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Opinion | War by Other Means

10/13/2018, 12:29:14 AM
Some American officials appear to hope that resumed sanctions on Iran will lead to a popular uprising. Have they thought that through? ✔ President Barack Obama saw the nuclear deal as a way to prevent Iran from producing a nuclear weapon, to ease the hostility that has dominated relations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and to appeal to a new generation of pro-Western Iranians ✔ My Republican Dad Is Voting for a Democrat Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ Amid Questions About Stealth Fighters Hurricane Michael: One Mile of Devastation in Florida Hurricane Michael Updates: 16 Dead as Rescue Teams Scour Ruins Turkey Frees Pastor Andrew Brunson, Easing Tensions With U.S. He’s ‘Trashing American Values’: Biden Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump


Police are BANNED from sticking poppies on their cars

10/13/2018, 1:28:42 AM
British Transport Police have told their officers not to use the poppy stickers on their vehicles ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended World War I. ✔ Earlier this week Cambridge University came under fire after members of its students' union rejected a call to celebrate Remembrance Day next month ✔ The procession and bell ringing will take place on November 11 after the national service of remembrance and the march past the Cenotaph by the British Legion


What do Koreans mean by 'revolution?'

10/13/2018, 1:02:26 AM
undefined ✔ The revolutionaries saw the complete remaking of the economy and of society as a precondition for any real change and considered progressive changes impossible within a moribund political system ✔ We must remember that revolutionary change is not always a slick advertising slogan


Opinion | Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply

10/13/2018, 12:29:17 AM
Trump says the U.S. gets “massive amounts” of money selling arms to Riyadh. It’s not true. ✔ The Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy specifically de-emphasizes the war on terror to focus on competition with China and Russia ✔ My Republican Dad Is Voting for a Democrat Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ Amid Questions About Stealth Fighters Hurricane Michael Updates: 16 Dead as Rescue Teams Scour Ruins Hurricane Michael: One Mile of Devastation in Florida Turkey Frees Pastor Andrew Brunson, Easing Tensions With U.S. He’s ‘Trashing American Values’: Biden Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump


Opinion | Body Parts on the Bosporus

10/13/2018, 12:29:12 AM
Donald Trump’s Saudi infatuation and the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. ✔ And for The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist and other publications that have withdrawn ✔ My Republican Dad Is Voting for a Democrat Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ Amid Questions About Stealth Fighters Hurricane Michael Updates: 16 Dead as Rescue Teams Scour Ruins Hurricane Michael: One Mile of Devastation in Florida Turkey Frees Pastor Andrew Brunson, Easing Tensions With U.S. He’s ‘Trashing American Values’: Biden Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump


Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi’s long road to the doors of the Saudi Consulate

10/13/2018, 12:12:51 AM
Conversations with close friends show his commitment to journalism, regardless of the personal cost. ✔ By David Ignatius David Ignatius Columnist covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Columnist October 12 at 6:58 PM The long road that took Jamal Khashoggi to the front door of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and the horror that lay inside began in the 1980s in Afghanistan, when he was a passionate young journalist who supported the Saudi establishment but couldn’t resist criticizing the royal family when he thought it was wrong ✔ It was a difficult time: Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former ambassador (nicknamed Bandar Bush because of his close relationships with Bush 41 and 43), was continuing to visit the White House secretly


Washington Post editor breaks down over missing Saudi journalist

10/13/2018, 1:27:19 AM
Karen Attiah was speaking to the press after her colleague went missing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul ✔ Donald Trump called the situation very serious and increased pressure on Saudi Arabia to provide information on what happened to the missing journalist ✔ Mr Khashoggi, living in self-imposed US exile since last year, has been a prominent critic of the regime’s war in Yemen


Trump Takes Center Stage in Dispute Over Jamal Khashoggi

10/13/2018, 12:18:35 AM
Turkey wants the president to press the Saudis over the disappearance of Mr. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist. His fiancée and American lawmakers are pressuring Mr. Trump, too. ✔ But instead of heading for the site of the disappearance in Istanbul, the delegation landed first in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, suggesting that diplomatic negotiations may have been a higher priority than police work ✔ My Republican Dad Is Voting for a Democrat Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ Amid Questions About Stealth Fighters Hurricane Michael Updates: 16 Dead as Rescue Teams Scour Ruins Hurricane Michael: One Mile of Devastation in Florida Turkey Frees Pastor Andrew Brunson, Easing Tensions With U.S. He’s ‘Trashing American Values’: Biden Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump


‘Donald Trump in Full’: The President’s Very Talkative, Very Televised Week

10/13/2018, 1:00:59 AM
His aides are clearing a path as the president speaks — and speaks, and speaks, and speaks — up for himself. ✔ Aside from taking requests from Fox News he is already scheduling interviews into next week, including one with Fox Business on Tuesday requests from the legacy media, such as 60 Minutes, hold a particular allure for a president who has boasted to allies that he can’t believe how frequently he has been on the front page of The New York Times since he became president


‘It’s all gone’: Tiny Florida beach town nearly swept away by Hurricane Michael

10/13/2018, 12:22:35 AM
Authorities, residents comb through Mexico Beach, Fla., amid piles of rubble and debris. ✔ By Patricia Sullivan , Patricia Sullivan Reporter covering government, politics and other regional issues in Arlington County and Alexandria Email Bio Follow Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux National reporter covering breaking news and social movements ✔ While there was significant focus on Florida’s obliterated beachfront communities, there also are rescue operations underway far inland


Museums Forced to Reassess Saudi Ties Amid Uproar Over Journalist’s Fate

10/13/2018, 12:18:37 AM
Cultural institutions in the United States have welcomed relationships with Saudi Arabia to help build understanding and fund ambitious programs. ✔ Mr. Stapleton declined to say whether Khashoggi’s death Turkey says it has evidence he was killed and dismembered, which the Saudi government denies would make the group rethink its funding stream ✔ My Republican Dad Is Voting for a Democrat Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ Amid Questions About Stealth Fighters Hurricane Michael Updates: 16 Dead as Rescue Teams Scour Ruins Hurricane Michael: One Mile of Devastation in Florida Turkey Frees Pastor Andrew Brunson, Easing Tensions With U.S. He’s ‘Trashing American Values’: Biden Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump


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