CIA Democrats Call for Aggression Against Russia, Run Pro-War Campaigns in 2018 Congressional Races
10/4/2018, 5:24:49 AMThe Democratic Party is widely favored to win control of the House of Representatives in the US midterm elections November 6, with projections that it will gain 30 to 50 seats, or even more, well above the net gain of 23 required for a majority. ✔ Max Rose , a combat commander in Afghanistan now running in New York’s 11th Congressional District (Staten Island and Brooklyn), calls for recognizing Russia as a hostile foreign power and holding the Kremlin accountable for its attempts to undermine the sovereignty and democratic values of other nations
Key battle in Yemen's war risks tipping country into famine
10/4/2018, 6:32:12 AMBAJIL, Yemen (AP) — With American backing, the United Arab Emirates has resumed an all-out offensive aimed at capturing Yemen's most vital port, Hodeida, where Shiite rebels are d ✔ BAJIL, Yemen (AP) With American backing, the United Arab Emirates has resumed an all-out offensive aimed at capturing Yemen's most vital port, Hodeida, where Shiite rebels are digging in to fight to the last man ✔ has warned that soon another 3.5 million people will need international aid
North Korea lashes out at US ahead of Pompeo summit
10/4/2018, 7:04:46 AMundefined ✔ They point to the regime’s development of advanced weapons since a landmark summit with the US in June as evidence ✔ The summit in Pyongyang would be Mr Pompeo’s first since a diplomatic disaster in July when the regime accused Washington of robber-like behaviour in its demands for unilateral denuclearisation
This corrupt, illegal war on wildlife makes losers of us all | Dominic Jermey
10/4/2018, 5:35:17 AMThe time for treaties is over – we need to halt the worldwide trade in animal parts, says the director general of ZSL ✔ Until the Taliban booted me out of Afghanistan in 1998 – I was the last western diplomat to go – I had a front-row seat on the impact that sustained war has on a people and an economy ✔ Around 100 million sharks are killed a year, mostly for their fins ✔ China’s closure of its domestic ivory market is welcome, but only a first step
Saudis insist vanished dissident left its Turkey consulate
10/4/2018, 6:13:57 AMMystery surrounding what happened to Jamal Khashoggi deepens as Saudi Arabia says no idea what happened to the critic. ✔ I can't even guess how such a thing can happen to him, she told The Associated Press ✔ The Washington Post, which he often writes for, said it was extremely concerned about Khashoggi ✔ To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison ✔ Inside Story What's behind Saudi Arabia's arrest of religious leaders
‘Terror being waged on wildlife', leaders warn
10/4/2018, 5:35:10 AMNational and conservation leaders say the annihilation of nature is a dangerous ‘blight on humanity’, ahead of major summit ✔ Humanity is waging a war of terror on wildlife across the globe, according to the head of a world-leading research institute who was previously a counter-terrorism expert for the UK government ✔ It will be difficult to explain to our children and grandchildren if we don’t take action
‘I watched my family die’: Shatila refugees' suffering laid bare
10/4/2018, 6:45:55 AMCartoonist Ella Baron travelled to Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, to hear the stories of women at Médecins Sans Frontières’ women’s health clinic ✔ Located on one square kilometre in central Beirut, Shatila is home to an estimated 14,000 people, although the true number may be more than twice that ✔ My mother, sister, my two children, dying and I did nothing ✔ If a pregnancy results from the rape they may attempt to terminate it secretly themselves, with drugs or a hard fall
UK blames ‘reckless’ cyber attacks on Russia’s GRU spy agency
10/4/2018, 4:58:30 AMundefined ✔ Recommended Novichok attack sheds light on Putin’s feared military agency Among the four incidents being attributed to the GRU by British intelligence for the first time are well-known cyber attacks, including the hack of the Democratic National Committee, at the centre of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election being carried out by US special counsel Robert Mueller
Pence to China: We will not be intimidated in South China Sea
10/4/2018, 5:35:46 AMundefined ✔ But at a news conference but last week in New York, he said: Maybe he's not any more, I'll be honest with you ✔ Today, that country is offering hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure loans to governments from Asia to Africa to Europe to even Latin America ✔ The corporation is not named in the speech excerpts
After suicide: What happens when your older brother takes his own life
10/4/2018, 6:41:48 AM"Here are all his belongings: ✔ And there was this little boy performing his heart out, probably for his dad, and at that moment I was just overcome with rage that Mark wasn’t there with us to watch him on the stage, she said ✔ Mark Dowd’s documentary, After Suicide, is on the BBC World Service on Saturday October 6, 7pm
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