Rape in DR Congo: An economic war on women's bodies
10/5/2018, 9:52:54 AMA nameless woman is beaten, raped and then beheaded in a public square in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) She is a new victim in a brutal conflict that has gripped a sedate region of Congo for a year. ✔ I couldn't imagine that it would become the work I do for probably the rest of my life ✔ Africa's future begins when girls know that they are equal to boys ✔ We share the same humanity and we cannot continue to allow economic wars to be fought on women's bodies
Pentagon's ‘self-defense’ means war anywhere, any time. But there's a call to regulate war powers
10/5/2018, 8:36:40 AMA post-9/11 act grants the president authority to wage foreign wars with few restrictions. However, Democrats want the Pentagon to explain a lesser-known policy that allows the military to strike almost anywhere, at any time. ✔ ‘War machine can’t run forever’: US military aircraft mishaps up nearly 40 percent over last 5 years Likewise in Tongo Tongo, Niger, in October 2017 ✔ Expanding the ‘forever war’ is, seemingly, one of the few things Democrats and Republicans can agree on ✔ Share it with a friend! Trends: James Mattis news Pentagon news
The Nobel Peace Prize For 2018 Has Been Awarded To Denis Mukwege And Nadia Murad
10/5/2018, 10:26:50 AMThe pair were awarded the prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence in war and armed conflict." ✔ Mukwege has treated tens of thousands of women who were raped during conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while Murad was the victim of sexual violence while held in captivity by the Islamic State in Iraq and has since become a human rights activist ✔ To do that it is also important that women leave the concept of shame
Analysis | Why it took the world so long to call rape as a weapon of war by its name: A war crime
10/5/2018, 11:41:38 AMDenis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, and Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi, shared the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for bringing attention to sexual violence in conflicts. ✔ By Rick Noack Rick Noack Foreign affairs reporter focusing on Europe and international security Email Bio Follow October 5 at 7:20 AM The Nobel Peace Prize committee has handed out its prestigious annual award to two groups of laureates in recent years: people who were behind treaties or agreements that paved the way for peace, and inspiring individuals or groups whose work is still very much needed to address problems unlikely to be resolved anytime soon ✔ When the war ended, the Allied forces took a number of steps to prevent a repeat of human rights abuses including rape, but sexual violence was still only mentioned as a side aspect
Nobel Peace Prize winner: Who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2018?
10/5/2018, 9:44:08 AMTHE NOBEL Peace Prize has been awarded to iconic figures over the years, including Albert Einstein and Nelson Mandela. But who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2018? ✔ Nadia Murad is a member of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, where she lived with her family in the remote village of Kocho ✔ But since then, the prize has honoured people around the world for their incredible achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature or their work in peace
Moon? Kim? Trump? Nobel peace prize: Many names, few certainties
10/5/2018, 9:19:28 AMundefined ✔ Such a prize would be inappropriate, said Smith, pointing to a string of decisions by Trump which are very negative as far as peace is concerned, most notably withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement and the Iran nuclear deal ✔ With everything up in the air, the verdict will only be known on Friday at 11:00 am (0900 GMT)
How regular citizens got caught in a US-Russia cyberwar
10/5/2018, 9:22:06 AMAn online war is being waged all around us -- and citizens are caught in its crossfire. ✔ MUST WATCH Dutch officials: Russia mounted cyber attack 01:11 James Ball is an award-winning journalist and author who has worked for WikiLeaks, the Guardian, the Washington Post and BuzzFeed ✔ Furthermore, the attack was made so aggressive it spread to millions of machines around the world -- a real collateral risk and also the reason the attack was discovered
#MeToo: Nobel Peace Prize Goes to 2 Activists for Their Work Against Sexual Violence
10/5/2018, 10:23:37 AMCongolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, former captive of Islamic State turned global advocate. ✔ Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes ✔ In 2016, she was named the United Nations first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking ✔ The Norwegian Nobel Institute doesn’t disclose the names of nominees until 50 years have past
The Latest: Congolese politicians welcome peace prize award
10/5/2018, 11:33:01 AMOSLO, Norway (AP) — The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes (all times local): 1:25 p.m. Congolese politicians are expressing pride but taking t ✔ OSLO, Norway (AP) The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes (all times local): 1:25 p.m. Congolese politicians are expressing pride but taking the opportunity to make political jobs after surgeon Denis Mukwege was announced as one of the winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his work on combating the use of sexual violence in war ✔ (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File) FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015 file photo, activist Nadia Murad speaks with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos during a meeting in Athens
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to anti-sexual violence campaigners Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad
10/5/2018, 10:29:15 AMThe Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, a former captive of Islamic State, for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence in war. ✔ Dr. Mukwege, a gynecologist, has spent large parts of his adult life treating victims of sexual violence in Congo and has repeatedly condemned the Congolese government and other countries for allowing mass rape to go unpunished, the Nobel committee said
Bookies' favourite Jong-un loses out on prestigious award to rape campaigners
10/5/2018, 9:29:56 AMNOBEL Peace Prize favourite Kim Jong-un lost the prestigious award to rape campaigner Denis Mukwege and activist Nadia Murad. The North Korean leader topped bookies leaderboards with odds on 4/6 th… ✔ @DenisMukwege#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/KSzecKSkUc The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2018 Following her escape from IS, Peace Laureate Nadia Murad chose to speak openly about what she had suffered ✔ Thousands of people are eligible to make nominations, including committee members, members of national parliaments, cabinet members, heads of universities or past laureates
The Latest: Iraq celebrates Nobel Peace Prize
10/5/2018, 11:57:03 AMOSLO, Norway (AP) — The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes (all times local): 1:30 p.m. Iraq is celebrating the awarding of the Nobel Peace Pri ✔ OSLO, Norway (AP) The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes (all times local): 1:30 p.m. Iraq is celebrating the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to former Islamic State captive Nadia Murad, saying she is the first Iraqi citizen to win the top international award ✔ Denis Mukwege and Murad have been named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018
Congolese doctor, Yazidi activist win Nobel Peace Prize for...
10/5/2018, 11:18:41 AMDenis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic R... ✔ He is a humanist who has taken the pain of women into consideration, pain in their flesh and in their soul ✔ The prize sends a strong signal to everyone about these women who are raped every day, she said ✔ Slideshow (2 Images) (Graphic: tmsnrt.rs/2y6ATVW) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
It Is Friendship With Russia, Not China, That Will Allow Pakistan to Cut the Cord With the US
10/5/2018, 10:26:38 AMWith Afghanistan and Pakistan as the staging grounds, politics in South and Central Asia appears to be coming full circle with the making and breaking of alliances involving major regional and international actors. The switching of goalposts by the erstwhile Cold War-era allies — keeping their converging and diverging geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geostrategic interests in mind — apparently indicates the beginning of a new “Great Game” in the region. ✔ Pointing to the potential CPEC faultlines in South Asian security, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) says in its The Silk Road Economic Belt report that Pakistan’s Balochistan remains a strategic area that could become a flashpoint for regional competition and is even referred to as the new epicenter of the ‘Great Game’ by some regional analysts
Pompeo heads back to N Korea with historic deal in play
10/5/2018, 9:54:29 AMU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads back this weekend to North Korea as the contours of a potentially historic deal begin to take shape, even if Kim Jong Un's regime publicly stays firm in demands. The top U.S. diplomat will pay his fourth visit this year to the onetime… ✔ State media ahead of Pompeo's visit said a peace treaty can never be a bargaining chip, saying an end to war is not just a gift from one man to another ✔ The Beijing stop could be tense as it comes days after Vice President Mike Pence delivered a blistering speech accusing China of military aggression, commercial theft, rising human rights violations and electoral intervention against Trump
Koreas hold high-level peace talks in Pyongyang
10/5/2018, 10:41:11 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Koreas have held a high-level meeting in North Korea's capital to discuss the implementation of agreements from a summit last month between North Kor ✔ SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The Koreas have held a high-level meeting in North Korea's capital to discuss the implementation of agreements from a summit last month between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in ✔ A South Korean government delegation is in North Korea for a joint celebration of the anniversary of a 2007 summit and to possibly hold further peace talks
U.S.-China Tech Tension Will Claim More Victims
10/5/2018, 10:33:54 AMChina’s largest PC maker, Lenovo, is the latest company to see its shares tumble as distrust between the world’s two largest economies deepens. ✔ Another homegrown Chinese champion, telecom-equipment and smartphone maker ZTE Corp., had a near-death experience earlier this year when the U.S. banned local suppliers from selling parts to the Chinese company after it violated sanctions on Iran and North Korea
Revealed: Exposed Russian spy played for 'secret agent football team'
10/5/2018, 8:37:04 AMIntelligence agent Yevgeny Serebryakov is listed on the website of the Moscow Amateur Football League (LFL) as having been a member of the 'Radiks' team from 2011 to 2013. ✔ I personally don't.' 'Many of the players don't really talk about what they do even among themselves in the dressing room.' Russia's GRU intelligence agency targeted the global chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW (pictured), which was investigating the Salisbury novichok poisoning Yershov revealed he hadn't seen Serebryakov in a year but said the two frequently exchange messages over Whatsapp
10 Things to Know for Today
10/5/2018, 10:41:09 AMYour daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. JUDGE'S FUTURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE The Senate is ✔ Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1 ✔ Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., with actress and comedian Amy Schumer, right, and actress model Emily Ratajkowski, center, speaks at a rally against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018
Latvian vote could see ethnic Russian party at the front
10/5/2018, 9:13:08 AMHELSINKI (AP) — Saturday's parliamentary election in Latvia — a Baltic member of the European Union and NATO — should see a political party catering to the country's e ✔ Since 2016, Kucinskis has led a three-party governing coalition with the national-conservative National Alliance and the liberal Unity parties ✔ Latvia' security police say they are probing a possible vote-buying case but claim they have found no direct or systematic attempts by foreign nations to influence Saturday's election
Nobel Peace Prize 2018: ISIS sex slave among two winners fighting sexual violence
10/5/2018, 9:54:31 AMTHE Nobel Peace Prize winners for 2018 have been announced as Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, two activists who fought against sexual abuse. ✔ In its announcement the committee said: Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes ✔ Mr Mukwege leads the Panzi Hospital in the eastern city of Bukavu ✔ Ms Murad is an advocate for the Yazidi minority in Iraq and for refugee and women's rights in general
Japan likely to skip naval event after South Korea protests over...
10/5/2018, 9:13:36 AMJapan is likely to skip an international fleet review in South Korea next week, ... ✔ The Rising Sun ensign, used by the Japanese Imperial Navy in campaigns around Asia and the Pacific before and during World War Two, was adopted by the Maritime Self-Defence Force in 1954 ✔ But it has remained a major target of criticism, despite warming ties between Pyongyang and Seoul as the North’s leader Kim Jong Un engaged in a flurry of diplomacy this year, when he also met leaders of the United States and China ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
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Years 1958 and 1971 in retrospect
10/5/2018, 8:28:23 AMundefined ✔ On March 27, 1958, Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union while U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower became the first American elected official to be broadcast on color television on May 22 ✔ Lee Sun-ho ( kexim2@unitel.co.kr) is an ombudsman columnist for The Korea Times in Seoul
A Thousand Girls Like Me review – a brave woman refuses to bow down
10/5/2018, 11:21:34 AMAn extraordinary film follows Khatera, an Afghan woman trying to bring her rapist father to justice. The details are gruelling, but she shines ✔ Holding back tears, a woman relives the trauma of sexual assault, live on national television ✔ The extraordinary woman at the centre of this harrowing documentary is 7,000 miles away in Kabul, Afghanistan ✔ When their new landlord discovers her identity, he throws them out
Power and Money Are Driving the Ukrainian Church Crisis
10/5/2018, 8:24:26 AMOne of the most contentious and significant controversies in the world today is also one of the least-well understood. In part, this is because it involves matters of faith and church governance, the importance of which many people, especially some of a secular mind who scorn mere “religion,” tend to underestimate. ✔ What lends the report an air of believability, however, is the depth of the scandal to which it refers ✔ Even under the Trump administration, the US is in lockstep with our European Union friends in pressuring countries liberated from communism to adopt such European values ✔ The unedifying behind-the-scenes machinations, many details of which remain under wraps, should give them further pause
Trevor Noah gets serious: Trump is convincing men they are the ‘true victims’ of #MeToo movement
10/5/2018, 9:58:54 AM“He knows how to offer victimhood to people who have the least claim to it, which is a really, really powerful tool,” said Noah. ✔ There’s many men who will be afraid to admit it maybe, but there’s many men who do have that feeling where they’re like, ‘Yeah, I mean this #MeToo movement, it’s gotten outta control.’ Just last week, conservative pundit and former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo angrily declared on CNN’s AC360, From now on, every mother of sons, every grandmother of grandsons has to fear for the future of their boys… Days before Trump made his comments at the White House, his son Donald Trump Jr., told Daily Mail he was more worried about his sons than his daughters in the wake of #MeToo
Putin's 'dumb Bonds' hacking squad unmasked
10/5/2018, 11:11:50 AMThe gang includes computer geeks like Alexei Morenets , 41, even advertised themselves on Moscow dating websites using pictures taken outside the GRU's Moscow office. ✔ They were supposed to be top spies, hidden from the world and operating behind a veil of secrecy ✔ The famous Panasonic building is clearly in shot, indicating it was taken on Komsomolsky Prospekt ✔ Baby-faced Ivan Yermakov, 32, was born in the grim, industrial Chelyabinsk region of eastern Russia
Artist Tom Sachs is selling Swiss 'passports' for €20
10/5/2018, 9:23:18 AMAmerican artist Tom Sachs has installed a Swiss 'passport office' in London for 24 hours that will only accept Euros. ✔ In March 2019, the United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union, and while politicians are still arguing terms for the divorce and many people disagree about the full implications of a post Brexit world for all sides, one common question among many has been: Will I be able to move as freely as before ✔ It could be the unravelling of the European Union, the artist said, adding, But while the piece is about Brexit, it's also about xenophobia, border policies in the US and about Syria; they are all part of the same pendulum swing
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Japan drops plan to send warship to fleet review
10/5/2018, 8:28:36 AMundefined ✔ Fifteen nations ― including Japan, China and the United States ― were invited to the event ✔ He also proposed a revision to punish those who manufacture, wear or spread any items symbolizing Japan's wartime atrocities by imposing a fine of up to 3 million won ($2,650) or a prison term of less than two years
On the hunt for Disease X, an undiscovered virus that could kill us all
10/5/2018, 11:10:52 AMFrom Ebola to swine flu to HIV/Aids, viruses borne by animals have caused some of the most devastating epidemics in history. ✔ Regardless, he reached in wearing only thin latex gloves to fish out the intact test tube ✔ It is also common to lie over the corpse to connect with the spirits ✔ Newsletter promotion - global health security - end of article Protect yourself and your family by learning more about Global Health Security
Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this?
10/5/2018, 11:51:18 AMThe Senator’s angry performance at the Kavanaugh hearing last week had been a long time coming. ✔ Graham (R-S.C.) was animated in comments during a hearing considering the nomination of Judge Brett M ✔ There’s also, of course, the unsaid calculus: Graham, like Trump, is up for reelection in 2020, and his popularity is inextricably linked to the president’s
The Skripals Are an MI6 Hoax - 'Not Worthy of Ladies' Detective Novels' - Israeli Expert Demolishes UK Case
10/5/2018, 9:20:07 AMAn Israeli expert on international terrorism, writer Alexander Brass, shared his view on the case of the Skripals poisoning in Salisbury. Brass draws parallels between the work of the special services of Israel and Russia – he believes that if to compare the British version with the practice of the special agents, then the absurdity becomes obvious. ✔ If you say that the GRU has deteriorated so badly that it has lit up everywhere and left its mark, why did this degraded intelligence agency manage to turn off the surveillance cameras near the Skripal house at the right time ✔ Provocation with the Skripals is needed to exclude the Russian Federation from the Commission for Investigating the Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
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