How clean energy demand could fuel conflict in Congo
10/9/2018, 9:51:08 PMRare minerals essential for renewable energy technologies could be the modern day blood diamonds ✔ As we see an explosion in energy storage and electric vehicles, the demand for cobalt is going to increase, said Crawford ✔ Developing the 'magic bullet' material that gives high efficiency at low cost, from nontoxic and earth-abundant elements is a real challenge, he said
Senior lawmaker sees 'options' for U.S.-Venezuela relations after...
10/9/2018, 11:37:41 PMThe chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Tuesday he s... ✔ We went down to get a sense of a way forward and there’s a couple of options ✔ He also met with members of the Boston Group, a network of U.S. and Venezuelan legislators that has maintained relations between Caracas’ government and opposition since 2000 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Trump on alleged US strikes on Syria and what's he said about 'animal Assad'?
10/9/2018, 8:28:13 PMRUSSIA claimed Israel carried out air strikes in Syria hours after an alleged horror chemical attack on civilians. Syria’s state-run news agency said its air defences downed eight missiles targeted… ✔ US President Donald Trump has promised a forceful response to the alleged chemical attack in Syria, as Western leaders consider what action to take ✔ Syria has been at odds with US policies in the region practically since its independence in 1946 and has fought several wars with Israel, America’s top regional ally
Nikki Haley: the latest Trump enabler to ruin her shot at redemption | Richard Wolffe
10/9/2018, 8:46:44 PMPerhaps Trump’s former officials were somehow suckered into salivating over him – but these fantasies are becoming more and more distant ✔ The whole Middle East is so tired of Jared’s winning, there’s only one obvious place left for him to go: the United Nations, as Haley’s replacement ✔ Like Trump himself, his cabinet officials can lie to all of the people some of the time, and to some of the people all of the time
Being killed for their work is growing risk for journalists
10/9/2018, 10:41:17 PMNEW YORK (AP) — Journalists are familiar with the risks of reporting from war-torn lands, but the recent death or disappearance of three people in Turkey, Bulgaria and Mexico illu ✔ While careful not to place blame on President Donald Trump, experts say his attacks on the press as the enemy of the people have a corrosive effect that is noticed around the world ✔ One Bulgarian media site demanded an EU investigation, fearing that Bulgarian officials were complicit in the corruption
Opinion | Nikki Haley Will Be Missed
10/9/2018, 11:56:21 PMThe U.N. ambassador has managed to represent President Trump and the United States. ✔ Once his rise seemed certain, she helped make it so by enthusiastically defending him ✔ With no background in foreign affairs a deficit for a presidential candidate she accepted the United Nations appointment and became one of only a half-dozen women in a cabinet-level job ✔ The Unknowable Fallout of China’s Trade War Nuclear Option
Vietnam to remove 49% foreign ownership cap on listed companies
10/9/2018, 11:48:53 PMGovernment also weighs relaxing banking and aviation, but not above 50% ✔ New buildings rise out of the landscape in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's commercial capital ✔ The Finance Ministry is drafting an overhaul for the nation's securities law, the first major amendment since 2010 ✔ Vietnam has around 1,500 public companies, including about 740 listed on the two main stock exchanges in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City
Owner of limo company in deadly crash was controversial FBI informant and had record of failed inspections
10/9/2018, 9:58:59 PMFederal officials are investigating the deadly crash and vowing to 'hold accountable' anyone found criminally liable ✔ It was the first time Rouhani had been summoned by parliament in his five years in power, with MPs demanding answers on unemployment, rising prices and the collapsing value of the rial, which has lost more than half its value since April AFP/Getty 44/50 27 August 2018 A police officer walks by the front of a Chicago Pizza and GLHF Game Bar at the scene of fatal shooting at The Jacksonville Landing
Who are the modern descendants of the murdered Russian royal family?
10/9/2018, 9:59:04 PMPrince Philip among distant relatives of tragic Tsar Nicholas II and loved ones brutally slain by Bolshevik guards a century ago ✔ The fire was extinguished within eight minutes AP 40/50 31 August 2018 Mourners attend Aretha Franklin's funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit AFP/Getty 41/50 30 August 2018 Firefighters watch on as flames leap from a giant factory fire in the inner Melbourne suburb of West Footscray - More than 120 firefighters are fighting the fire, with 30 trucks and cherry picker aerial appliances on the scene which is sending large plumes of smoke across the city
Trump says 'no one more competent in the world' than Ivanka to do UN Ambassador job
10/9/2018, 9:58:57 PMNikki Haley announced she would be resigning from the role today ✔ AFP/Getty 42/50 29 August 2018 People are evacuated after flooding in Swar township, Myanmar Reuters 43/50 28 August 2018 President Hassan Rouhani speaks at the Iranian Parliament in the capital Tehran ✔ Following her resignation, the president discussed the possibility of Ms Haley hopefully returning to the Trump administration in a different capacity
Opinion | Donald Trump Versus the Jungle
10/9/2018, 11:56:26 PMThe president’s fantasy is that the U.S. can ignore the global forces of nature. ✔ That’s because for most of history great powers constantly clashed and most people were constantly poor ✔ But for the last 70-plus years we have been living in the greatest prosperity ever known globally and we’ve witnessed the most widespread booming of democracy and the longest period of great-power peace ever known ✔ Friedman Foreign affairs, globalization and technology ✔ The Unknowable Fallout of China’s Trade War Nuclear Option
AP Analysis: Missing writer shows Saudi Arabia’s dark side
10/9/2018, 8:15:41 PMAs every country across the Mideast does with its leaders, it’s hard to escape posters and laudatory fawning over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the kingdom. ✔ The kingdom won international praise for allowing women to be able to drive in June ✔ But just ahead of that, the kingdom rounded up and imprisoned women’s rights activists, including reportedly grabbing one who was in the neighboring United Arab Emirates ✔ Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jongambrellap
Security minister: Possibility of chemical attack is getting closer
10/9/2018, 11:42:31 PMIn a stark assessment, Ben Wallace told a conference in London on Tuesday he sees plots where 'the only limits to the ambition of our adversaries is their imagination.' ✔ Elsewhere, Mr Wallace denied that the UK refuses to take back British citizens suspected of fighting with Islamic State ✔ 'The question of state terrorism and its inclusion or possibly exclusion from the definition is work in progress in my view,' he added
Trump's U.N. envoy Haley resigns, rules out 2020 run for office
10/9/2018, 10:52:17 PMNikki Haley, a rising Republican star, said on Tuesday she was stepping down as ... ✔ Trump unceremoniously announced his firing of former secretary of state Rex Tillerson in March in a tweet ✔ Haley was seen by her counterparts at the United Nations as a voice of clarity in a U.S. administration that often gave off mixed signals on foreign policy, diplomats say ✔ Slideshow (5 Images) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Japan and South Korea struggle to look ahead, 20 years on
10/9/2018, 9:03:08 PMDespite declaration of 'future-oriented' relations, history dominates talks ✔ Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force raise the rising sun flag, the use of which has fueled the latest diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Seoul ✔ The agreement has been highly unpopular among the South Korea public ✔ The use of the rising sun flag by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels has also become a hot topic recently
Grandmother of Novichok hitman Dr Alexander Mishkin vanishes after she gave away his secret identity
10/9/2018, 10:01:26 PMTHE gran of Novichok poisoner Dr Alexander Mishkin has vanished — just days after confirming his true identity. Investigators say the woman, in her 90s, went missing from her village in the remote… ✔ 5 Mishkin is from the tiny village of Loyga, 500 miles from Moscow He said: We should not underestimate them nor indeed the dangerous and reckless use of nerve agent on our streets ✔ The spy and his daughter Yulia were left gravely ill, while local woman Dawn Sturgess later died after handling the perfume bottle used to administer the toxin
PETER OBORNE: Why does Britain cosy up to Saudi Arabia
10/9/2018, 11:42:32 PMSaudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, pictured, is believed to have been murdered in gruesome circumstances by thugs employed by the Saudi monarchy, writes PETER OBORNE. ✔ Six months ago, Britain rolled out the red carpet in fine style for Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the man who is the heir apparent in Saudi Arabia ✔ Certainly none of this has been confirmed by Turkish President Erdogan, who was a personal friend of Mr Khashoggi
Opinion | Will Europe’s Boot Point East or West?
10/9/2018, 11:56:18 PMItaly stands where the spheres of influence of Moscow and Brussels meet. Which will its governing euro-skeptics favor? ✔ Contacts between Lega and United Russia, Mr. Putin’s party, are intense and continuous: conferences, congresses, meetings ✔ Great Again Celia Jacobs The Editorial Board Coal Is Killing the Planet ✔ Trending Nikki Haley to Resign as Trump’s Ambassador to the U.N ✔ The Unknowable Fallout of China’s Trade War Nuclear Option
The left’s rage and anger grows from a factual vacuum
10/9/2018, 10:50:29 PMAmerica’s political discourse has become highly inflamed, mainly due to the acceptance of verbal and physical violence as a standard tactic of the left. In another sense, however, it has become too polite, particularly in the partisan media, which refuses to point out the blatantly unsound and irrational policies of the increasingly influential progressive-socialist movement. ✔ Pandering to Islamic extremists failed to either quell their misplaced hatred of America or their attacks on U.S. soil The list of diplomatic failures during the Obama administration could go on and on, but despite the overwhelming evidence of disastrous results, an excessively friendly media refused to acknowledge reality
Turkey says will search Saudi consulate where journalist vanished
10/9/2018, 9:55:47 PMTurkey said on Tuesday it would search Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul where Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished last week, and close ally Britain called on Riyadh to provide "urgent answers" over his disappearance. Khashoggi was last seen one week ago entering the consulate in Istanbul to get documents related… ✔ It was not immediately clear if the Anadolu report referred to one of those aircraft ✔ The European Union fully supports U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who called on Riyadh to investigate Khashoggi's disappearance, EU policy chief Federica Mogherini said
Inside the Beltway: Left’s brutal ‘tactics’ now in sharp focus
10/9/2018, 11:33:30 PMThe confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is an unprecedented cultural moment that has revealed just how brutal politics has become. ✔ Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is an unprecedented cultural moment that has revealed just how brutal politics has become ✔ They have visited more than 2 million voters at their doors as part of a historic effort to educate and mobilize voters as Nov. 6 gets closer
The Air Force is changing the way it recruits U-2 pilots — here's what it's like to fly the US's oldest working spy plane
10/9/2018, 10:06:32 PMThe legendary U-2 has long been reserved for Air Force pilots who have at least six years of flying experience. But the service is opening up the pipeline, giving trainees the chance to sign up for service with the Dragon Lady. ✔ Pilots give the U-2 a traditional pat on the nose, shake hands with each flight crew member, and clamber into the cockpit, where a team of technicians hooks them up to an array of regulators and sensors ✔ Matt Nussbaum, 99th Reconnaissance Squadron commander, told Phillips
Nikki Haley, Hurricane Michael, Trade: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
10/9/2018, 9:59:27 PMHere’s what you need to know at the end of the day. ✔ Senator Bernie Sanders, who celebrated the pay hike, has asked for clarification ✔ Repeat nominees include Janet Jackson, above; Radiohead; and Rage Against the Machine ✔ Tracking the Storm’s Path The Unknowable Fallout of China’s Trade War Nuclear Option
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