Turkey, Russia, Germany, France to discuss Syria on Oct. 27
10/19/2018, 1:52:03 PMThe leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France will hold a summit on the Syri... ✔ The area is also home to an estimated three million people, more than half of whom have already been displaced once during the war ✔ And that it helps launch this constitutional committee that the U.N ✔ is working on so that it meets as quickly as possible ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Apocalypse in 2019: Is Russia-US war possible?
10/19/2018, 1:42:59 PMNearly half of US military troops believe America will be drawn into a major war next year and see Moscow and Beijing as main threats, according to a recent poll. But is there any basis for this anxiety among soldiers? ✔ But is there any basis for this anxiety among soldiers ✔ It means that neither side is preparing for a large-scale military conflict ✔ The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT
Afghanistan delays vote in strategic Kandahar after killing of...
10/19/2018, 12:45:27 PMSaturday's parliamentary election in the southern Afghan province of Kandah... ✔ He said the attack would not affect U.S. military movements around Afghanistan or security arrangements for General Miller, who said he did not believe he was the target of the attack ✔ It was unclear how the attack would affect moves toward a peace process, following a meeting last week of Taliban officials and the U.S. special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, but it complicates an already difficult situation ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Ukraine raises household gas tariffs in bid to unfreeze IMF loans
10/19/2018, 3:40:57 PMundefined ✔ The IMF had at that point disbursed about half of a $17.5bn assistance package ✔ Re-engaging with the IMF is expected to boost Ukraine’s chances of accessing affordable borrowing in the international debt markets and additional support from western backers
WW3 warning from Putin: ‘Aggressor will be DESTROYED’ if nuclear war breaks out
10/19/2018, 1:47:38 PMRUSSIA will “destroy” its enemies and his country’s citizens will go to heaven as “martyrs” if nuclear war breaks out, Vladimir Putin has claimed. ✔ Deputy foreign minister Oleg Syromolotov insisted Moscow would respond with a fierce attack if Britain’s military strikes ✔ Mrs Merkel and Mr Macron are expected to put pressure on the Russian leader at the October 27 summit over his backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
ISIS MAPPED: Is ISIS back? Have the terrorists returned to power in Syria?
10/19/2018, 3:18:12 PMISIS has taken 700 hostages this week, including US and European citizens, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Is ISIS back and have the terrorists returned to power in Syria? ✔ ISIS map: The map show the city of Hajin, Syria, where the hostages reportedly have been taken (Image: GOOGLE) Have the terrorists returned to power in Syria ✔ The US-led coalition against the Islamic terrorist group said earlier this year 98 percent of territory once claimed by the ISIS across Iraq and Syria has been recaptured ✔ The weapons were given after it was reported Assad aims to increase his regional allies
Khashoggi was a free speech warrior and the latest casualty in a global war on journalists
10/19/2018, 12:11:46 PMJournalists make a living calling out entitlement. Now they are getting killed for it and, like Khashoggi, 'disappeared.' Which side is America on? ✔ To borrow a term popularized by former President George H.W ✔ Bush, these are points of light signs that in at least some quarters, Americans are remembering what truly makes this country great: Its ideals ✔ Kathy Kiely is the Lee Hills chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri Journalism School
The Crisis in U.S.-China Relations
10/19/2018, 3:52:42 PMThe Trump administration has staked out an aggressive position, but its critique of Chinese behavior is widely shared and points to the need for a new American strategy. ✔ It is a non-starter to think that Chinawhose economy is 30 times larger than it was three decades ago and is now the world’s first or second largestwill be content as a mere responsible stakeholder (to use then-Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick’s 2005 phrase) in a U.S.-designed and dominated international system
Ebola outbreak WARNING: Killer virus could SPREAD sparking major 'deterioration' warns WHO
10/19/2018, 2:16:44 PMEBOLA could spread outside the currently infected Democratic Republic of Congo and could spiral out of control if authorities do not step up their response, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. ✔ Without this, the situation is likely to deteriorate significantly ✔ But travel and transport restrictions could hinder the fight against Ebola, he stressed, as he warned Congolese officials against imposing such restrictions ✔ An epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016 killed more than 11,300 people
Nikki Haley Makes Jabs at Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and Paul Ryan at Alfred E. Smith Dinner
10/19/2018, 1:14:13 PMWhile still dismissing a 2020 run. ✔ Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York Thursday night ✔ But then Haley struck a different tone, warning against the increasingly entrenched and pernicious divide between parties ✔ Haley went on to explain that she had been witness to true evil during her tenure as Ambassador to the UN, citing examples such as Syria and South Sudan ✔ We have some serious political differences here at home
'MPs must not bow to Theresa May's Brexit plan – there are other options'
10/19/2018, 2:23:26 PMIf May’s deal were shot down, I believe the Commons would find a way to halt a cliff-edge departure – whether by calling for more negotiations, an extension of the Article 50 process beyond next March or a Final Say referendum ✔ According to local sources, 20 Palestinians were wounded during clashes as dozens try to defiance the Israeli order to shut down the school EPA 5/50 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
Disturbing moment little boy watches in horror as ISIS butchers execute five alleged spies in Syrian street
10/19/2018, 3:55:38 PMA SMALL child clasps his hands to his tiny face in horror as he is allowed to watch five men branded spies executed by Islamic State butchers. ISIS is said to have 700 people from a camp in Syria a… ✔ A SMALL child clasps his hands to his tiny face in horror as he is allowed to watch five men branded spies executed by Islamic State butchers ✔ The militant group has already killed a number of hostages and warned of daily executions to come, the Russian president said
NYT columnist gets Twitter-skewered after defending his honeyed flattery of Saudi Arabia (VIDEO)
10/19/2018, 2:27:27 PMWidely despised New York Times pundit Thomas Friedman has boldly and predictably defended his sycophantic babbling about Saudi Arabia's "reformer" Crown Prince, igniting a riot on Twitter as anger over the Khashoggi case grows. ✔ No one should take this guy seriously and virtually every serious Middle East analyst agrees on that ✔ If the Saudi regime bought a full-page ad in the NYT, it'd be less fawning and shameless than this column: https://t.co/5vHJ1ilWyJ Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 24, 2017 Like this story
Tanzania police work with Interpol to search for abducted tycoon
10/19/2018, 12:45:26 PMAfrica's youngest billionaire, snatched a week ago off the street outside a... ✔ We have got the information on the car owner and the nationality, the driver who was driving it and our people at Interpol are working on it, he said ✔ Tanzania’s neighbors include Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Hundreds of women stand in Afghan election marred by 'chilling' attack
10/19/2018, 3:44:02 PMThe assassination by the Taliban of a notorious police chief in an important Afghanistan province this week could not have come at a more pivotal moment. On Saturday, parliamentary elections are taking place across the country in a vote that had already been delayed for three years because of security concerns. ✔ And she is among a group of well-known journalists who have decided to forgo journalism for politics ✔ Everyone has to question the society around them, why is there so much inequity, and what is my role in reforming that society ✔ Journalist Ali Latifi wrote and reported from Kabul and CNN's Laura Smith-Spark wrote from London
South Africa's army chief says budget cuts hampering peacekeeping missions
10/19/2018, 3:48:17 PMSouth Africa is still awaiting the presentation of its mid-term budget by the new Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday. ✔ A few days earlier, Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said funding problems were due to the fact that the post-apartheid government was giving priority to spending on poor and hitherto neglected Black communities ✔ South Africa is still awaiting the presentation of its mid-term budget by the new Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday
At charity dinner, Nikki Haley takes playful jabs at Trump and other political elites
10/19/2018, 12:04:58 PMSens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Jeff Flake were among the targets of the outgoing U.N. ambassador’s jokes. ✔ By John Wagner John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow October 19 at 7:44 AM During an address to an annual charity dinner in New York on Thursday night, outgoing U.N ✔ Kavanaugh to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct when he was in high school
Trump and Saudi Arabia could basically brush off the Khashoggi crisis — and that's been the norm
10/19/2018, 12:14:00 PMUnless Saudi Arabia's impulsive new leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chooses to blow up the US-Saudi alliance against all conventional wisdom, both sides will likely brush off Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance. ✔ It's unlikely the US will would cut down on its consumption of 800,000 barrels per day from the kingdom ✔ The kingdom has consistently turned a blind eye to the oppression of women and the LGBT community, and more recently a Saudi jet bombing a school bus in Yemen, which killed 40 children
Weaponised wine cellars: How not to solve the US gang problem
10/19/2018, 2:19:56 PMThe ongoing MS-13 hysteria in the US is helping Trump justify his anti-immigrant vitriol and mask the real villains. ✔ What you actually need to know In short, the characterisation of MS-13 members as uniquely vicious and subhuman creatures is a pretty audacious move coming from a country that has engaged in brutal violence and torture on a global scale ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Belen Fernandez Belen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, published by Verso
Russia welcomes foreign banks to join its money transfer alternative to SWIFT
10/19/2018, 12:50:37 PMForeign banks will soon be able to become part of Russia's money transfer network which serves as an alternative to the traditional SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) system. ✔ In 2012, Danish newspaper Berlingske wrote that US authorities managed to seize money being transferred from a Danish businessman to a German bank for a batch of US-sanctioned Cuban cigars ✔ For more stories on economy & finance visit RT's business section Trends: Russian ruble news
Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi prince under pressure to blame general
10/19/2018, 12:25:43 PMTrump administration believes blaming Ahmed al-Assiri for presumed death of journalist could offer way out of the crisis ✔ His switch to deputy intelligence chief was less popular, but cemented his power with the royal court, where only a small network of advisers are entrusted with calling the shots ✔ However, the Khashoggi disappearance has led to widespread cancellations, including US treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, who is understood to have pulled out partly because Prince Mohammed continues to refuse Washington’s solution
Opinion | As we mourn a colleague, Trump celebrates violence against a journalist
10/19/2018, 2:00:40 PMIf there was any doubt as to why the Saudis might think the leadership of this country would look the other way on their alleged actions against Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump erased it Thursday. ✔ are mounting a quiet campaign to slander Khashoggi and the work for which he appears to have given his life: In recent days, a cadre of conservative House Republicans allied with Trump has been privately exchanging articles from right-wing outlets that fuel suspicion of Khashoggi, highlighting his association with the Muslim Brotherhood in his youth and raising conspiratorial questions about his work decades ago as an embedded reporter covering Osama bin Laden, according to four GOP officials involved in the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly
Selfies in the Korean DMZ – and other unusual border travel experiences
10/19/2018, 2:43:20 PMundefined ✔ Such is the political turbulence that has come to define this second decade of the 21st century that it seems we can go from the worrying - and uncomfortably plausible - prospect of global nuclear warfare to selfies on the frontline in the space of less than 18 months ✔ The Wagah border ceremony is quite the spectacleCredit:AFP/SUJIT JAISWAL India-Pakistan While not quite enemies in the Korean style, India and Pakistan can never be described as best buddies
The Biology of Bravery—and Fear
10/19/2018, 2:54:02 PMResearchers are getting a better picture of how our brains help us overcome dangers and threats ✔ Of course, it’s not necessary to have a brain disorder in order to control one’s fear, even in the face of heart-stopping danger ✔ The new science of bravery holds out the promise of finding that balance, between anxious passivity and recklessness, in our everyday lives
Khashoggi case shows bankers have become our morality police
10/19/2018, 1:09:43 PMundefined ✔ Selling weaponry that is used to wage brutal war in Yemen, as Lockheed Martin and others do, is more deserving of scrutiny than arranging a share sale for the state oil company ✔ It was introduced after yet another massacre in the US, the Parkland school shooting in Florida, which drew nothing more than thoughts and prayers from Republican lawmakers
Amid Khashoggi Criticism, Saudi Arabia Shows No Signs of Changing
10/19/2018, 2:04:10 PMThe kingdom has come under international condemnation before – and has weathered the controversies. ✔ Subsequent reports say current Saudi business in the U.S. is worth $4 billion, not $110 billion as the president claimed ✔ A lot of money is involved, and people come crawling back to the money, he says ✔ I'm not sold that this is going to have a lasting impact
China on notice as America’s next big enemy, right after Russia
10/19/2018, 12:09:08 PMOne wonders what went on in Russian minds during last month’s spectacle of US President Trump raking Beijing over the coals on accusations of meddling, in the upcoming US midterm elections, to try to undermine his trade policies. ✔ READ MORE: Beijing slams US military ‘provocations’ after B-52 bombers fly over South & East China Seas Conversely the security hawks care little about trade (except to the extent they see China’s surplus as a boon for military production) but welcome a tariff war as a way to squeeze Beijing’s economy and, hence, its military capacity – which is perceived as such by the Chinese
Wife of missing Interpol chief says he might already be dead
10/19/2018, 2:23:28 PMGrace Meng says husband is a victim of 'political persecution' and calls Chinese officials 'cruel' and 'dirty' ✔ 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 48/50 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
Opinion | The Trump administration’s see-no-evil indulgence of Saudi Arabia
10/19/2018, 1:33:33 PMWith Saudi Arabia, the president didn’t even try. ✔ By Eugene Robinson Eugene Robinson Columnist focusing on politics and culture Email Bio Follow Columnist October 18 at 5:46 PM When the United States does not stand up for human rights and freedom of expression, there are tragic consequences ✔ These reasonable-sounding goals have been shown to be naive and unrealistic
For a Change, Democrats Seem Set to Equal or Exceed Republicans in Turnout
10/19/2018, 1:12:47 PMPolls show enthusiasm surging in many mostly white suburban districts, but less so among young and nonwhite voters. ✔ There may also be individual races or states, like Georgia, where black voters turn out in large numbers ✔ In Shift on Khashoggi Killing, Trump Edges Closer to Acknowledging a Saudi Role Britain Releases Anjem Choudary, Radical Islamist Preacher, Under Strict Controls Opinion: Does Anyone Really Know What ‘Medicare for All’ Means ✔ How One Journalist’s Death Provoked a Backlash That Thousands Dead in Yemen Did Not
Opinion | Just when you think Trump and his apologists couldn’t get worse . . .
10/19/2018, 2:08:13 PMThe depravity of the right on display. ✔ And in case you thought such moral depravity was limited to a few thousand fans, a concerted smear campaign against Khashoggi is underway ✔ Whatever the cause, if you are falsely smearing a missing man, trying to diminish the horror of a thuggish regime’s alleged gruesome murder or yukking it up with a president celebrating violence against a reporter, it’s time to rethink your politics
Saudi conference boycott over Khashoggi shows political threat to...
10/19/2018, 12:44:53 PMA Western boycott of a major business conference in Riyadh next week suggests ri... ✔ Tuvey and others predicted the cost of any sanctions would be small ✔ It’s cumulative – the Yemen war, the dispute with Qatar, the tensions with Canada and Germany, the arrests of women activists ✔ They add up to an impression of impulsive policy-making, and that worries investors ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Queen's new biopic Bohemian Rhapsody almost never saw the light of day
10/19/2018, 2:23:52 PMDeparture of Sacha Baron Cohen and director Bryan Singer among setbacks delaying arrival of Freddie Mercury story on the big screen ✔ Bohemian Rhapsody , the new biopic of Queen centring on the band’s flamboyant frontman Freddie Mercury, finally arrives in UK cinemas on 24 October ✔ The former had a montage of closed-down movie theatres ✔ The scariest endeavours that I’ve chosen to take in my life have been the most fulfilling and rewarding
Analysis | The Daily 202: Trump’s fixation on immigration reflects his belief that the midterms will be a base election
10/19/2018, 12:55:36 PMA shouting match erupts outside the Oval Office over immigration. ✔ Ryan Zinke announces a ban on mining claims north of Yellowstone National Park ✔ Here are both of the ads: Another attack ad featured Post Pinocchios that were never awarded: And Big Bird puppeteer Caroll Spinney announced he would retire from Sesame Street after nearly 50 years:
‘Corrupt Chris’ and ‘Two-Faced Tammy’: Candidates Try Their Best Trump Impressions
10/19/2018, 1:12:48 PMCandidates have learned what Mr. Trump and his digital campaign gurus figured out in 2016: visceral anger travels further than inspirational messages. ✔ All the oxygen is in these broad, national debates, said Rob Flaherty, the creative director of Priorities USA, a progressive organization that is among the biggest liberal buyers of digital advertising ✔ How One Journalist’s Death Provoked a Backlash That Thousands Dead in Yemen Did Not
As Khashoggi crisis grows, Saudi king asserts authority, checks son's power
10/19/2018, 2:34:48 PMSo grave is the fallout from the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that King Salman has felt compelled to intervene, five sources with links to the Saudi royal family said. ✔ He did not say what evidence he was basing the allegation on ✔ Lately, though, the king's advisers have grown frustrated and begun warning him of the risks of leaving the crown prince's power unchecked ✔ The people around him are starting to tell him to wake up to what's happening, the source said
Saudi King Salman Checks Crown Prince's Power As Jamal Khashoggi Crisis Grows
10/19/2018, 2:27:46 PMFive sources with links to the Saudi royal family said King Salman has felt compelled to intervene. ✔ Trump said on Thursday he presumed Khashoggi was dead but that he still wanted to get to the bottom of what exactly happened ✔ Asked what would be the consequences for Saudi Arabia, Trump said: Well, it’ll have to be very severe ✔ (Reporting by Reuters correspondents; Editing by Nick Tattersall) Download
Saudi King Salman 'is now personally intervening in Khashoggi case'
10/19/2018, 2:58:10 PMThe 82-year-old king, who rose to the throne in 2015, has delegated vast powers to his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, essentially handing him the day-to-day running of Saudi Arabia. ✔ The official told The Associated Press that police have established that two vehicles belonging to the consulate left the building on October 2, the day Mr Khashoggi had walked into the consulate and vanished ✔ 'The people around him are starting to tell him to wake up to what's happening,' the source said
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