Syria: Donald Trump says slaughter in Idlib would make US 'very angry'
9/5/2018, 11:35:34 PMRussian and Syrian planes bomb densely populated enclave hours after president warns Assad not to ‘recklessly attack Idlib’ ✔ More than 3 million people live in the province, nearly a third of whom were internally displaced there during the country’s seven-year war ✔ Let’s kill the fucking lot of them, Trump reportedly said ✔ The national security team ultimately presented Trump with options for airstrikes, which he ordered
US-Pakistan talks prompt vow to reset ties after prolonged spat
9/5/2018, 9:11:39 PMUS said the talks covered cooperation over war in Afghanistan and Pakistan's role in regional stability. ✔ We have had lots of times where we have talked and made agreements, but we have not been able to actually execute those ✔ On Sunday, the US confirmed that $300 million in a Coalition Support Funds reimbursement, which was initially suspended under that announcement, had been finally cancelled ✔ Asad Hashim is Al Jazeera's digital correspondent in Pakistan
Deadly attack highlights dangers for U.S. military in Afghanistan
9/5/2018, 11:20:59 PMA coordinated attack in Afghanistan Wednesday is shedding new light on the difficulties facing the U.S. military in its longest war. More than 2,400 Americans have been killed over the past 17 years, including two service members in the past six weeks. CBS News foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports from Kabul.
EBOLA CRISIS: Latest outbreak in Congo claims MORE lives as death toll rises to 82
9/5/2018, 9:03:33 PMEBOLA has claimed the lives of four more victims as the death toll from the deadly disease hits 82 after another outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ✔ Of the confirmed Ebola cases, up to 16 health workers have contracted the disease ✔ UNICEF this week said it has now reached 2,454,000 people with its Ebola prevention messages in the past month ✔ Other symptoms include vomiting, severe headache, muscle pain diarrhoea and fatigue
IT'S CYBER WAR! Prime Minister May vows to take on President Putin
9/5/2018, 10:56:22 PMSecurity officials today named Alexander Petrov, left, and Ruslan Boshirov, right, as the two assassins responsible for a novichok attack in Salisbury in March which targeted a former KGB agent. ✔ Theresa May last night ordered a covert war on Vladimir Putin’s spy network ✔ After months of secrecy, the force revealed that not only had it identified the prime suspects but it had amassed enough evidence for prosecutors to bring charges ✔ The main target of the attack was former KGB agent Sergei Skripal, right, who was visited by his daughter Yulia, left, in March when the initial attack happened Officers accused Petrov and and Boshirov of conspiring to murder Mr Skripal, and the attempted murder of Yulia and Det Sgt Nick Bailey
U.S. Designates Mali-Based Militants as a Terrorist Group
9/5/2018, 10:19:00 PMThe State Department has designated the Mali-based Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, as a terrorist organization after the group claimed responsibility for a string of attacks in sub-Saharan Africa. ✔ In one of the most recent examples, JNIM seized headlines by claiming responsibility for coordinated attacks in March on the French Embassy and the national army headquarters in the capital of Burkina Faso, killing eight local soldiers ✔ In November 2015, Islamist gunmen besieged a hotel in Bamako, leaving 22 people aside from attackers dead
Yemen's warring sides to meet, with tensions — and stakes — higher than ever
9/5/2018, 8:33:05 PMThe U.N.-sponsored meeting is the most significant effort in two years to reach a peace deal. ✔ By Sudarsan Raghavan and Missy Ryan September 5 at 4:18 PM U.N ✔ Civilian casualties from the conflict have exceeded 17,000, the United Nations says, and continue to rise ✔ A spiraling economy and soaring inflation have deepened poverty and suffocated even the middle class
Syrian rebels hope Turkey can limit Russian-backed Idlib assault
9/5/2018, 10:05:27 PMSyrian rebels bracing for battle in northwest Syria are pinning their hopes on ally Turkey to intervene with Russia and prevent an all-out Syrian government offensive that could deal a final blow to their seven-year-long uprising. ✔ The FSA has accelerated training of new recruits to send to frontlines, Rasheed said ✔ Russia says there is no option in northwest Syria but to root out the Nusra Front, calling the area a terrorist nest and a festering abscess that must be cleansed ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Va. legislator in Damascus touts Syrians’ ‘love’ for Assad and his army, state-run media reports.
9/5/2018, 9:03:15 PMState Sen. Richard H. Black, who regards Assad as protector of Christians, makes second trip to Damascus in two years. ✔ American Senator Richard Blake expressed his happiness over the return of security to Syria and his hope that the remaining terrorist spots will be eliminated, saying that the whole world should rejoice in the victories achieved by Syria, the site said
PM vows revenge blaming Putin's intelligence agency for Salisbury poisoning
9/5/2018, 9:48:14 PMTHERESA May last night ordered Britain’s spies into a global war with Russia’s shadowy GRU after declaring it mounted the Salisbury outrage. Hours after police named two suspects for the sickening … ✔ The two officers – working under the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov – are suspected of working for the GRU’s Spetsnaz wing ✔ Meaning ‘Special Purpose’, the wing carry out its dangerous missions overseas ✔ Ring The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or email exclusive@the-sun.co.uk
At least 20 dead in blasts at sports center in Afghan capital
9/5/2018, 10:23:45 PMA suicide attack at a wrestling club in a Shiite neighborhood of the Afghan capital Kabul and a second explosion apparently targeting emergency services and journalists at the site killed at least 20 people and wounded 70 on Wednesday, officials said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi,… ✔ The second blast came from a car parked outside the club where the suicide attacker had struck, killing a reporter and a cameraman from local broadcaster Tolo News minutes after they had made a live report from the scene ✔ Hopes of possible peace talks with the Taliban were fuelled by a brief ceasefire in June, although intense fighting in the months since, in particular the Taliban's assault on the central city of Ghazni, have dampened optimism
U.S. warns of regional crisis if Nicaragua unrest goes on
9/5/2018, 10:17:31 PMThe United States on Wednesday called on Nicaragua to release all detained students and political prisoners, declaring the country's five months of civil unrest a threat to the region's security. ✔ FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators help an injured man during a protest against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, Nicaragua September 2, 2018 ✔ REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas Still, the representative for neighboring Costa Rica said that the country had seen a significant increase in requests for asylum from Nicaraguans since the protests began: a total of 12,830 in the first eight months of the year ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Opinion | America is still free, and the people will be heard
9/5/2018, 11:24:14 PMThe popular fury at the Kavanaugh hearing is irritating and inconvenient. But it is also entirely American. ✔ By Dana Milbank Columnist September 5 at 7:09 PM Congress shall make no law ✔ But even though I disagree with them, I will defend their ability to speak out, because nonviolent protest is part of being an American ✔ Read more: Ruth Marcus: McCain’s death didn’t teach Republicans anything
Palestinian refugees fear Trump administration funding cuts will shutter schools, clinics
9/5/2018, 11:10:29 PMCritics say the Trump administration's decision to end funding for a U.N Palestinian refugee program will lessen U.S. influence and sow instability. ✔ Gunness said the Trump administration’s decision has rippled through the refugee camps ✔ But after 70 years, the structure and incentives have ossified to create welfare dependency ✔ Hanan Abu Ajemiya, a 48-year-old grocery store owner, was less sanguine ✔ I don’t believe I’ll ever be given the chance to return, but I can’t give up hope
The hypocrisy of the Nike outrage
9/5/2018, 11:36:42 PMIt is curious that some tout members of the military as heroes while also supporting President Trump, who spent much of the past week failing to give the late Sen. John McCain's sacrifice the honor it deserved, writes LZ Granderson ✔ MUST WATCH LZ Granderson is a journalist and political analyst ✔ John McCain's sacrifice for our country the honor it deserved ✔ Trump, who subsequently refused to apologize for these comments, has since acknowledged that McCain was, in fact, a war hero
Donald Trump denies talking about killing Bashar al-Assad
9/5/2018, 8:01:05 PMUS President says he did not discuss assassinating Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, disputing an account in a forthcoming book by journalist Bob Woodward. ✔ Excerpts were published by the Washington Post on Tuesday ✔ Trump also said that if there is a slaughter in the Idlib province of Syria, the United States will be very angry ✔ Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Photo: AP The Syrian military shelled Idlib, the last stronghold of active rebellion against al-Assad, on Wednesday as a war monitor said insurgents blew up a bridge in anticipation of a government offensive ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
Trump warns Assad against assault, denies wanting to assassinate him
9/5/2018, 8:55:29 PMPresident Donald Trump warned the Syrian regime on Wednesday that "the world is watching" as government forces prepare to assault the last rebel stronghold of Idlib. ✔ MUST WATCH Airstrikes hammer rebel stronghold in Idlib 03:05 Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump warned the Syrian regime on Wednesday that the world is watching as government forces prepare to assault the last rebel stronghold of Idlib ✔ You have at least 3 million innocent people there, Trump said
Eight things to know about the 25th Amendment
9/5/2018, 9:34:17 PMHere's what you need to know about how the Constitution alllows removal of a president unable to handle the job ✔ / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEBSAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE ID: AFP_VW9LV(Photo: SAUL LOEB, AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON – In the more than 50 years since the Constitution was amended to create a way to remove a president unable to do his job, the process has never been triggered ✔ Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, published in January, painted a picture of a president not up to the job ✔ That truly should be the first line of defense in any case where there’s an issue about removing the president
Toronto International Film Festival 2018 looks to read the moment and move it forward
9/5/2018, 10:45:19 PMWith world premiere titles from Barry Jenkins, Steve McQueen and Michael Moore, the long-running film festival presents a program of socially and politically charged selections. ✔ 6-16 and has a longstanding reputation as an awards season launching pad, brims over with movies that reflect a charged sense of unease and uncertainty ✔ And as a filmmaker, that's what you love, to be in the now ✔ Some movies are investigations into the real world and, hopefully, we can learn something something that can help us think about what's going on in the world
Highlights from the Senate Intelligence hearing with Facebook and Twitter
9/5/2018, 8:32:54 PMAnother day, another political grilling for social media platform giants. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s fourth hearing took place this morning, with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey present to take questions as U.S. lawmakers continue to probe how foreign influen… ✔ Senator, Kamala Harris , very clearly seething at this point having had her questions to Facebook knocked about since November 2017, when its general council had first testified to the committee on the disinformation topic was determined to get under Sandberg’s skin
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