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North Korea says war's end can't be bargaining chip for...

10/1/2018, 10:46:02 PM
North Korea said on Tuesday that declaring the end of the 1950-53 Korean War &qu... ✔ However, Washington wants North Korea to first provide a complete inventory of its weapons programs and take irreversible steps to give up its arsenal ✔ KCNA said the Yongbyon nuclear facility, which the North expressed a willingness to take offline if the United States takes corresponding action, is a core one for its nuclear program ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Saudi Arabia admits coalition 'mistakes' in targeting in Yemen

10/1/2018, 8:00:52 PM
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it was working hard to correct mistaken targeting by... ✔ The task force recommended that perpetrators should be held to account and victims should enjoy redress ✔ Renate Winter, panel chairwoman, asked why schools and hospitals had been repeatedly struck: You say it’s an accident ✔ It pledged to hold accountable anyone who contributed to the error ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



No easy escape from Afghan war for Trump

10/1/2018, 10:04:15 PM
Russia, China and Iran now backing Taliban and stymieing US peace efforts ✔ U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, while making an unannounced visit to Kabul recently on his way back from New Delhi, said reconciliation efforts with the militia had gained traction ✔ Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author, most recently, of the award-winning Water, Peace, and War



Trump awards medal soldier for heroic action in Afghanistan

10/1/2018, 9:29:29 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Army medic who received the nation's highest military honor Monday for braving heavy gunfire to save lives in Afghanistan was rejected by the military t ✔ WASHINGTON (AP) A former Army medic who received the nation's highest military honor Monday for braving heavy gunfire to save lives in Afghanistan was rejected by the military the first time he tried to enlist ✔ First rejected by the military because of a medical condition, Shurer enlisted again a year after 9/11



Medal of Honor recipient: Trump calls former Army medic an inspiration, a 'warrior' in cancer fight

10/1/2018, 8:47:25 PM
Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Ronald Shurer II was an Army medic, served as a special agent in the Secret Service, and is battling cancer. ✔ For more than six hours, Ron bravely faced down the enemy, the president said ✔ Hagel's review sprung from concern that the standards for conferring awards for valor had been overly stringent at the outset of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ✔ In August, Trump made the award posthumously to Air Force Tech Sgt ✔ Chapman was the first airman to be awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War



"We got everybody out": Medal of Honor recipient recalls harrowing battle

10/1/2018, 10:50:39 PM
Staff Sgt. Ronald Shurer exposed himself to open fire in order to help save his team in Afghanistan ✔ WASHINGTON The Medal of Honor will humble anyone, but no one more than former Staff Sgt ✔ I heard the first calls for medic and at that point worked my way over to the first person who needed help, Shurer recalled ✔ Medevacs braved the firestorm, to evacuate the casualties: four critically wounded Americans and two dead Afghan commandos



The two Koreas begin removing border landmines after peace summit deal

10/1/2018, 4:02:38 PM
Following a successful peace summit last month, North Korea and South Korea began a 20-day operation to remove landmines along part of their border on Monday, Seoul confirmed. ✔ The two Koreas started removing landmines along a section of their heavily fortified border on Monday as part of a summit deal to ease military tensions ✔ The other area to be de-mined is around the so-called 'Arrow Head Hill,' where some of the war's heaviest fighting took place over a strategically important hilltop position



US lost its credibility by engaging in trade war with the world – Erdogan

10/1/2018, 4:37:47 PM
The US has lost its credibility since Donald Trump unleashed a global trade war, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, slamming Washington for sanctioning Turkey and trying to isolate Iran. ✔ Ankara in particular considers the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to be a terrorist group ✔ The low point came in August when the Trump administration slapped Turkish steel and aluminum imports with 50-percent tariffs and blacklisted the country’s ministers of justice and the interior over human rights violations in relation to the Brunson case ✔ Trends: Turkey-US newsUS sanctions on Iran



Hodeidah 'cholera cases triple after Saudi-UAE offensive': Report

10/1/2018, 11:42:32 PM
UK-based NGO says rise in suspected cases follows launch of military offensive by Saudi Arabia-UAE coalition in June. ✔ Children in Yemen are experiencing severe hardships that no child should endure, facing multiple threats from bombs and bullets to disease and extreme hunger, said Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children's Yemen country director ✔ WATCH: Inside Story - Can the UN revive talks to end the war in Yemen



Lebanon puts on a tour of alleged Hezbollah missile sites to prove Israel wrong

10/1/2018, 10:27:33 PM
The tour of a soccer field, a warehouse and a golf course revealed no missiles but came as a reminder of the risk of a new war between Israel and Lebanon. ✔ The diplomats, speaking on condition they not be identified, observed that the tour seemed inconclusive given that one of the sites was excluded ✔ Its politicians won enough seats in parliament in elections in May to play a decisive role in forming the next government



Lebanon takes foreign diplomats on tour of Hizbollah 'missile sites' as it calls Netanyahu's bluff

10/1/2018, 6:31:15 PM
“As you can all see, there is no secret Hizbollah weapons warehouse here,” Gebran Bassil, Lebanon’s foreign minister, said wryly as he gestured down below the empty stands of the al-Ahed football stadium. ✔ A Hizbollah fighter firing towards Syrian rebel areas on the Syrian side of the Qalamun hills close to the Lebanese borderCredit:AFP Hizbollah is estimated to be sitting on an arsenal of over 120,000 rockets and missiles and can fire over 1,000 per day, capable of targeting almost every major city in Israel



Test your knowledge of the countries and cities that have changed their name

10/1/2018, 10:30:29 PM
Take our fun quiz to see exactly what you can remember - the answers are below ✔ Macedonia has voted to change its name to end a feud with Greece ✔ Ho Chi Minh City is the biggest in Vietnam and is named after the deceased communist leader, but what was it previously called ✔ The Vikings called in Jorvik, the Romans before that knew it as Eboracum



Defense Secretary James Mattis cancels trip to China as trade tensions get worse

10/1/2018, 6:46:11 PM
The cancellation comes on the heels of a denied port visit for the USS Wasp to Hong Kong and a scrubbed engagement with China's top naval commander. ✔ Mark Schiefelbein | AFP | Getty Images  US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis inspects an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Bayi Building in Beijing on June 27, 2018 ✔ The numerous overlapping sovereign claims to islands, reefs and rocks many of which disappear under high tide have turned the waters into an armed camp



Fast Asia Open: RBA rates decision, Hong Kong retail sales

10/1/2018, 11:24:32 PM
undefined ✔ Corporate earnings reports out today include Kewpie ✔ 07.00: South Korea industrial production 07.50: Japan monetary base 12.30: Reserve Bank of Australia interest rates decision 13.00: Japan consumer confidence index 16.30: Hong Kong retail sales 21.00: Singapore manufacturing purchasing managers’ index



Koreas start removal of DMZ mines in rush to ease tensions

10/1/2018, 9:43:55 PM
US-led forces hesitate to sign onto disarmament after Moon-Kim summit ✔ A South Korean tank with a landmine-cleaning apparatus near the DMZ in 2000 ✔ The parliamentarian of the conservative party chairing the committee charged the agreement includes extremely dangerous content and questioned whether it would really lead to a new era of peace as the government has claimed



Opinion | Trump’s new NAFTA is pretty much the same as the old one — but at what cost?

10/1/2018, 11:02:13 PM
North American Free Trade continues — with great damage to our alliances ✔ Certainly that was the message being put out by his media claque Monday ✔ After this drama replete with insults, personal attacks, threats to walk away America’s neighbors will think twice before fighting alongside us, cooperating with us or collaborating with us any time soon ✔ Read more: Max Boot: President Trump creates crises, then claims credit for solving them



Opinion | President Trump creates crises, then claims credit for solving them

10/1/2018, 7:47:59 PM
We shouldn't lose sight of the collateral damage he creates along the way. ✔ In any case, milk products represent just 0.06 percent of U.S.-Canada trade, 99 percent of which was already tariff-free ✔ Give him credit for acting rationally in the end, but don’t forget the previous 13 months of destructive irrationality and all the collateral damage along the way



How Trump is pushing Turkey and the EU closer together

10/1/2018, 5:29:05 PM
Relations between Turkey and the EU have markedly improved in recent months and Trump has played a major in that. ✔ The Trump administration also recently slapped Turkey with a number of economic sanctions ✔ As the Trump-initiated trade war rages on, it only makes sense for the EU and Turkey to stick together ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Taha Ozhan Taha Ozhan is an academic and writer and is currently research director at Ankara Institute



U.N. agency, worried about safety, pulls some international staff...

10/1/2018, 6:32:03 PM
The United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees withdrew some of it... ✔ REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo UNRWA in its statement called on Gaza authorities to provide effective protection to its employees and facilities ✔ Gaza is controlled by the Islamist Hamas movement ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Analysis | Global confidence in Trump lower than for China’s Xi, poll shows

10/1/2018, 10:11:59 PM
A new Pew poll finds skepticism of China's rise but most countries continue to have a negative view of the U.S. president. ✔ Views of the United States in general were more positive 50 percent were favorable, compared to 43 percent unfavorable but this was also a drop from the Obama-era, when favorable views were at 64 percent ✔ More on WorldViews Amid North Korea nuclear talks, poll shows high support for South Korea among Americans



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