Community fears grow as DR Congo Ebola death toll climbs
10/12/2018, 9:18:49 PMUN employee among the latest people who tested positive for deadly virus in first such incident of current outbreak. ✔ WHO said instability in DR Congo has hindered the effort to control the spread of Ebola [File: AP] The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) told AFP Friday that it was doing everything it could to minimise the risk to its volunteers on the ground
Israel, Syria to reopen Golan crossing on Monday: U.S. envoy to U.N.
10/12/2018, 9:44:36 PMIsrael, Syria and the United Nations have agreed to open the Quneitra crossing i... ✔ headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., July 20, 2018 ✔ Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East war and fought Syria again on the strategic plateau in a 1973 conflict ✔ peacekeepers the access they need as well as assurances of their safety ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
U.S. envoy for Afghan peace meets Taliban officials in Qatar: WSJ
10/12/2018, 10:56:51 PMThe U.S. envoy for Afghanistan peace efforts met with Taliban representatives in... ✔ We can’t confirm specific meetings or the content of diplomatic conversations, said a State Department spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity ✔ Special Representative Khalilzad held a number of meetings with a wide range of stakeholders as part of his trip to explore how best to reach a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan, the spokesperson added ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
UN employee in Democratic Republic of the Congo tests positive for Ebola
10/12/2018, 9:22:28 PMHead of peacekeeping mission breaks news amid alarming rise in new cases ✔ With multiple armed groups active in the region, health officials have said they are effectively operating in a war zone ✔ Ebola is a haemorrhagic fever that spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of its victims and typically kills about half of those it infects
U.S. Envoy Meets Taliban In Push for Afghan Peace Talks
10/12/2018, 9:07:27 PMWashington’s newly named point man for Afghan peacemaking met Taliban representatives as the Trump administration steps up efforts to cobble together a road map for talks aimed at ending the 17-year war in Afghanistan. ✔ In recent days, Mr. Khalilzad has visited the Afghan capital and the Pakistani capital Islamabad for talks with government and military officials ✔ The United Nations said this week that 8,050 Afghans had been killed or injured in the first nine months of this year, with most of the bloodshed inflicted by antigovernment groups ✔ The toll reflected the same extreme levels of harm to civilians as the same period last year, it said
Will this battle mean the end of the Syrian war?
10/12/2018, 11:52:19 PMRebel fighters have until Monday to remove themselves from the buffer zone around the city of Idlib. ✔ The 90,000 rebels (20,000 of them extremist jihadis - Assad's regime refuses to differentiate) were expecting an offensive by the Syrian Arab Army and its Russian and Iranian allies to start, but it has been postponed after Russia and Turkey agreed to establish a demilitarised zone around the province
As crisis intensifies, what’s at stake in America’s military partnership with Saudi Arabia?
10/12/2018, 10:27:15 PMSaudi Arabia is the top customer for U.S. weapons, but the kingdom’s military might has not matched its buying power. ✔ But analysts and former officials said the cultivation of Saudi Arabia as the top U.S. arms customer had not yet turned the kingdom into Washington’s essential military partner in the Arab world ✔ Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung contributed to this report
'Now's the time' to stand up to China: US security adviser Bolton
10/12/2018, 10:19:00 PMWashington continues broadsides against Beijing that go beyond trade war ✔ They need to know they have not achieved a fait accompli here ✔ The future remains uncertain on the president's diplomacy ✔ Neither does Mike Pompeo, neither does Jim Mattis, neither do I, Bolton said, referring to the U.S. secretaries of defense and state
Israel says Palestinian refugees number in the thousands, not millions
10/12/2018, 9:16:34 PMAn Israeli government study shared with Washington argues that Palestinian refug... ✔ FILE PHOTO: A Palestinian man repairs a fishing net outside his house at Al-Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City September 1, 2018 ✔ REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, described 2018 as a turning-point for UNRWA and its definition of Palestinian refugees, in that the United States has said ‘no more’ and the State of Israel is closing rank with this policy ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
These are 2 of the world's most powerful aircraft carrier classes — this is how they stack up
10/12/2018, 11:07:11 PMFrance's Charles de Gaulle is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside of the US Navy. Here's how it stacks up to the US's Nimitz-class. ✔ The USS Nimitz sailed about 150 miles north of the island of Oahu during the RIMPAC Naval exercises off Hawaii in 2012 ✔ More recently, de Gaulle was involved in France's contribution to the air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, codenamed Opération Chammal in France
Opinion | For the Saudis, the appalling Khashoggi business is business as usual
10/12/2018, 10:13:18 PMAnd the Trump administration has provided the royal family with rhetorical cover. ✔ issues and politics Email Bio Follow October 12 at 5:52 PM The most surprising aspect to the reaction to the possible abduction and killing of Saudi critic and Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey is the notion among some U.S. foreign policy elites that Saudi Arabia, prizing its longtime alliance with Washington, would never involve itself in such an atrocity ✔ The ruthless Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his family need Trump to stifle Iran at every turn
Opinion | Are we willing to sacrifice our moral standing for this?
10/12/2018, 11:39:53 PMIs Saudi Arabia’s supposed friendship worth shrugging off the ensnaring and killing of a critic? ✔ By Fred Hiatt Fred Hiatt Editorial page editor and columnist, overseeing The Washington Post Opinions section ✔ You see, he says, we need Saudi Arabia’s help to stand up to the really bad actor in the region Iran ✔ But Iran also does terrible things in its neighborhood fighting in Syria, interfering in Lebanon
Russia warns of schism in Orthodox Christianity after Ukrainian church granted independence
10/12/2018, 8:04:56 PMThe Russian church has warned that a decision to recognise Ukrainian denominations that broke away from its control could provoke a schism within Orthodox Christianity. ✔ The Moscow patriarchate has said independence for a Ukrainian church would cause disputes over its monasteries in the country ✔ To this day, far-flung communities of Old Believers continue to follow the rituals that the mainstream church abolished centuries ago
Saudi Arabia buys more U.S. weapons than any other country
10/12/2018, 11:42:04 PMWith $17 billion in new U.S. arms deals cleared just in the last year, the Saudi kingdom may be too big to flail ✔ Under the first year of the Trump administration, sales of bombs and missiles dominated ✔ As for where the dollars from those transactions are flowinghere are the U.S. corporations that contract with the Department of Defense, along with the money committed to them last year
Va. GOP says Democrat running for Congress ‘hates America’
10/12/2018, 9:26:36 PMDemocrats condemned the attack, but Republican Party stood by it and their candidate is mum. ✔ She blames American foreign policy for everything that’s wrong in the world ✔ In a radio interview this year, she referred to immigration agents who had separated children from their parents as the new Gestapo ✔ The nonpartisan Cook Political Report says the race leans Republican
‘Pressure will be on Turkey’ if Saudis found guilty of journalist’s murder in Istanbul – analysts
10/12/2018, 11:08:21 PMIf the Saudis are found to be complicit in the disappearance of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the result could be a “huge earthquake in international relations” experts have told RT. ✔ HomeWorld News ‘Pressure will be on Turkey’ if Saudis found guilty of journalist’s murder in Istanbul – analysts Published time: 12 Oct, 2018 23:01 Get short URL Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi speaks at an event hosted by Middle East Monitor in London, Britain, September 29, 2018 ✔ However, he adds, the Saudi regime has been an extremely close ally of the US and Israel
Police officers have been banned from displaying poppies on cars
10/12/2018, 9:42:07 PMPOLICE have been banned from putting poppy stickers on their cars. British Transport Police officers are outraged at the clampdown, introduced to avoid offending other charities. They said the ban … ✔ He told them it would not be doing the right thing by singling out one charity to support ✔ But one officer said: In the year we mark 100 years since the end of the Great War, people seem to be forgetting what those blokes died for ✔ Ring The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or email exclusive@the-sun.co.uk
U.S. weapons makers rattled over Saudi Arabia deals
10/12/2018, 9:56:46 PMMajor U.S. defense contractors have expressed concern to the Trump administration that lawmakers angered by the disappearance of a Saudi journalist in Turkey will block further arms deals with Saudi Arabia, a senior U.S. official told Reuters on Friday. Turkish reports that journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a vocal critic of Riyadh,… ✔ It's a major concern, the senior administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ✔ Senator Robert Menendez, the top Foreign Relations Committee Democrat, said the Trump administration had not satisfied concerns he first raised in June about the sale to members of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen of Raytheon's precision-guided munitions
Abe to visit China Oct 25-27
10/12/2018, 9:43:11 PMShinzo Abe will pay the first visit to China by a Japanese prime minister since 2011 later this month, Beijing announced Friday, in the latest sign of warming ties between the rivals. Abe will visit from October 25 to 27 and mark the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace… ✔ But he has since softened his rhetoric and called on China to press North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile programs ✔ At the time, the Chinese foreign ministry said Tokyo should act cautiously and avoid doing anything which would harm regional peace and stability
Khashoggi mystery fixes spotlight on Saudi official described as crown prince’s strategist, enforcer
10/12/2018, 10:26:59 PMThe missing journalist told friends that Saud al-Qahtani had urged him to end his self-imposed exile. ✔ Khashoggi’s disappearance has drawn renewed attention to the crackdown on criticism in Saudi Arabia and the methods Mohammed has used to eliminate public opposition to his policies ✔ They are creating a virtual world where Saudi Arabia is a superpower and MBS is the most popular leader, Khashoggi said
Saudi delegation in Turkey for joint Riyadh-Ankara probe into journalist’s disappearance
10/12/2018, 9:01:19 PMA Saudi delegation on Friday arrived in Turkey for a joint Riyadh-Ankara investigation into the mysterious disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, several media outlets reported, citing unnamed sources. ✔ The 59-year-old journalist, who was considered close to the Saudi royal family, had become a critic of the current government and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the 33-year-old heir apparent who has introduced reforms but shown little tolerance for criticism
Still no U.S. ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, Turkey amid crisis
10/12/2018, 10:07:03 PMThe disappearance of journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi after visiting a Saudi consulate in Turkey has thrown the large number of diplomatic vacancies under President Donald Trump into the spotlight — notably in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It's a gap the administration says it has been trying to fix… ✔ Indeed, Turkey freed American pastor Andrew Brunson on Friday after repeated complaints and sanctions from Washington ✔ Countries may get grouchy without an ambassador and that may affect relations, he said ✔ This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
U.S. security adviser Bolton vows tougher approach to China
10/12/2018, 9:52:29 PMU.S. national security adviser John Bolton has vowed to further intensify the Tr... ✔ Bolton did not elaborate on his remark about mineral exploitation in the strategic waterway, which China claims almost in its entirety in spite of several rival claimants ✔ The future remains uncertain on the president’s diplomacy ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Opinion | A Royal Saudi Mess
10/12/2018, 11:24:40 PMThe disappearance of a journalist could mean a crisis in U.S.-Saudi ties. ✔ He has longtime ties to the Saudi royal family as a journalist and adviser, and some reports suggest MBS recently offered him a significant government post if he returned from exile in Washington, D.C ✔ The only people happy about all this reside in Tehran ✔ Appeared in the October 13, 2018, print edition
Cyber sleuth who exposed Novichok assassins is 'targeted by Russia'
10/12/2018, 10:51:44 PMTHE cyber sleuth who exposed the Salisbury assassins’ real identities has revealed how Russia tried to scare him into halting his probes with threats and blackmail. Investigative website Bellingcat… ✔ He now lives in Austria, and works under his real name despite the risk to his own safety ✔ Mr Grozev said: I’ve decided it’s probably safer for me to use my real name because being in the open is probably a bit of protection ✔ RING The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL exclusive@the-sun.co.uk
Missing Journalist Was an Insider Willing to Cross Saudi Red Lines
10/12/2018, 8:44:22 PMJamal Khashoggi, the missing Saudi journalist now presumed dead, rankled authorities with his socially liberal views and sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood, but he was also an insider close to some of Saudi Arabia’s most powerful princes. ✔ The Saudi government, eager to cultivate better relations with the Trump administration, swiftly banned him from speaking publicly, Mr. Khashoggi told the Journal ✔ More Turkey Says Recordings Are Evidence of Saudi Journalist’s Killing Trump Rejects Lawmakers’ Calls to Halt Saudi Arms Sales Disappearance Sends Chill Through Foreign Investors, Firms Saudi’s Disappearance Risks Costly Image-Crafting Effort in U.S.
Everything we know so far about Mary Poppins Returns
10/12/2018, 9:03:57 PMEmily Blunt will step into Julie Andrews's formidable shoes as the magical nanny, set for a brand new adventure ✔ Julie Walters as Ellen : Employed as Michael’s housekeeper, Ellen will surely find herself involved in Mary’s antics ✔ 2/16 Dark River Dark River offers little such consolation ✔ Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds Will there be animated sequences ✔ Mary Poppins Returns will be released in UK cinemas on 21 December
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