Ex-US envoy calls for humanitarian aid to North Korea
9/6/2018, 12:53:08 AMundefined ✔ It isn't just the right thing, according to King, but providing humanitarian assistance will open channels of contact between North Koreans and citizens of other countries ✔ Furthermore, we can provide help to worthy and needy recipients, while our government and private efforts help to break down barriers between the United States and North Korea
As talks with US stall, North Korea preps military parade
9/6/2018, 2:30:55 AMTOKYO (AP) — As nuclear talks with United States stall, North Korea is preparing to hold a big military parade on the 70th anniversary of the country's founding. Sat ✔ And will leader Kim Jong Un use the occasion to thumb his nose at Washington by displaying missiles North Korea claims are capable of striking the American heartland ✔ Since January, Kim has shifted gears to a more diplomatic approach, and says his country is now focused on building its economy ✔ 9, 2018, the 70th anniversary of the country’s founding
Review: NASCAR, faith and Afghanistan awkwardly collide in song-inspired 'God Bless the Broken Road
9/6/2018, 1:21:41 AMNow there's “God Bless the Broken Road,” from “God's Not Dead” director Harold Cronk. Based on the Rascal Flatts song “Bless the Broken Road,” the film combines NASCAR and the war in Afghanistan to craft a story connected to the song by the thinnest of threads. ✔ The growing faith-based film industry is on a quest for content: Stories that will cross over and connect with audiences beyond the preexisting one ✔ He starts with teaching the youth of the local church, including Amber’s young daughter Bree (Makenzie Moss), how to build their own go-karts, while wooing the girl’s grieving mom
Donald Trump rejects Marshall Plan nation-building, opts for ‘tough love’ foreign policy
9/6/2018, 1:10:34 AMPresident Trump is disrupting a foreign policy establishment truism dating to the days of the Marshall Plan. For places such as Syria, North Korea, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories, the White House is making clear that the U.S. has no interest in embarking on the expensive nation-building missions that have characterized American conflicts of the postwar era. ✔ National security and foreign policy analysts acknowledge that the policy shift could reduce Washington’s leverage in shaping events in the aftermath of global crises ✔ I do not believe Mike Pompeo, [Defense Secretary] Jim Mattis and [National Security Adviser] John Bolton don’t [complain about] this, she said
U.S. compares Nicaragua to Syria, warns of potential regional crisis
9/6/2018, 2:46:30 AMThe United States on Wednesday declared Nicaragua's civil unrest a threat to the region's security, saying government repression of protests risked creating an overwhelming displacement of people akin to Venezuela or Syria. ✔ REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas What do we say to the United States ✔ That if they want to help the people of Nicaragua, if they want to contribute to peace, the best thing they can do, and should do, is not interfere in Nicaragua, and respect Nicaragua, Ortega said in the capital Managua ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
MARK ALMOND: Why I fear terrifying prospect of escalating global war
9/6/2018, 3:08:39 AMThe Salisbury incident is truly shocking. It is the first time that a Briton has been killed on our home soil by a chemical weapon deployed by a foreign power. ✔ Yesterday at Westminster, Theresa May made perhaps the most momentous statement of her political career ✔ Internal security was vastly improved and leaks closed ✔ The CIA has privately admitted that many of its contacts in Moscow have gone silent ✔ MARK ALMOND is the director of the Crisis Research Institute, Oxford
GRU is perfect agency to conduct Putin's 'non-linear warfare' strategy
9/6/2018, 3:08:36 AMThe GRU, founded a century ago today it has found favour with Vladimir Putin as the perfect organisation to carry out his 21st century military tactics, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH. ✔ This uses a combination of covert special-forces operations, spying, cyber attacks and internet trolls to destabilise enemy nations ✔ Since then, however, it has experienced a remarkable turnaround ✔ This is in part down to its leader, 62-year-old Lieutenant-General Igor Korobov ✔ Michael Burleigh is a terror expert and historian
World Health Organization: Following Ebola Death In Urban Area, ‘No One Should Be Sleeping Well Tonight’
9/6/2018, 3:20:22 AMExperts worry the outbreak could escalate after a woman died in Butembo, a city of about 1 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ✔ Indirect messages have been sent to the ADF to urge them to cease violence in the area as the Ebola outbreak response continues, Salama said, while stressing that, despite the violence, the response had not been overly hindered ✔ It’s by no means over until the last case is really and truly dealt with
N.Korea media: Kim vows nuclear-free Korea amid standoff
9/6/2018, 2:06:10 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula amid a growing standoff with the United States, his state-co ✔ After their June summit in Singapore, Trump and Kim issued a vague statement about a nuclear-free peninsula without describing when and how it would occur ✔ 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
Koreas' Kim and Moon to meet again as Trump nuclear agenda sidelined
9/6/2018, 3:34:40 AMThird summit this year between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un stands in contrast to rift with Washington ✔ While North Korea has repeatedly agreed to working towards the complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, experts warn the language is vague and fails to address key US demands that the North give up its nuclear weapon unilaterally and allow weapons inspectors into the country
Glam Russian is 'Novichok assassin' Ruslan Boshirov's only Facebook friend
9/6/2018, 12:30:32 AMMYSTERY surrounds a glam Russian woman who is the only Facebook friend of a Novichock assassin suspect. Yulia Chopivskaya, from Ukraine, is the sole social media pal of Ruslan Boshirov – want… ✔ East2west News 10 Yulia was his sole Facebook friend SWNS:South West News Service 10 The two suspects were caught smiling as they strolled through Salisbury hours before the attack on the Skripals East2west News 10 Yulia says she didn't know the man and even unfriended Yulia said: I don't know if this is a real last name or not
The Latest: Seoul: 3-way summit at UN gathering unlikely
9/6/2018, 2:37:38 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on an upcoming inter-Korean summit (all times local): 11:20 a.m. A South Korean presidential official says a trila ✔ The high-level South Korean delegation left for North Korea to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit there this month, as relations grow cooler between Washington and Pyongyang ✔ 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
North Korea's Kim says wants to denuclearize in Trump's first term:...
9/6/2018, 3:35:25 AMNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants to denuclearize the Korean peninsula during U.S. President Donald Trump's first term, as he agreed to hold a third summit with his South Korean counterpart this month in Pyongyang, Seoul officials said on Thursday. ✔ Kim and Trump held a watershed summit in June in Singapore, during which they said they would work toward complete denuclearization, establish new relations, and build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean peninsula ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Kim Jong Un demands goodwill measures as Koreas set summit
9/6/2018, 3:30:35 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and the suspension of all future long-range missile tests and said he had faith ✔ SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and the suspension of all future long-range missile tests and said he had faith to continue working with increasingly embattled President Donald Trump, South Korean officials and the North's official media said Thursday ✔ (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) In this Wednesday, Sept
The Latest: Facing Djokovic, Millman gets break to go change
9/6/2018, 2:55:08 AMNEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 10:40 p.m. The U.S. Open quarterfinal between Novak Djokovic and John ✔ NEW YORK (AP) The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 10:40 p.m. The U.S. Open quarterfinal between Novak Djokovic and John Millman has resumed after a brief break at 2-all in the second set so that Millman could change out of his sweat-soaked outfit ✔ (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Kei Nishikori, of Japan, returns a shot to Marin Cilic, of Croatia, during the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, Sept
The Latest: Keys tops Suarez Navarro to reach 2nd US Open SF
9/6/2018, 1:02:57 AMNEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 8:45 p.m. Madison Keys reached the semifinals at a second consecutive ✔ NEW YORK (AP) The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 8:45 p.m. Madison Keys reached the semifinals at a second consecutive U.S. Open, beating No. 30 Carla Suarez Navarro 6-4, 6-3 ✔ Serena Williams faces Anastasija Sevastova in the other semifinal Madison Keys, of the United States, returns a shot to Carla Suarez Navarro, of Spain, during the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis tournament Wednesday, Sept
The Latest: US Open tournament director says courts slower
9/6/2018, 3:18:24 AMNEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 11:10 p.m. U.S. Open tournament director David Brewer says the tournam ✔ NEW YORK (AP) The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 11:10 p.m. U.S. Open tournament director David Brewer says the tournament's hard courts were purposely slowed down a touch in response to players noting in recent years that the surface seemed to be speeding up ✔ (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, sits during the changeover in a quarterfinal against John Millman, of Australia, of the U.S. Open tennis tournament Wednesday, Sept
Pentagon has ‘zero intelligence’ on Syrian militants’ chemical weapons capabilities – Mattis
9/6/2018, 12:14:13 AMDespite having a “fairly good penetration” of the Syrian opposition groups, the US haven’t seen any evidence suggesting that the militants in Idlib are capable of staging a chemical attack, the US Defense Secretary claimed. ✔ However, this fact apparently went unnoticed by Mattis, who once again said Washington never seen any evidence of a false flag attack being prepared ✔ Nonetheless, according to reports, the US already drafted a preliminary list of targets for its potential strike against the Syrian Army and Damascus
Moon, Kim to meet Sept. 18-20
9/6/2018, 2:24:17 AMundefined ✔ Yonhap The delegation's trip to the North comes amid growing concerns over a stalemate in denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington ✔ We should value all these successes which the north and the south made hand in hand and keep advancing without deviation the north-south ties that have definitely entered the new orbit of peace, the orbit of reconciliation and cooperation, the report said
Korean leaders to hold third summit in September
9/6/2018, 2:01:08 AMundefined ✔ North Korea has insisted that the US issue a declaration ending the officially unfinished Korean war before denuclearisation talks can proceed - a concession the US has been unwilling to make ✔ South Korea’s presidential Blue House said the summit would focus on establishing permanent peace on the peninsula, measures for co-prosperity and concrete measures for the denuclearisation of the peninsula
Once a funeral is turned into politics, politics takes on a life of its own
9/6/2018, 1:43:29 AMUsing funerals for political purposes has a long, but not distinguished, tradition. In 44 B.C. eulogist Mark Antony claimed to Roman mourners that he came to bury Caesar. But his speech created a frenzy and ended up ensuring a death warrant for the once “honorable” Brutus. ✔ And he flipped on Obamacare to cast the deciding vote that defeated Mr. Trump’s effort to repeal and replace it ✔ Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won (Basic Books, 2017)
Kim Jong Un and South Korean President to Meet Again This Month
9/6/2018, 2:55:44 AMNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “unequivocally committed to denuclearization” but feels constrained by international doubts about his motives, South Korea’s national security adviser said. ✔ An end-of-war declaration has been a goal of the North Koreans during this year’s rapprochement and Mr. Moon has a goal of signing such a declaration by the end of the year ✔ Appeared in the September 6, 2018, print edition as 'Date Set For Korea Leaders’ Summit.'
'I'm a popularist': Trump struggles with Bannon's coaching in Woodward book
9/6/2018, 12:18:10 AMJared Kushner claims boss lacks cash and Melania Trump refuses to defend her husband in a tale of infighting and confusion ✔ Bannon half-wanted to say, ‘You fat fuck, let’s throw down right here,’ Woodward writes ✔ Bannon’s first impression of Trump is described as Archie Bunker, but a really focused Archie Bunker ✔ But Cohn’s estimation of the president, as reported by Woodward, is simpler: a professional liar
Another litmus test for transatlantic resilience
9/6/2018, 1:43:26 AMConventional wisdom has it that symbols in politics matter. History tends to repeat itself, especially if we fail to learn its lessons. ✔ ANALYSIS/OPINION: Conventional wisdom has it that symbols in politics matter ✔ Yet we have failed to condemn Stalin and his crimes ✔ As a consequence, Molotov’s specter continues to haunt Europe (and the world), looking for his new Ribbentrop ✔ Linas Linkevicius is the Lithuanian minister of foreign affairs
Trump’s presence was in that church as powerfully as if he had physically been there
9/6/2018, 3:18:16 AMLast week, I was intrigued by all the fanfare attendant upon the national farewell to the late Sen. John McCain. I have written in this space that Mr. McCain and I were friends who spoke many times, but generally only about the issues upon which we agreed — abortion, immigration and torture. ✔ ANALYSIS/OPINION: Last week, I was intrigued by all the fanfare attendant upon the national farewell to the late Sen ✔ And as if all that were not enough it gave us a $13.5 trillion collective increase in government debt during the Bush and Obama years and the secret but repetitive use of drones to assassinate foreigners and Americans overseas
‘It was not a rogue operation…it was approved in Russia at a senior level’
9/6/2018, 1:37:39 AMTHERESA May was pressing last night for tougher international sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime. To gasps in the Commons, the Prime Minister revealed that investigators had concluded that the two prime suspects in the novichok case were members of the Kremlin’s GRU military intelligence service. ✔ British diplomats will raise the issue at the UN Security Council today as part of a renewed campaign to isolate Russia for the outrage ✔ The denials came less than 24 hours after the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed that Russian-made novichok was used in the attack ✔ If we fail to confront him, he will continue to get away with murder
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