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Fight against Ebola in DR Congo hindered by wary local communities

10/26/2018, 2:02:28 PM
Follow international news through our Observers' amateur images and eyewitness testimony. All the content is verified and explained by our journalists. ✔ In a press release published October 17, the World Health Organisation reported eight major security incidents complicating the work of response teams on the ground in Beni over the last two months ✔ Des volontaires de la Croix-Rouge blessés lors de l'enterrement digne et sécurisé d’une victime d'Ebola en RD Congo alors qu'ils effectuaient un enterrement digne et sécurisé dans la ville de Butembo au Nord-Est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) pic.twitter.com/tSdjkb3U9e   Croix-Rouge/RDC (@crrdc1) 4 octobre 2018


U.S. invites Putin to Washington, but says get out of Ukraine

10/26/2018, 3:10:06 PM
The White House has formally invited President Vladimir Putin to Washington, U.S... ✔ Russia denies meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, sending soldiers and equipment to eastern Ukraine, and has rejected Western allegations it was behind the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


There is no good reason to want to kill a journalist

10/26/2018, 3:27:03 PM
At the UK's Observer newspaper, there was a picture on the wall that I revered and feared, when I worked there as a young gopher in London in the late 1990s. ✔ MUST WATCH James Clapper's message for Trump 02:15 Nick Paton Walsh is a senior international correspondent for CNN International ✔ It was presumed that we were the same: surprise was expressed when we reported on civilian casualties from the conflict on the separatist side


Macron says halting Saudi arms sales over Khashoggi would be 'demagoguery'

10/26/2018, 3:00:33 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday dismissed as "demagoguery" the calls by several European countries including Germany to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. ✔ I understand the connection with what's happening in Yemen, but there is no link with Mister Khashoggi, Macron told a news conference in Slovakia ✔ The comments from Austria, the current president of the EU, came after Germany said it would stop approving weapons exports to Saudi Arabia until Khashoggi's death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul is cleared up


Perspective | Why haven’t these bombs gone off? Because they’re meant to terrify, not kill.

10/26/2018, 3:13:55 PM
Panic is the goal. ✔ This bomb addressed to former CIA director John Brennan was mailed to CNN's New York bureau ✔ We’ve seen unknown thousands of hoax white powder letters in the years since the 2001 anthrax letters, mailed by people seeking to scare and disrupt ✔ Finally, some attackers simply believe they can achieve their objectives with a threat rather than violence


Who will save us from US? Trump's INF withdrawal is a neocon dream & global nightmare

10/26/2018, 1:18:44 PM
Washington’s vow to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty poses again the question: Who will save us from America? ✔ It was a rare instance of diplomacy triumphing over force and coercion, allowing the world to breathe far easier in consequence, especially in light of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident reminding Europe that it and not the United States would be the primary casualty should the unspeakable ever come to pass


Germany strengthens Baltic naval alliance to counter Russian buildup

10/26/2018, 3:57:14 PM
Worried by a military build-up on its doorstep, Germany is leading efforts to co... ✔ Moscow says it is not threatening anyone and has the sovereign right to deploy weapons on its own territory including in Kaliningrad, which is separated from the rest of Russia and borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


In Brazil Vote, Fake News Spreads on Social Media Despite Efforts to Stop It

10/26/2018, 3:19:17 PM
Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday underscores how Facebook and WhatsApp still have much work to do in combating misinformation, despite notable improvements. ✔ The candidate, João Dória, a married father of three, denies it was him in the video and is asking electoral authorities to find its creator ✔ During that election, WhatsApp said it limited the ability for accounts to create groups very quickly, and now its systems can track that behavior, which is considered spammy


Jewish life revealed between World Wars

10/26/2018, 1:59:31 PM
An exhibition of Roman Vishniac, one of the most important documentary photographers of the 20th century. ✔ In 1935, Vishniac was commissioned by the world's largest Jewish relief organisation, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, to photograph impoverished Jewish communities in Eastern Europe ✔ Roman Vishniac Rediscovered runs from 25 October 2018 - 24 February 2019 at The Photographers' Gallery, London, and the Jewish Museum, London


Inside the Venezuelan gang shrines where families pray for protection

10/26/2018, 2:08:16 PM
AT the heart of the city with the highest murder rate in the world is a “holy temple” dedicated to the gangsters behind the killings. The Santos Malandros (Holy Thugs) shrine in Venezue… ✔ AP:Associated Press 11 Statues of Ismael stand at the pantheon of Santos Malandros, or Holy Thugs, in Caracas However, the unusual practice of worshipping these thugs doesn’t date back too far, according to Professor Daisy Barreto ✔ Some of the others are Malandro Pelon (The Baldy), Isabelita, Freddy (The Turkey), The Mouse and Crude Oil


Ahead of Putin-Trump Summit US-Russian Relations Hit Rock Bottom

10/26/2018, 1:12:27 PM
The highlight of the consultations of the US National Security Advisor John Bolton in Moscow on Monday was the announcement of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Paris on November 11 on the sidelines of the ceremony marking the centenary of the armistice that ended World War 1. Furthermore, it was mentioned that Putin has been invited to the White House. ✔ But we are ready to work with our American partners without going into hysterics ✔ It may not make any substantive difference, but Moscow is compelling other countries, especially US’ European allies who are directly affected by any new deployments of nuclear missiles targeting them, to react to Trump’s decision


Illegal migrants in Europe ‘need to go home’ – Czech PM

10/26/2018, 1:57:49 PM
The Czech prime minister has called for the return to their home countries of hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants currently in Europe, suggesting funds could be spent on a Marshall Plan to help improve African economies. ✔ The people around Syria… they would like to return home ✔ Rather than an expanded budget for the EU’s border agency Frontex, Babis thinks national governments should instead protect their own borders and coastlines ✔ Trends: Czech Republic newsEU refugees news


Who deserves the credit for strong US economy? | Michael Boskin

10/26/2018, 2:03:00 PM
Trump’s regulatory and tax policies have aided growth but he will bear blame for any downturn ✔ Whoever eventually succeeds President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela will inherit the unmitigated economic and social disaster that is Chavism ✔ Given all of the president’s efforts to attach his name to the current economy, it will not be easy for him to shift the blame to the Fed, Democrats or anyone else


Russian police refusing to investigate women's reports of domestic violence, report finds

10/26/2018, 1:09:34 PM
'I lived with him for 10 years. Once he hit my head against a sharp corner of the wall and forced me out of the flat ... But while we were together, I knew I had to bear it,' says survivor ✔ The military parade was held to mark the nations 70th birthday, but refrained from showing off the intercontinental ballistic missiles that have seen it hit with multiple international sanctions AFP/Getty 48/50 8 September 2018 350.Org march for Climate Justice at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City, Philippines


Analysis | The Daily 202: To win the Midwest, labor-backed coalition pursues minorities who haven’t voted before in midterms

10/26/2018, 2:42:44 PM
A door-knocking shift in Detroit with SEIU canvassers showcases the hard work of expanding the electorate. ✔ Jessica Jackson-Bowie, left, and Deloris Mitchell, right, go door knocking in Detroit last week as part of an effort to persuade African Americans to vote in the midterm elections ✔ We lost by 10,000 votes in the state of Michigan, and there were 200,000 voters that didn't show up in the city of Detroit ✔ The New York Times’s Matt Flegenheimer, Jonathan Martin and Astead W


Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: Trump's refusal to give up his iPhone sets dangerous precedent

10/26/2018, 12:17:09 PM
Security challenges will grow as future presidents are even more addicted to consumer technology. ✔ The Cyber Civilian Corps ought to be nationally run and funded but operationally worked on a state and local basis, according to the report ✔ EASTER EGGS How preexisting conditions became a central issue ahead of the 2018 midterm elections: Megyn Kelly's rocky two years at NBC: Department of Satire: President Trump tweeting from a hard line


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