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U.S. soldier killed in combat in Afghanistan

10/4/2018, 6:12:21 PM
A U.S. soldier was killed in fighting in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. general said... ✔ Critics warn his military cannot promise to defeat the Taliban anytime soon or overcome Afghanistan’s vast political divisions and entrenched corruption ✔ Although Trump administration officials emphasize efforts to broker a peace agreement with the Taliban, many U.S. officials are not sure a meaningful deal can be reached as long as the Taliban believe they are in a relative position of strength ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


U.S. Puts Sanctions on Turkish Defense Firm for Alleged North Korea Trade

10/4/2018, 7:21:20 PM
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a Turkish defense firm and its top executives for allegedly trading weapons and luxury goods with North Korea. ✔ The company, SIA Falcon International Group, operates in the defense, livestock, energy and food sectors, according to its website ✔ sanctions on luxury goods and weapons trade with North Korea ✔ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is headed to North Korea over the weekend as both sides prepare for a potential second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader


Myanmar Courts Asian Powers Wary of China’s Sway

10/4/2018, 4:56:10 PM
A breakdown in relations with the West over the Rohingya crisis is prompting Myanmar to seek closer ties with regional powers such as Japan and India that are eager to counterbalance China’s influence. ✔ Taro Kono, Japan's foreign minister, and Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi met in Hanoi last month ✔ Both Tokyo and New Delhi have refrained from the kind of strong criticism that several Western powers have directed at the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi over the military’s campaign against ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims ✔ A recent Japanese aid report described Myanmar as a strategic partner because of its location between China and India


Erdogan: Turkey will not leave Syria until an election is held

10/4/2018, 7:36:43 PM
Erdogan says Turkish troops stationed in Syria since August 2016 will remain until 'Syrians hold an election'. ✔ {articleGUID} Turkey designated the group a terrorist organisation in August, matching a decision by the United Nations in June ✔ Later this month, a four-way talk between Turkey, Germany, Russia and France over the Idlib situation is expected to be held after Erdogan made a rare trip to Berlin in September


U.S. general slams Russia's deployment of S-300 missiles in Syria

10/4/2018, 6:05:42 PM
A senior U.S. general on Thursday sharply criticized Russia's deployment of... ✔ ‘PROBLEMATIC’ Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, a member of Israel’s security cabinet, acknowledged that the S-300 deployment was a problematic matter for us ✔ This is a system which certainly makes things difficult for us and requires that solutions be found, Steinitz told Israel’s Army Radio ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


BLACK HOLE: Syrian Province Run By US / Israel - Backed Islamist Gangs Who Steal, Kidnap Children, and Stage Atrocities (Russian TV Report)

10/4/2018, 6:39:30 PM
Russian reporting about Syria is far more truthful than the US, which, honestly is a pack of pro-Israeli lies. An absolute disgrace to journalism. Russia's top war correspondent has an excellent report here about what is REALLY going on. Transcript: ✔ Russian reporting about Syria is far more truthful than the US, which, honestly is a pack of pro-Israeli lies ✔ Will they voluntarily leave the key points on the front ✔ Ahmad Muhammad, his wife Rasha, and little son Mohammed escaped Idlib not so long ago: Ahmad saved his child


Opinion | Dear Nobel Committee: Don’t even think about giving a prize to Kim Jong Un

10/4/2018, 4:05:46 PM
It would make a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize. ✔ (Trump, with his threats of fire and fury like the world has never seen also deserves some of the blame.) Since Kim assumed power after the death of his father Kim Jong Il in December 2011, Pyongyang has conducted four nuclear tests, dozens of missile tests and threatened the United States, Israel, Japan, the United Nations and Australia


The EU-Sisi deal shows Egyptian lives don't matter in Brussels

10/4/2018, 7:36:48 PM
The EU is about to strike a deal with a serial human rights abuser. ✔ {articleGUID} And beyond the every-day repression Egypt's general population is facing, Sisi's regime has not spared refugees either ✔ Since 2013, human rights defenders have called on the Egyptian authorities to stop arbitrarily arresting and deporting Syrian and Palestinian refugees ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tafi Mhaka Tafi Mhaka is a Johannesburg-based social and political commentator


West accuses Russian spy agency GRU of scores of attacks

10/4/2018, 4:17:02 PM
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States and other Western nations leveled a torrent of new allegations against Moscow's secretive GRU military spy agency on Thursday, accusing its agent ✔ Britain blames the secretive agency for the March poisoning of Skripal and his daughter ✔ (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool) NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks to journalists during a news conference following a meeting of NATO defence ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018


Alleged operations by Russia's GRU in recent years

10/4/2018, 5:00:55 PM
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In a series of coordinated announcements, authorities in United States, Britain, The Netherlands and Australia on Thursday accused the shadowy Russia ✔ The men were caught and expelled from the Netherlands ✔ (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) Mark Flynn, Director General for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, left, and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers, attend a news conference, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, at the Justice Department in Washington


Alleged operations by Russia's spy agency GRU in recent years

10/4/2018, 6:36:17 PM
An oversight of recent allegations against intelligence agency GRU after series of announcements by Western nations. ✔ According to a US indictment on Thursday, the GRU targeted the hacking victims because they had publicly supported a ban on Russian athletes in international sports competitions and because they had condemned Russia's state-sponsored athlete doping programme


How Russian spies bungled cyber-attack on weapons watchdog

10/4/2018, 4:24:23 PM
The GRU is undoubtedly ambitious, but this operation can hardly be deemed a triumph ✔ Photograph: Dutch Ministry of Defence There were further tell-tale clues ✔ Still, after Thursday’s revelations, nobody can be in any doubt of the GRU’s staggering ambition and global footprint ✔ Its officers will carry on and continue to probe for weakness in enemy defences


I know Jamal Khashoggi personally and I fear for his safety

10/4/2018, 7:36:42 PM
Jamal Khashoggi supports the Saudi Vision 2030. The Saudi leadership should see him as an ally, not an enemy. ✔ I have known Jamal Khashoggi for the better part of 16 years ✔ We want our country to thrive and to see the 2030 Vision realized ✔ We are not opposed to our government and care deeply about Saudi Arabia ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bill Law Bill Law is a Middle East analyst


Ex-Army Captain Leads Brazil Race, Despite Controversial Remarks

10/4/2018, 5:26:52 PM
Jair Bolsonaro, a firebrand ex-army captain known for defending Brazil’s former military dictatorship and making misogynistic remarks, has tapped into two things uniting a divided country: a hatred of politicians and a fear of crime. ✔ Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro listening to the national anthem during a meeting with women in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in August ✔ Only 13% of Brazilians say they are satisfied with democracy, the lowest level in Latin America, according to a study last year by Chilean-based pollster Latinobarómetro


As Somalia marks horrific attack, a book explores al-Shabab

10/4/2018, 4:16:55 PM
"Inside al-Shabaab: The Secret History of al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally" (Indiana University Press), by Harun Maruf and Dan Joseph The deadliest terror attack in Africa's ✔ The world's first extremist group to use Twitter to claim a major attack, al-Shabab has been relatively organized, with financing from taxes on captive communities, piracy off the long Indian Ocean coast and, in at least one town, the yanking out of civilians' gold teeth


‘ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN’ Russian spies caught HACKING chemical site - '80,000 more at work

10/4/2018, 6:00:59 PM
BRITAIN'S security and intelligence services are braced for Kremlin retaliation after a botched cyber-attack by Russian spies on the world's chemical weapons watchdog was exposed. Four blundering agents from Vladimir Putin's GRU military intelligence service were caught attempting to hack into the computer systems of the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons using antennae hidden under a coat in a hire car parked yards from its headquarters in the Netherlands. ✔ PA 1 of 20 Personnel in hazmat suits secure a tent covering a bench in Salisbury's Maltings shopping centre A CCTV photo released by the Dutch Defence Intelligence and Security Service yesterday showed the four agents swaggering through Amsterdam's Schipol Airport with suitcases and trolley bags after their arrival on April 10


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