Why is Saudi Arabia under fire over Jamal Khashoggi, but not Yemen?
10/17/2018, 1:34:17 PMThe alleged killing of a dissident journalist has had more global impact than unchecked Saudi aggression in Yemen ✔ Instead, Saudi Arabia weighed in on the side of Hadi against Saleh, with the military support of Britain and US, making their war our war ✔ Over the coming months we should keep in mind what an international pursuit of justice for the victims of criminal violence can achieve
Taliban sofa bomb kills prominent Afghan election candidate
10/17/2018, 12:14:43 PMA former Communist general turned prominent politician has been killed by a Taliban bomb hidden in his sofa as he campaigned for this weekend's parliamentary election in Afghanistan. ✔ The Taliban have ordered a boycott of the election and threatened to attack anyone involved in what they call a bogus American vote ✔ Saturday's polling is a test of Afghan government authority as Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated with a lack of progress in America's longest war
Bomb kills Afghan candidate in latest Taliban attack on parliamentary polls
10/17/2018, 12:36:55 PMThe former general campaigning in southern Afghanistan was the 10th candidate killed in recent weeks ahead of Saturday’s elections. ✔ The burly former general was known as a hero to his supporters but was regarded as a brutal commander by his critics ✔ Security threats and fraud are among the key concerns for the balloting, which comes six months ahead of a scheduled presidential election
North Korea SHOCK: Kim RELEASES South Korean who ‘illegally entered’ hermit state
10/17/2018, 3:40:19 PMA SOUTH Korean man who crossed into North Korea has been released by the secretive state in a rare move by Kim Jong-un’s regime. ✔ The 60-year-old South Korean was handed over at the Panmunjom truce village (Image: GETTY IMAGES) The 160-mile long frontier was imposed after the Korean War and separates North from South with miles of barbed wire fences, heavily fortified bunkers and huge minefields
Uighurs and Kazakhs held in re-education camps in China
10/17/2018, 3:02:59 PMACCESS ASIA : In western China, officials say they are fighting extremism by opening so-called "vocational training centres". But human rights groups a... ✔ But human rights groups argue these are actually mass detention camps, aimed an indoctrination and forcing people to renounce their faith ✔ The weather is a devastating blow to livelihoods that were already threatened by decades of conflict ✔ Many have sought refuge in the world's largest refugee camp in neighbouring Bangladesh, but even there, they continue to face danger
U. N.’ s most senior Syria diplomat to leave role
10/17/2018, 3:25:31 PMStaffan di Mistura said he was leaving his post for personal reasons ✔ By Louisa Loveluck Louisa Loveluck Reporter in The Washington Post's Beirut bureau, focusing on Syria ✔ As the United Nations’ most senior diplomat working on the crisis, Mistura’s tenure was characterized by an unwavering commitment to a U.N.-backed peace process, even as the Syrian army marched toward victory, the space for negotiations shrank, and the center of political gravity moved toward separate talks backed by Russia, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s greatest allies
US envoy to Syria praises Idlib deal
10/17/2018, 1:49:37 PMundefined ✔ During remarks made in Turkey during a regional tour, he added that there was some question as to whether everybody in the extremist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham had left the U-shaped buffer zone around the Idlib province, a sticking point as the deal stipulated that Turkey would ensure radicals vacated the area ✔ And this is a major step because what it’s done is it has frozen the conflict not only there, but the conflict is also frozen essentially everywhere else
Ukraine apologists pinning Kiev’s dispute with Hungary on Russia is completely ludicrous
10/17/2018, 1:21:50 PMUkraine and Hungary are two independent countries with their own bilateral relations. While Russia may benefit from their present squabbles that doesn't automatically mean the Kremlin is responsible for the tensions. ✔ While Russia may benefit from their present squabbles that doesn't automatically mean the Kremlin is responsible for the tensions ✔ Because there is no Hungarian speaking province in Ukraine ✔ The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT
18 dead after bomb blast in Crimea school and gunman opens fire
10/17/2018, 12:58:00 PMEIGHTEEN people have reportedly been killed and 70 wounded after a bomb was detonated inside a college’s canteen in annexed Crimea. Officials said an “unidentified explosive device̶… ✔ When law enforcement started evacuating students and teachers, I left the classroom too ✔ East2west News 6 Frightened students make phone calls from outside the college where a bomb had recently detonated Four windows have been pushed out in the corridor where the explosion was ✔ For iPhone click here , for Android click here ✔ Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thesun and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun
Shocking #MeToo interactive map shows that India has the most searches
10/17/2018, 3:12:48 PMToday all of the top five cities searching for #MeToo were in India leaving the country glowing brighter than any other. ✔ India ranked as the most dangerous on three issues - the risks women face from sexual violence and harassment, from cultural and traditional practices, and from human trafficking including forced labour, sex slavery and domestic servitude ✔ It (rape) must have happened, but someone else would have done it,' Nath told an Indian news channel
UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura to step down in November
10/17/2018, 2:54:50 PMEnvoy vows to step up effort to get agreement on committee to draft Syria's constitution before he resigns next month. ✔ The Italian-Swedish diplomat, who became the UN's third Syria envoy in July 2014, told the UN Security Council on Wednesday he was leaving for purely personal reasons ✔ I am not laying down the charge until the last hour of the last day of my mandate, he said
School in Russian-annexed Crimea hit by deadly blast
10/17/2018, 12:42:18 PMAt least 13 killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a vocational school in Kerch. ✔ UPDATE: Military forces arrive in response to #terrorist #attack at #Kerch school in #Crimea pic.twitter.com/vejxqgcQAp Ruptly (@Ruptly) October 17, 2018 In #Kerch, #Crimea, an #IED #explosion at a college building killed 10 people & injured ~50
South Korea denies refugee status to hundreds of Yemenis fleeing war
10/17/2018, 1:46:22 PMSouth Korea ranks as one of developed world’s least-welcoming countries for refugees. ✔ It granted stay permits to 23 other Yemenis in September but has yet to grant refugee status to any of the 481 Yemenis who have applied for it so far ✔ Some Yemenis managed to leave Jeju for the mainland before the government crackdown and have not applied for asylum yet ✔ Most of the refugees are men, but some are families with children
18 dead and 70 wounded in explosion inside Crimea college canteen
10/17/2018, 12:43:30 PMEIGHTEEN people have reportedly been killed and 70 wounded after a bomb was detonated inside a college’s canteen in annexed Crimea. Officials said an “unidentified explosive device̶… ✔ EIGHTEEN people have reportedly been killed and 70 wounded after a bomb was detonated inside a college's canteen in annexed Crimea ✔ There are small items buried inside them - small screws and studs ✔ It was impossible to understand what nationality they are
Updates after masked gunmen kill 13 in terror attack on Crimean school
10/17/2018, 12:21:36 PMMasked gunmen were "killing everyone they could find, all those they could see" after an explosion at the school in the region, which is disputed between Russia and Ukraine ✔ A hospital employee said at least 18 patients had been received with explosion injuries ✔ Olga Grebennikova, director of the college in Kerch, said: They broke in five minutes after I had left ✔ Ambulances outside the college (Image: Yekaterina Keizo/TASS)
Teenager goes on deadly rampage at Crimea college
10/17/2018, 2:24:38 PMAt least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured at a college in the Black Sea region of Crimea when at least one attacker set off a bomb in the cafeteria and went through the building shooting at random, officials said. ✔ Russian President Vladimir Putin has said investigators were trying to work out the motive and promised the government will do everything necessary to help those wounded ✔ Reuters Mass shooting Most Viewed in World Loading Please explain Our weekly podcast giving you insight into the stories that drive the nation
Thirteen people killed in armed attack on Crimean college
10/17/2018, 12:35:49 PMThirteen people were killed when gunmen burst into a college in the Black Sea region of Crimea and set off a bomb in the cafeteria. Law enforcement officials said they were treating the incident as a terror attack. ✔ The Investigative Committee, the law enforcement body that investigates major crimes, said initial information was that an explosive device packed with metal objects had gone off in the cafeteria of the college ✔ Photographs from the scene of the blast posted by local media outlet Kerch.FM showed that the ground floor windows of the two-storey building had been blown out, and that debris was lying on the floor outside
Deadly attack strikes vocational college in Crimea
10/17/2018, 12:43:20 PMRussian officials said an explosive device killed at least 13 people and injured at least 50 others Wednesday at a vocational college in Crimea and called it a possible terrorist attack. ✔ Peskov said Putin has instructed investigators and intelligence agencies to conduct a thorough probe and offered condolences to the families of the victims ✔ Russia has also supported separatists fighting the Ukrainian government in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that has left at least 10,000 people dead since 2014
The power of amputee marathon runners
10/17/2018, 3:05:02 PMundefined ✔ Forty-two years ago, an American salesman called Dick Traum ran his way into the history books ✔ According to Access Prosthetics, a large maker of prosthetics, 1,558 military personnel ✔ lost limbs in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to 2014 ✔ Follow Gillian on Twitter @gilliantett or email her at gillian.tett@ft.com
Salim Saab: Showcasing the women of the Arab art world
10/17/2018, 2:57:47 PMMIDDLE EAST MATTERS : This week, we're drawing attention to the women who are fighting to assert their influence in the Arab world. We're joined by one man who... ✔ We're joined by one man who's doing exactly that: Franco-Lebanese director Salim Saab joins us to talk about his latest documentary, Strong ✔ This as the regime calls on refugees to return home ✔ But by some estimates, it will take up to €345 billion to rebuild the war-torn country
A bread train and a human chain: Wednesday's best photos
10/17/2018, 12:45:41 PMThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you photo highlights from around the world ✔ Toronto, Canada People gather at midnight to celebrate the legalisation of recreational cannabis use Photograph: Ian Willms/Getty Images London, UK A Chelsea Pensioner poses for pictures for the There But Not There campaign to commemorate the upcoming centenary of the end of the first world war Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP Kolkata, India A young girl dressed as a kumari or living goddess winces as a nose ring is put on her in preparation for the Hindu festival of Durga Puja Photograph: Rupak de Chowdhuri/Reuters Krasnodar Krai, Russia Locals deliver bread to villagers using the Apsheronsk mountain narrow-gauge railway Photograph: Valery Matytsin/TASS via Getty Images Saijo, Japan Illuminated floats called dainjiri cross the Kamogawa river towards the Isono shrine at climax of an autumn festival Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images Taiz, Yemen Volunteers form a human chain to pass food aid to mountainous towns on the outskirts of the city Photograph: Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images Manchester, UK Distortions in Spacetime, an immersive artwork at the Manchester Science Festival that is said to replicate stepping into the gravitational waves of a black hole Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Gaza Strip Relatives Naji al-Zaneen, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, mourn during his funeral Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters Chiquimula, Guatemala Honduran migrants rest in a temporary shelteron their way northward to the US Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters Chisinau, Moldova A guard of honour is inspected ahead of a visit by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Photograph: Ercin Top/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images London, UK Actors Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton and Mia Goth attend the UK premiere of Suspiria at the 62nd BFI London film festival Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for BFI Srinagar, India Troops inspect the site of a gun battle between suspected militants and Indian government forces Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images
An Explosion Has Killed Least 19 People At A Crimean College, Authorities Say
10/17/2018, 3:45:54 PMThe attacker, who is reported to have killed himself, was a student at the college. ✔ Tass quoted a National Guard official, Sergei Melikov, who said the explosion was triggered by an improvised explosive device (IED) ✔ The BBC reported that most of the victims were students at the vocational college for teenagers ✔ This is a developing story, check back here and follow BuzzFeed News on Twitter
Turkey, Saudis Spar Over Missing Journalist Probe as U.S. Rows Back Pressure
10/17/2018, 12:39:36 PMTurkey and Saudi Arabia sparred over the scope of Ankara’s probe into the suspected killing of Jamal Khashoggi, as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the kingdom. ✔ The secretary told reporters at King Salman Air Base that he was reassured by Saudi Arabia’s promises to carry out a thorough and transparent investigation ✔ Mr. Brunson’s detention became a cause célèbre among evangelical Christian groups, a key voter base for Mr. Trump, and the single greatest obstacle in the relationship between the two countries that are cooperating in the war against Islamic State in Syria
The enduring myth of the young Arab reformer
10/17/2018, 1:14:08 PMundefined ✔ When Libyans rose up against Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam emerged as a warrior, spewing the same venom as his father ✔ They rule with narrower power bases and fall back on paranoid instincts ✔ Sadly, the Middle East shows that a modern twist is not incompatible with cruelty
Missing Saudi journalist 'DISMEMBERED in Istanbul consulate' - screams heard in building
10/17/2018, 1:38:02 PMMISSING journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, according to Turkish security sources. ✔ US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Turkey where he has discussed the Khashoggi case with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu ✔ Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican close to Trump, has called Prince Mohammed a wrecking ball and accused him of ordering Mr Khashoggi's murder
U.S. says some militants withdrawing from Syria's Idlib
10/17/2018, 2:44:53 PMSome militants have withdrawn from the demilitarization zone in Idlib following ... ✔ The area is also home to an estimated 3 million people, more than half of whom have already been displaced at least once during the war ✔ He estimated that between 7,000-10,000 are militants ✔ Approximately 40 percent of the country does not fall under control of Assad’s government, he added ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Shanghai shakes up global oil trading
10/17/2018, 12:28:59 PMNew futures contract rapidly rises to become third global benchmark ✔ There were no apparent glitches during the first wave of physical deliveries, said John Driscoll, a Singapore-based consultant who previously managed oil trading for Chevron's local joint venture ✔ used by refiners in Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore or other countries in the region, she said
Analysis | Trump’s fanciful, falsehood-filled AP interview, annotated
10/17/2018, 12:36:42 PMThe false claims are flying fast and furious these days. ✔ President Trump attends a dinner with businessmen and CEOs during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in January ✔ There was nothing wrong with having an opposition research meeting and nothing happened from the meeting ✔ And it was very unfair and everybody knew that and Canada knew it, too
Pompeo Meets With Turkish President Erdogan To Discuss Khashoggi Disappearance
10/17/2018, 12:29:06 PMTurkish officials have said they believe Khashoggi — a prominent critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — was murdered and his body removed. ✔ One name matches a LinkedIn profile for a forensic expert who has worked at the interior ministry for 20 years ✔ (Additional reporting by Makini Brice and Lesley Wroughton in Washington, Ali Kucukgocmen and Gulsen Solaker in Istanbul; Writing by Daren Butler and Stephen Kalin; Editing by Jon Boyle) Download
Trump says he won't accept blame if GOP loses House
10/17/2018, 12:58:59 PMPresident expresses cautious optimism that his most loyal supporters will vote even when he is not on the ballot ✔ Mr. Trump on Tuesday declared the allegation totally false ✔ I don't want somebody to destroy it because I can do a great job, but the wrong person coming in after me sitting right at this desk can destroy it very quickly if they don't do the right thing
Duke and Duchess of Sussex bring UK weather to drought-hit town with first rainfall in seven months
10/17/2018, 12:05:33 PMIn this remote rural town of Australia, according to locals, each day brings two virtual certainties: ✔ You need to know that part of being strong and tough is having the courage to ask for help when you need it ✔ I’ve been telling people for years it is the centre of the universe ✔ Stay up to date with everything happening in the Royal family through our weekly newsletter, Your Royal Appointment
Analysis | If Australia moves its embassy to Jerusalem, it could put an $11 billion trade deal at risk
10/17/2018, 3:33:05 PMAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters this week that he was “open-minded” about such a move. ✔ At the same time, the country is also Australia’s 13th largest bilateral trading partner, with 2.3 percent of total trade in 2016 ✔ Morrison, an evangelical Christian, took office in late August after a bitter party leadership battle ✔ More on WorldViews Australia searches for culprit hiding sewing needles in strawberries
PIERS: Trump should stop pretending tyrant MBS is Prince Charming
10/17/2018, 3:58:17 PMIt’s hard to imagine a more sickening and barbaric way to die than Jamal Khashoggi's murder. And it would not have been done without the approval of Saudi Arabia’s new 33-year-old crown prince. ✔ It’s hard to imagine anything more sickening and barbaric than what is alleged to have happened to Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post ✔ One man vanished while his fiancee sat waiting for him outside of the consulate After all, it is he who has presided over the on-going and appalling Saudi-led war crimes in Yemen, costing more than 16,000 civilian deaths and widespread famine
Analysis | The Daily 202: How Scott Walker is trying to withstand a ‘blue wave’ in Wisconsin
10/17/2018, 1:46:16 PMThe Republican and Democratic candidates for governor both say they want the race to be about local issues, not Donald Trump. ✔ From Damian Paletta: McConnell, in a Bloomberg News interview, also said there was little chance Republicans would be able to cut government spending next year if they retained control of Congress because any changes would need leadership from Democrats
It's a Good Time to Be P.J. Tucker
10/17/2018, 2:30:27 PMOnce too undefined for the NBA, the veteran swingman changed his game as the league changed its tactics. Now, the sport's preeminent sneakerhead is one of its most prized assets and may hold the key to Houston's dream of finally knocking ✔ It's September at McNeese State University, and the sights of construction are all around the Health and Human Performance Education Complex ✔ I was not even thinking about getting back in the league, that was so in the back of my mind ✔ Jonathan Abrams is a senior writer for B/R Mag
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