Yemen conflict could push millions more to brink of famine: U.N.
10/15/2018, 7:23:44 PMThe number of Yemenis on the brink of famine could rise to 12 million - or two i... ✔ FILE PHOTO: A boy pushes a wheelbarrow filled with water containers after collecting drinking water from a charity tap, amid a cholera outbreak, in Sanaa, Yemen October 13, 2017 ✔ who urgently require regular food assistance to prevent them from slipping into famine-like conditions, WFP spokesman Herve Verhoosel said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Twelve million face famine in Yemen if bombs don't stop, WFP warns
10/15/2018, 4:42:12 PMThe number of people facing starvation in Yemen could rise to nearly 12 million as conflict intensifies around the port of Hodeidah, a vital aid delivery link, the World Food Programme told CNN Monday. ✔ Mass starvation is a deadly byproduct of actions taken by warring parties and the Western nations propping them up ✔ The way the war is waged has systematically choked civilians by making less food available and affordable to millions of people, he said ✔ He also called for measures to rapidly revive Yemen's economy and allow the free flow of goods and aid into and across the country
Bangladesh editors protest 'chilling' Digital Security Act
10/15/2018, 4:06:39 PMTop editors form human chain in Dhaka urging Bangladesh's government to overhaul law they say will curb press freedom. ✔ They carried a banner urging the government to abolish anti- free speech provisions in the recently enacted law ✔ They fear such punishments will hamper investigative journalism and efforts to expose corruption in the South Asian country ✔ WATCH: Are Bangladesh's media freedoms eroding ✔ WATCH: Speaking the unspeakable in Bangladesh (25:00)
Syria and Jordan Reopen Vital Commercial Corridor
10/15/2018, 7:33:25 PMSyria’s resumption of control over a crucial border crossing with Jordan opens the way for a revival of trade between the two countries and beyond ✔ Jordan, meanwhile, has been keen on reopening the border for trade as its economy continues to suffer from low growth and austerity measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund ✔ He added that the camp doesn’t trust the government and would never accept a reconciliation deal out of fear of its youth being conscripted into the army ✔ The Syrian government couldn’t be reached for comment
UN warns Yemen could see 'worst famine in a century' in coming months
10/15/2018, 5:46:44 PMYemen is on the verge of the “worst famine in a century”, the United Nations has warned. ✔ Video footage released by the Houthis showed a mangled minibus littered with groceries and a woman's hand bag, with rebel officials saying a day earlier that the airstrike in the Jebel Ras area had also wounded 20 others ✔ The UN in Yemen says that since June, more than 170 people have been killed and at least 1,700 have been injured in Hodeida province, with over 425,000 people forced to flee their homes
He returned from Afghanistan to applause. Then he resumed his violent prostitution ring.
10/15/2018, 5:52:06 PMXaver Boston ran a prostitution ring as he served as an Army Reserve military police officer, prosecutors said. ✔ He would supply heroin and then withhold it as punishment for perceived infractions, using the physical and mental anguish of withdrawal to bring the women in line, the documents say ✔ Read more: U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan while helping colleagues whose vehicle hit bomb As crisis intensifies, what’s at stake in America’s military partnership with Saudi Arabia
Dozens injured in crackdown on Myanmar garment worker protest
10/15/2018, 6:21:03 PMDozens of Myanmar garment workers were injured on Monday after a clash with assa... ✔ Myanmar’s textile industry is the country’s top export earner after oil and gas, employing more than 450,000 people and generating more than $2 billion in exports last year ✔ Twenty-four people were admitted for treatment, the head of the hospital, Dr Aung San Min, told Reuters ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Extremists Hold Out in Syria as Russia Tries to Avoid More Fighting
10/15/2018, 4:52:30 PMA plan to avert an offensive by the Assad government against the last major rebel-held area in Syria stumbled Monday when the main extremist group failed to leave a proposed buffer zone as part of a plan to demilitarize the region. ✔ Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would allow for a couple of days’ delay in setting up the demilitarized zone ✔ But at the same time, it has refused to withdraw from the province and has maintained its call for a holy war against Mr. Assad and warned its followers against trusting the Russians
Russian Orthodox Church cuts ties with Constantinople
10/15/2018, 7:47:18 PMReligious schism driven by political friction after Ukraine church granted independence ✔ The Russian Orthodox Church represents a majority of Orthodox Christians and commands huge wealth and power ✔ The Patriarch of Constantinople has sought to repair relations with the Roman Catholic church, which broke from eastern Orthodoxy almost a millennium ago, in 1054
World War 3: North Korea’s split with South threatens peace throughout world, leader says
10/15/2018, 6:23:05 PMNORTH Korea’s ongoing war with South Korea is a threat to world peace, President Moon Jae-in said as he revealed details of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear programme. ✔ North Korea is coming out of a very long period of isolation and is now looking towards the future ✔ Mr Trump and Mr Kim held a landmark first summit on June 12 at which the North Korean leader pledged to work towards denuclearisation of the peninsula in return for the gradual lifting of sanctions
Opinion | Trump’s pro-Saudi policy on the Middle East is a mess
10/15/2018, 5:34:46 PM"Saudi Arabia First" is a grave error. ✔ Human rights activists and friends of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi hold pictures of him during a protest outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 8 ✔ Somehow alarm bells never went off in the Trump administration or among its cheerleaders outside the administration that we were getting precious little from the Saudis
US designates Hizbollah among top five transnational crime threats
10/15/2018, 6:00:56 PMundefined ✔ Taking on transnational criminal groups like the cartels is a priority for this President and for his administration, said attorney-general Jeff Sessions ✔ Lately the Trump administration has linked its military presence in Syria, where it backs Kurdish forces in the fight against Isis, to Iran’s involvement in backing the Bashar al-Assad regime in its seven-year civil war
Opinion | Only a U.N. investigation of Khashoggi’s disappearance could lead to the truth
10/15/2018, 7:33:02 PMThe Security Council should authorize an immediate investigation that would report back to it within the next four to six weeks. If any country blocks a Security Council-sanctioned investigation, the U.N. Human Rights Council should authorize one. ✔ A security guard looks out from the entrance of the Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul on Sunday ✔ Nearly two weeks ago, journalist Jamal Khashoggi stepped into the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul ✔ If any country blocks a Security Council-sanctioned investigation, the U.N
Petition asks Veterans Affairs to change ‘exclusionary’ Lincoln motto to include women
10/15/2018, 5:20:16 PMMotto from Lincoln’s inaugural address: ‘To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan’ ✔ Amending the motto, Blumenthal said, would honor and recognize the 2 million women veterans who have served and sacrificed for our country as part of substantive and systemic reforms required to effectively serve women veterans ✔ According to the VA, Lincoln’s words were adopted in 1959 and put on plaques flanking the entrance of its Washington headquarters
Rogue killers or state murder? Riyadh gets benefit of doubt from Trump where Russia doesn’t
10/15/2018, 7:17:22 PMWashington has reacted with uncharacteristic calm following the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Instead of slapping Riyadh with sanctions and tearing up deals, Trump has refused to pin the blame on anyone. ✔ https://t.co/tjlbCUNQqF Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) April 3, 2018 ‘Conspiracy theories’ seem less fantastical when the government’s lies start catching up with them ✔ Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you
Zambia prepares health workers for an Ebola outbreak
10/15/2018, 6:49:32 PMGovernment staff in the central African country will be trained how to spot, treat and prevent Ebola amid fears people crossing the border from the DRC could bring the deadly virus with them. ✔ Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever, killed at least 11,000 across the world after it decimated West Africa and spread rapidly over the space of two years ✔ A team of international researchers were able to trace the pandemic back to a two-year-old boy in Meliandou - about 400 miles (650km) from the capital, Conakry ✔ Hope exists though, after an experimental vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV, protected nearly 6,000 people
Italy's far-right government to restrict opening hours of 'ethnic shops'
10/15/2018, 5:10:46 PMInterior minister Matteo Salvini says nuisance shops are 'almost all managed by foreign citizens' ✔ There were no deaths reported among the 164 passengers and six crew members aboard the Utair Boeing 737, but the Russian health ministry said 18 people were injured ✔ Earlier this month, the town’s mayor Domenico Lucano was controversially arrested for this policy, over alleged immigration crimes
Canada is about to become the largest country in the world to completely legalise marijuana
10/15/2018, 4:57:43 PMUruguay legalised its recreational use last year ✔ The fire was extinguished within eight minutes AP 46/50 31 August 2018 Mourners attend Aretha Franklin's funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit AFP/Getty 47/50 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
President Trump on Christine Blasey Ford, his relationships with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un and more
10/15/2018, 7:13:19 PMLesley Stahl speaks with President Trump about a wide range of topics in his first 60 Minutes interview since taking office ✔ Will you pledge-- pledge that you will not shut down the Mueller investigation ✔ President Donald Trump : Well, I-- I don't pledge anything ✔ Produced by Richard Bonin, Graham Messick and Ruth Streeter ✔ Associate producers, Ayesha Siddiqi, Kaylee Tully and Jack Weingart
Crude Oil Prices Are Creeping Higher. Can They Crack $100?
10/15/2018, 7:59:58 PMBrent crude is edging higher on geopolitical tensions, fueling speculation for triple-digit oil prices. ✔ Investors will focus on whether those production promises are kept ✔ Which may be one reason why strategists aren’t raising their targets just yet ✔ Which begs one last question: With the U.S. able to produce so much now, is crude even the weapon it once was
Warren Releases DNA Analysis Showing Evidence of Native American Heritage
10/15/2018, 4:18:52 PMSen. Elizabeth Warren released the results of a DNA analysis indicating “strong evidence” she has Native American heritage in a high-profile effort to refute President Trump’s assertion that she has been lying about her family history. ✔ Elizabeth Warren is considered one of the most liberal Democratic contenders eyeing a 2020 presidential run ✔ I remember – and here’s the verdict, Ms. Warren wrote on Twitter Monday ✔ The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about whether Mr. Trump plans to write a check to the charity
‘I Thank God My Son Is White’: Your Responses to the Laquan McDonald Verdict
10/15/2018, 7:07:16 PMIn this week’s Race/Related newsletter, we highlight some of your thoughts on the guilty verdicts against the Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. ✔ To commemorate the coming International Day of the Girl in 2018, we wanted to know what life is like for 18-year-old girls from Mexico to Mississippi, Ramallah to Russia, Bangladesh to the Bronx ✔ Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion Opinion: Harvard and the Myth of the Interchangeable Asian
Here’s why oil isn’t rallying despite U.S. -Saudi tensions over missing journalist
10/15/2018, 7:31:47 PMSpeculation over the possibility of $100, or even, in a stretch, $400 a barrel oil prices has emerged in the wake of growing tensions between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, but analysts say that any such move would be unsustainable. ✔ After speaking with the Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, who denied any knowledge about what happened to Khashoggi, Trump suggested that rogue killers may have been involved ✔ Saefong Myra Saefong is a MarketWatch reporter based in San Francisco ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment
Investigators inspect consulate in Turkey where Saudi writer disappeared
10/15/2018, 5:50:20 PMThe makeup of the investigative team that entered the diplomatic compound was not immediately clear ✔ Police then pushed back journalists from the front of the consulate, where they've been stationed for days, setting up a new cordon to keep them away ✔ Saudi media followed on from that statement in television broadcasts and newspaper front pages Monday ✔ Those policies are all seen as initiatives of the crown prince
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