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Deadly blast strikes election rally in northeast Afghanistan

10/13/2018, 3:46:31 PM
At least 12 people were killed and more than 30 injured in an explosion at an election rally for a woman standing as a candidate in Afghanistan’s parliamentary polls on Oct. 20, officials said on Saturday. ✔ No militant group immediately claimed of responsibility for the attack ✔ Five candidates, all men, have been killed in separate attacks so far ✔ Both sides spoke (about) an end to the occupation and peaceful solution to the Afghan issue .. ✔ US officials in Kabul were not immediately available to comment on Khalilzad’s visit


Decentralisation in Syria: A lesser evil

10/13/2018, 3:23:39 PM
History shows that decentralisation could be an effective way to resolve tensions in diverse societies. ✔ Thus, in an effort to prevent the complete collapse of the multiethnic empire that they had inherited, the Bolsheviks were forced to portray themselves as ardent federalists and accept the aspirations of their non-Russian citizens ✔ Andrey Zakharov Andrey Zakharov is the editor of the Neprikosnovenny Zapas: Debates on Politics and Culture magazine


IS kidnaps scores of civilians in eastern Syria

10/13/2018, 1:14:43 PM
BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S.-backed Syrian force and a war monitor say members of the Islamic State group have stormed a settlement for displaced people in the country's east and kidnapped scores of civilians. The Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement that fighting Friday night in the Hajin camp for displaced persons left 20 IS gunmen and "several" SDF fighters dead. It added that IS gunmen took civilians by force to areas in the last pocket they control. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that monitors Syria's war said as many as 130 families were kidnapped by the extremists, who warned they might kill them.


Taliban says U.S. envoy held talks on possible paths to end Afghan war

10/13/2018, 2:06:55 PM
The U.S. Embassy said envoy Zalmay Khalilzad held meetings in Qatar, but would not confirm Taliban statement that he opened a new round of dialogue on the 17-year war. ✔ But this week, his pro-peace agenda earned a cordial reception ✔ The Afghan crisis cannot be settled through one individual’s initiative ✔ We need unanimity and coordination among regional and international actors as to how to solve it ✔ Sayed Salahuddin in Kabul and Shaiq Hussain in Islamabad contributed to this report


Air strikes kill 10 civilians in Yemen's Hodeidah province: medics

10/13/2018, 2:19:28 PM
Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen killed... ✔ A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be reached for comment ✔ The war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than two million and driven the country - which was already the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula - to the verge of widespread famine ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Sri Lanka, the land of the disappeared​ – a photo essay​

10/13/2018, 1:14:39 PM
Moises Saman’s latest work captures the terrible aftermath of the country’s civil war among its Tamil minority ✔ The work became more personal when he married an Iraqi-Kurdish woman, which, he says, opened up a completely new set of questions for me ✔ However, having spent so much of my life in conflict areas, and seeing those patterns, it is troubling to see what is happening here


WW3 nuclear threat: Chilling footage shows Putin's submarines carry out mock ATOMIC STRIKE

10/13/2018, 2:48:32 PM
THE Russian government has released terrifying footage showing a submarine carrying out a mock atomic bomb strike, in what the Ministry of Defense claim was a drill against an "enemy attack". ✔ The terrifying footage did not include the new Russian class of Yasen submarines, which can strike any European capital ✔ They've shown the capability to be able to reach pretty much all the capitals in Europe from any of the bodies of water that surround Europe ✔ All designated targets at the Kura Chizha, Pemboy and Terekta testing ranges were destroyed


Kyrsten Sinema’s quip Arizona is ‘meth lab of democracy’ roils Senate race

10/13/2018, 12:58:24 PM
Democrat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema’s past outspokenness came back to haunt her again Friday, this time with the emergence of an eight-year-old video in which the Senate hopeful described Arizona as “the meth lab of democracy.” ✔ As an individual, if I want to go fight in the Taliban army, I go over there and I’m fighting for the Taliban ✔ In her 2010 comments, Ms. Sinema told the crowd she got the meth lab line from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, but that I’m happy to steal it and use it all the time


Diseased corpses of Ebola victims STOLEN by their distressed families

10/13/2018, 3:47:59 PM
THE dead bodies of Ebola victims are being stolen by their mourning families, it has been reported. ✔ The killer virus is currently sweeping across the Congo, with the number of cases dramatically increasing in the past month ✔ The incidents are linked to a growing distrust among locals about health officials trying to stem the spread of the disease ✔ He added: It raised a lot of questions for all of us


Merkel’s CSU allies poised to lose majority in Bavarian state election

10/13/2018, 2:08:45 PM
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's arch-conservative Bavarian allies are bracing for heavy electoral losses in the southern Alpine state Sunday that could trigger shockwaves in Berlin. ✔ But the dynamic changed after mid-2015, when the region bordering Austria suddenly became Germany's frontline state for a mass influx of mostly Muslim refugees and migrants fleeing war and poverty, half of them from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan ✔ Ironically, one possible outcome of the Bavaria poll could be to force an improbable alliance between the conservatives and the Greens, which could set a precedent for future national governments


Turkey GIVES IN to Trump as sanctions CRIPPLE lira - but US REFUSES to ease up

10/13/2018, 3:34:29 PM
TURKEY has caved in to US demands for the American pastor at the centre of a row between the two nations that saw the lira crippled - despite President Donald Trump refusing to ease his punishing sanctions against the troubled state. ✔ Pastor Andrew Brunson was flown out of Turkey yesterday (Image: GETTY) US Ambassador Richard Grenell greeted Brunson and his wife during the stop in Germany, the envoy said on social network Twitter ✔ Ankara has demanded that the US extradite Fethullah Gulen to Turkey, the cleric who was lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999 after a role in the attempted coup


Fake news or chilling message? Journalist's disappearance divides...

10/13/2018, 12:20:03 PM
Some Saudis are treating Turkish allegations that prominent journalist Jamal Kha... ✔ FILE PHOTO: A Saudi flag flutters atop Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey October 13, 2018 ✔ But those moves have been accompanied by a crackdown on dissent, a purge of top royals and businessmen on corruption charges, and a costly war in Yemen ✔ My kids will grow up in a country that is totally different than the one where I grew up ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Why the Coordinated Alt-Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone

10/13/2018, 12:18:22 PM
Yesterday, the alternative media purge was boldly advanced in a coordinated effort to silence people who dissent from establishment views. It’s just one more step toward a monopoly on information by those who hate freedom. At this rate, they’ll soon have unquestioned access to the minds of more than 2 billion people. And this should terrify everyone who wants to be free to question the status quo and to seek a wide range of information. ✔ And if they’re hit hard enough, they’ll cease to be able to function ✔ So regardless of whether you, personally, participate, this will color popular sentiment to a massive degree ✔ We’re watching the biggest campaign against freedom of speech and thought that has ever occurred in our part of the world


An uneasy moment for women fuels a boom in science fiction

10/13/2018, 1:23:51 PM
What if masculinity were literally toxic? ✔ They are forced into near silence after the government requires all women to wear bracelets that deliver a shock if they exceed an allotted daily word count ✔ New York Times Book reviews Most Viewed in Entertainment Loading Please explain Our weekly podcast giving you insight into the stories that drive the nation


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