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Saudi Arabia: Yemeni rebel missile shot down, 26 wounded

9/6/2018, 5:19:52 PM
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi Arabia shot down a missile fired across the border by Yemen's Houthi rebels but the shrapnel wounded 26 civilians, the kingdom's official news agency rep ✔ envoy to evacuate on Wednesday some injured people to neighboring Oman for treatment and others in Muscat to be flown to Sanaa but the flight has not arrived yet ✔ An estimated 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's conflict, which has spawned what the U.N



Yemen peace talks hit snag as U.N. mediator awaits Houthi team

9/6/2018, 5:12:13 PM
U.N.-mediated Yemen peace talks hung in the balance on Thursday as the government delegation warned that it would leave on Friday if representatives of the Houthi movement had not shown up. ✔ The Western-backed coalition intervened in Yemen’s war in 2015 against the Houthis to restore Hadi’s internationally recognized government ✔ Since then the humanitarian situation has worsened sharply, putting 8.4 million people on the brink of starvation, setting off the world’s worst cholera epidemic, and ruining the already weak economy ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Congo records first Ebola death in major eastern trade hub

9/6/2018, 5:42:46 PM
Health officials in the African nation yesterday confirmed the virus was responsible for the death of a woman in Butembo. The city is about 35 miles (55km) away from Beni, the centre of the outbreak. ✔ Some 82 people have died in the most recent Ebola outbreak taking place in the North Kivu province in the north-east of Democratic Republic of the Congo ✔ Hope exists though, after an experimental vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV, protected nearly 6,000 people



ICC says it can prosecute Myanmar for alleged Rohingya crimes

9/6/2018, 5:41:18 PM
Decision opens door for formal investigation into forced deportation and genocide ✔ More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh, starting in August 2017, after the Burmese army launched clearance operations against what they called terrorists in northern Rakhine state ✔ Scrutiny of Myanmar’s action in Rakhine state in the security council has so far been blocked by Russia and China, both veto-wielding powers



Yemeni families mourn at new cemetery built for children killed in...

9/6/2018, 5:20:07 PM
Hafidh Abdullah al-Khawlani watched as his father arranged some plastic flowers on top of one of dozens of small, fresh graves lining the dusty new cemetery in Saada, north Yemen. ✔ REUTERS/Naif Rahma Together they recited some verses from the Koran, and prayed, hands cupped ✔ So many died that a new cemetery had to be built to accommodate the bodies ✔ Inside the hastily erected wall, some of the graves are still empty ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Salisbury shows Russia has chemical weapons. The west has no defence | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

9/6/2018, 6:13:38 PM
Nato countries and Australia need to re-invest in their chemical defence capabilities or be rolled by Russia or terrorists ✔ As we approach the seventh year of this shockingly violent conflict, this war has become synonymous with two distinct and irrefutable crimes against humanity: the use of chemical weapons and the direct targeting of hospitals and medical personnel ✔ What if the Salisbury attack had taken place in a mega city like Sydney ✔ Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is a chemical weapons expert



Justice Department charges North Korean over WannaCry, Sony hack

9/6/2018, 5:33:11 PM
The man has allegedly been behind massive cyberattacks for the last four years. ✔ Using a network of alias and email addresses, Park flooded inboxes at Sony Pictures, AMC Theaters and Mammoth Screen to intrude their networks ✔ Gotcha: How Microsoft spotted another Russian hacking attempt You, too: US targets 10 Iranians over university cyberattacks, HBO hack



Syrian PM Khamis says Idlib will 'soon' be under state control

9/6/2018, 6:27:39 PM
Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis said on Thursday in Damascus that opposition-controlled Idlib province will soon be restored to Syrian state sovereignty, vowing to win any coming war. ✔ Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, resumed on Tuesday air strikes against insurgents in north western Idlib province, following weeks of bombardment and shelling by pro-Syrian government forces in an apparent prelude to a full-scale offensive against the rebels’ last major enclave ✔ Russian, Turkish and Iranian leaders are due to meet on Sept ✔ 7 in Iran and are expected to discuss the situation in northwestern Syria ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Kim Jong Un to skip UN General Assembly: South Korean official

9/6/2018, 4:11:10 PM
Hopes of three-way summit between US and two Koreas dashed ✔ But a lack of progress on denuclearization has cast a shadow on such hopes ✔ Chung met with Kim in the North Korean capital on Wednesday ✔ This will mark Biegun's first trip to Asia since his appointment in late August ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th



Idlib must be liberated to reach peace, Syrian Army best poised to do it – military analyst to RT

9/6/2018, 6:14:31 PM
Syria’s terror-infested Idlib province is a thorn that needs removing, a military expert told RT, adding that the Syrian Army is capable of both freeing the area from terrorists and keeping civilians safe. ✔ Still, the Syrian Army supported by the Russian Air Forces could avoid significant civilian casualties as it already has a vast experience of fighting in the cities, the expert added ✔ Ultimately, the eventual defeat of the militants in the Idlib province would be only a matter of time



Guatemala tells U.N. Secretary-General to back off

9/6/2018, 7:58:15 PM
Guatemala's Foreign Minister said on Thursday that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres should not interfere with the country's decision to bar an anti-corruption prosecutor. ✔ A representative for the CICIG did not respond to a request for comment ✔ Earlier this week, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said the country had barred Ivan Velasquez, head of the CICIG, from entry and asked the U.N ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



AP FACT CHECK: Trump's disloyal official is not a traitor

9/6/2018, 7:31:42 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is questioning whether one of his senior officials committed treason by going public about an effort within the administration to thwart h ✔ No one has been convicted of treason since the aftermath of World War II, few have been through history and no one has been executed for that crime, says Carlton F.W ✔ President Donald Trump lashed out against the anonymous senior official who wrote it, claiming to be part of a resistance working from within to thwart the commander-in-chief's most dangerous impulses



Family identifies mother, her sons as people found dead in Herndon home

9/6/2018, 4:57:26 PM
Fairfax County police said they are investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide. ✔ An online article in a Turkish newspaper from 2016 listed Ayaz as the director of the New York-based non-profit group Women in Islam, which aims to empower women and focuses on social justice issues ✔ More than the political system, the underlying attitudes towards women must be respectful and dignified



India and US sign military deal amid tensions over Iran sanctions

9/6/2018, 4:59:44 PM
India-US sign agreement for purchase of sensitive military communication equipment with Mattis and Pompeo in New Delhi. ✔ Both sides said they were happy with the progress made so far ✔ India is also seeking to avoid US sanctions on those who do business with Russia's military and intelligence sectors ✔ India has been doing so till now, and it will manage similarly in the future, Joshi said



D.C. pores over clues to the source of White House's op-ed headache

9/6/2018, 5:24:02 PM
Scattered bread crumbs, from the use of the word 'lodestar' to the Times' errant use of a male pronoun, gripped D.C. wags. One offiicial sees clues that point to Trump's man in Russia. ✔ Washington's newest parlor game, played out over cocktails, coffees and cigars, is the molehunt sorrounding a biting anonymous anti-Trump essay The New York Times published online Wednesday ✔ 'We're doing this in order to prevent World War III,' he reportedly said



White House tells press to 'stop' bothering them & call the NYT

9/6/2018, 5:24:03 PM
'If you want to know who this gutless loser is, call the opinion desk of the failing NYT,' Sarah Sanders tweeted. 'They are the only ones complicit in this deceitful act.' ✔ Word by word the essay in the Times has been picked apart for clues of who wrote it with guessing ranging from administration figures like Defense Secretary James Mattis or Attorney General Jeff Sessions to more out-of-the-box contenders like first lady Melania Trump to funny memes on social media



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