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U.S.' Pompeo hails 'significant' North Korea progress; experts...

10/8/2018, 9:53:02 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday hailed "significant progress&... ✔ KCNA via REUTERS INSPECTION At last month’s inter-Korean summit, the North expressed its willingness to close Yongbyon if Washington took corresponding action, which Moon said would include a declaration of an end to the 1950-53 Korean War ✔ Slideshow (3 Images) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Belarus to arm every man, woman & elderly in case of war – president

10/8/2018, 8:40:54 PM
Every Belarusian citizen, except children, will be given a gun if the country is attacked by an enemy, President Aleksandr Lukashenko said. He also lamented the volume of illegal arms coming to the country from Ukraine. ✔ via GIPHY The president said that the country only needs defensive weapons, which can deliver untenable damage to the enemy ✔ Like high-precision missiles with a range of between 300 and 350 kilometers ✔ We’re alarmed by the influx of illegal arms through the Ukrainian border


Opinion | Mike Pence Announces Cold War II

10/8/2018, 11:24:35 PM
The administration is orchestrating a far-reaching campaign against China. ✔ With many longtime U.S. allies opposed to the Trump administration on trade policy and other matters, and with Russia, North Korea and Iran all looking to frustrate U.S. goals, an indignant China looking for opportunities to make Washington pay may find help


In ‘Godsend,’ an Idealistic Young Woman Gets Tangled Up in Trouble in Afghanistan

10/8/2018, 10:21:29 PM
Our critic calls John Wray’s new novel, which is loosely based on the story of the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, “a significant literary performance.” ✔ (Singer disliked the Barbra Streisand film version.) For Aden, a series of induction regimens follow ✔ O’Rourke Trump Calls Allegations Against Kavanaugh ‘a Hoax’ Opinion: Praying for Jamal Khashoggi In a Mississippi Restaurant, Two Americas Coexist Side by Side Limo Crash in Upstate New York: 4 Sisters Were Among the 20 Victims 20 Killed in Limo Crash in New York; Deadliest U.S. Accident in 9 Years


Prove that journalist Jamal Khashoggi left Saudi Consulate alive

10/8/2018, 10:51:03 PM
Saudi Arabia has offered no evidence despite an array of video cameras around the consulate in Turkey: Our view ✔ He argued that Salman's reforms to include allowing women to drive masked an opportunity to centralize power through widespread arrests ✔ I have left my home, my family and my job, and I am raising my voice, Khashoggi wrote last year ✔ If you can't see this reader poll, please refresh your page


In Brazil’s election, the traditional political class is wiped out

10/8/2018, 10:59:27 PM
Jair Bolsonaro is only part of a conservative surge in Latin America’s biggest nation. ✔ But he shot through those numbers, besting his closest opponent Fernando Haddad, from the leftist Workers’ Party by nearly 17 percentage points ✔ Brazil is now surfing the wave of global conservatism, an anti-globalist movement all across the world, said Guilherme Casarões, a comparative politics professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university in Sao Paulo


Malaysia Airlines flight makes emergency landing after medical incident on board

10/8/2018, 10:18:41 PM
A Malaysian Airlines flight bound for Melbourne, Australia, had to make an emergency landing due to a medical issue on board. ✔ Malaysian Airlines had a similar emergency landing earlier this year ✔ Pieces from the plane washed up on beaches in the Indian Ocean and Africa, but the main wreckage has yet to be found ✔ Later that year, in July, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard


Turkey's Erdogan tells Saudis to prove missing journalist left...

10/8/2018, 10:14:27 PM
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Riyadh to prove its claim t... ✔ Right now nobody knows anything about it, but there are some pretty bad stories going around ✔ I do not like it, he told reporters at the White House ✔ Khashoggi is a familiar face on political talk shows on Arab satellite television networks and used to advise Prince Turki al-Faisal, former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States and Britain ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Second Russian blamed for Skripal poisoning named as GRU doctor:...

10/8/2018, 9:11:27 PM
The second of two Russians who Britain blames for the poisoning of former Russia... ✔ A woman later died from Novichok poisoning after her partner found a counterfeit perfume bottle which police believe had been used to smuggle the nerve agent into Britain ✔ Mishkin was born in July 1979 in the village of Loyga in the Archangelsk district of northern Russia, and until September 2014 his registered home address in Moscow was the same as the headquarters of the GRU, Bellingcat said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


After missing enlistment goal, Army vows to boost recruiting

10/8/2018, 10:59:53 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — It will take time to overcome the recruiting challenges that caused the U.S. Army to miss its enlistment goal this year, but plans to beef up recruiting and othe ✔ It's going to take some time to reposition ourselves ✔ For years, modernization and other programs were sacrificed in order to get the most critical troops and equipment on the battlefields ✔ We stopped the bleeding and we're on an upward swing, Milley said


Maggie Gyllenhaal and husband Peter Sarsgaard take daughters out

10/8/2018, 9:39:28 PM
It's clear they are still deeply in love after 16 years together and the acting couple couldn't hide that as they were spotted strolling with.Ramona, 12, and Gloria Ray, six, on Saturday afternoon. ✔ It's clear they are still deeply in love after 16 years together ✔ Meanwhile, their mom and dad both have busy acting careers ✔ Maggie is presently starring in HBO's gritty series, The Deuce, set in New York City during the 1970s and '80s when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan


Turkey seeks answers from Saudi Arabia on missing journalist

10/8/2018, 8:30:25 PM
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A week after dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul for some routine paperwork, the mystery over his disappearance ✔ The United States and other Saudi allies have taken a cautious approach toward Khashoggi's disappearance, refraining from any strong comments against the oil-rich kingdom ✔ The consulate insists the writer left its premises, contradicting Turkish officials ✔ He had been living since last year in the U.S. in a self-imposed exile, in part due to the rise of Prince Mohammed, the son of King Salman


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