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DefCon WARNING: Defence experts fear North Korea STILL building nuclear weapons

10/2/2018, 6:11:20 PM
NORTH Korea could be making behind-the-scenes moves which threaten to undermine any progress the hermit nation has made since opening up dialogue with South Korea and the US earlier this year, defence analysts have warned. ✔ Additionally, China has steadily loosened restrictions on trade with North Korea in recent months, undercutting US efforts to exert economic pressure on the regime ✔ Russia has announced plans to hold large wargames with China on a regular basis and Ukraine is building a maritime operations centre on its Black Sea coast for use during annual US and Ukrainian military exercises


British troops join forces with Japanese for first time on their soil amid North Korea tensions 

10/2/2018, 4:28:19 PM
A senior British General has said Japan "will not have to fight alone" as tensions over North Korea mount. ✔ The Japanese have been incredibly welcoming and excellent partners to work with, and we have learned a huge amount from them, improving both our mutual understanding and our ability to plan and conduct activity together ✔ Japan wants to deepen security cooperation between our two island nations who share so many values


Suicide bomber kills 14 at election rally in Afghanistan

10/2/2018, 4:23:30 PM
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck an election rally in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding around 40, a pr ✔ The vote is scheduled for Oct. 20 but it's unclear if the balloting will go ahead in areas controlled by the Taliban, who have seized several districts across the country in recent years and who carry out near-daily attacks ✔ In the run-up to campaigning, five candidates were killed in separate attacks ✔ The suicide bomber struck an election rally on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 30, a provincial official said


Who was Hafez al-Assad and how did he become president of Syria?

10/2/2018, 5:29:39 PM
HAFEZ al-Assad ruled with an iron fist for almost 30 years and is the father of Syria’s current tyrant who is presiding over a bloody civil war. Here is what we know about the man who establi… ✔ HAFEZ al-Assad ruled with an iron fist for almost 30 years and is the father of Syria's current tyrant who is presiding over a bloody civil war ✔ She married her childhood sweetheart in 1957 when he was a lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force ✔ Although rarely seen in public, she was seen as Syria's first lady long after his death in 2000 ✔ Thanks to Russian backing, he may emerge victorious


Iran says missile attack in Syria killed 40 'leaders' of Islamic State

10/2/2018, 5:30:03 PM
Iran said the missile attack it launched in Syria on Monday had killed 40 "... ✔ One of the highlights of this operation was that the Quds force had provided the intelligence needed for the attack ✔ Iranian military support has been vital to helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad through his country’s civil war ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Syrian rebels say Turkey promises no Russian patrols in Idlib zone

10/2/2018, 5:50:06 PM
Rebels in northern Syria who have rejected plans for joint Russian-Turkish patro... ✔ The agreement announced in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi on Sept ✔ this was a red line that cannot be breached, he said ✔ We don’t trust the Russians and expect they won’t abide by the deal at any moment ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Two girls from Afghanistan show us their lives by sharing diary entries, photos and dreams - The Lily

10/2/2018, 4:23:03 PM
Our first installment of ‘Girlhood Around the World’ ✔ Khan Bibi has many friends, including girls in her drama class, girls on her robotics team and her neighbors ✔ Meet Jennifer in Nigeria, Sophie in the United States, Anjali in India and girls from seven other countries over the next 10 weeks in this special series Masuma Ahuja September 27 September 27


Syrian arrested after months trapped in Malaysia airport

10/2/2018, 4:08:00 PM
Hassan al-Kontar, 36, who left Syria to avoid conscription, has been arrested after being stranded in a Malaysian airport since March 7, in a saga comparable with hit movie 'The Terminal'. ✔ A Syrian man has been arrested after almost seven months stranded in a Malaysian airport, after a bizarre saga that drew comparisons with hit movie 'The Terminal' ✔ They humiliated me actually – they took a photo of me standing against the wall like a criminal,' he told the Phnom Penh Post


Meet the man at the center of the high-stakes, winner-take-all $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract called JEDI

10/2/2018, 7:35:42 PM
Dana Deasy, the Pentagon’s new Chief Information Officer, defends the department’s approach in what’s become a controversial bidding war. ✔ Dana Deasy Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer, poses for his official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, May 07, 2018 ✔ Earlier this year, Amazon’s competitors said their suspicions were when the Pentagon awarded a contract worth up to $950 million to a start-up called Rean Cloud that is a partner with AWS


Tensions rise as US threatens to 'take out' Russian missiles

10/2/2018, 7:46:07 PM
The US believes a new Russian missile may be breaching a Cold War arms control treaty. ✔ The resulting INF treaty swept this whole category of weapon away and significantly reduced tensions ✔ Russia's foreign affairs ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said: It seems that people who make such statements do not realise the level of their responsibility and the danger of aggressive rhetoric ✔ The issue is bound to be high on the agenda when Nato defence ministers meet in Brussels


U.S. Envoy Threatens Russia Over Missiles

10/2/2018, 5:57:48 PM
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison said Washington could choose to “take out” new Russian missiles that Western allies say violate a nuclear-arms ban, if Moscow fails to comply with the Cold War-era treaty. ✔ Allies must have the capability to deter Russia and pressure Moscow to shift course, she said ✔ The Soviet missiles were in Belarus, Bulgaria, then-Czechoslovakia, Ukraine and Russia, among others ✔ Sources: U.S. State Department, Federal of American Scientists, INF Treaty documents


A 14-year-old prepares for life without her immigrant parents

10/2/2018, 4:22:54 PM
Emily’s Salvadoran parents might soon be kicked out of the U.S., but she is planning to stay. A profile in fear and fortitude. ✔ It was Jan. 8, 2018, and 14-year-old Emily stood in the bathroom at DuVal High School in Prince George’s County, Md., waiting for a friend ✔ But she was eager to make the best of second semester ✔ After the election everyone was really mad, so we started making jokes, she recalls


The Dishonesty, Hypocrisy, Hatred of Others, and Subterfuge in the Jewish Religion

10/2/2018, 4:35:03 PM
The author is the founder and editor of The Unz Review, a leading conservative American political website. He is also a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and a one-time candidate for the governor of California. He was once described as 'the smartest guy in his class' at Harvard (Class of 2004). His biography on Wikipedia is interesting. ✔ and other black Civil Rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s strictly concealed their religious beliefs while denouncing American society for its cruel racism, presumably seeking to achieve a political  quid pro quo  beneficial to Jewish interests from America’s substantial black population


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