Afghanistan, 17 years on: the ceaseless violence of a war the world forgot
10/7/2018, 7:25:34 AMAn investigation into a single day of violence shows how the war continues to rage fiercely
Congo truck fire leaves 50 dead, 100 burned
10/7/2018, 2:09:32 AMThe accident occurred overnight in the village of Mbuba, not far from Kisantu city ✔ We deplore the deaths, the interim governor of Kongo-Central province, Atu Matubuana, told The Associated Press ✔ Twenty charred bodies had been recovered, and four other people died after arriving at a hospital ✔ Again, many of the victims had been trying to collect the leaking fuel when it caught fire
Afghanistan prepares for election amid fraud allegations, fear of...
10/7/2018, 2:35:48 AMNajibullah, a 47 year-old shopkeeper in the main bazaar of Kabul's old city... ✔ Instead of debating policy, most energy has been devoted to wrangling over issues like a new biometric voter verification system which political parties have insisted be introduced at the last minute ✔ The last of 22,000 handheld biometric verification devices only arrived in Kabul late last month and will be sent out to the provinces in the coming days but no one is sure the $20 million system can be set up by voting day ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
AP PHOTOS: Clearing the rubble in Syria's Yarmouk camp
10/7/2018, 7:16:49 AMDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — In the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk on the edge of Syria's capital, bulldozers and trucks are clearing tons of rubble from streets gutted by war. ✔ DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) In the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk on the edge of Syria's capital, bulldozers and trucks are clearing tons of rubble from streets gutted by war ✔ Bulldozers and trucks are working to clear tons of rubble from the main streets
US general made preparations to nuke Vietnam behind president’s back, declassified memo shows
10/7/2018, 12:29:47 AMThe commander of US forces in Vietnam had devised a secret plan to use nuclear warheads against the communist North during the Vietnam War, before President Johnson halted the ongoing preparations, declassified documents reveal. ✔ When [President Johnson] learned that the planning had been set in motion, he was extraordinarily upset and forcefully sent word through Rostow and, I think, directly to Westmoreland, to shut it down, Tom Johnson, a special assistant to the president at the time, told the NYT
Syrian rebel groups begin pulling weapons in Idlib area
10/7/2018, 6:14:29 AMThe Turkey-Russia deal was agreed last month to avert an all-out offensive by Syrian government forces on the area.. ✔ This undated file photo released by the militant group Levant Liberation Committee on August 21, shows Abu Mohammed al-Golani of the militant Levant Liberation Committee and the leader of Syria's al-Qaida affiliate, left, talking with a fighter, in the countryside of Latakia, Syria
China, Japan, and Trump's America
10/7/2018, 6:47:46 AMundefined ✔ Unlike Europe, East Asia never fully came to terms with the 1930s, and Cold War divisions subsequently limited reconciliation ✔ Trump's America first orientation and protectionist policies pose a new risk to the alliance ✔ Trump's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership was a blow to Japan ✔ Copyright belongs to Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org)
Opinion | Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post
10/7/2018, 4:18:18 AMJamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who Turkish officials say was killed in Istanbul after walking into the consulate of Saudi Arabia, has been writing a column for The Post since last year. ✔ Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2011 ✔ In a statement released Saturday, Fred Hiatt, The Post’s editorial page editor, said that if true, this would represent a monstrous and unfathomable act ✔ This is far from true, simply because he already does
Japan to skip naval event after rival Koreas' united opposition
10/7/2018, 4:09:31 AMundefined ✔ The Rising Sun flag is a war-crime flag that the 20th-century Japanese imperialists used when executing their barbaric invasions into our nation and other countries, said Uriminzokkiri, the North's state-controlled website ✔ But North Korea remained defiant, saying legally and historically it is clear that Dokdo is our people's territory
Pompeo says hopes talks with Kim in Pyongyang will lead to denuclearization
10/7/2018, 6:46:23 AMSEOUL--U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he expects to hold talks with North Korean ✔ Kim pledged at his June 12 meeting with Trump in Singapore to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, but his actions since have fallen short of Washington's demands for irreversible steps to give up its arsenal ✔ In Tokyo, Pompeo met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and said he would coordinate closely with Japan over talks with North Korea and promised to raise the issue of the abductions of Japanese citizens in his meetings in Pyongyang
Pompeo asks NK to specify timeline on denuke
10/7/2018, 7:12:27 AMundefined ✔ As Kim reaffirmed his commitment to permanently dismantle the country's nuclear weapons programs at a recent summit with President Moon in Pyongyang, it is likely that another summit between Trump and Kim may result in concrete moves toward denuclearization _ the ultimate goal of hat the U.S. It remains to be seen what specific corresponding measures Pompeo offered to the North Korean leader
A Serbian Politician Has Become A Flashpoint In Bosnia's Election Campaign
10/7/2018, 6:33:23 AMMilorad Dodik is likely to be reelected, despite concerns that he's too close to Russia and spends too much on lobbying in the United States. ✔ Dodik, however, wasn’t always seen as an obstructionist by US officials ✔ War isn’t that scary as a small child; it seemed exciting and romantic to me ✔ I’ve stayed for now, but the first time someone fires a bullet and tells me I have to fight, I’m taking my family and leaving
Turkish police believe journalist Khashoggi was killed at Saudi consulate
10/7/2018, 6:06:43 AMTurkish police have concluded that prominent Saudi journalist and critic Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi mission in Istanbul after going missing Tuesday, according to an unnamed government official. ✔ We are ready to welcome the Turkish government to go and search our premises, he said, adding that we will allow them to enter and search and do whatever they want to do.. ✔ But at the same time, the brash and abrasive young innovator has not encouraged or permitted any popular debate on the changes
'Trump doesn't measure up': Doris Kearns Goodwin on leadership
10/7/2018, 5:43:18 AMThe Team of Rivals author has brought Lincoln together with Johnson and two Roosevelts to produce a timely study of what makes a great president ✔ Strongmen are thriving from China to Egypt, from North Korea to Turkey ✔ Britain’s prime minister looks weak as Brexit looms and Europe threatens to unravel ✔ When he was talking about it, it would make him happy, compared to when he had to talk about Vietnam and then his mood would plunge
Turkish officials believe Saudi journalist killed, according to multiple reports - Los Angeles Times
10/7/2018, 1:15:36 AMSaudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing four days ago after he entered Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. ✔ The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, the official said ✔ All those issues have been viewed as being pushed by the crown prince, who similarly has led roundups of activists, businessmen and others in the kingdom
Migration: the riddle of Europe’s shadow population
10/7/2018, 4:16:09 AMundefined ✔ Lennys fled her native Venezuela a decade ago as trouble brewed during the later years of former president Hugo Chávez’s rule ✔ This partly helps explain why the EU is focused on improving its return rate of irregular migrants to their home countries, which officially fell from 46 per cent in 2016 to 37 per cent last year
Saudi writer 'murdered' in consulate
10/7/2018, 7:42:45 AMTurkish officials believe the Washington Post writer was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. ✔ The prince said: He's a Saudi citizen and we are very keen to know what happened to him ✔ AFP The Saudi consulate said Khashoggi left after completing paperwork My understanding is he entered and he got out after a few minutes or one hour ✔ Ankara's relationship with Riyadh is too important to jeopardise on the basis of unsubstantiated rumour ✔ To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison
Cyber Saturday: China's Chip Hack, Amazon and Apple's Denials, Google's Trust Reversal
10/7/2018, 4:16:56 AMYour weekend brief on code-makers and codebreakers. ✔ Jigsaw said the tool will be embedded by default into the next version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android Pie ✔ Advertisement ACCESS GRANTED Pulling a Facebook ✔ Vanity Fair tells the unbelievable story of an international man of mystery
Jews Didn't Lead or Fund the Russian Revolution, and the Lenin / Stalin Death Toll Is Wildly Exaggerated
10/7/2018, 1:05:23 AMThis is a discussion of some issues raised in a previous article by Ron Unz: ✔ This is a discussion of some issues raised in a previous article by Ron Unz: Back in those late Cold War days, the death toll of innocent civilians from the Bolshevik Revolution and the first two decades of the Soviet Regime was generally reckoned at running well into the tens of millions… I’ve heard that these numbers have been substantially revised downwards to perhaps as little as twenty million or so, but no matter ✔ Some people view Jews with suspicion; political manipulators are aware of it, and they claim that a person they fight with is a Jew
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