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War Countries - SERIES 74 {20 articles}

Ukraine: On the front line of Europe’s forgotten war

9/6/2018, 4:45:07 AM
undefined ✔ Russia rushed to blame Ukraine for orchestrating the terrorist act, while officials in the capital Kiev denied involvement, insisting turf wars and infighting within what they describe as the Russian-occupied region was to blame ✔ Tell them we will win, an army press officer prompts



As talks with U.S. stall, North Korea preps military parade

9/6/2018, 4:04:57 AM
As nuclear talks with United States stall, North Korea is preparing to hold a big military parade on ✔ In his place will be Li Zhanshu, the Chinese ruling party's third highest official and head of its parliament ✔ Past parades have sometimes been a mixture of military and civilian displays, usually with civilian floats hailing developments in light industry, agriculture or other sectors the government wants to highlight coming after the goose-steppers and rocketeers



Iran summit seeks to avert a bloodbath in northwestern Syria

9/6/2018, 6:41:24 AM
BEIRUT (AP) — When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet Friday in Tehran, all eyes will be on their diplomacy reaching a last-minute deal to avert a bloodbath in Idlib, ✔ The province and surrounding area is home to about 3 million people nearly half of them civilians displaced from other parts of Syria but also an estimated 10,000 hard-core fighters, including al-Qaida-linked militants ✔ Another approach could be to get Turkey to agree to a government return to parts of Idlib while guaranteeing Turkish interests in northwestern Syria, at least in the short term ✔ (Syrian Civil Defence White Helmets via AP, File)



Operating Near Each Other in Syria the American and Russian Forces Have Learned Much About the Other

9/6/2018, 4:18:53 AM
Russia’s military intervention in Syria, staged since late 2015 and involving a sizeable air contingent and special forces, has reported provided the United States military with an invaluable opportunity to study the operations of the country's armed forces and gain valuable information. ✔ The Russian Navy’s sole carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, also briefly deployed to Syria’s coast and launched air sorties against positions held by Islamist insurgents - and though its performance was considered underwhelming it provided Russian naval aviators as well as the crew of the warship itself with experience operating under combat conditions



Two journalists among 20 killed in wrestling club blasts in Kabul

9/6/2018, 5:01:43 AM
Two journalists were among 20 people killed in Kabul in twin bomb attacks on a wrestling club on Wednesday, with the second blast targeting media and emergency services at the scene of the initial explosion. ✔ An Afghan victim receives medical treatment at a hospital following twin blasts in Kabul on September 5, 2018 ✔ At least 34 people were killed in a suicide attack targeting Shia at an education center in Kabul last month ✔ The Trump administration has claimed Islamabad is granting safe haven to militants who are waging a 17-year-old war in neighboring Afghanistan a charge Pakistan denies



China is losing the new Cold War

9/6/2018, 5:05:06 AM
Beijing seemingly set to follow Soviet Union in doomed arms race with the US ✔ The problem for the CPC is that SOEs play a vital role in sustaining one-party rule, as they are used both to reward loyalists and to facilitate government intervention on behalf of official macroeconomic targets ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th



Psychic Haley knows ‘exactly’ who’s responsible for the next chemical attack in Syria

9/6/2018, 6:26:33 AM
Nikki Haley has stated that she knows “exactly” who is going to use chemical weapons in Syria’s Idlib. The prophecy comes amid warnings that the terrorists are preparing a false flag attack to trigger a US-coalition intervention. ✔ Revealing her extraordinary psychic abilities in addition to notorious diplomatic skills, the US envoy to the United Nations said that the sovereign government of Syria could continue to go the route of taking over Syria if it wants, but if there are chemical weapons that are used [in Idlib], we know exactly who is going to use them ✔ As false flag attacks go, this one’s been so clumsily telegraphed, it’s laughable, one Twitter user commented



North Korea's Kim has 'unwavering trust' in Trump, South Korea says

9/6/2018, 5:10:59 AM
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has "unwavering trust for President Trump" and wants to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula before the US leader finishes his term, South Korean officials said Thursday. ✔ State media also quoted Kim as calling on Seoul and Pyongyang to further their efforts to realize the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula ✔ As well as a peace treaty with North Korea finally ending the Korean War, Moon has spelled out an ambitious economic plan for an increasing interlinked Peninsula, and he only has one five-year term in which to achieve these goals



North and South Korean leaders to meet for third summit despite stalemate with US

9/6/2018, 7:11:14 AM
Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, will travel to Pyongyang on September 18 for a three-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, his top aides confirmed on Thursday. ✔ Mr Chung, who met personally with Kim on Wednesday, said he had reconfirmed his determination to completely denuclearise the Korean Peninsula and expressed his willingness to closely cooperate with not only South Korea but also the United States to that end



Moon, Kim agree to third summit to discuss denuclearisation

9/6/2018, 7:19:29 AM
Leaders of North and South Korea to to discuss 'practical measures' towards denuclearisation. ✔ The summit - a third between the two leaders this year - will take place from September 18 to 20 and the dates were decided on Wednesday during a visit by South's national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, to Pyongyang, where he met Kim and handed over a personal letter from Moon ✔ The visit by the South Korean delegation to Pyongyang came amid a deadlock on the North's nuclear weapons programme, with US efforts to dismantle the arsenal stalled for weeks ✔ Inside Story Is peace on the horizon between North and South Korea



North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants to denuclearize during Trump's first term: Seoul officials

9/6/2018, 4:56:07 AM
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants to denuclearize the Korean peninsula during U.S. President Donald Trump's first term, Seoul officials said on Thursday. ✔ South Korea's Moon sent Chung and other envoys to the North Korean capital on Wednesday to set the timing and agenda for the third inter-Korean summit this year, and to break the impasse in talks between Washington and Pyongyang over dismantling the North's nuclear program



Kim Jong Un Reaffirms Commitment To Denuclearization As Koreas Set Summit

9/6/2018, 5:04:22 AM
Leaders of the neighboring nations are planning to meet later this month in Pyongyang. ✔ The summit later this month between Kim and Moon, the driving force behind the current diplomacy, will be a crucial indicator of whether larger nuclear negotiations with the United States will proceed ✔ But Moon faces tougher challenges heading into his third meeting with Kim, with the stalemate in nuclear negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington raising fundamental questions about Kim’s supposed willingness to abandon his nuclear weapons



Two Koreas to discuss denuclearisation at Pyongyang summit

9/6/2018, 7:11:01 AM
The leaders of the two Koreas will hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, Seoul said Thursday, as the North's leader Kim Jong-un renewed his commitment to the denuclearisation of the flashpoint peninsula. ✔ The leaders of the two Koreas will hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, Seoul said Thursday, as the North's leader Kim Jong-un renewed his commitment to the denuclearisation of the flashpoint peninsula ✔ 'Sense of frustration' The pledge comes after Trump, frustrated with a lack of progress on disarmament, last month cancelled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's trip to Pyongyang after the North reportedly sent a belligerent letter to the US leader



Kim Jong-un and South Korean leader in SHOWDOWN nuclear talks

9/6/2018, 4:30:20 AM
THE leaders of North and South Korea will meet in Pyongyang for crunch nuclear talks, officials have said. ✔ Chung added: North Korea has been preemptively carrying out measures needed for denuclearisation, and Kim said he would appreciate that such good faith is accepted with good faith ✔ While North Korea accused the US of plotting to kill Kim in secret war drills



Crazy rich Asia: Home to the fastest-growing pool of wealth in the world

9/6/2018, 6:26:41 AM
This summer's box-office hit "Crazy Rich Asians" highlighted a wider wealth trend across the region, according to a new Wealth-X report. ✔ In the forecast through to 2022 we expect to see a continuation of this growth, closing the gap with the Americas and EMEA ✔ Subscribe to CNBC Make It on YouTube! Don't Miss: Here's what the super rich around the world like to do in their spare time



Psychic Nikki Haley: If There Is a Future Chemical Weapons Attack, Assad Did It

9/6/2018, 7:13:26 AM
UN Ambassador and Clairvoyant Prognosticator of the Transmundane Nikki Haley has foreseen that, if there are any future chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian province of Idlib, it will most definitely be the Syrian government that is responsible and not the multiple terrorist factions in the area. ✔ Not  after  the violence had already started, but  years in advance ✔ The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy ✔ And these monsters are now pretending to be concerned about human rights



Korean boy bands, soccer stars stir debate on military service

9/6/2018, 7:23:48 AM
SEOUL--Boy band BTS hit the top of the charts not long after Son Heung-min and his South Korean socc ✔ Being on top of your game in the international arena doesn't give pop stars a break from the military service ✔ At the moment, however, Son Heung-min is preparing to head back to the highest levels of world soccer to continue his career while the clock is ticking for BTS



Xi Jinping drops surprise hint over secret feud

9/6/2018, 5:58:48 AM
Propaganda work is 'correct' and officials are 'reliable,' the president declares ✔ Deng initiated the policy of reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, lifting millions of people out of poverty, as well as allowing many second-generation reds to accumulate tremendous wealth ✔ Get unique insights on Asia, the most dynamic market in the world ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th



Who is behind the Trump bashing op-ed?

9/6/2018, 6:53:27 AM
DC is abuzz with claims about who could have authored the anonymous New York Times op-ed, which described the president as 'impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective'. ✔ But sleuths have been honing in on one word - 'lodestar' ✔ Stephen Ford -   If the use of lodestar was not a trick, others said, then perhaps suspicion could fall on Pence's speechwriter ✔ That said, the idea the writer came from within the Trump family seems unlikely



Why big companies squander good ideas

9/6/2018, 4:45:09 AM
undefined ✔ A more recent example: is the helicopter basically a kind of aeroplane, and therefore an asset of the Royal Air Force ✔ This witness was a guest of honour at the celebrations ✔ Head to the Tech Tonic stage at the FT Weekend Festival on Saturday September 8 at 1pm to hear Tim’s talk on Why brilliant ideas die



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