Putin to Poroshenko: Don’t be like Georgia’s Saakashvili, who lost vast territories
10/18/2018, 9:08:59 PMUkraine pursues the same policy against its own people that cost Georgia to lose territory after then-leader Mikhail Saakashvili’s war on Ossetia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, warning Kiev not to go down the same road. ✔ via GIPHY Like Saakashvili, the current Ukrainian government still strives to resolve the ongoing Ukrainian conflict by force instead of fulfilling the Minsk Agreements, Putin said, adding that it has become clear for everyone that Kiev does not abide by the agreements and has no intention to do so
Afghans remain resilient amid Taliban attacks aimed at derailing upcoming election
10/18/2018, 10:45:43 PMTen candidates have been assassinated, including one who was killed by a bomb planted in his couch ✔ Rahmat Gul / AP Ten candidates have been assassinated in the last two months, including one on Wednesday by a bomb planted in his couch ✔ A successful election will not only help shape the new government, but send a message of defiance to those against it
Mexican firms to pay $3 million reparations over Venezuela food aid...
10/18/2018, 11:11:43 PMA group of companies and individuals have agreed to pay $3 million in reparation... ✔ The companies and people involved in the sales from Mexico, whose full names were not revealed, have also agreed to stop shipping food or medicines to the Venezuelan government under the program, known as CLAP, the Mexican attorney general’s office said
Why one man’s disappearance captured the outrage and media attention that war has not
10/18/2018, 9:58:39 PMJamal Khashoggi’s apparent murder has galvanized worldwide criticism of Saudi regime ✔ Brutal violence happens relatively frequently in Saudi Arabia, but the victims tend to be anonymous, McInerney said ✔ There’s so much conflict globally and so much brutality that it’s easy to say, ‘War is war ✔ When an individual is killed this way, it sticks with you
Ex-military chief claims UK's alliance with US is under threat
10/18/2018, 9:16:12 PMGeneral David Petraeus, who oversaw US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Britain's military capabilities could be 'greatly diminished' if human rights laws were not balanced. ✔ The former head of the US military has warned pursuing British veterans through the courts system could threaten the UK's military alliance with America ✔ Petraeus was speaking at the centre-right Policy Exchange think tank in Westminster, and said the historic Northern Ireland investigations were 'relentless and seemingly unending'
Malaysia's Anwar to question China on Muslim detentions
10/18/2018, 9:15:00 PMPrime minister-in-waiting says he meets regularly with Mahathir ✔ I fail to understand why Australia needs to succumb to Trump's unpopular policy throughout the world, said Anwar referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, who implemented a relocation of his country's embassy in May against the objections of many Muslim countries including Malaysia that observed a two-state solution to live side-by-side despite the decades-long dispute between Israel and Palestine
EU cultivates Asian leaders on trade, climate in message to Trump
10/18/2018, 10:51:52 PMBRUSSELS-- The European Union sought Asian support for free trade, the Iran nuclear deal and fightin ✔ We believe that additional U.S. duty on steel and aluminium is contrary to WTO rules, she told Norwegian news agency NTB ✔ Leaders will call on North Korea to completely, verifiably and irreversibly dismantle all its nuclear and weapons of mass destruction, according to the draft final statement ✔ Leaders will re-commit to the 2015 Paris climate pact that also Trump pulled out of, pledging to develop more clean energy
Regime blamed for dissident death triples its gifts lavished on MPs
10/18/2018, 9:50:10 PMThe kingdom – under fire over the suspected state-sponsored murder of a journalist – has been pouring cash into a charm offensive. In just two years it has tripled the amount of money spent on MPs. ✔ He said: ‘I accepted on the basis it broadened my knowledge of Saudi Arabia.’ Mark Garnier The Tory MP for Wyre Forest went on the same four-day visit ✔ Our leaders must do what’s right and stop fuelling this conflict with military and political support for one side in this brutal war.’ Saudi Arabia dished out nearly three times as much money in gifts and expenses-paid junkets to MPs than its nearest Middle East rival UAE
Opinion | Why King Salman Must Replace M.B.S.
10/18/2018, 8:17:42 PMTo save its reputation and avoid becoming a pariah state in the aftermath of the Khashoggi murder, Saudi Arabia should replace its crown prince. ✔ weeks before he was dismissed as crown prince in 2015 ✔ Yana Paskova/Getty Images North America Gail Collins The Horseface Chronicles Trending Opinion: Eight Stories of Men’s Regret Saudi Arabia Weighs Blaming Intelligence Official for Khashoggi Killing Aide to Saudi Crown Prince, Suspect in Khashoggi Case, Is Shown Walking into Consulate Audio Offers Gruesome Details of Jamal Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says Opinion: I Didn’t Hate the English Until Now Mnuchin Withdraws From Saudi Investment Conference Amid Khashoggi Inquiry Solange, the Polymathic Cultural Force Trump’s Focus on a Washington Building Project Draws Scrutiny Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed) A Conservative Group’s Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern
Activists Target Peter Thiel And Other Powerful Americans Still Connected To Saudi Conference
10/18/2018, 8:04:38 PMThe Trump ally and American consulting firms like McKinsey and Bain did not immediately respond to HuffPost questions about their ongoing involvement. ✔ Among the major companies and commercial figures still connected to the Future Investment Initiative conference are Peter Thiel, a close ally of President Donald Trump, and Joe Kaeser, head of the German firm Siemens, who are on the conference’s advisory board; and the consulting firms Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte, EY, McKinsey & Company, Oliver Wyman and Bain & Company, who are co-sponsors of the conference along with Fox Business Network
Tom Steyer donates $2 million to Andrew Gillum’s Florida governor campaign
10/18/2018, 11:23:24 PMMr Steyer is funding a campaign to promote the impeachment of President Donald Trump ✔ World news in pictures Show all 50 left Created with Sketch ✔ Russia's transportation minister says a supervisor at the airport died during the emergency response after a landing airliner careered off the end of the runway, into a riverbed and caught fire ✔ You know Andrew wants to impeach President, about what
Hate preacher Choudary ‘got MORE radical in jail' but is free tomorrow
10/18/2018, 9:44:18 PMChoudary, who was raised in Kent by Pakistani immigrant parents, is a man consumed with hatred for the liberal society that nurtured him, and a believer in the brutal rule of sharia law. ✔ Separation units are not billed as a punishment but as a precaution ✔ The release is a landmark moment for the Government, which is still reeling from a string of atrocities which left more than 30 dead last year ✔ Theresa May yesterday insisted safeguards were place to protect people from him
Turkey expands search for missing Jamal Khashoggi as Trump says he believes he is dead
10/18/2018, 11:23:22 PMInternational pressure grows on Saudi Arabia as Turkish officials and media leak more details about the investigation into missing Saudi reporter ✔ On Thursday, the UK International Trade Secretary Liam Fox was one of a number of officials to pull out of an international investor conference in Riyadh ✔ If the UN is truly mobilised to fight impunity for crimes against journalists, then at the very least they must be fully engaged in one of the most shocking and extreme cases in recent years by undertaking this investigation, said Christophe Deloire, secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders
View China's role in the world fairly - Opinion
10/18/2018, 11:25:23 PMundefined ✔ US Vice-President Mike Pence addresses the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2018 ✔ It is in fact a chorus beyond zero-sum mentality in the spirit of peaceful cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning, mutual benefit and win-win results, fundamentally different from the concept of geopolitical expansion
Putin hails Russia's military might and says would use nuclear weapons only in response to incoming missiles - Los Angeles Times
10/18/2018, 9:15:10 PMPresident Vladimir Putin hailed new missiles in Russia's military arsenals but emphasized Thursday that the country would only use its nuclear weapons in response to an incoming missile attack. ✔ His blunt talk Thursday comes as Russia-West relations remain frosty over the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential vote ✔ Building on his defiance and boasts, Putin said Russia had nothing to fear given its resources, defense capability and people ready to defend our sovereignty and independence
Jamal Khashoggi's last column: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
10/18/2018, 11:36:54 PMThe Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power. ✔ Instead, these actions may trigger condemnation quickly followed by silence ✔ Washington Post Khashoggi case Saudi Arabia Turkey Press freedom Crime Opinion Most Viewed in World Loading Please explain Our weekly podcast giving you insight into the stories that drive the nation
How Saudi media is covering the Khashoggi mystery
10/18/2018, 9:01:53 PMWith every claim from Turkey detailing more lurid details in the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's media bends further forward. ✔ He has successfully secured America's support in the Saudi view -- one shared by most of the rest of the Gulf and Israel -- that the deal that suspended Iran's nuclear program in return for a lifting of sanctions was a very bad one ✔ He's chiefly remembered as the near absolute ruler who accidentally killed a friend with a comment
Perspective | I fell for Facebook fake news. Here’s why millions of you did, too.
10/18/2018, 9:58:52 PMEveryone now knows the Web is filled with lies. So then how do fake Facebook posts, YouTube videos and tweets keep making suckers of us? ✔ Artist Jessica Savage Broer, a Trump critic, told me she Photoshopped it to make a point about how people need to use critical thinking skills ✔ Or if you want to avoid being that friend: Before you spread the latest outrage online, stop and consider the source
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