'North Korea won't push for end-of-war declaration if US doesn't want it': KCNA
10/2/2018, 1:43:53 AMundefined ✔ North Korea has called on the U.S. to actively engage in talks on declaring an end to the Korean War, which was halted in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace treaty ✔ relations and peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula, to which the U.S. was also committed, the KCNA added
World War 3: Fears of Iraq war CHAOS as Iran torments US amid SOARING Middle East tensions
10/2/2018, 5:30:18 AMIRAN has issued ominous threats to the US as tensions in the Middle East threaten to spiral out of control sparking fears of a return to the chaos of the 2003 Iraq invasion, officials have warned. ✔ The conflict in Syria has left thousands displaced (Image: GETTY) Iran has sent foreboding threats to the US in response - thrusting yet more uncertainty on the already beleaguered region ✔ Satellite imagery by an Israel-based company shows what is believed to be a military base belonging to Iran-backed fighters - on the Syrian side ✔ You know that this war will destroy all that you possess
Innocent children of Syria are going home to land they have never seen
10/2/2018, 1:53:00 AMMore than 300 people displaced by the nation's seven-year civil war set off on their journey across dusty mountain tracks from the remote border town of Arsal in Lebanon. ✔ In trucks piled high with belongings and their livestock safely tethered, hundreds of Syrian refugees made their journey home yesterday after years in makeshift camps ✔ It was 3.2 in the period between July 16, 2017 and May 31, 2018, when the previous government was in charge
Donald Trump trade war means US has lost ALL credibility, Erdogan claims
10/2/2018, 7:45:33 AMDONALD Trump’s global trade war has ripped the US’ credibility to shreds, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. ✔ Donald Trump has unleashed sanctions against Turkey, Iran, China as trade war intensifies (Image: GEtty) The US has embarked on a false path of solving political problems through the language of blackmail and threats Turkey's President Erdogan And in another broadside, Mr Erdogan said the US continues to cooperate with terrorist organisations in the Syria crisis, singling out Washington’s support for Kurdish militias
‘If Corbyn becomes PM we all deserve to be SHOT’ - Tory MP makes ASTONISHING claim
10/2/2018, 4:49:30 AMIF JEREMY Corbyn becomes Prime Minister, Conservative MPs “deserve to be collectively shot” according to Tory MP Bob Seely, who has warned the party is loosing “sight of the domestic agenda” as it obsesses over its leadership and Brexit. ✔ Mr Seely is MP for the Isle of Wight and was first elected last year ✔ I wouldn’t necessarily vote against him and it might be that our party membership still like him ✔ She has made some mistakes and we were too slow in beginning to negotiate seriously over our future with the European Union
Teen Mom OG Returns as Bristol Palin Struggles with Husband Dakota Meyer's PTSD from Afghanistan
10/2/2018, 3:07:09 AMBristol Palin made her MTV debut on Monday night's Teen Mom OG ✔ My frustration is just I understand you have anxiety, but it doesn’t justify things that are said between us if that makes sense ✔ Meyer said, What she doesn’t understand is it’s two years for her, it’s been since September 8, 2009, for me ✔ Maci Bookout and husband Taylor McKinney filed for a restraining order against her ex Ryan Edwards
Things Are So Bad In Venezuela That Women Are Fleeing The Country To Give Birth
10/2/2018, 7:48:49 AMMore than 2 million people have fled Venezuela since 2014. In one hospital in Colombia, that’s led to more Venezuelans giving birth than Colombians, reflecting a region struggling to cope. ✔ Resigned to the pain and the uncertainty of the coming hours, she breathed deeply, the Mickey Mouse stitched on her dress rising and falling ✔ He noted that in the previous month, 256 Venezuelans had been captured, up from 120 in August 2017 a 228% increase ✔ Andrea Hernández contributed reporting from Cúcuta
N Korea says peace declaration not a bargaining chip in denuclearization talks
10/2/2018, 6:14:25 AMNorth Korea warned Washington through its state media Tuesday that a declaration ending the Korean War shouldn't be seen as a bargaining chip in denuclearization talks — but suggested lifting sanctions might be. The North's official news agency issued a commentary claiming Pyongyang has taken significant measures to end hostile… ✔ The North's emphasis on lifting sanctions and building trust above all else puts a spotlight on the rift between its position and Washington's since the Singapore summit, when Trump and Kim issued a vague statement about a nuclear-free peninsula without describing when and how it would occur
Bristol Palin gets in blowout fight with husband on Teen Mom OG debut
10/2/2018, 6:32:54 AMBristol Palin got into a verbal fight with her husband Dakota Meyer on Monday’s episode of Teen Mom OG. Bristol said his PTSD is 'hard on our marriage' and she's tired of being the 'punching bag'. ✔ Maternal instincts: Bristol said that he made comments that insinuated she was ‘a crappy mom.’ Coparenting with Bentley’s dad Ryan was causing issues ✔ Real talk: ‘She still has feelings for me and she doesn’t know how to cope with that,’ he continued
Trump dominated UN, but US nationalism at odds with world
10/2/2018, 4:38:43 AMUNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump dominated this year's gathering of global leaders that ended Monday, but his rejection of "the ideology of globalism" left Americ ✔ At the same time, he insisted that tough sanctions would remain until the Korean peninsula is denuclearized ✔ Pushing forward in her role as first lady, Trump is schedule to leave Monday on her way to Africa on her first big international trip without the president and plans to make child well-being the focus of a five-day, four-country tour partly designed to engender goodwill toward the United States in each corner of the vast and impoverished continent
Eat, give and Instagram it: millennials lap up charity dinners
10/2/2018, 5:04:17 AMundefined ✔ Moreover, millennials an estimated 12m of them in the UK and 80m in America prefer to buy ethical products and to prioritise experiences over things ✔ It raised £65,000 for a variety of on-the-ground initiatives last year ✔ But, for the moment, only a cynic would disagree that every little helps ✔ If this is the way to tempt a fickle generation into philanthropy, then bon appétit
Yazidi sex slave who was raped and tortured by ISIS marries soulmate
10/2/2018, 7:31:10 AMFarida Khalaf, 22, was kidnapped by ISIS when she was 16 and taken to Syria where she was repeatedly ganged raped and tortured by Islamic State militants for four months before escaping. ✔ She was separated from her family when she was sent on to Raqqa in Syria ✔ She told MailOnline: 'They did everything imaginable that you wouldn't want done to an animal ✔ Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is pushing for the Islamic group to be prosecuted in the International Criminal Court
Do Muoi, Vietnamese communist leader, 1917-2018
10/2/2018, 7:04:58 AMundefined ✔ Five years later he was arrested by the French and jailed in what became the infamous Hanoi Hilton Hoa Lo prison for downed US fighter pilots ✔ He escaped to the jungles of northern Vietnam, masterminding the harassment of French troops along a highway linking Hanoi with the strategic port of Haiphong ✔ And in a football match you can only have one referee
China mounts campaign to counter criticism on Xinjiang
10/2/2018, 7:01:34 AMBEIJING/GENEVA--China is mounting an increasingly sophisticated counterattack to criticism of its po ✔ Look at Belgium, look at Paris, look at some other European countries, Li said, referring to recent terror attacks in these locations blamed on Islamic extremists ✔ If upheaval in Xinjiang spreads outside the borders, it will affect the stability of central Asia and the Middle East, and maybe spread to Europe
Stunning entries for this year's World Photography Awards
10/2/2018, 7:27:06 AMJudges have offered a glimpse of some of the submissions to the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards taken by amateurs and professionals from more than 50 far-flung destinations. ✔ When I saw these beautiful umbrellas, I was inspired by the colours and patterns ✔ The closing dates for the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards are: November 30, 2018 - Student competition; January 4, 2019 – Open, Youth and National Award competitions, January 11, 2019 – Professional competition
The myth of the she-devil: why we judge female criminals more harshly
10/2/2018, 5:17:26 AMThe long read: A man who kills is a murderer, but a woman guilty of violent crime becomes a proxy for all that is evil. Helena Kennedy, who once represented Myra Hindley, asks why ✔ In almost every culture and every period of history, a she-devil emerges as an example of all that is rotten in the female sex ✔ She said she had recorded her relationships because she was wrongly informed by the Italian prison authorities that she was HIV-positive and she was cataloguing those with whom she had had sex
Sergei Skripal initially did not believe Russia tried to kill him – book
10/2/2018, 6:40:36 AMFormer spy only gradually came to realise he had been Kremlin target, says author ✔ Urban corroborates reports that Skripal briefed western intelligence agencies after his move to the UK in 2010, following a spy swap ✔ Yulia Skripal has indicated that she intends to return to Russia at some stage, but so far appears not to have done so
Tencent opts for strategy that fits with 'Made in China 2025'
10/2/2018, 6:59:23 AMAfter clashes over youth gaming, tech giant plays up industrial offering ✔ Young boys play Tencent's game Honour of Kings which has been criticized for being addictive ✔ Government ministries said they plan to limit the number of online games and new releases, and may impose age restrictions ✔ Alibaba and its Ant Financial mobile payment affiliate, for instance, provide financing to people in rural areas and help them sell products to urban dwellers, a service that is believed to please a government keen to address underdevelopment in rural areas
Review: The L.A. Phil and CicLAvia brought the city together for a game-changing street party - Los Angeles Times
10/2/2018, 2:36:24 AMThe LA Phil goes all out with a day-long, eight-mile musical street fair extravaganza involving 1,800(!) performers and concluding with a free evening Hollywood Bowl concert with Dudamel leading the L.A. Phil and YOLA and Herbie Hancock, Katy Perry and Kali Uchis as special guests. ✔ At 8:30 a.m Sunday morning, more than a thousand pedestrians, bicyclists, musicians, politicians and a marching band were assembled downtown on Grand Avenue in front of Walt Disney Concert Hall listening to Gustavo Dudamel conduct members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic brass in John Williams’ celebratory Music for Brass ✔ (Someone had to do it.) The streets were now alive with their own sounds, as if the day were a giant Cage Musicircus, in which any and all music is invited to coexist without interference
China’s imperial project runs into resistance
10/2/2018, 12:16:58 AMGrand on ambition but short on transparency, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s marquee project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), seeks to refashion the global economic and political order by luring nations desperate for infrastructure investments into China’s strategic orbit. The BRI is essentially an imperial project aiming to make real the mythical Middle Kingdom. ✔ A growing number of governments are seeking transparency in Chinese lending, investment and trade practices ✔ This trend is likely to intensify in the next few years ✔ Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of nine books, including Water: Asia’s New Battleground
Why A New Fake News Law In Singapore Could Be A Big Test For Facebook, Google, And Twitter
10/2/2018, 1:03:59 AMGovernment hearings in Singapore put Facebook under intense scrutiny and have paved the way for a new fake news law in the country. That has human rights organizations and activists concerned. ✔ I think that is an absolute no-no, he said, repeating Seah’s allegation ✔ It is not patriotic to invite any foreign leader to intervene in Singapore politics, especially the leader of a country who has declared his desire to increase the price of water to Singapore by more than 10 times, and with whom we seek to maintain close and friendly relations, it read in part
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