ✔ Moon's approval rating, although still above 50 percent, has declined sharply in recent months over a decaying job market ✔ The Moon government is primarily focused on the second way
Israel says it launched 200 strikes in Syria since 2017
9/5/2018, 7:57:32 AMMilitary sources say the attacks are mostly aimed at preventing Iran from establishing a military presence in Syria. ✔ That left another 100 in the time since, according to the official Israeli accounts issued on Tuesday - roughly two strikes per week ✔ Israel, which monitors neighbouring Syria intensively, has long alleged that Iran came to assist the Damascus government, in part, to set up a permanent garrison there, effectively forming an extended anti-Israel front with Hezbollah in Lebanon ✔ WATCH: Inside Story - Are Israel and Iran inching closer to war
As the West isolates Myanmar, some investors dig in for the long term
9/5/2018, 4:21:51 AMAttacks on minorities and the media cloud economic progress ✔ Hau Do Suan blamed the press for distorting the events ✔ Its 32 suites rent out for over $300 even in the low season, and it expects to start filling up as the peak season gets under way in September ✔ (Photo by Ken Kobayashi) We have a niche market, and I am pretty sure we are the icon of Myanmar, Grace told the Nikkei Asian Review ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th
South Koreans arrive in North amid stalled denuclearization talks
9/5/2018, 6:24:18 AMSouth Korean envoys held talks in North Korea on Wednesday to finalize details on a third North-South summit to be held this month amid stalled talks on denuclearization between the North and the United States. ✔ Yonhap via REUTERS The delegation was on the way for an official meeting but they did not inform whom they’ll meet and where, Yoon said in a statement ✔ The United States and North Korea are at odds over whether denuclearization or a step toward the normalization of North Korea’s international status by declaring the end of the 1950-53 Korean War should come first ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
UN says Russia and Turkey ‘hold key’ to averting Idlib bloodbath
9/5/2018, 7:18:06 AMSyria could be spared another bloodbath if Russia and Turkey help broker a “soft solution” for the rebel-held region of Idlib, the UN said Tuesday, as Washington promised a swift response in the event of a chemical weapons attack. ✔ Seized from government forces in 2015, Idlib and adjacent areas form the last major chunk of territory still in rebel hands ✔ More than 350,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since Syria's war started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests
Korean officials talk in North's capital to set up summit
9/5/2018, 5:39:01 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean presidential delegation met with North Korean officials Wednesday for talks to arrange a summit planned later this month and help rescue f ✔ Considering the difficult circumstances, it's unclear whether Moon's envoys will be able to get anything other than a fixed date for his new summit with Kim ✔ 5, plans to leave for North Korea for talks to arrange a summit planned later this month and rescue a faltering nuclear diplomacy between Washington and Pyongyang
Analysis | Does the U.S. lead the world in mass shootings?
9/5/2018, 7:19:07 AMA widely cited study has come under fire from a gun-rights researcher. The numbers change depending on what you count as a mass shooting. ✔ Lott's response: The murderer ran out of the police department's office and started shooting at people inside the bus station's building, the news report said ✔ (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form Sign up for The Fact Checker weekly newsletter The Fact Checker is a verified signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network code of principles
Plans to treat Brit soldiers the SAME as IRA terrorists over Irish Troubles spark FURY
9/5/2018, 7:25:58 AMARMY officials have hit out at plans to offer Brit soldiers the same plea deal extended to IRA terrorists over deaths in Northern Ireland. ✔ Col Richard Kemp, an ex-commander of British forces in Afghanistan, told the paper: They will rightly feel they are being painted as combatants on one side of a conflict ✔ There’s no comfort in being told I could only get a two-year sentence ✔ It’s felt it could take the sting out of current prosecutions
South Korean envoys hold first talks in North after U.S. halted Pompeo visit
9/5/2018, 6:58:17 AMThe negotiating team aims to push forward with Seoul’s plan to build closer ties with the North. ✔ It says Trump expressed support for such an idea when he met Kim in Singapore in June ✔ On Tuesday, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry published a statement on its website arguing that such a declaration should be issued without delay, as the first process, to manifest the political will to establish the lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula ✔ The envoys are expected to return Wednesday evening, and will brief the press either then or the following morning
Get the lowdown on actor and daring documentary presenter Ross Kemp
9/5/2018, 7:39:35 AMROSS Kemp is back on screens in one of his most dangerous missions yet. The former EastEnders star has carved a career in documentary film-making and investigative journalism and for his latest mis… ✔ Apart from some sporadic reappearances on EastEnders, Ross has been focused on his documentary film-making and investigative journalism career ✔ TV's toughest bloke has become the face of documentaries on the toughest subjects going ✔ He wrote: Mum, Ava and Kitty doing well! Dad overjoyed
I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on | Stanisław Aronson
9/5/2018, 5:40:40 AMI’m 93, and I’m 93, and, as extremism sweeps across Europe, I fear we are doomed to repeat the mistakes which created the Holocaust, says Stanisław Aronson ✔ When the war broke out in 1939, my family fled east and settled for a couple of years in Soviet-occupied Lwow (now Lviv in western Ukraine) ✔ And after it’s all over, you will watch as, slowly but surely, these harshest of lessons are forgotten as the witnesses pass on and new myths take their place
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