Enormity of Yemen famine 'initially underestimated' by aid agencies
10/16/2018, 1:11:04 PMSources say soaring food prices have overtaken projections from UN general assembly two weeks ago, with up to 14 million people now at risk ✔ Humanitarians are looking at ways to expand cash programmes as quickly as possible ✔ He called on all parties to support the UN special envoy’s peace talks to find a political solution to end the conflict ✔ Some of the funding is from a £170m package announced for Yemen on 3 April
New BBC documentary 'Dangerous Dynasty' ignores the West's role in destabilizing Syria
10/16/2018, 3:26:12 PMThe new BBC2 documentary, 'A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad', should be contrasted with the 2010 BBC4 series 'Syrian School', which eschewed neocon propaganda and allowed us to make our own minds up about Baathist Syria. ✔ Arabophobia can also be seen in the surprise expressed that Bashar Assad, is civilized and well-mannered in his personal interactions ✔ Follow Neil Clark @NeilClark66 The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT
Direct flights planned between Russia's Crimea and Syria
10/16/2018, 1:14:10 PMRussia is interested in opening a direct air service to Syria from the Crimean Peninsula, according to Crimea’s regional governor Sergey Aksyonov. ✔ The peninsula and the Arab country are also interested in opening a steamship line ✔ Russia has also recently begun shipments of grain from Crimea to Syria ✔ For more stories on economy & finance visit RT's business section Trends: Crimea news Russia news Syria news
Iran warns US its ballistic missiles can now hit ‘ANY ship at any time’
10/16/2018, 3:01:02 PMIRAN has said it has beefed up the capability of its missiles, warning they can now hit “any ship” up to 400 miles away. The Islamic Republic insists the weapons are merely defensive bu… ✔ Iranian forces have fought in support of President Bashar al-Assad against rebels and militants ✔ He also said Iranian drones had carried out 700 attacks on Islamic State militant positions in Syria ✔ An estimated 20 per cent of the world's supply travels through the Persian Gulf
Poll: China exporters worried about trade war, rising costs at home
10/16/2018, 12:28:00 PMChinese exporters are mostly confident they can weather a trade war with the Uni... ✔ One massive advantage China has is our ability to work hard and endure hardship, we thrive under competition, said Michael Zhuo of Yuyao Ghost Audio, adding around two thirds of his customers are in the United States ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Yemeni president fires PM over poor economic performance
10/16/2018, 3:39:48 PMCiting 'negligence', Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi sacks Ahmed bin Dagher amid ongoing economic crisis. ✔ This [the dismissal] was a result of negligence by the government in the recent period with respect to the economy and to administrative services, the statement said ✔ The Yemeni currency, the riyal, has lost more than half its value against the dollar since the start of the war ✔ According to the UN, the conflict in Yemen has produced the world's worst humanitarian crisis
Superyachts, sports teams and warplanes - the many love of Paul Allen
10/16/2018, 2:20:29 PMAllen spent the wealth he gained from Microsoft on everything from space flight to searching for Second World war wrecks - as well as a personal Beoing 757 later bought by Donald Trump ✔ Paul Allen described himself as an idea man and upon leaving Microsoft in 1983 – the company whose stock would eventually make him worth tens of billions – he set out to spend that money on as many ideas as possible ✔ Paddy Dowling travelled with UK based charity Muslim Aid to the disaster areas of North Sulawesi to witness the scale of Indonesia’s earthquake & tsunami
Welcome to the era of impunity
10/16/2018, 3:21:38 PMThe lesson Trump is teaching globally is not that America is respected again, but that it will only act -- perhaps -- if it's own citizens are threatened, its own direct interests harmed. ✔ It might have simply said: Look at what we will do, and what you don't do back to us ✔ It no longer claims global leadership by example or action ✔ That vacuum is being filled by acts of reckless impunity, as aspirant powers seek to define their new place in the shifting order
Two Koreas, U.N. Command wrap up first talks on disarming border
10/16/2018, 1:22:01 PMNorth and South Korea held their first three-way talks with the United Nations C... ✔ General Vincent Brooks, who leads the United Nations Command, said the talks were designed to use existing means of managing issues along the DMZ to try to achieve the goals set out by the two Koreas ✔ I am encouraged by this productive, trilateral dialogue, Brooks said in a statement ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The economist that predicted the housing crisis warns the Fed is engaging in behavior that's almost always caused a recession
10/16/2018, 12:29:27 PMGary Shilling says there is nothing on the immediate horizon that would trigger a correction but he warns that Fed tightening has caused a recession 11 out of 12 times in the post World War period. ✔ But you know, the numbers for what they measure are I think, are correct, but that doesn't mean that they are going to have the kind of relationships that the Fed thinks they should have with the employment ✔ Of course, the problem is when pessimism turns to activism, then the end is near
Republicans are trying to limit how many Syrian refugees come to the US using the spending bill deadline
10/16/2018, 1:17:27 PMConservative members of Congress are trying to tie the Obama administration's Syrian refugee resettlement programme to a spending bill that must pass by the end of the month ✔ The Zayats arrived approximately two months ago after trekking through Turkey, Greece and the Balkans and are now waiting for local authorities to process their asylum application, after which they will be allowed to live independently and settle elsewhere in Germany Getty Images 6/12 Germany Asya Sugaipova (L), Mohza Mukayeva and Khadra Zhukova prepare food in the communal kitchen at the asylum-seekers' shelter that is their home in Vossberg village in Letschin Getty Images 7/12 Germany Efrah Abdullahi Ahmed looks down from the communal kitchen window at her daughter Sumaya, 10, who had just returned from school, at the asylum-seekers' shelter that is their home in Vossberg Getty Images 8/12 Germany Asylum-applicants, including Syrians Mohamed Ali Hussein (C-R, in black jacket) and Fadi Almasalmeh (C), return from grocery shopping with other refugees to the asylum-applicants' shelter that is their home in Vossberg village in Letschin Getty Images 9/12 Germany Mohamed Zayat (2nd from L), a refugee from Syria, smokes a cigarette after shopping for groceries with his daughter Ranim, who is nearly 3, and fellow-Syrian refugees Mohamed Ali Hussein (C) and Fadi Almasalmeh (L) at a local supermarket on October 9, 2015 in Letschin, Germany
Taylor Swift's pro-Democrat Instagram post causes spike in voter registration
10/16/2018, 2:20:33 PM'We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period' ✔ The document states that failure to comply with these rules could lead to the termination of the diplomatic asylum granted by the Ecuadorian state Reuters 2/50 15 October 2018 Israeli soldiers hurl tear gas grenades during clashes following Israeli order to shut down the al-Lubban/al-Sawiyeh school near the west bank city of Nablus, 15 October 2018
Four children and mother found dead in apparent murder-suicide in Tennessee
10/16/2018, 2:20:39 PM'No matter what their struggles may be, you still have children involved. You have a father here that is a victim of this as well,' say police ✔ A mother and four children have been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide ✔ Police said the bodies of an adult female, and three girls and a boy aged between seven and 16-year-old was discovered by an adult sibling at a property in Carters Creek Pike, Columbia, Tennessee, at around 6pm on Monday ✔ 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
Analysis | The Daily 202: Kathleen Sebelius stumping with Democrats highlights the rapidly changing politics of health care
10/16/2018, 2:25:11 PMScott Walker defends the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare in an interview. ✔ … [Mueller’s prosecutors] pulled her aside to ask her whether she spoke Russian or had ever traveled to Moscow ✔ (Michael Brice-Saddler) VIDEOS OF THE DAY: Stephen Colbert says Elizabeth Warren is running for president: Trevor Noah justified Warren's decision to take a DNA test: Alec Baldwin encouraged voters to overthrow Trump's government while speaking at a Democratic fundraising dinner: And floodwaters in the French city of Trebes mixed with wine to create a purple liquid running through the streets:
UK urged to support British academic charged with spying in UAE
10/16/2018, 1:30:44 PMDaniela Tejada calls on FCO to say her husband, Durham University’s Matthew Hedges, is innocent ✔ The wife of a British academic charged with spying in the United Arab Emirates has urged the government to state that he is innocent of the charges ✔ To call this a fair judicial process is, to say the least, highly inaccurate ✔ According to a profile on the Durham University website, Hedges’ research includes Middle-Eastern politics, the changing nature of war, civil-military relations and tribalism
Trump responds to Elizabeth Warren DNA test by repeating racial slur
10/16/2018, 2:20:40 PM'I’ll only do it if I can test her personally. And that will not be something I enjoy doing, either' ✔ AFP/Getty 49/50 29 August 2018 People are evacuated after flooding in Swar township, Myanmar Reuters 50/50 28 August 2018 President Hassan Rouhani speaks at the Iranian Parliament in the capital Tehran ✔ Jim Messina, Mr Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, tweeted: Argue the substance all you want, but why 22 days before a crucial election where we MUST win house and senate to save America, why did @SenWarren have to do her announcement now
Michelle Obama compared to chimpanzee by US Republican Senate candidate
10/16/2018, 2:20:24 PMKarin Housley said former first lady looked like chimpanzee when she met the Queen and urged her to stand up 'straighter' in old Facebook post ✔ According to local sources, 20 Palestinians were wounded during clashes as dozens try to defiance the Israeli order to shut down the school EPA 3/50 14 October 2018 Serbia's Novak Djokovic kisses the trophy after winning his men's final singles match against Croatia's Borna Coric at the Shanghai Masters
Chance the Rapper might run for mayor of Chicago
10/16/2018, 3:08:08 PM'City Hall pull up' ✔ A Somali police officer says a number of people were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a checkpoint outside the headquarters after being stopped by security forces AP 46/50 1 September 2018 A Utair-operated Boeing 737-800 which skidded off the runway and caught fire during landing, at Sochi international airport, in the Russian Black Sea resort
US colleges are offering colouring books to students in a bid to help reduce stress
10/16/2018, 1:17:29 PMA growing number of student welfare bodies are picking up on the adult colouring trend as a form of therapy for stressed students ✔ The Young Conservatives of Texas chapter at the University of Texas-Austin sparked the protest with an affirmative action bake sale ✔ When we focus on the present moment, we do not worry about the future, ruminate about the past, or engage in negative self-talk
Tuesday at the UEFA Nations League: Germany, France, Wales and Republic of Ireland in action
10/16/2018, 1:50:53 PMIt is rivals day in the UEFA Nations League on Tuesday, as Germany and France plus Republic of Ireland and Wales go head to head. ✔ Tuesday at the Nations League It is rivals day in the UEFA Nations League on Tuesday, as Germany and France plus Republic of Ireland and Wales go head to head ✔ Ukraine will be promoted from Group B1 with a draw against Czech Republic in Kharkiv, having won both of their Nations League games so far
Defense Secretary James Mattis says he ‘never’ discussed leaving job with Trump
10/16/2018, 1:46:17 PMDefense Secretary Jim Mattis, during a trip to Vietnam to boost ties with Hanoi, dismissed the idea he’s leaving the Trump administration anytime soon. ✔ US President Donald Trump, right, walks in with US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, as they arrive to attend the multilateral meeting of the North Atlantic Council on July 11, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.NATO leaders gather in Brussels for a two-day summit to discuss Russia, Iraq and their mission in Afghanistan.(Photo: Pool photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday on a trip that seeks to boost ties with Hanoi against a backdrop of China’s growing military assertiveness in the region and dismissed the idea that he’s leaving the Trump administration anytime soon ✔ Tensions between the U.S. and China have flared up periodically in the disputed waters of the South China Sea with the most recent example a near-collision between a U.S. Navy warship and a Chinese destroyer
Tuesday Morning Briefing
10/16/2018, 1:10:27 PMSecretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Saudi king on Khashoggi case, Beto O'R... ✔ REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins Smugglers, in ever growing numbers, emerge with a ragtag group of Venezuelan migrants – men struggling under tattered suitcases, women hugging bundles in blankets and schoolchildren carrying backpacks ✔ Exclusive: Facebook to ban misinformation on voting Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Drought drove people into the arms of Isis and it could happen again
10/16/2018, 3:08:00 PMWater shortages helped jihadis recruit members to their ranks in the past. Now the same problems, if left unchecked, could once more bring unrest to northern Iraq, Bel Trew reports in the third part of this series ✔ No one truly knows the extent of the long-term damage on agriculture and livelihoods and what that could mean for the security of Iraq ✔ Additional reporting by Mohamed Ezz Read the first two parts of the Water Wars series, Boiling Basra and Iraq’s disappearing Eden
Saudis Issued Dire Warnings Against U.S. Sanctions. But How Much Leverage Do They Have?
10/16/2018, 3:47:12 PMThe Saudis have a powerful tool in their ability to raise oil prices but are loathe to use it. And they could not easily switch to China or Russia for defense. ✔ But the United States is depending on Saudi Arabia to replace Iranian supplies that had been going to Asian markets ✔ Opinion: The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’ Pompeo Seeks Answers From Saudi King on Jamal Khashoggi Case Opinion: What Could Ruin a Big Blue Wave
China, Ending Denials, Defends Muslim Detentions as Vital for Stability
10/16/2018, 12:28:15 PMA senior Chinese official offered the government’s fullest defense so far of its mass detention program for Muslims in China’s far west, saying it formed a bulwark for social stability and suggesting the detentions are voluntary. ✔ A Uighur man looks on as a truck carrying paramilitary policemen travel along a street in Urumqi, Xinjiang, in 2014 ✔ Countering terrorism and fighting the enemies is part of the police spirit ✔ In the Xinhua interview, Mr. Zakir contradicted those accounts, suggesting enrollment in the institutions is voluntary
It's high time to end Saudi impunity
10/16/2018, 1:42:35 PMFollowing the apparent forced disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, the world can no longer stay silent about Saudi Arabia. ✔ Moreover, he was not only a Saudi citizen but also - unlike many Saudi opposition figures who were forced into exile decades ago and have since been detached from the Saudi society - was a prominent member of the Saudi society and establishment until very recently
The Russia investigation shadows Trump's presidency, but few Democrats campaign on it - Los Angeles Times
10/16/2018, 1:42:31 PMThe Russia investigation is a source of endless coverage on cable news. But you won't hear Democrats talking about it on the campaign trail before the midterm elections. Here's why. ✔ Janz has raised record amounts of money to pursue his campaign against Nunes, but still trails the incumbent in polls of his heavily Republican district ✔ In addition, she believes the midterms will largely hinge on older voters a much more reliable presence at the polls than their younger counterparts who have clear memories of duck-and-cover drills when the country feared nuclear war with the Soviet Union
Swimming Against the Wave
10/16/2018, 3:39:30 PMHispanic Republicans Maria Salazar and Rep. Carlos Curbelo are test cases for whether centrists with a localized approach can withstand national Democratic headwinds. ✔ Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., is fighting to hold onto a district that Hillary Clinton won handily in 2016.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call KENDALL, Fla ✔ His opponent, Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, filmed an entire advertisement underwater to charge that Republicans have done nothing to protect the water and reef in the coastal district
Pompeo Seeks Answers From Saudi King on Jamal Khashoggi Case
10/16/2018, 12:34:24 PMThe secretary of state met with top officials in Riyadh amid international outrage over the reported killing of Mr. Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi leadership. ✔ He and his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, planned to wed the next day ✔ Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65 April Bloomfield Breaks Her Silence About Harassment at Her Restaurants The Bright Future and Grim Death of a Privileged Hollywood Daughter Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’ Opinion: The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting Opinion: Donald and the Deadly Deniers 24 Hours in America Opinion: As the Internet Splinters, the World Suffers
Rising seas could devastate historical sites across the Mediterranean, study finds
10/16/2018, 3:10:59 PMSome 40 sites, including Greek, Roman, Phoenecian, and other archaeological sites, are already at risk, the research finds. ✔ 4 photo shows the old town of Dubrovnik from a hill above the city ✔ In terms of cultural heritage in the last decade, it’s actually shocking, it’s alarming and depressing, he said ✔ The largest number of vulnerable sites, the study found, were located in present day Italy
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