House Democrats Launch New Challenge To Trump-Backed War In Yemen
9/6/2018, 10:18:18 AMRep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is expected to officially announce the effort on Thursday. ✔ Now, some lawmakers and experts believe renewed public pressure has a shot at encouraging peace even if it does not ultimately force an up-or-down vote on the policy ✔ The bloodshed has to end and the U.S. can help stop it by ending refueling, arms sales, and any other military support for the coalition in Yemen, Oxfam America President Abby Maxman said
As Mattis touts "reconciliation," war claims more U.S., Afghan lives
9/6/2018, 11:26:40 AMDay after double ISIS bombing kills 21 civilians, violence persists in America's longest war ✔ Emergency workers and journalists became victims when a car bomb blew up after the first explosion ✔ Yet on Wednesday, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said that after the U.S.'s 17-year engagement in the Afghan war, reconciliation here is no longer a mirage ✔ It may seem like a mirage to the families of the fallen U.S. servicemen returning home
IDF Confirms Was Arming Syria Rebels Then Has Story Pulled
9/6/2018, 9:25:43 AMThe Jerusalem Post, a major Israeli newspaper, published an article on Wednesday quoting Israeli military officials as saying that they had been providing seven different Syrian rebel groups with “large amounts of cash, weapons and ammunition.” ✔ According to reports Israel had been arming at least seven different rebel groups in Syria’s Golan Heights, including the Fursan al-Joulan rebel group which had around 400 fighters and had been given an estimated $5,000 per month by Israel ✔ On Monday the military announced that in the past year and half alone, Israel has carried out 202 strikes against Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Syria
Ancient city of Palmyra, Syria to open to tourists after ISIS occupation - will you visit?
9/6/2018, 8:48:42 AMHOLIDAYS to the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria could be available as early as next year as the site - once the most visited tourist attraction in the Middle East - undergoes extensive restoration. ✔ This heritage has survived millennia, it fosters unity and identity for the Syrian people ✔ The FCO adds: If you choose to travel to Syria against FCO advice, you should make sure you and any dependents have valid exit stamps on your travel documents if you need one and take out comprehensive travel and medical insurance
Inside the spectacle and symbolism of North Korea's Mass Games
9/6/2018, 9:29:43 AMFor the first time in five years, North Korea is expected to put on a massive performance on Sunday known as the "Mass Games." ✔ Gymnasts and dancers performed on the field, while thousands of school children sitting in the stadium’s seats used colored flip books to create huge, shifting displays of images and words ✔ The main theme of the most famous of the Mass Games, Arirang, was the glory of the nation that North Koreans had built after the horrors of Japanese occupation and the 1950-1953 Korean War, said Simon Cockerell, general manager of the tour agency Koryo Tours, who attended multiple mass games between 2002 and 2013 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Warplanes strike Syria's rebel-held Idlib region: monitor, rescuers
9/6/2018, 11:01:17 AMAir strikes hit parts of the Idlib region in northwest Syria, the country's last major insurgent stronghold, a war monitoring group and a rescue service said on Thursday. ✔ There was no immediate comment from Damascus or Moscow ✔ France’s top military official said his forces were prepared to strike Syrian government targets if chemical weapons were used in an expected army offensive to retake Idlib ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Landmines kill almost hourly – their brutal scourge must end | Penny Mordaunt
9/6/2018, 11:46:40 AMMore than two decades after Princess Diana braved an Angolan minefield, Britain continues to spearhead clearance efforts ✔ What weapon, a deadly and barbaric killer, is one of the cruellest known to man ✔ Imagine the courage it takes to clear a minefield by hand ✔ Conflict in Syria and Yemen, and the deliberate targeting of civilians by Isis mean new mines continue to be laid even as we race to remove the old ones
Through fragments of long-lost lives, lab aims to give military families a measure of peace
9/6/2018, 11:19:09 AMThe return of presumed remains of service members missing from the Korean War has put a forensic team’s mission back in the spotlight. ✔ Belongings of deceased soldiers sit on a table at the Defense Department's state-of-the-art forensic lab in Honolulu ✔ But like the resolve of other military families awaiting the discovery of some trace of a loved one, the woman’s gratitude for her father’s repatriated remains hasn’t diminished with time ✔ Bones take on the isotopic signature of the place where a person was raised
U.S. envoy sees Israel keeping Golan Heights forever
9/6/2018, 9:00:23 AMThe U.S. ambassador to Israel said in remarks published on Thursday he expected Israel to keep the Golan Heights in perpetuity, in an apparent nod towards its claim of sovereignty over the strategic plateau captured from Syria in a 1967 war. ✔ REUTERS/Ammar Awad In the past year and a half, Trump has twice ordered U.S.-led air strikes against targets in Syria in response to what Washington called the Assad government’s use of chemical weapons against civilians ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
‘Close to heart attack’: Russia demands OSCE action over Ukraine’s treatment of detained journalist
9/6/2018, 11:45:31 AMRussia’s envoy to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has demanded action over the health of Russian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, held in Ukraine, who he says is being pushed ‘close to having a heart attack’. ✔ We also expect a reaction from OSCE’s RFoM [Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Desir] , reads Aleksandr Lukashevich’s comment posted by the envoy’s office on Twitter ✔ Russian officials and mass media have denounced Ukraine’s treatment of the journalist ✔ On Thursday the court session continued with a rejection of Vyshinsky’s appeal for judge replacement
Novichok assassin's grandfather 'was officer in Stalin's SMERSH unit'
9/6/2018, 10:10:22 AMSuspect Alexander Petrov's grandfather Ivan Starchenko served under Stalin as a commander of SMERSH's 31st shooting brigade on the First Ukrainian Front during the Second World War. ✔ Yulia Chopivskaya, from Ukraine, aged around 30, was the only Facebook friend of Boshirov Chopivskaya said she met the Russian for about half an hour at a cafe in Prague around five years ago The secretive Boshirov had only one friend on a Facebook account, it appears, a glamorous Ukrainian woman
North Korea's Kim aims for denuclearization within Trump's first...
9/6/2018, 8:43:08 AMNorth Korea's Kim Jong Un has given his first time line to achieve denuclearization, aiming for the end of U.S. President Donald Trump's first term, and has agreed to a third summit with his South Korean counterpart, Seoul officials said on Thursday. ✔ U.S. officials have previously said they have already made concessions, such as halting joint military exercises with South Korea ✔ During his meeting with Kim, Chung delivered a message from Trump and will relay comments from Kim to U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton later on Thursday, Moon’s spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom told reporters ✔ The Presidential Blue House/Handout via REUTERS Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
N. Korea vows denuclearization within Trump’s 1st term amid stalled talks with US – Seoul
9/6/2018, 10:26:06 AMNorth Korea’s Kim Jong-un vowed he wants to give up nuclear weapons by the end of Donald Trump’s first term, offering a potential timeline for denuclearization, a top South Korean official said after visiting Pyongyang. ✔ According to Chung, Kim reaffirmed his determination to completely denuclearize the peninsula, but said he would appreciate that such good faith is accepted with good faith ✔ For his part, Trump had abruptly canceled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s planned visit to Pyongyang, citing a lack of progress in denuclearization talks ✔ The Korean War ended with an armistice agreement, which technically leaves the peninsula at war
Kim Jong Un expresses ‘frustration’ over Korea peninsula stalemate
9/6/2018, 9:27:44 AMundefined ✔ There is clearly a cultural difference behind the gap of perception towards the measures taken by North Korea so far ✔ Kim Tae-woo, former head of the Korea Institute for National Unification, threw doubt on Pyongyang’s latest rhetoric, saying the regime had not taken any meaningful steps towards denuclearisation
Party cups as gas masks: Idlib civilians prepare for battle
9/6/2018, 9:00:26 AMHudhayfa al-Shahad strapped a colorful paper cup filled with cotton and charcoal to a child's face and tightened a plastic bag around his head: an improvised gas mask if chemicals once again fall on Syria's Idlib. ✔ [nL8N1LM66E] Damascus and its ally Russia both deny these charges and say they do not engage in chemical warfare ✔ [nL8N1VQ1TY] But Turkey has said it hopes a summit with Iranian and Russian leaders in Tehran on Friday will avert an offensive ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Kim Jong Un demands 'goodwill measures' as Koreas set summit
9/6/2018, 10:57:31 AMNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed faith in an increasingly embattled President Donald Trump's efforts to settle a nuclear impasse even as he signaled frustration at outside skepticism about his disarmament intentions and demanded that his "goodwill measures" be met in kind. ✔ Kim also said an end-of-war declaration that Seoul and Pyongyang have been pushing Washington to sign off on wouldn't weaken the U.S.-South Korean alliance or lead to the withdrawal of the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea to prevent North Korean attack, according to Chung
Israeli wall rising near border with Lebanon stokes tensions
9/6/2018, 11:16:52 AMROSH HANIKRA, Israel (AP) — Israel is building a massive wall along its northern border, saying the barrier is needed to protect civilians from Hezbollah attacks, but the project ✔ ROSH HANIKRA, Israel (AP) Israel is building a massive wall along its northern border, saying the barrier is needed to protect civilians from Hezbollah attacks, but the project has raised tensions with Lebanon, which fears the fence will encroach on its territory ✔ Tomer Gilad, Israel's liaison officer with UNIFIL, said there are monthly meetings with the Lebanese military and U.N
3rd Korea summit due Sept. 18-20
9/6/2018, 8:15:36 AMundefined ✔ Since beginning with the talks this year, North Korea has taken a series of steps such as destroying parts of its main rocket launch site and closing its nuclear testing site, but the main complaints from U.S. officials are the North haven't taken any concrete steps toward fulfilling that pledge
Trump thanks Kim Jong Un for 'unwavering faith' with his own White House in open mutiny
9/6/2018, 11:59:31 AMTrump's thank you came after South Korean diplomats met with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, when he expressed an intention to denculearize his country before the end of Trump's first term, and said that he trusts the president. ✔ Furthermore, Kim, a student of US politics, seemed to respond to bombshell allegations made in Bob Woodward's new book based on hundreds of hours of tape with White House sources ✔ that there are dozens and dozens of us, a senior administration official told Axios, confirming the in-house resistance network exposed in the Times' op-ed
Third Moon-Kim summit
9/6/2018, 8:23:54 AMundefined ✔ Concerns have been mounting in recent weeks that bilateral relations may return to the way they were before the June 12 Trump-Kim summit in Singapore ✔ For the next inter-Korean summit to be a success, Pyongyang should expedite specific measures for denuclearization
Chung sends Kim Jong-un's peace message to Bolton
9/6/2018, 8:15:55 AMundefined ✔ By Lee Min-hyung National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong had a telephone conversation with his U.S. counterpart John Bolton, Thursda, delivering a message from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ✔ The Washington-Pyongyang negotiations have suffered recent setbacks, but the North will continue to trust Trump at this critical juncture, Kim was quoted as saying
UN Security Council: what will it do about Russia's spy poisoning attack?
9/6/2018, 10:06:10 AMBRITAIN faces a showdown with Russia at the UN Security Council as it discusses the latest developments in the Salisbury spy poisoning. Diplomats will confront Vladimir Putin’s envoy after tw… ✔ Alamy Live News 3 Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt at the UN Security Council in August 2018 What does the UN Security Council do ✔ It has the power to make binding resolutions, including authorising military force such as during ethnic conflict in Bosnia and Rwanda ✔ Russia had used its veto to block a resolution condemning Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons
What's GRU? A look at Russia's shadowy military spies
9/6/2018, 8:31:02 AMMOSCOW (AP) — GRU isn't as well-known a baleful acronym as KGB or FSB. But Russia's military intelligence service is attracting increasing attention as allegations mount of deviou ✔ MOSCOW (AP) GRU isn't as well-known a baleful acronym as KGB or FSB ✔ And as president, Putin names the top brass in the GRU ✔ (Ryan Hooper/PA via AP) This combination photo made available by the Metropolitan Police on Wednesday Sept ✔ 5, 2018, shows Alexander Petrov, left, and Ruslan Boshirov
Oil rises on weaker dollar, but demand doubts remain
9/6/2018, 10:29:35 AMOil rose on Thursday, encouraged by a weaker dollar and evidence of strong U.S. fuel demand, though demand prospects remain clouded by the turmoil engulfing emerging markets and an escalation in the U.S. trade dispute with China. ✔ now we have the extra dimension of a spike in oil prices that can only increase the pain (for consumers) and the risk of a slowdown in demand ✔ The market is already preparing for the loss of at least 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in Iranian crude supplies from early November, when U.S. sanctions against Tehran come into force ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Social media reacts to anonymous 'Trump resistance' op-ed with memes
9/6/2018, 8:48:17 AMHilarious memes shared on social media ascribe the anonymous New York Times op-ed to everyone from Tiffany Trump and the Easter Bunny to the First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President Pence. ✔ Others make fun of the President's desperate efforts to unmask the writer of the anonymous article ✔ 'It's pointless to try to convince him of anything ✔ Her husband, Jared, is a senior adviser and also could be involved, some have said ✔ That said, the idea the writer came from within the Trump family seems unlikely
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