Bomb blast kills 5 in wedding party in eastern Afghanistan
10/13/2018, 11:11:21 AMKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say at least five civilians were killed when in a bomb exploded during a wedding ceremony in eastern Logar province. Shah Poor Ahmadzai, the provincial police chief's spokesman, says seven others were wounded in the attack late Friday, which took place in Mohammad Agha district. Mohammad Naser Ghairat, a provincial council member in Logar, confirmed the death toll. He said the bomb was planted near the house where the wedding was taken place and targeted the participants of the wedding.
US envoy for Afghan peace meets Taliban officials in Qatar
10/13/2018, 11:09:41 AMThe Trump administration engages with the Taliban it wants to wind down the 17-year-old war in Afghanistan. ✔ Qatar has served as a meeting location for US-Taliban discussions since 2011, though its Khalilzad's first try at negotiations as special envoy [Omar Sobhani/Reuters] The US envoy for Afghanistan peace efforts met with Taliban representatives in Qatar on Friday as President Donald Trump's administration pushed to find a way to end the 17-year-old Afghan war, the Wall Street Journal reported ✔ Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan forces continues 17 years after US intervention [Rahmat Gul/AP Photo] The State Department declined to say whether the meeting with Taliban officials in Doha took place
Climate-related disasters increasing as temperatures rise , NGOs warn
10/13/2018, 10:03:15 AMThe number of climate-related disasters around the world is growing rapidly, humanitarians warned Friday, urging more efforts to prepare and build resilience to looming changes on a warming planet. ✔ The number of climate-related disasters around the world is growing rapidly, humanitarians warned Friday, urging more efforts to prepare and build resilience to looming changes on a warming planet ✔ He pointed out that the world’s 10 most conflict-affected countries, including Syria, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of Congo, are also impacted by extreme weather events, creating a so-called pressure-cooker effect
A humanitarian crisis in Venezuela? Nothing to see here, government says
10/13/2018, 10:17:03 AMPlenty of food. Happy workers. No migrant crisis. A surreal propaganda campaign portrays the stricken country as a “paradise.” ✔ If there’s a humanitarian crisis here, then why are 5 million Colombians still living here ✔ For two decades, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution the brainchild of President Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013 talked up its empowerment of the poor through welfare programs and leftist labor laws ✔ Venezuelan officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment ✔ The government is fighting for an ideology that defends equality and freedom
Where Is Trump's Alleged Isolationism?
10/13/2018, 10:18:22 AMIt’s nearly impossible to read major newspapers, magazines, or online publications in recent months without encountering a plethora of articles contending that the United States is turning inward& ✔ During a state visit to Washington in mid-September, Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, promised to provide $2 billion toward construction costs if the United States built a military base in his country ✔ And waging a new cold war against Russia is the height of dangerous folly that needs to be reversed
Analysis | Returning to Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state, this time more closely watched than ever
10/13/2018, 10:17:09 AMDodging Myanmar's media minders and seeking stories on a government-run tour of its ravaged Rohingya region. ✔ We hurried deep into the camp, where he quickly blurted out answers to our few questions before growing silent ✔ The day after I returned to Yangon, he sent me a message: Sis, how do you think our problem can be solved quickly?? ✔ He has been in these camps since he was 16 years old
The Latest: Afghan official says 13 killed in rally bombing
10/13/2018, 10:14:03 AMKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on developments in Afghanistan (all times local): 2:30 p.m. An Afghan official says at least 13 people including civilians and security forces have been killed in a bombing at an election rally in northeastern Afghanistan. Khalil Aser, spokesman for the provincial police chief in Takhar province, says 32 others were wounded when a bomb-laden motorbike parked near the rally in Rustaq district detonated. The attack Saturday took place before Nazefa Yusoufi Beg, a female candidate for the Oct. 20 election, arrived at the rally. It was not the first attack on a campaign in the country's Oct. 20 parliamentary elections. Last week, a candidate was killed in southern Helmand province. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Takhar, but Taliban insurgents are active in the province and have claimed pervious attacks in the province.
Taliban says will continue talks with U.S. Special envoy for peace...
10/13/2018, 11:41:44 AMTaliban leaders and the newly-appointed U.S. special envoy for peace efforts in ... ✔ Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-born U.S. diplomat, met with Taliban leaders in Qatar on Friday in an effort to find a way to end the 17-year-old war in Afghanistan ✔ Both sides spoke (about) an end to the occupation and peaceful solution to the Afghan issue .. ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Taliban say 'general' discussion held with US special envoy
10/13/2018, 11:17:33 AMKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban officials say they held "general discussions" with Washington's special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is tasked with finding a negotiated end to Afghanistan's protracted and increasingly bloody war. The officials, who spoke to the Associated Press on Saturday on condition they not be identified because of the sensitivity of the process, said the meetings were held Friday in the Middle Eastern State of Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office.
Saudi Arabia: a kingdom in the dock
10/13/2018, 9:28:04 AMundefined ✔ Rich Saudis, worried about their personal safety and family wealth, have been funnelling billions of dollars out of the country in recent years despite attempts by the government to limit outbound transfers, according to private bankers ✔ In 2016, Moscow’s ambassador to Ankara was shot dead at the opening of an art exhibition by a rogue Turkish police officer
Poppies BANNED from police vehicles as ‘stench of political correctness’ hits
10/13/2018, 11:54:02 AMBRITISH Transport Police (BTP) officers are fuming after being slapped with a poppy ban. ✔ The spokesman said: It is important to stress that British Transport Police supports the Royal British Legions Poppy Appeal ✔ A motion put forward by two members of the university Conservative Association (CUCA) to ensure Remembrance Day becomes a well-established and well-marked event was rejected
Will Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance finally be the end America's blank check to Saudi Arabia? - Los Angeles Times
10/13/2018, 11:21:04 AMTrump should stop writing a blank check for the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. ✔ Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the ranking Democrat, wrote a letter to Trump triggering an investigation of Khashoggi’s disappearance under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act
How I write: Man Booker shortlist authors reveal their inspirations
10/13/2018, 8:12:42 AMA former slave’s travels, a violent Swat-team arrest, a war between humans and trees... Esi Edugyan, Rachel Kushner, Daisy Johnson, Robin Robertson, Richard Powers and Anna Burns on the real stories behind their novels ✔ Esi Edugyan Washington Black My book is about an 11- or 12-year-old field slave, Washington, on a Barbados plantation, who finds himself taken to live in the quarters of his master’s newly arrived brother, Christopher Wilde (or Titch) ✔ And we humans have always been part of those networks, changed by, changing, and dependent on them
Outrage as police officers banned from putting POPPIES on their cars: 'It's sick'
10/13/2018, 8:30:19 AMPOLICE officers have been banned from sticking poppies on their cars in a move slammed as "political correctness". ✔ But the motion put forward by the university's Conservative Association was rejected in favour of a student activist's proposal ✔ We fully recognise the sacrifices made by all armed forces colleagues, therefore we will always permit officers and staff to wear the traditional Royal British Legion poppy on their uniform
Sleuth claims he’s found MH370's cockpit and tail in Cambodian jungle
10/13/2018, 8:31:06 AMTHE cockpit and tail of missing plane MH370 complete with its Malaysia Airlines logo has been spotted in Cambodia, an amateur sleuth has claimed. The online hunt for the jet intensified after what … ✔ But Google Earth’s copyright date and imagery date for the picture have been listed as different years in recent weeks, reports The Daily Star ✔ Other than the Cambodian jungle theory, these include the suicidal pilot deliberately crashing into the sea, the aircraft being shot down by North Korea and a conspiracy to bring down the Malaysian government
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