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U.S. coalition says it hit Islamic State fighters in Syria mosque...

10/21/2018, 2:43:26 PM
The U.S.-led coalition said on Sunday it had killed militants in eastern Syria b... ✔ The strike on Thursday killed 12 militants, disabling a command center they had used to attack coalition forces and their allies, it said ✔ Such Daesh misuse of the mosque is another example of their violation of the law of war and made the mosque a valid military target, spokesman Colonel Sean Ryan said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


24/7 war machine: US developing HYPERSONIC missiles to be everywhere, all the time

10/21/2018, 2:07:21 PM
THE US military is developing hypersonic missiles with the aim of becoming a "24/7 war machine", an expert has claimed. ✔ DARPA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency – the US defence agency for developing new military technologies – is working on making America a 24/7 war machine for a new generation of threats, Trimble said ✔ When asked if Russia and China had committed to building a defensive system against attack by hypersonic missiles, Trimble replied: They certainly have all the expertise they need to attempt to develop one


The brave men clearing Flanders Fields of their deadly 'Iron Harvest'

10/21/2018, 12:53:11 PM
When Stijn Butaye was 12, he ran into the kitchen with a live grenade he had discovered on his family farm – his mother ordering him out, without a second to lose, before he could release the pin. ✔ There was a lot of white poisonous smoke, Stijn, now 30, recalls ✔ Suddenly it is like being in a swimming pool and you get these pimples, the 39-year-old says ✔ It was dug up that morning by 27-year-old excavator driver Dries Van Tomme ✔ Imagine if instead we put that energy towards something else instead


Trump Heads to Texas to Back Onetime Rival Ted Cruz

10/21/2018, 3:17:30 PM
After a bitter 2016 primary fight, President Trump will travel to Houston to offer his endorsement for Sen. Ted Cruz’s re-election bid. It is a complicated relationship, one that Mr. Trump summed up last year: ‘Like. Dislike. Like.’ ✔ Ted Cruz as First Lady Melania Trump looks on at a church relief center during a visit with flood survivors in Houston last year ✔ Ultimately, Mr. Cruz’s campaign sees no downside appearing with Mr. Trump, who won the state by 9 percentage points in 2016


Rand Paul certain Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed directed Jamal Khashoggi killing

10/21/2018, 3:12:32 PM
A longtime U.S. critic of Saudi Arabia says he feels certain that Crown Prince Mohammed directed the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Sen. Rand Paul told “Fox News Sunday” that the U.S. “cannot continue to have relations with him and so I think he’s going to have to be replaced.” ✔ A longtime U.S. critic of Saudi Arabia says he feels certain that Crown Prince Mohammed directed the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi ✔ Rand Paul told Fox News Sunday that the U.S. cannot continue to have relations with him and so I think he’s going to have to be replaced


Moscow says US treaty pullout would be 'very dangerous step'

10/21/2018, 2:07:11 PM
Britain said it stood 'absolutely resolute' with the U.S., while Germany called Trump's move 'regrettable.' But the Kremlin said the pullout 'would be a very dangerous step.' ✔ President Donald Trump says his plans to scrap a landmark arms control agreement with Russia follows years of violations by Moscow in developing prohibited weapons ✔ Williamson blamed Russia for endangering the arms control pact and he called on the Kremlin to 'get its house in order.' Williamson told the Financial Times on Sunday that Moscow had made a 'mockery' of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty


Coalition airstrike targets mosque used by Islamic State

10/21/2018, 1:16:36 PM
AL-UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group says an airstrike on a mosque in Syria targeted an insurgent command and control center and killed a dozen fighters. The coalition in a statement says that while the law of war protects mosques, the use of the building as a headquarters by IS caused it to lose that protected status. Syrian state media and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said last week that strikes in Sousa near the Iraq border killed and wounded dozens, including civilians and IS fighters.


Blood money

10/21/2018, 1:12:19 PM
Some years ago an investor I met at a TechCrunch event invited me out for a coffee. This happens a lot; as a weekly columnist here I am deemed an official Media Influencer, and people in turn want to influence me, until they realize I’m just going to ignore them and write about whatever weird… ✔ Not that the US is going to stop buying oil from them ✔ A single journalist is a tragedy; ten thousand Yemenis is a statistic ✔ Trump’s razor: the stupidest reason is most likely to be correct ✔ That was also true last year, and it will still be true next year, no matter how much money we’re talking about


Trump administration privately doubts Saudi role in Khashoggi death, White House sources say

10/21/2018, 1:38:51 PM
President publicly supports work of Kushner and Saudi crown prince but increasingly concerned by inconsistent explanation for journalist death, officials say ✔ Continuous rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Siliguri and surrounding areas, affecting road travel and daily life AFP/Getty 42/50 9 September 2018 Participants wave flowers as they march past a balcony from where North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un was watching, during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang


Gorbachev says US making ‘mistake’ by quitting Russia nuclear treaty

10/21/2018, 3:27:21 PM
Former Russian leader weighs in Donald Trump's decision ✔ Two Reuters journalists were jailed for seven years for breaching Myanmar's official secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a judge said, a case that has drawn outrage as an attack on media freedom AFP/Getty 50/50 2 September 2018 A Somali soldier walks near the wreckage of vehicles at the scene of a blast outside the compound of a district headquarters in the capital Mogadishu


Trump cites 'deception ... and lies' but still defends Saudi prince over Jamal Khashoggi's death

10/21/2018, 2:45:51 PM
President Donald Trump accused the Saudis of lying about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi but defended Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. ✔ Trump has firmly rejected calls to block a $110 billion arms sale, saying the Saudis would just make the purchase from Russia or China ✔ With that being said, something will take place, Trump told the Post ✔ OZAN KOSE, AFP/Getty Images Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide


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