North Korea releases South Korean after illegal border crossing
10/16/2018, 11:12:00 AMNorth Korea released a South Korean who illegally crossed the border into the No... ✔ The ministry said it was investigating how and why the man reached the North, thanking Pyongyang for returning him from a humanitarian standpoint ✔ The two sides held their first three-way talks with the United Nations Command on Tuesday to discuss ways to demilitarize the border as they push for peace ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
How the United Nations Is Using AR to Fight World Hunger
10/16/2018, 10:39:22 AMOn the global stage, there's a link between hunger and conflict. To help people better understand, the UN looks to augmented reality. ✔ Says White: We wanted to bring forward not only the background of the beneficiary in question, but also pick up on the technology that the World Food Programme deploys and utilizes to help people with food ✔ And for understanding it in a really personalized way so you have a global connection to this content that is creeping ever-closer to people’s homes
War hero: this is what rapist did to me: Afghan veteran says rapist left her ‘broken'
10/16/2018, 9:44:34 AMA FORMER Army medic who served in Afghanistan has given up her right to anonymity to tell how she was terrorised by a brutal rapist. ✔ And she told how, after she served with courage and distinction in a war zone, Graham's savage attack robbed her of all her self-esteem ✔ It got to the point that he actually made me feel I needed him ✔ I just didn't think it could happen to me - but it did
Iran says its land-to-sea missiles can now travel 700 km
10/16/2018, 11:56:26 AMIran has extended the range of its land-to-sea ballistic missiles to 700 km (435... ✔ On Monday, the U.S. special envoy on Iran, Brian Hook, said that Tehran’s ballistic missile program was exacerbating tensions in Yemen, Iraq and Syria ✔ We are accumulating risk of regional conflict if we do not do more to deter Iran’s missile proliferation in the Middle East, Hook said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Russian-backed Crimea to boost trade, transport ties with Syria
10/16/2018, 9:58:52 AMSyrian President Bashar al-Assad has tentative plans to visit Russian-backed Cri... ✔ Syrian state news agency SANA said Syrian and Crimean officials had agreed to create a Syrian Trading House in Crimea and a joint maritime transport company ✔ Russia is an ally of Assad in Syria’s seven-year long conflict ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
US Navy SEAL Jailed In Serbia
10/16/2018, 10:41:51 AMThe reservist was a member of the famed SEAL Team 6 and had recently worked as a soldier for hire in Yemen. ✔ Daniel Corbett, second from right, with Abraham Golan, second from left, and Isaac Gilmore, far right ✔ The Russians, she said, might be pushing the Serbs to hold Corbett ✔ In early February, Serbian authorities announced Corbett’s arrest ✔ Bojana Jovanović in Belgrade contributed reporting to this story
Syria's Assad plans Crimea visit, in talks about passenger flights:...
10/16/2018, 8:30:18 AMSyrian President Bashar al-Assad has tentative plans to visit Crimea in April 20... ✔ Crimea has been under Western sanctions since it was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014 ✔ Russia is a key ally of Assad in Syria’s seven-year long conflict and the leaders of two other Russia-backed breakaway regions, Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia, also visited Damascus this year ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Morning Update: To Reiterate, None Of This Is Normal
10/16/2018, 11:41:20 AMUS mercenaries kill politicians in Yemen, Elizabeth Warren's genetic test, a new migrant caravan is coming. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, October 16. ✔ Hillary Clinton said that Bill’s affair with an intern in her twenties wasn’t an abuse of power ✔ The group turned heads at the convention and won the competition but their cosplay skills would take them even further: They got viral love for their mad skills and for nailing their costumes
World has been slow to wake up to Saudi depravity
10/16/2018, 9:15:31 AMThe Saudis have long thought they were untouchable, protected by the sacred god of oil. ✔ Yet they receive scant attention from the wider world, and almost none in Australia ✔ A forthright Australia could take up these causes in the name of the values that it claims to represent ✔ That would not only take deft management, it would also take bold leadership in a country long settled into the complacency and comfort of followership
Trump is not slowing down on Tehran
10/16/2018, 8:23:45 AMundefined ✔ By Dr. Imran Khalid Apparently, both sides are tightening their belts for a long tiff ✔ Be it a national healthcare plan or the Iran nuclear deal, Trump is doing all it takes to erase the fingerprints of Obama from the Oval Office ✔ Dr. Imran Khalid (ikhalid99@yahoo.com) is a freelance contributor based in Karachi, Pakistan
Allies at odds over how to ease sanctions on NK
10/16/2018, 10:43:49 AMundefined ✔ The South's unification minister Cho Myoung-gyon later emphasized the alliance with the U.S. by saying South Korea never considered lifting sanctions against North Korea ✔ But if the alliance weakens, foreign companies will withdraw their money from South Korea
Is This the US-Saudi Break We’ve All Been Waiting For?
10/16/2018, 9:36:44 AMIf the reports of Jamal Khashoggi’s abduction, murder, and dismemberment at the hands of a Saudi kill team dispatched to Istanbul prove correct, his death might achieve what years of abuses by a despotic government have failed to: a meaningful rebuke by the U.S. and its Western allies. ✔ If the reports of Jamal Khashoggi’s abduction, murder, and dismemberment at the hands of a Saudi kill team dispatched to Istanbul prove correct, his death might achieve what years of abuses by a despotic government have failed to: a meaningful rebuke by the U.S. and its Western allies ✔ MbS is also the architect of Saudi Arabia’s brutal and futile war in Yemen
Koreas, U.N. Command wrap up 1st talks on disarming border
10/16/2018, 9:10:44 AMSEOUL--North and South Korea held their first three-way talks with the United Nations Command (UNC) ✔ SEOUL--North and South Korea held their first three-way talks with the United Nations Command (UNC) on Tuesday to discuss ways to demilitarize the border as the neighbors push for peace, Seoul's defense ministry said ✔ North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, rather than a peace treaty
A tale of two houses: how Jared Kushner fuelled the Trump-Saudi love-in
10/16/2018, 11:29:50 AMTrump’s loyalty to Riyadh amid the Jamal Khashoggi crisis is stretching his credibility to breaking point ✔ As part of the crown prince’s Saudi Vision 2030, a futuristic megacity called Neom would rise from the sands, run by artificial intelligence and serviced by robots ✔ Few expect the House of Saud to fall over the Khashoggi affair, but the grander ambitions promoted by Bin Salman have visibly sagged and could collapse, taking with it a lot of the House of Trump’s remaining lustre
Dozens of Afghan police killed or wounded as election nears
10/16/2018, 8:22:25 AMDozens of Afghan police were killed or wounded in heavy fighting in northern and... ✔ The Taliban’s main spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for both attacks, saying 30 police were killed in Samangan province and 19 killed in Daikundi, with large quantities of weapons and equipment and captured ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
UNC, North Korean military discuss JSA disarmament
10/16/2018, 8:38:25 AMundefined ✔ For this reason, both concerns and expectations have arisen over the three-way meeting, in that this is a rare occasion for the UNC to actively participate in inter-Korean military negotiations ✔ Security Council to ease sanctions on the North in consideration of the regime's ongoing efforts and promises for complete denuclearization
Czech president appoints foreign minister after months of wrangling
10/16/2018, 11:35:19 AMTomas Petricek was appointed to be the Czech Republic's foreign minister on... ✔ He has also said EU sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict should stay in place, backing the government’s stance, although Zeman has spoken against the measures ✔ He also served as an assistant and advisor to Poche ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Analysis | Saudi Arabia hinted at a U.S. oil embargo. It’s not 1973.
10/16/2018, 12:00:18 PMPressure is mounting on the Trump administration to sanction Saudi Arabia for the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. ✔ Saudi Arabia’s King Salman (R) meets with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Riyadh on October 16, 2018 ✔ (Photo by LEAH MILLIS / POOL / AFP)/Getty Images) By Jeff D ✔ Colgan October 16 at 7:45 AM CNN reports that the Saudis are preparing to admit some knowledge of the suspected death of Jamal Khashoggi ✔ The United States also has a massive Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Analysis | Nine issues Mike Pompeo could press the Saudi leadership on while he is in Riyadh
10/16/2018, 12:00:28 PM“States such as the USA ... have remained silent for far too long," one human rights organization has stated. ✔ The visit comes as the United States and other nations are demanding answers on the disappearance of Saudi Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi on Oct. 2 ✔ At least three other Europe-based Saudi nationals have been kidnapped since 2014 ✔ Read more: Turkish investigators search Saudi Consulate where journalist was last seen
Greek backpacker claims he's the 'most travelled person in the world'
10/16/2018, 10:36:35 AMBabis Bizas, from Arta in Greece, started travelling the world as a student in 1976 and hasn't stopped since. He says that he's motivated by 'natural curiosity'. ✔ The 64-year-old says that the thing that motivates him is 'natural curiosity' and the desire to see hidden parts of the world that are not easy to access ✔ 'For example, I went to the Solomon Islands for a fourth time ✔ He was the first ever tourist in war-torn Mogadishu, he hitchhiked through Saddam Hussein's home town during the U.S. invasion of Iraq and lived with pygmies in the Congo
Martha McSally accuses Kyrsten Sinema of backing ‘treason’ in Senate debate
10/16/2018, 11:14:08 AMRepublican Rep. Martha McSally accused her Democratic opponent, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, of supporting “treason,” citing a 15-year-old radio interview — a charge that Sinema dismissed as part of a “ridiculous” negative campaign during Monday’s debate in the race for Arizona’s open Senate seat. ✔ Martha McSally accused her Democratic opponent, Rep ✔ Sinema represents a district based in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe and is a former Green Party activist who transformed herself into a centrist Democrat ✔ Both were only supported by Republicans but couldn’t muster enough support to pass the House because some members of the GOP voted against them
Analysis | Has Mohammed bin Salman finally gone too far?
10/16/2018, 9:11:41 AMThe pressure on Saudi Arabia and MBS, in particular, throws further doubt on the Trump administration’s approach to Middle East policy. ✔ MBS draws closer to Trump administration His proximity to the inner core of Saudi power structures meant that Khashoggi’s presence in Washington represented a credible counter to the image presented by MBS ✔ Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is the fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
Saudi crown prince loses his lustre over Khashoggi case
10/16/2018, 10:52:23 AMundefined ✔ A string of western executives, including the heads of Blackstone, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock and Uber, have pulled out of a flagship investment conference Prince Mohammed is due to host in Riyadh next week ✔ Few expect Prince Mohammed to be replaced, but some say he could be reined in
Why stocks are nowhere near a bear market and ready for a reboot, says trader
10/16/2018, 11:37:04 AMStocks look ready to ramp higher on Tuesday, but some investors may still be a bit wary after last week’s mini meltdown. Our call of the day says push those bear-market thoughts to the back of your mind. ✔ As BAML analysts explain, the Fed is causing some hopes over U.S. growth to wane ✔ Microsoft MSFT, -1.80% co-founder Paul Allen is dead at 65 after battling cancer a second time ✔ Random reads Stormy Daniels loses defamation lawsuit, must pay POTUS’s legal fees ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment
Survey: 55% of voters want Abe to reconsider Futenma plan
10/16/2018, 9:10:43 AMFifty-five percent of voters think the Abe administration should heed the wishes of the new Okinawa ✔ However, opponents outnumbered proponents among supporters of junior coalition partner Komeito ✔ Valid responses were received from 965 people, or 47 percent, from 2,040 households contacted through landline phones, and 972 people, or 48 percent, of those surveyed through mobile phones
Barbara Kingsolver’s New Novel Moves Between the Distant Past and the Troubled Present
10/16/2018, 10:28:15 AM“Unsheltered” threads the story of a present-day family struggling in New Jersey with that of a 19th-century science teacher who had lived on the same property. ✔ If you want a piece of property to go downhill, Madeleine Blais wrote in a memoir titled To the New Owners (2017), just leave it in the care of a bunch of word people ✔ A conversation about political science, poli-sci, contains this line: I always hated the sound of that
Turkey’s foreign minister wary on US ties after pastor’s release
10/16/2018, 11:20:11 AMundefined ✔ Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, has cautioned against interpreting the release of Andrew Brunson, a US evangelical pastor, as signalling a marked improvement in US-Turkish relations after a string of recent disputes ✔ He is responsible for the attempted coup in Turkey, and he’s not been extradited, Mr Cavusoglu said
What dogs have to do with geopolitical tensions
10/16/2018, 8:23:14 AMA new book travels around the world in 80 words. Christine Ro goes on an armchair adventure to find out the origins of place-based words in English. ✔ The combination of boredom, squalor, and likely PTSD led to high rates of suicide and psychological stress ✔ Conversely, he expected more borrowings from Canada, yet you’re hard pushed to find sort of a specific Canadianism in the dictionary ✔ It’s what we've done for centuries, so we’re going to continue
When Business Executives Become Reluctant Statesmen
10/16/2018, 10:28:08 AMWithout a strong stance from Washington to give them cover, top executives have been on their own dealing with Saudi Arabia, a country that has shown itself capable of holding a grudge. ✔ Despite pleas from corporate leaders for help, Mr. Trump continued to instruct Mr. Mnuchin to attend the conference while also saying that he would consider punishing the country if it was found to have killed Mr. Khashoggi ✔ Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65 Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’ Opinion: The Rich White Civil War Opinion: The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination White Woman Who Blocked Black Neighbor From Building Is Fired Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Results Put Trump on Defensive, but Also Raise Questions Opinion: Donald and the Deadly Deniers
Announcing the Disrupt Berlin Agenda
10/16/2018, 8:06:48 AMTechCrunch Disrupt is the world’s biggest and most impactful tech startup conference, and we can’t wait to bring the hype to Berlin. We’re very proud of the show we’ve put together and are thrilled to give you a look at what’s in store. Editor’s Note: Not all of our speakers are include… ✔ Main Stage @ 4:30PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH Morning Going Global with Brynne Kennedy (Topia) Topia’s Brynne Kennedy will discuss building the tools that enable companies to manage the 21st century mobile workforce ✔ Anne Boden has worked in the banking industry for decades, so she knows what’s missing to jump from a small competitor to a dominant player
Turkish investigators 'look into toxic materials' for Khashoggi probe
10/16/2018, 10:13:51 AMJamal Khashoggi has been missing for two weeks, and Turkish investigators are now looking into 'toxic materials' at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where he was last seen. ✔ Pictured: Cleaners at the consulate on Monday Visitors leave the Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on the day of a joint inspection Oil prices rise and the Riyal dips On Monday morning Benchmark Brent crude oil jumped by $1.49 a barrel to a high of $81.92
Power Up: White House talks politics of anger in the 2018 midterms
10/16/2018, 9:57:23 AMPompeo set to meet with Saudis on Khashoggi. ✔ He'll then meet with Foreign Minister Adel al Jubeir ✔ We’ve been hit by the weather, there is no doubt about it .. ✔ I held fruitful discussions with the duo on how to promote Uganda's tourism and the arts ✔ pic.twitter.com/BO0iD0sFCP Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) October 15, 2018
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