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'The Yemen war death toll is five times higher than we think – we can't shrug off our responsibilities any longer'

10/28/2018, 7:54:53 PM
The absence of credible figures for the death toll in Yemen until now, has made it easier for foreign powers to shrug off accusations they are complicit in a human disaster ✔ UN humanitarian affairs chief Mark Lowcock warned on 23 October the immune systems of millions of people on survival support for years on end are now literally collapsing, making them – especially the elderly – more likely to succumb to malnutrition, cholera and other diseases


MI5 to take over in fight against rise of UK rightwing extremism

10/28/2018, 5:55:19 PM
Security service to handle intelligence gathering then inform police to take action ✔ One difficulty about the move is that extreme rightwing activity covers both terrorism, which is well within MI5’s legal remit to protect national security, and public order, which is not ✔ He also said believe situation is worse and growing and that a big rise in hate crime is a proxy indication of that


Russian disinformation on Facebook targeted Ukraine well before the 2016 U.S. election

10/28/2018, 7:51:53 PM
Activists, officials and journalists from countries who reported abuses years earlier say Facebook took little or no action, according to an investigation for a new documentary. ✔ By Dana Priest , Dana Priest Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow James Jacoby and Anya Bourg | Frontline PBS October 28 at 9:00 AM KIEV, Ukraine In the spring of 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was desperate for Mark Zuckerberg’s help ✔ Close supporters of Duterte were using Facebook to circulate disinformation and call for violence against critics


TERROR FEARS: 80 ISIS brides will stream back to UK - shock report

10/28/2018, 5:12:54 PM
JIHADI brides who are suspected of forming Britain’s largest all-female terror cell in Syria alongside their ISIS husbands are to return to the UK with their children. ✔ Women and children in detention camps are to be returned to the UK (Image: getty) Up to 80 widowed jihadi brides who lost their husbands during combat are to be returned imminently with their children, while others will be returned by the end of the year ✔ A Whitehall source said: There was a long-held view that women do not pose the same level  of threat as men


Opinion: Russia and the US can reset relations to their mutual benefit – this is how

10/28/2018, 7:01:23 PM
A firm alliance between Russia and America is not only possible, it is both necessary and inevitable since it meets the key, underlying geopolitical interests of both countries, writes Alexander Lebedev ✔ This in turn creates the civilisational grounds for a global partnership with the United States, another nation that looks out across that great ocean ✔ Alexander Lebedev’s family co-own The Independent The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal


Syrian museum reopening hailed as 'return to normal life'

10/28/2018, 5:17:00 PM
Archaeologists and restoration specialists attend reopening of museum in Damascus ✔ Head of the General Directorate for Antiquities and Museums, Mahmoud Hammoud, said four of the five sections of the museum will be opened to showcase hundreds of archaeological findings that date back to the prehistoric, historical, classical and Islamic eras


Khashoggi Killing Rocks Saudi Role as West’s Arab Ally

10/28/2018, 4:24:12 PM
U.S. and other government’s officials said the uproar over a Saudi journalist’s grisly death has put Saudi Arabia’s ability to rally others against Iran at risk, posing a challenge for the Trump administration’s Middle East policy. ✔ But Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, one of Saudi Arabia’s closest Arab partners, was invited but didn’t go, according to two people familiar with the matter ✔ A fracture of the U.S.-Saudi relationship would be viewed as a gift by Moscow, Tehran and Beijing


Saudi Arabia's attorney general to arrive in Turkey for talks over Khashoggi's murder

10/28/2018, 7:21:13 PM
Saud al-Mojeb's visit comes after kingdom's foreign minister called global reaction to the killing has been 'hysterical' ✔ Continuous rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Siliguri and surrounding areas, affecting road travel and daily life AFP/Getty 49/50 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


Donald Trump makes false 9/11 claim to justify rally attendance after synagogue shooting

10/28/2018, 7:42:28 PM
'We can’t make these sick, demented, evil people important' ✔ According to her, she could manufacture more masks but the material she needs are not always available ✔ Rise for Climate protests took places across the world to demand action Leo Sabangan/350.org (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Earlier on Saturday, during a convention in Indianapolis, Mr Trump said: We have our lives


 Brazilians go the polls with far-right Jair Bolsonaro as front-runner

10/28/2018, 5:07:41 PM
If he wins, he would become the latest in a global wave of hard-right nationalists to triumph at the ballot box. ✔ On Sunday, as Brazilians voted in a presidential runoff, that same 63-year-old former army captain was the front-runner to lead Latin America’s most populous nation ✔ Bolsonaro at times has appeared to mimic the American leader, on whom he has lavished praise ✔ Bolsonaro’s outsider-cleans-house platform resonated with Brazilians ✔ He’s said a lot of garbage, but he’s the lesser of the evils


Mural depicting Beto O'Rourke as a superhero is vandalised days after being unveiled

10/28/2018, 7:21:17 PM
'El Paso gentrifier supports Israel' among slogans spray-painted on Austin artwork ✔ Catalonia's national day, the 'Diada' commemorates the fall of Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714 and the region's subsequent loss of institutions and freedoms AFP/Getty 48/50 10 September 2018 An Indian man makes his way through floodwaters from the overflowing Panchanai River in Siliguri


Why could a single mother leave her two children to join the migrant caravan? Let her tell you herself

10/28/2018, 4:41:20 PM
Donald Trump has threatened to close the US border ✔ According to local sources, 20 Palestinians were wounded during clashes as dozens try to defiance the Israeli order to shut down the school EPA 14/50 14 October 2018 Serbia's Novak Djokovic kisses the trophy after winning his men's final singles match against Croatia's Borna Coric at the Shanghai Masters


Gab: Inside the social network where alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter posted final message

10/28/2018, 7:21:18 PM
Account in Robert Bowers' name has been deleted but neo-Nazis and white supremacists continue to post unhindered ✔ The alternative social network where the alleged Pittsburgh shooter spewed vile antisemitic conspiracy theories is finding itself at the centre of unwelcome scrutiny ✔ The list included cleaning the bathroom, not commenting on foreign political affairs online and taking better care of his cat (pictured)


Netanyahu Presses to Build Relations in Gulf States

10/28/2018, 7:24:11 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Oman marked a new chapter in his effort to strengthen ties with Gulf Arab nations and shift the conversation from Palestinian issues toward regional threats like Iran. ✔ Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said, right, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Muscat on Oct. 26 ✔ Oman received Mr. Netanyahu warmly and publicly, with state media showing photos and videos of the Israeli leader in Muscat and participating in a series of meetings


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