Karen Pierce, UK ambassador to the UN: ‘We can’t be pushed around’
10/26/2018, 5:18:18 PMThe first woman in the role has made headlines for her informal but frank style. As she contends with the threat of Russia and crises in Syria and Yemen, her message is clear ✔ The lights are being switched off on the world’s stage ✔ It hears daily reports of barbarity in Syria or the man-made famine in Yemen ✔ The founders of the UN envisaged the security council as a keeper of global peace, but it is an ideal that has rarely been lived up to
Syria pushes back on U.N. role in constitutional talks: U.N. envoy
10/26/2018, 6:45:33 PMSyria wants the United Nations to simply facilitate efforts to rewrite the count... ✔ He said Moualem indicated that Syria and Russia had recently agreed that the third list of participants should be decided by Syria, Russia, Turkey and Iran - the three countries pushing separate Syria political talks known as the Astana process - and then given to the United Nations for facilitation
Lethal Combos, Liver Kicks and Clean Right Hands; ONE Championship Is KO Central
10/26/2018, 6:50:17 PMFight weekend got underway at the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar as ONE Championship put forth their "Pursuit of Greatness" card on Friday. And it get the weekend started off with a bang, or several bangs if you will... ✔ Kyle Johnson @Maldobabo Two-division champ Aung La N Sang (24-10, 1 NC) defends his middleweight belt, brutalizing Mohammad Karaki in the first round ✔ ONE Championship is the leader in the clubhouse for event of the weekend and with jaw-droppingly good reason
Beauty queen dramatically collapses on stage as her name is announced
10/26/2018, 4:57:05 PMClara Sosa was crowned Miss Grand Paraguay after she won the Miss Grand International 2018 contest at a plush ceremony in Yangon, in Myanmar. ✔ This is the moment a beauty queen dramatically collapses in a heap on the floor on stage after she is announced as the winner of a pageant ✔ The cameras pan away as several people are seen rushing to the stage ✔ Miss Grand International 2018 had 78 candidates from around the globe, and one of the main goals of the contest is to promote world peace, local media reported
Women in Palestine face violence and political exclusion, campaigner tells UN
10/26/2018, 4:07:43 PMFirst female Palestinian activist to address UN security council speaks out over political marginalisation and domestic abuse ✔ Photograph: UPI/Barcroft Images Between 1990 and 2017, under our watch, women constituted only 2% of mediators, 8% of negotiators, and 5% of witnesses and signatories in major peace processes ✔ Maternal mortality rates are almost twice the global ratio in conflict and post-conflict countries
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The Khashoggi Case Is An All-American Story
10/26/2018, 6:38:02 PMThe long history of US-Saudi relations has had many moments when the US might have struck back at the kingdom. A web of common interests has kept that from happening. ✔ The point at which Americans wealthy Americans, connected Americans, Americans who shape foreign policy began actively overlooking Saudi misdeeds, as opposed to simply going along with a long lasting strategic partnership depends on whom one asks
Russia's Lavrov meets Syrian opposition negotiator in Moscow
10/26/2018, 5:58:48 PMRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Syria's chief opposition negotia... ✔ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia October 22, 2018 ✔ It added that Russia had confirmed its support for Syria’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Russia appears to reveal details of agents' kids in latest spy blunder
10/26/2018, 6:32:06 PMSpy agencies reportedly turned children into centurions in crude attempt to disguise their identity ✔ For a country with an average life expectancy barely above 70, the existence of a hundred centurions living in two hostels in northwest Moscow appeared suspicious ✔ Another easily-obtainable dataset, from the police – one of the most corruptible institutions in Russia – led the investigator to his second set of discoveries
Freed Japanese hostage Jumpei Yasuda arrives home to joy, but also anger
10/26/2018, 4:42:52 PMEven before the journalist set foot on Japanese soil, he was the target of angry criticism — mostly online — including accusations of recklessness. ✔ The government itself, supported by right-wing media, described them as irresponsible youths for having ignored warnings to avoid travel to Iraq, which was then an active war zone ✔ We need people who will risk their lives to go and get information on the ground
The Long Struggle for Supremacy in the Muslim World
10/26/2018, 5:35:06 PMTurks and Saudis have been enemies for centuries. Now a murder investigation has rekindled their fierce rivalry—and may upend the politics of the Middle East ✔ (As for the Wahhabi imam, he was sent to Istanbul’s bazaar for beheading, the diplomat reported.) In Ottoman eyes, the Saudis were bloodthirsty murderers who had plundered the holy city of Karbala in Ottoman Iraq, slaughtering 4,000 civilian inhabitants (most of them Shiite), and later destroyed many shrines in Mecca and Medina
'How dare the west pretend to be shocked about Khashoggi. He's not the first Saudi critic I've known who's 'disappeared''
10/26/2018, 6:32:05 PMThe number of people who asked me in total disbelief how this had happened was as telling as it was frustrating ✔ At the time, the story sounded so bizarre it seemed untrue ✔ There was never any pushback so he went one step further ✔ The west’s determination to turn a blind eye to the goings on in Saudi had led to the possibility that the royal court felt emboldened enough to do anything – even allegedly order the torture and murder of a subject in the consulate ✔ The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal
'Stop romanticising that viral image of a Palestinian protester – it's not a poetic moment'
10/26/2018, 6:32:04 PMBehind the now famous photograph's palpable kinetic energy and visual dynamism lies one of the most desperate human rights situations in the world ✔ The photograph was taken as protests continue on the border of Israel ✔ 97 per cent of the territory’s drinking water is undrinkable and there are only four hours of electricity a day ✔ The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal
Ex member of MS-13 says he knows gangsters are hiding in caravan
10/26/2018, 7:08:09 PMA former member of the vicious MS-13 gang says he knows of at least ten of his former cohorts who are hiding out in the mass of disheveled migrants marching north through Mexico towards the US. ✔ An 18-year-old who claims to be a former member of the feared Latin mafia MS-13 has backed President Trump's controversial claim that the migrant caravan contains gangsters and criminals ✔ They robbed, they stole, some of them defected to other gangs ✔ Migrants seen leaving the facility this week told us they had encountered dozens of nationalities inside but nobody who had come from the caravan
Former Hong Kong securities regulator gives China investment a ‘wide berth’
10/26/2018, 7:48:15 PMChina’s economic growth is “a fiction” and the country’s stock-market rout will get worse from here, according to the former head of Hong Kong’s securities regulatory agency. ✔ China’s Shanghai Composite SHCOMP, -0.19% lost 2.3% on Thursday, dropping to 2,603.8 as of market close, while the Shenzhen Composite Index 399106, -0.17% closed 1.9% lower ✔ Subscribe to MarketWatch's free Need to Know newsletter ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment
China and Japan show united front on 'free and fair trade' as Xi Jinping and Shinzo Abe meet
10/26/2018, 6:32:13 PMThe two leaders signed several agreements including a currency swap deal ✔ Continuous rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Siliguri and surrounding areas, affecting road travel and daily life AFP/Getty 48/50 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
After everything they've been through, Trump's threats won't stop caravan migrants: 'We have nothing'
10/26/2018, 7:17:08 PMUS president has been stepping up anti-immigration rhetoric ✔ - 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 8/50 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 9/50 18 October 2018 Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City
Trump slaps back critics callings his 'America First' slogan 'racist'
10/26/2018, 6:55:34 PMTrump has been taking flak this week for claiming that he's a 'nationalist' over the word's racist connotations. He asked Friday why his 'America First' slogan is also considered 'racist.' ✔ He dubbed himself a nationalist, too, in the remarks in which he contrasted his world view with so-called globalists like Obama ✔ 'You know, they have a word, it sort of became old-fashioned ✔ 'A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly not caring about our country so much
How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
10/26/2018, 5:25:28 PMBy trading values for stability the EU is actually creating instability, and countless casualties like Jamal Khashoggi. ✔ The Trump Administration is by no means a champion of human rights or freedom of expression ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHORS Jeremy Wildeman Dr Jeremy Wildeman is a Research Associate at the Department for Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath ✔ Emile Badarin Dr Emile Badarin is a postdoctoral research fellow at the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair, College of Europe
Brazil shed a military dictatorship. Now it looks again toward iron-fisted rule.
10/26/2018, 6:02:34 PMIf he wins the presidency, Jair Bolsonaro will bring the military back to center stage. ✔ Rio de Janeiro’s Special Police Unit patrols during a security operation at the Complexo do Alemao favela on Oct. 6 ✔ Alessio Souto, who has defended military intervention to put democracy back on an appropriate track ✔ Some experts say that Bolsonaro’s tough-on-crime proposals including encouraging police to use lethal force against criminals, and relaxing gun laws so civilians can fight fire with fire will only intensify the bloodbath, particularly in the country’s shantytowns
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