Yemen: End airstrikes and give child victims justice, says UN body
10/11/2018, 5:49:10 PMCommittee on the rights of the child issues report as pressure grows on Saudis to rethink war ✔ A fresh Saudi military offensive is underway after UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva failed to get off the ground last month ✔ All allegations of unlawful attacks on children should be pursued effectively and the perpetrators brought to justice with appropriate sanctions, in order to prevent and fight against impunity, they added
Democratic candidate’s husband tweets his way into Virginia 5th district’s odd Afghanistan flap
10/11/2018, 5:54:55 PMAndrew Cockburn suggests the GOP candidate, an Air Force veteran who planned bombing raids, was “snorkeling.” ✔ The nonpartisan Cook Political report says the race leans Republican ✔ He began by noting that 17 years had passed since he had planned the first bombing raids ✔ See Michael O’Hanlon, Foreign Affairs May-June 2002 ✔ She wrote a memoir, Looking for Trouble: One Woman, Six Wars and a Revolution
Kanye West drops F-bomb with President Donald Trump
10/11/2018, 7:24:05 PMKanye West has met with President Donald Trump at the White House for a lunch to discuss topics like prison reform and urban revitalisation. ✔ Replay Replay Video Loading Play Video Play Video Playing in 5 ...Don't Play But the encounter veered into many more topics, most of them having to do with the administration's accomplishments ✔ Reuters Donald Trump Most Viewed in World Loading Please explain Our weekly podcast giving you insight into the stories that drive the nation
Experts Said An Ebola Outbreak In A War Zone Would Be A Nightmare. It's Been Worse Than That.
10/11/2018, 7:38:49 PMA surge in patients. Brutal attacks against health workers. Money running out. What the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has bee... ✔ The responders’ movements haven’t just been limited by the ville morte ✔ The other, who has injuries that are making it difficult for him to walk, will stay in the hospital ✔ It does seem like this is a time for potential intervention where things can go either way
Ukraine achieves approval to split from Russian Orthodox church
10/11/2018, 6:50:08 PMThe Ukrainian Orthodox Church secured its independence from Moscow from the Ecemenical Patriarch of all the Eastern orthodox churches which is based in Istanbul. ✔ The Kremlin also voiced its displeasure, saying it opposed anything leading to a split in the Orthodox faith ✔ Asked about Russian warnings that the church split could lead to violence in Ukraine, Kurt Volker, Washington's ambassador to the Ukraine conflict, said on Thursday: 'I hope there are not protests and violence orchestrated as a result of this decision
Ebola outbreak warning: Deadly disease SPREADS as Congo announces shock BAN
10/11/2018, 4:02:22 PMThe deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has killed at least 118 people since July and continues to spread at a dizzying pace, with 1-2 new confirmed cases a day in recent weeks, Congo’s Health Ministry said as authorities announce plans to place a ban on harbouring suspected Ebola patients. ✔ Congolese Red Cross volunteers are being attacked (Image: JUNIOR D ✔ Three volunteers from the Congolese Red Cross were attacked by villagers last week while trying to carry out a safe burial of an Ebola victim, prompting the suspension of some burials in the area
British Army starts recruiting for revived Monuments Men unit to protect art and archaeology in war
10/11/2018, 4:18:44 PMA former Gulf War tank commander is recruiting experts to form a specialist unit that will protect cultural heritage in war zones, similar to the role carried out by the famed Monuments Men who saved artistic treasures from the Nazis during the Second World War. ✔ The formation of the successor unit is also a response to Britain’s decision, last year, to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention on protecting cultural property during military conflict ✔ Buyers often keep these items for long periods of time and it is only decades later that they emerge on the market
Ariana Grande confirms break from music following rapper Mac Miller's death
10/11/2018, 7:59:37 PM'I’m doing my best to keep going' ✔ The vessel arrived with 177 migrants on board, but the Italian Interior Ministry denied them to disembark, calling EU member states to find a solution on how to distribute them ✔ A representative for Grande recently said she would be taking some much needed time to heal and mend after both Miller’s death and last year’s Manchester Arena terror attack
FTSE 100 tumbles as global stock market rout worsens
10/11/2018, 5:16:08 PMSell-off in London follows six days of falls for the S&P 500 on Wall Street - the longest losing streak of Donald Trump’s presidency ✔ 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
Donald Trump's op-ed accidentally reveals he was lying about healthcare
10/11/2018, 5:16:01 PMThe article has triggered widespread controversy ✔ A lot of the victims were inside their homes or at the mosque when the quake struck ✔ Presumably, the president is aware of our fact checks - he even links to two - but chose to ignore the facts in service of a campaign-style op-ed ✔ Neither the White House or USA Today has yet to comment on the issue
Here’s what happened at Kanye West’s incredibly bizarre meeting with Donald Trump
10/11/2018, 6:46:26 PMThe rapper visited the president Thursday and launched into a 10-minute monologue. ✔ By Helena Andrews-Dyer Helena Andrews-Dyer Columnist for The Reliable Source Email Bio Follow October 11 at 2:23 PM It was a head-scratching afternoon at the White House on Thursday as rapper Kanye West and so many of his opinions descended upon 1600 Penn ✔ West also had some clarifications about his mental health, a hot topic following his appearance on Saturday Night Live on Sept
Why Saudi Arabia wanted Khashoggi gone
10/11/2018, 6:50:23 PMJamal Khashoggi vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain official documents for his upcoming marriage. ✔ 'People who have long thought of themselves as Saudi's friends are saying this is a very, very serious matter,' Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said today ✔ 'Although my hope slowly fades away each passing day, I remain confident that Jamal is still alive,' she added
Brainstorm Health: Allogene IPO, Medtronic Hack Concern, Pharmacy Gag Clause
10/11/2018, 7:52:16 PMBrainstorm Health Daily: October 11, 2018 ✔ By Sy Mukherjee 3:43 PM EDT Good afternoon, readersThis is Sy ✔ Allogene raised $324 million in an offering that pegs the company’s market value at an eye-popping $2 billion-plus ✔ The biotech’s off-the-shelf tech was folded in from drug giant Pfizer ✔ U.S. education appears to deliver decidedly less bang-for-the-buck compared with other nations
Meet the Democrat challenging Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland’s only Republican in Congress
10/11/2018, 4:18:01 PMJesse Colvin is an Afghan vet with an Ivy League degree who thinks voters are longing for the center. ✔ Mary and Howard McCoy speak with Democrat Jesse Colvin on Sept ✔ People hold up signs during a 2017 town hall meeting with Harris ✔ I think we need to vote on issues instead of arguing about it ✔ We need Washington to remember there are three branches of government ✔ Read more: House GOP not conservative enough
Sense of impunity emboldens autocrats to kill enemies
10/11/2018, 7:12:29 PMDictators and autocrats have always sought to silence dissenters, even ones that flee abroad to escape their grasp. Now they have a free hand to act. ✔ Alexander Petrov, left, and Ruslan Boshirov charged as the two Russians responsible for the Novichok poisonings of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Britain ✔ AP Protest Democracy Most Viewed in World Loading Please explain Our weekly podcast giving you insight into the stories that drive the nation
Khashoggi was murdered, Saudis did it, leading Republican says
10/11/2018, 4:48:35 PMA leading Republican senator said Thursday that he believes Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and that "there is no question the Saudis did this." ✔ Riedel notes that lawmakers have tried in the Senate and they've always fallen four or five [votes] short ✔ It's possible to cut off sales, Riedel said, but it would mean getting Republicans on board ✔ CNN's Kevin Liptak, Jessica Schneider, Elise Labott and Zachary Cohen in Washington and Gul Tuysuz in Istanbul contributed to this report
Khashoggi case prompts executives to rethink Saudi roles
10/11/2018, 6:06:08 PMundefined ✔ One venture capitalist told the FT he still planned to attend given the uncertainty about Mr Khashoggi’s fate and because previous meetings with the crown prince had left him inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt ✔ Recommended Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance spotlights rising repression
Trump: missing journalist no reason to stop Saudi investments
10/11/2018, 6:27:56 PMU.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he saw no reason to block Saudi Ara... ✔ If it turns out to be what we all think it is today but don’t know, there will have to be significant sanctions placed at the highest levels, Corker said ✔ Corker and other lawmakers also said it would be very difficult for the Trump administration to win congressional approval for arms sales to the Saudis ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Kim Wall: Swedish journalist's murder to be made into TV series
10/11/2018, 5:31:18 PMTobias Lindholm, one of Borgen’s writers, announces The Investigation and vows her killer will not feature ✔ In April, Madsen was sentenced to life imprisonment, the country’s harshest possible sentence, for torturing, sexually assaulting and murdering the journalist, before dismembering her body and throwing it into the sea ✔ The film is being produced by Miso Film, a production company owned by the London-based Fremantle Media, in collaboration with Denmark’s TV 2 and Sweden’s TV4 and C More channels
Corporate America begins to distance itself from Saudi money due to Khashoggi affair
10/11/2018, 6:45:23 PMAs the outcry grows over the alleged murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, some U.S. companies are cutting ties with Saudi Arabia — and more could follow suit. ✔ The New York Times Co. NYT, +0.69% said Wednesday that it’s no longer a media sponsor of Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative conference, also called Davos in the Desert, according to multiple published reports ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment
Hi, Here Is Everything That Happened At The Meeting With President Trump And Kanye West
10/11/2018, 7:27:10 PM"Trump is on his hero’s journey right now." —Kanye West ✔ West then added that the MAGA hat Trump gifted him was equivalent to wearing a Superman cape ✔ His rant about the (in)famous piece of political apparel quickly turned into a somewhat unrelated, but somewhat tangentially related rant about male energy and now being a part of the Kardashian family clan ✔ 05:02 PM - 11 Oct 2018 Reply Retweet Favorite
Donald Trump, Arms Dealer-In-Chief
10/11/2018, 4:52:25 PMA veteran of selling condos, steaks, vodka, ties and ‘university’ degrees now openly hawks U.S. military hardware. ✔ Jonathan Ernst / Reuters 600 WASHINGTON – A self-proclaimed master of hawking condos, golf course memberships, steaks, ties, vodka and dubious real estate courses, Donald Trump has over a year and a half in the presidency enthusiastically taken on a new role: arms dealer-in-chief ✔ Brinkley, who edited the diaries of Ronald Reagan, said mentions of arms sales were all redacted by intelligence officials as part of their pre-publication review, to avoid problems that publicity could cause
What happens when you spend ten days on your own in an abandoned nuclear bunker?
10/11/2018, 7:29:33 PMALDO Kane lies back on his camp bed and screams at the plain white walls… but there’s nobody there to hear him. He’s on the ninth day of a gruelling ten-day experiment which has s… ✔ ALDO Kane lies back on his camp bed and screams at the plain white walls.. ✔ The sound of silence is deafening, and my own voice already is starting to annoy me ✔ You can see how easy it would be to psychologically unwind ✔ The researchers behind the experiment, however, are delighted with how it all turned out
IMF readies for further danger signals in emerging markets
10/11/2018, 4:25:10 PMundefined ✔ With Asian equity markets tumbling on Thursday morning, Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, used her pulpit at a Balinese beachside conference centre to deliver some marching orders to economic policymakers in emerging markets ✔ Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the finance minister, issued a full-throated defence of her country’s economic and financial position on Monday
Widows review, LFF: Steve McQueen's rip-roaring heist thriller never loses sight of the bigger issues
10/11/2018, 5:16:09 PMDir: Steve McQueen; Starring: Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, Daniel Kaluuya. Cert 15, 129 mins. ✔ It came as a surprise to learn that Steve McQueen, the Oscar-winning British director of harrowing dramas like 12 Years a Slave , Shame and Hunger , was adapting a Lydia La Plante crime novel for the screen ✔ Incest and abuse don’t leave much space for any comic interludes ✔ This is a powerful film with a grinding intensity about it ✔ The plot relies heavily on co-incidence and leaves too many loose ends ✔ Widows is released in UK cinemas on 6 November
Buyer of shredded Banksy print goes through with the £1m sale
10/11/2018, 6:50:02 PMThe new work has been given a new title, Love Is In The Bin, and has been granted a certificate by Pest Control, Banksy's authentication body. The piece was part shredded at a London auction. ✔ The iconic mural was last year voted the nation's favourite artwork ✔ He's essentially saying art is free and isn't meant to be owned' Celebrities were quick to pay tribute to the unusual prank on Twitter ✔ The artwork depicts the young girl from the musical Les Miserables with tears streaming from her eyes as a can of CS gas lies beneath her
Searching the Amalfi Coast for Long-Lost Family Ties
10/11/2018, 6:22:03 PMTracing their lineage along the Amalfi Coast, an Italian-American clan finds past glory—and infamy. ✔ Guardia Lombardi town clerk Luigi DiSanto, who is married to a Siconolfi, pulled out registries of our ancestors’ birth records, written in flowery Italian script ✔ More in Off Duty Travel A Traveler’s Guide to Oregon City, aka ‘Portland Without the Weird’ September 27, 2018 Monty Python’s Michael Palin on His Trip to North Korea and Fondness for Old Socks September 26, 2018 The New Outdoor Getaway: Landscapes That Have Been ‘Rewilded’ September 20, 2018 Escape to Bratislava: A Secret Charmer on the Danube September 18, 2018 Getting Cozy With Coco: Touring the Private Homes of Fashion Icons September 13, 2018
RAF grounds £120m F-35 fighter jets as experts probe faulty fuel line
10/11/2018, 7:18:00 PMAircraft are being examined to see whether they have a faulty fuel tube after the crash of a US Marine Corps F-35B in September.The Ministry of Defence said that trials of the F-35 were continuing. ✔ The UK has ground its fleet of £120 million F-35 stealth fighters following the crash of a US jet ✔ The F-35B jet went down near a military base in South Carolina and the pilot was able to safely eject before impact ✔ On top of this the jet is able to find and hit targets all by itself
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