Biased broadcast news ‘buries’ Donald Trump’s gains in the fight against terrorism: Study
10/23/2018, 3:27:47 PMNews organizations have downplayed economic gains and other viable accomplishments made by President Trump and his administration according to studies conducted by the Media Research Center, a conservative press watchdog. A new study from the organization released Tuesday reveals that the press is also overlooking Mr. Trump’s triumphs in national security. ✔ News organizations have ignored economic gains and other viable accomplishments made by President Trump and his administration according to multiple studies conducted by the Media Research Center, a conservative press watchdog ✔ Only 33 minutes less than 1 percent covered the administration’s handling of the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the study found
Japanese journalist likely released after going missing in Syria
10/23/2018, 2:50:48 PMJumpei Yasuda, held captive since 2015, reportedly freed in Turkey ✔ © Kyodo TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-old Japanese freelance journalist who went missing in Syria in 2015 and was feared held captive by a militant group, has most likely been released, Japan's top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday ✔ A man believed to be Yasuda is now in Turkey, Suga said at an urgent press conference, adding the Japanese government is trying to verify if he is the freed journalist ✔ Yasuda entered Syria to cover the civil war that began in 2011
Trump is creating a nuclear threat worse than the cold war | Simon Tisdall
10/23/2018, 3:16:05 PMIn ditching the treaty with Russia, the US president risks an arms race with multiple nuclear powers, says foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall ✔ This latest piece of wilful vandalism will put everyone at greater risk ✔ Trump’s INF decision also reflects American concern, shared by the Russians, about China – which is not bound by the agreement, and is developing medium-range systems ✔ They point to a world for ever ruled by fear of nuclear destruction
Opinion | This is the first step to recalibrating U.S.-Saudi relations
10/23/2018, 1:41:17 PMThe disastrous war should not have any U.S. support. ✔ But the Saudis have done their best to sabotage a U.N.-led peace process ✔ Read more: Robert Kagan: The myth of the modernizing dictator David Ignatius: MBS’s rampaging anger will not silence questions about Jamal Khashoggi The Post’s View: How the current crown prince changed Saudi Arabia for the worse David Von Drehle: Mohammed bin Salman could bring his kingdom crumbling down Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
Will democrats really take the house? Here's everything you need to know
10/23/2018, 3:51:04 PMDemocrats are generally thought to have a good shot at taking back the House, but their path to control of the Senate is much more difficult ✔ - US President Donald Trump said Friday, October 19, 2018, that he found credible Saudi Arabia's assertion that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi died as a result of a fight AFP/Getty 4/50 19 October 2018 A Palestinian youth runs past a rolling burning tire during clashes with Israeli forces following a demonstration after the weekly Friday prayers, in the centre of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron AFP/Getty 5/50 18 October 2018 Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City
68 years after soldier went off to Korean War and vanished, his son gets a surprise call
10/23/2018, 1:07:00 PMA son finally fulfills his mission to learn the fate of his father who never returned from the Korean War ✔ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fulfilled an agreement he made with President Trump at the Singapore summit in June to return 55 boxes of remains of Americans killed in the Korean War ✔ So I'm figuring at best there's a one percent chance that my father's remains are there, Charles said
Russian sanctions against Kiev won’t affect ordinary Ukrainians – Kremlin
10/23/2018, 3:34:07 PMMoscow’s counter-sanctions against Kiev, recently ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, won’t affect the common people in Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov, presidential press-secretary, assured. ✔ Secondly, it’s the prohibition of the transfer of funds, located on the territory of Russia ✔ READ MORE: Ukraine government hikes gas prices for population by quarter as part of deal with IMF Russian officials, politicians, businessmen s and journalists were targeted by the restrictions ✔ Share it with a friend! Trends: Russia news Ukraine news
Prince Harry refuses to leave grieving widow of WAR HERO - 'I'm NOT going to leave'
10/23/2018, 12:45:09 PMPRINCE Harry has clearly inherited the kindness and warmth of his mother Princess Diana in spades as a heart-warming video shows the moment he gave an emotional hug to a grieving widow. ✔ The forty-one-year-old told People magazine: He stopped and said, 'I'm in the middle of a conversation, and I'm not going to leave this ✔ Peter served in Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and since his death, Gwen has become an Invictus and War Widows Guild ambassador ✔ The pair are currently continuing the royal our in Fiji, where they will be for three days
Will China abandon the Palestinians?
10/23/2018, 2:16:46 PMChina appears to be operating with the mistaken assumption that it can be pro-Palestine and pro-Israel at once. ✔ He told The Diplomat that Israel's stability is the exception in the turbulent Middle East ✔ It seems that the oft-repeated cliche of Israel being the only democracy in the Middle East, is being slightly adjusted to meet the expectations of a fledgeling superpower, which is merely interested in technology, trade and investments ✔ @ ramzybaroud Romana Rubeo Romana Rubeo is a freelance writer and translator based in Italy
Trump's laughable southern border scare
10/23/2018, 3:01:29 PMPeter Bergen says the caravan of migrants is a political gift to President Donald Trump, but his claim that terrorists are lurking among them is ridiculous. ✔ MUST WATCH Bill Weir shoots down Trump's caravan claim 03:52 Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University ✔ The only cross-border infiltration by a terrorist was almost two decades ago when Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian, was arrested on a ferry arriving in Washington state from Canada on December 14, 1999
India's Assam shuts down over plans to amend citizenship law
10/23/2018, 1:22:31 PMThe government plans to make it easier for Hindus, Buddhists and Christians to get citizenship while excluding Muslims. ✔ According to a recent report by Hindustan Times newspaper, only 100,000 people left off the draft citizenship list have submitted claims as part of the revaluation exercise that concludes on November 28 ✔ We won't let the BJP play politics with religion, Doley told Al Jazeera
U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections
10/23/2018, 12:05:50 PMAmerican operatives are messaging Russians working on disinformation campaigns to let them know they’ve been identified. It’s a measured step to keep Moscow from escalating. ✔ Those operations, which included efforts to freeze computers, yielded mixed results ✔ Mr. Bolton announced new cyberwarfare authorities last month, but the White House provided few details ✔ The criminal complaint unsealed on Friday showed that Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, the St ✔ Their efforts and instruments are becoming more sophisticated every day
How Congress can force Trump's hand on Saudi sanctions — and why the consequences would be major
10/23/2018, 3:50:37 PMAs the world awaits the truth about journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, one of the Gulf's most stalwart security relationships hangs in a precarious position. ✔ Watch the evolution of President Trump's stance on murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi 17 Hours Ago | 04:18 This later extended to U.S. protection during former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and the partnership managed to survive both the 1973 OPEC embargo and the September 11 attacks, the latter of which implicated a number of Saudi nationals
The five big questions people are asking about the 2018 midterms
10/23/2018, 3:51:00 PMHistory could made - in more than one way ✔ Israel launched raids against targets in the Gaza strip in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian territory that caused damage in a southern city, the Israeli army said AFP/Getty 7/50 16 October 2018 Ecuador has issued a list of rules to Julian Assange, the famous resident of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
Canadian PM says it would be hard to scrap big Saudi arms deal
10/23/2018, 2:00:17 PMCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under pressure to punish Saudi Arabia af... ✔ The New Democrats, who will be competing for the same voters as Trudeau in 2019 elections, last week called the Khashoggi matter the latest addition in a series of horrible acts by Saudi Arabia ✔ Trudeau repeated the government’s position that Canada could suspend export permits for the armored vehicles if it determined they had been misused ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Man tried to kill himself when told girlfriend died after school shooting
10/23/2018, 1:04:26 PMArmen Badalyan, 20, jumped from a fourth floor window when his girlfriend Viktoria Demchuk, 17, died days after the shooting ✔ His sister Vlada, 26, said he is in a grave condition but expected to survive ✔ Read More Kerch college massacre Shrapnel bomb tore students to pieces Chilling echoes of Columbine massacre Kerch: As it happened Nurse treating victims is killer's mum
Tuesday Morning Briefing
10/23/2018, 12:30:16 PMTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that there were strong signs that the kill... ✔ Commentary: The decision to withdraw from the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia may be the highest-stakes move for Donald Trump in his entire presidency, writes David A ✔ Microchip firm Qualcomm is joining Amazon to spread the use of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant in wireless headphones, the companies said on Monday ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The Khashoggi case is far more complicated than the news media are making it out to be
10/23/2018, 12:03:51 PMJamal Khashoggi's murder illuminates decisions made long before MBS's goons brought a bone saw to Istanbul. ✔ So long as Saudi Arabia helps contain Iran, softens on Israel and keeps the oil flowing out (and the weapons in), they can have a free hand ✔ The Turks are brilliantly feeding evidence in drips and drabs to an indignant Western press ✔ As outrageous as it is, Khashoggi’s murder is a symptom of a far longer series of mistakes
Asian markets tumble in fear of Saudi and China concerns
10/23/2018, 3:59:53 PMHong Kong, Japan and South Korea lead the decline ✔ Less than three weeks ago, Nikkei hit a 27 years high, at 24,270 on October 2 ✔ But analysts say that the U.S.-China trade war and a weak economy, as underscored in last Friday's lower-than-expected third-quarter gross domestic product report, will continue to weigh on markets in coming months ✔ In Japan on Wednesday, SoftBank Group`s stock dropped 3% ✔ Nikkei Asian Review deputy editor Dean Napolitano in Hong Kong contributed to this report
Saudi, Bahrain add Iran's Revolutionary Guards to terror lists
10/23/2018, 3:35:20 PMSaudi Arabia said on Tuesday it and Bahrain had added Iran's Revolutionary ... ✔ Iran at the time dismissed the accusations as false and demanded an apology from the U.S. government ✔ The Quds Force is the extraterritorial branch of the Revolutionary Guards ✔ The Trump administration aims to create a security and political alliance with the Sunni Gulf Arab states to counter Shi’ite Iran’s influence in the region, especially in Syria and Iraq ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Exclusive: Exxon, Rosneft to build LNG plant with Japanese, Indian...
10/23/2018, 2:48:32 PMRussia's Rosneft and U.S. ExxonMobil plan to build a liquefied natural gas ... ✔ The sources did not say how the financing of the LNG plant would be shared between the participants ✔ The source close to Exxon said a decision whether to go ahead with the LNG project was expected in 2019, otherwise the project risked losing its market amid growing competition ✔ The Russian Energy Ministry and the government also declined to make any immediate comment ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The Ripple Effect of a Trump Tweetstorm
10/23/2018, 3:34:18 PMWhen President Trump began tweeting warnings and threats about a caravan of migrants headed for the border, his own government could not explain what he meant. ✔ None of the countries mentioned are in the Middle East ✔ You’re going to find MS-13, you’re going to find Middle Eastern, you’re going to find everything ✔ She cites a statistic that the Department of Homeland Security sent earlier about the 10 known or suspected terrorists who try to enter the country illegally each day
Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: Google steps up security efforts as most campaigns use its email services
10/23/2018, 12:21:53 PMPhishing is a major concern. ✔ Additionally, Barnes reported that Cyber Command has also sent teams to Ukraine, Macedonia and Montenegro to build up defenses against Russian hackers intent on penetrating government networks on its doorstep in Eastern Europe ✔ EASTER EGGS Defining gender: What a narrow framework could mean for the transgender community
Analysis | The Daily 202: Trump’s fantastical promises of imminent new tax cuts showcase his failure to sell last year’s bill
10/23/2018, 1:14:05 PMNew polling shows Trump-Obama voters don’t see the tax cuts as helping them. ✔ Even as he’s edged away from the tradition of post-presidential silence, there’s a more practical reason for his muted campaigning: He’s said to be afraid his presence would backfire, give Trump a foil, and energize the Republicans who Democrats hope will stay home in November
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