US veterans overwhelmingly want troops out of Afghanistan – poll
10/11/2018, 3:45:49 AMA new poll shows a majority of US residents support withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan, 17 years into a war that shows no signs of ending. Support for winding down the interminable conflict is even higher among veterans. ✔ The war costs taxpayers about $45 billion each year, and the US has spent more than $5.6 trillion on the war on terror (which is broader than just Afghanistan) since 2001 ✔ YouGov conducted parallel online polls of 1,823 members of the general public and 613 veterans ✔ Trends: Afghanistan news Taliban news US army newsUS news
Why I fight alongside Assad's forces
10/11/2018, 12:38:01 AMNabel is a Christian fighting near Idlib province, the last remaining rebel stronghold in Syria ✔ Media player Media playback is unsupported on your device Syria war: Why I fight alongside Assad's forces near Idlib Commander Nabel is a Christian who leads a local group of volunteers fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the war in Syria ✔ That was postponed after a demilitarised zone was agreed ✔ But President Assad hasn't ruled out future military action, in his bid to restore complete control over the country
North Korea, China, Russia call for 'corresponding' measures in denuclearization talks
10/11/2018, 2:06:13 AMundefined ✔ The U.S. and the North remain at odds over how to get rid of the latter's nuclear program ✔ The three also shared the need for stronger bilateral and multilateral cooperation with relevant countries to ensure a lasting peace regime on the Korean Peninsula, the KCNA said
US accuses Venezuela spies of 'involvement' in suspicious death
10/11/2018, 1:55:20 AMAuthorities say opposition figure committed suicide while in custody; the US and others say he was tortured and killed. ✔ 'Involvement' condemned The United States joined the chorus of condemnation from the international community over Alban's death - and pointed the finger of blame at Maduro ✔ The United States condemns the Maduro regime's involvement in the death of Venezuelan opposition councilman Fernando Alban, the White House said in a statement ✔ In the Field Venezuela's exodus: Forced to flee
A new era for the China-Russia-U.S. triangle
10/11/2018, 12:06:20 AMMr. Kissinger’s approach was sometimes called “triangulation.” But distilled down to its essence, the phrase meant ensuring that China and Russia were not friendlier to each other than each was to the United States. Given that the Soviet Union was much stronger than China at the time, Mr. Kissinger especially courted Beijing. ✔ They have sought to use Syria, Iran and North Korea to check U.S. influence while waging cyberwar against U.S. companies and institutions ✔ • Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won (Basic Books, 2017)
‘Don’t worry about us’: Critics fault Trump’s hands-off response to autocrat abuses
10/11/2018, 12:14:10 AMTrump has appeared hesitant to challenge leaders accused of brazen provocations, such as the alleged operation by the Saudi regime to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi. ✔ By Anne Gearan Anne Gearan White House reporter Email Bio Follow October 10 at 7:12 PM At the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Riyadh agents allegedly kidnapped, killed and dismembered a dissident journalist who was writing for The Washington Post in exile ✔ Connolly (D-Va.), who helped lead a bipartisan letter urging Trump to demand immediate answers from both Saudi Arabia and Turkey
'Why aren't they paying?': Trump hits out at South Korea about missile defense system
10/11/2018, 12:13:16 AMPresident Donald Trump criticized Seoul on Tuesday for failing to finance the U.S. deployment of a missile defense system —Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) — on the Korean Peninsula. ✔ Mad about THAAD U.S. Department of Defense | Missile Defense Agency | Reuters A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test, in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency
Khashoggi’s Disappearance Puts Kushner’s Bet on Saudi Crown Prince at Risk
10/11/2018, 2:21:01 AMMore than anyone in the Trump administration, Jared Kushner cultivated Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, whose family may have played a role in Jamal Khashoggi’s fate. ✔ Policymakers across Washington expressed concern that the Saudi government’s lack of transparency and refusal to provide any information about Mr. Khashoggi’s whereabouts reflected a darker consequence of the kingdom’s relationship with the Trump White House
Opinion | Democrats, Don’t Muck This One Up
10/11/2018, 12:16:28 AMThe midterms are too critical. ✔ Every single Democratic candidate should be laboring to make sure that every single American voter knows this ✔ Trending Hurricane Michael Updates: Storm Charges Northwest, Leaving Destruction in Florida Opinion: I'm Just a Middle-Aged House Dad Addicted to Pot Stocks Plunge, as Fresh Tensions With China Batter Tech Shares Limo Firm’s Operator Is Charged in Fatal Upstate New York Crash At Immigration Argument, Justice Kavanaugh Takes Hard Line Naming Names, Turks Turn Up Heat on Saudis in Consulate Case Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ A Suicidal Nanny, an Underground Industry and 3 Babies Stabbed Opinion: White Male Victimization Anxiety Polling the 2018 Midterm Elections in Real Time
Jamal Khashoggi disappearance after Saudi Consulate visit creates diplomatic crisis
10/11/2018, 1:50:50 AMInternational intrigue deepened Wednesday over the disappearance of a prominent U.S.-based Saudi journalist after a visit last week to the Saudi Consulate in Turkey, as suspicions that he had been killed or kidnapped by a team of Saudi operatives threatened to spiral into a major diplomatic crisis. ✔ Images in the media point to the possibility of an abduction or an assassination ✔ If it happened, it would be because it was a total [mess]-up by some people and there will be consequences ✔ This is what happens when you embolden authoritarian dictators around the world
What We Know About The Disappearance Of Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
10/11/2018, 1:01:04 AMSaudi Arabia denies any wrongdoing and maintains that he left its consulate in Turkey on foot shortly after obtaining a document he needed to wed his fia... ✔ In an interview with Bloomberg on Oct. 3, Mohammed expressed concern for the journalist ✔ Senior Turkish officials have privately told European and American counterparts, The Guardian reported, that even if Khashoggi was killed, government leaders may be willing to turn a blind eye to preserve trade ties and a delicate regional relationship
Disappearance of a dissident journalist puts young Saudi prince, a Trump ally, under a dark cloud - Los Angeles Times
10/11/2018, 12:04:37 AMDisappearance and possible gruesome death of gadfly Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi puts an ambitious young crown prince's increasingly autocratic track record in the spotlight even as kingdom disavows any responsibility. And it's awkward for Trump, who has embraced a repressive monarchy. ✔ For most of his time in office, President Trump has gone far out of his way to be friendly to the Saudis, dispensing none of the long-standing Western admonishments about human rights ✔ Whether he was killed is not confirmed yet, said Yasin Aktay, a senior advisor to Erdogan and the first official contacted by Khashoggi’s friends when they feared the worst after he vanished
Corruption Currents: U.S. Grants Rare License in North Sea Gas Field Partly Owned by Iran
10/11/2018, 12:05:05 AMThe U.S. granted a license to BP PLC and Serica Energy Ltd. to run a North Sea gas field partly owned by Iran. ✔ energy firms to run a gas field in the North Sea partly owned by Iran ✔ (CGDEV) Nearly all of the top European banks have been fined for money laundering, according to a review ✔ (Newsday) The SEC dusted off a never-used Dodd-Frank authority in a recent case
Midterm fear factor: Republicans, Democrats stoke anxiety over health care, rule of law
10/11/2018, 12:39:56 AMIn closing arguments to voters, the GOP is painting Democrats as extremists, while Democrats portray Republicans as a threat to Americans with preexisting medical conditions. ✔ We know who the culprits are, McConnell said after protests during the Kavanaugh confirmation, when demonstrators challenged lawmakers in the hallways of the Capitol ✔ Republicans are defending a 51-49 majority in the Senate ✔ Erica Werner, Mike DeBonis and Felicia Sonmez contributed to this report
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