If a Russia-Ukraine War Breaks Out Over Sea of Azov It Will Make War in Syria Look Like a Tea Party
10/25/2018, 10:55:36 AMThe story of astronauts Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin careening back toward Earth in a daring and successful escape from a failed space mission was stirring to be sure. Even as Russian intrigues swirl around every corner in Washington, some of the “best and brightest” of both countries have engaged in a joint, high-tech endeavor for the most honorable goal of exploring the scientific mysteries of space and Earth. ✔ The story of astronauts Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin careening back toward Earth in a daring and successful escape from a failed space mission was stirring to be sure ✔ At the end of August, the rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko was killed in a bomb blast ✔ He visited Baltimore to take possession of two aging U.S. Coast Guard cutters
France seeks to repatriate French children from Syria
10/25/2018, 9:30:42 AMFrance is seeking to repatriate some of the 150 children of French jihadists identified as being in Syria, as Western nations grapple with how to handle citizens who left to join extremists. ✔ Yet bringing the children to France will be highly complicated, not least because Kurdish-held Syria is not a recognised state, and Paris has cut off diplomatic ties with Damascus ✔ Kurdish authorities have asked governments to repatriate their nationals, but with a few exceptions such as Russia, Indonesia and Sudan, most have proved highly reluctant
Japanese journalist held hostage in Syria describes living in 'hell'
10/25/2018, 10:24:16 AMJumpei Yasuda, who was kidnapped in 2015 by al-Qaida's branch in Syria, was freed and taken to Turkey on Tuesday. He arrived in Tokyo on Thursday night. ✔ 'I was living in endless fear that I may never get out of it or could even be killed,' Yasuda told another Japanese broadcaster, TBS ✔ He said he gradually became pessimistic about his fate because his captors kept breaking their promises to release him ✔ Several journalists are still missing in Syria and their fates are unknown
Japanese journalist Yasuda returns home after captivity in Syria
10/25/2018, 10:31:16 AMJumpei Yasuda, who described his detention in Syria as painful, was reunited with family after three years in captivity. ✔ In a book he published the same year, he explained that he had undertaken the assignment because he wanted to show the suffering caused by the war ✔ I am worried that the atmosphere becomes such that one should not go because it is dangerous and the trend is toward self-restraint, he wrote on the website for the Association of Japanese Journalists Working in Dangerous Areas
Bondholders raise hopes Venezuela will pay up on due debt
10/25/2018, 10:09:23 AMundefined ✔ In a month in which emerging market government bonds have been hammered by the prospect of US rate increases, geopolitical risk and fears of a US-China trade spat, one bond in crisis-racked Venezuela of all places has rallied to record highs ✔ Having largely given up on ever being paid by Venezuela or PDVSA, creditors are increasingly going after their assets abroad, Citgo being the jewel in the crown
Yemeni officials say Saudi airstrike kills 19 civilians
10/25/2018, 9:25:15 AMInitial reports had five dead after the airstrike hit an outdoor fruit and vegetable market on Wednesday. ✔ A report published Tuesday on the risk of famine in Yemen says 8.4 million Yemenis are severely food insecure and depend on emergency food assistance ✔ special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths to broker talks have not yet succeeded, and the latest round collapsed without a resolution
Western Media and Elites Supported the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War - the Ugly Truth Emerges
10/25/2018, 8:16:57 AMThe White armies in the Russian Civil War received not a cent from the west. Not a shell, not a rifle reached any faction of the White forces from the west. The west was not anti-Bolshevik. Furthermore, the western powers actively supported the Red forces during and after the Civil War. While the western financial and technical support for the building of socialism has been treated in another paper, it begins with the subject of this one: the western backing of the Red forces consistently from 1918-1921. ✔ Panicked, the Reds sacrificed the tsar and his family in exchange for the promise of victory from infernal powers ✔ Nationalism, especially the nationalism of a country as large as Russia, was the primary enemy of the banking elite then and now ✔ This is the sole reason the Reds won the Civil War and had the liquidity and investment to continue in power once it was granted to them
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10/25/2018, 11:49:50 AMA member of the New York Police Department bomb squad is pictured outside the Time Warner Center in Manhattan after a suspicious package was found inside the CNN Headquarters in New York. REUTERS/Kevi ✔ A member of the New York Police Department bomb squad is pictured outside the Time Warner Center in Manhattan after a suspicious package was found inside the CNN Headquarters in New York ✔ REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Reuters / Thursday, October 25, 2018 Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda (C), who was held hostage by Islamist militants for 40 months, arrives at the airport in Narita, Japan
North, South Korea begin demilitarizing 'scariest place on earth'
10/25/2018, 11:36:32 AMNorth and South Korea have removed all weapons and ammunition from the Joint Security Area (JSA), the notorious spot between the two Koreas where soldiers from North and South stand face to face, guns at the ready. ✔ Both sides are next expected to withdraw what they called unnecessary surveillance equipment and install any necessary surveillance equipment through consultations, and share related information with each other ✔ Trump said another summit between the two leaders will happen after the US midterm elections in November
North Korean general gets warm welcome in China as ties improve
10/25/2018, 10:02:45 AMA North Korean general got a warm welcome in Beijing on Thursday, a rare high-pr... ✔ Today’s dramatic reality of the Korean Peninsula is the fruition of chairman Kim Jong Un’s determination and bold decision to turn the Korean Peninsula into a cradle of peace without any nuclear weapons or nuclear threats and achieve national reunification, Kim said
Analysis | A more assertive Beijing raises new questions for U.S.-China relations
10/25/2018, 10:22:38 AMGreat power politics are back. ✔ There is little reason to expect those interests to abate, especially as Chinese efforts have largely been succeeding ✔ Edelstein is vice dean of faculty in Georgetown College and an associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, and the author of Over the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers (Cornell University Press, 2017)
Analysis | Today, NATO begins a huge military exercise. Here’s what you need to know.
10/25/2018, 11:12:59 AMThe Trident Juncture 18 exercises aren't just for military training. ✔ Trident Juncture 18 will be the largest exercise conducted by the alliance since the end of the Cold War, involving around 50,000 military and support personnel from 31 NATO and partner countries, 250 aircraft, 65 naval vessels and up to 10,000 military vehicles, according to NATO
The economics Nobel went to a guy who enabled climate change denial and delay
10/25/2018, 11:25:04 AMWilliam Nordhaus' tepid assessment of the economic impact of global warming was seized on by the "do nothing about it" crowd. ✔ It has also spawned myriad derivative impacts: the spread of tree-killing bark beetles that provide fuel for record-setting wildfires in the West, as well as intolerable temperatures and droughts in the Middle East and Africa that have contributed to war in Syria and destablilizing migration
In Colorado, a Republican Congressman’s Immigrant Bonds May Not Be Enough
10/25/2018, 9:43:45 AMRep. Mike Coffman is one of the most vulnerable incumbent congressmen in the country, with polls showing him trailing his opponent and national Republican organizations pulling advertising dollars. ✔ Mike Coffman dances with attendees at a church service at Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Aurora, Colo., on Oct. 14 ✔ Jessica Price, who co-founded the Aurora chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, believes that because of recent high-profileschool shootings, Mr. Crow’s stance on guns will drive his victory
As Ebola has shown, the global health system is as strong as its weakest link
10/25/2018, 10:47:14 AMThe west African Ebola outbreak started in a small village in Guinea. It shows the value of investing in grassroots healthcare ✔ The economy faltered as international trade halted, schools were shut and hard-fought progress on child and maternal mortality was wiped out overnight ✔ Primary healthcare providers are also best positioned to spot the early warning signs of outbreaks – and sound the alarm bell when needed ✔ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the former President of Liberia
Rice balls for Japan hostage as he returns home from Syrian 'hell'
10/25/2018, 11:49:47 AMA 44-year-old Japanese freelance journalist returned home on Thursday to rice ba... ✔ Yasuda returned to Iraq in 2007 to work as a cook at an Iraqi army training camp and in 2010 published a book in Japan about war zone laborers ✔ Japan is careful to stay out of disputes in the Middle East and tries to maintain friendly ties with countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia that are at loggerheads ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
'Trump has called for unity after the bombs sent to CNN, Obama and Hillary – but his words ring hollow'
10/25/2018, 10:25:25 AMAmerica has changed since the reality TV star entered the White House. His rhetoric is violent and deliberate, and he has often spoken of the media in terms not worthy of a democratically elected leader ✔ Rise for Climate protests took places across the world to demand action Leo Sabangan/350.org (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) 48/50 7 September 2018 Displaced Syrians take part in a protest against the regime and its ally Russia at a camp for displaced people in Kafr Lusin near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in Syria's northern Idlib province AFP/Getty 49/50 6 September 2018 An aerial view of houses damaged by a landslide in Atsuma town, Hokkaido prefecture, after an earthquake hit the northern Japanese island
Megyn Kelly expected to leave Today Show following blackface comments
10/25/2018, 10:25:36 AMThose who work on the show are 'not happy with Megyn right now' ✔ Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors after the powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing AFP/Getty 50/50 5 September 2018 US Capitol Police arrest a protestor as Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his US Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court
Hunter Killer review: Pace never flags in old-fashioned action thriller
10/25/2018, 8:30:14 AMThis submarine film is far better than some of Gerard Butler's recent fare ✔ Dir: Donovan Marsh; Starring: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Toby Stephens, Zane Holtz, Michael Nyqvist, Caroline Goodall ✔ It’s a wartime story in which, for a change, the men are relegated to supporting roles ✔ Marsh includes shoot-outs, chases, explosions and scenes of sailors desperately trying to clamber into submarines before the hatch shuts
Migrants to Europe 'need to go home', says Czech prime minister
10/25/2018, 10:36:10 AMAndrej Babiš wants to see crackdown on people traffickers rather than boost in EU border force ✔ They have their culture, we have our culture, he said ✔ Referring to criticism of his alleged conflicts of interest due to his media investments, and his willingness to draw links between European immigration and terrorism, Babiš said: They print lies about me every day, but I cannot stop it
A six-year-old photo of a bleeding officer is being used to stoke fears around a migrant caravan
10/25/2018, 10:25:18 AMDisinformation is fuelling fear and hatred towards Central Americans ahead of November's congressional elections ✔ - 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 6/50 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 7/50 18 October 2018 Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City
Fantastic Beasts actor speaks for first time after racism backlash
10/25/2018, 8:30:19 AM'I think Nagini should have been played by an Asian' ✔ It’s affecting precisely because Armstrong (played with quiet intensity by Ryan Gosling) doesn’t feel the continual need to boast about his mission ✔ Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will be released in cinemas on 16 November
Gareth Southgate has his haters... but it's all gone quiet over there
10/25/2018, 9:09:02 AM5 POINTS: The knives were out for the England manager before they played in Spain - and then his young side won. More on this, plus the home of English football, Cristiano Ronaldo and abuse. ✔ Your headline: ‘We ignored abuse for too long, now it’s out of control.’ Yes, as Maurizio Sarri, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Jose Mourinho have rightly pointed out, the off the charts level of abuse from the sports media is out of control and has been for a very long time ✔ (Note: these posts arrived before England played Spain.) So Southgate is joining the success club of Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino
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