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U.S. urges North Korea denuclearization before 'shared goal' of...

10/29/2018, 9:54:11 PM
North Korea must take steps toward verified denuclearization before achieving th... ✔ Pompeo said on Oct. 20 he was hopeful he would meet his North Korean counterpart in the next week and a half or so ✔ Asked about the Yonhap report, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department said it currently had no meetings to announce ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


World War 3: Russia ‘will act’ if Georgia and Ukraine join NATO, warns top official

10/29/2018, 10:09:21 PM
RUSSIA will boost military spending massively to reinforce its borders with former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia should they join NATO, a Foreign Ministry official has warned. ✔ Speaking during a meeting with Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, Mr Shoigu said: We are following with alarm NATO's policy aimed at the active militarisation of the European continent ✔ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a conference call: There are still a lot of questions concerning strategic stability, even more so in the context of the stated US intention to leave the INF


Opinion: Bin Laden Is Dead. So Why Is Al-Qaeda Thriving?

10/29/2018, 10:50:28 PM
Al-Qaeda’s most potent weapon is an idea that we’ve been unable to defeat, writes Ali Soufan, the author of Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State. ✔ Today, al-Shabaab is reportedly seeking to establish a permanent presence in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti the last of which is home to overseas military bases of the US, China, France, and Japan ✔ As an FBI Supervisory Special Agent, he investigated international terrorism cases including the East Africa Embassy bombings, the attack on the USS Cole , and the events surrounding 9/11


US restricts Chinese chipmaker from buying American parts

10/29/2018, 10:58:09 PM
The United States is restricting exports to a state-backed Chinese company that makes semiconductors, the latest escalation in Washington's trade fight with Beijing. ✔ It could add strain to an already tense bilateral relationship ✔ Negotiations have reportedly stalled ahead of a planned meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in Argentina ✔ It's building a $5.7 billion chip factory in the region


Iran Is Watching Silently As The Khashoggi Killing Tests US—Saudi Relations

10/29/2018, 8:01:36 PM
"Why would they get in the way when their adversary is committing an own-goal of epic proportions?” ✔ First, they have very little credibility given their own record of killing dissidents abroad, and second, why would they get in the way when their adversary is committing an own-goal of epic proportions ✔ If anything, you could make the case that by bringing in someone who was more experienced, less petulant, and less impulsive in how they make decisions, it would make the Iranians less capable of taking advantage of some of the mistakes that this crown prince has been making


Merkel's long goodbye will be severe test for troubled continent

10/29/2018, 10:02:21 PM
Europe’s political stability is at greater risk than at any time since second world war ✔ When Angela Merkel first came into office in 2005, George W Bush was in the White House, Tony Blair was British prime minister, and the Elysée Palace was occupied by Jacques Chirac ✔ In theory, her announcement that she will not be standing again for the party’s leadership at its conference in December should – while she remains chancellor – allow a new CDU chair to build a strong electoral profile before 2021


Opinion | A Partner We Can’t Depend On

10/29/2018, 10:36:56 PM
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia long ago revealed his true character in impulsive and vicious actions. ✔ If we do punish him, which we must, Prince Mohammed, petulant and proud, is equally likely to behave more irresponsibly to demonstrate his independence and exact retribution against his erstwhile Western partners ✔ Rice How Trump Helps Putin June 8, 2018 Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook , Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram


HIAS, The Jewish Group Targeted By Pittsburgh Shooter, Has Long Resettled Refugees

10/29/2018, 8:04:22 PM
The nonprofit has often criticized the Trump administration's drastic cutbacks in refugees admitted to the U.S. ✔ The organization was founded in 1881 by American Jews living on Manhattan’s Lower East Side who wanted to help Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe fleeing pograms and anti-Semitic riots ✔ An attack on refugees anywhere because they’re different or because they’re strange is an attack on Jewish values


16 in a refugee camp: Here’s what her days are like - The Lily

10/29/2018, 10:03:18 PM
Our fifth installment of ‘Girlhood Around the World’ ✔ Masuma Ahuja 11m 11m Girlhood Around the World is a special, 10-week series from The Lily ✔ To receive these in your inbox each week, sign up for our newsletter, Lily Lines ✔ I ate my breakfast, and me and Mom went to the school.Math was the first class of the day and after that I had English.After, I went home


Black Earth Rising finale, review: an ambitious, uncompromising piece of work

10/29/2018, 10:09:39 PM
‘Everyone has pieces of their past they choose to forget. ✔ These words came early in the finale of Black Earth Rising (BBC Two) but have resonated throughout this eight-part series ✔ The slow-burning but beguiling thriller about the prosecution of international war crimes reached its climax with scores being settled and secrets coming out


How far to the right could Brazil’s new leader take the country?

10/29/2018, 10:23:25 PM
Jailing liberals and weakening environmental laws are among Jair Bolsonaro’s pledges. ✔ But the Bolsonaro administration, experts say, could grant new licenses and interpret current laws in ways that could allow more economic activity in the Amazon including mining ✔ This is a promise not of a party, not the empty words of a man, it’s an oath before God


Alisyn Camerota: I tried to explain the role of the free press to Donald Trump. It didn't work

10/29/2018, 9:18:33 PM
When she came from Fox to CNN, the New Day host found that candidate Trump could not understand why she was holding him to account for his own speech: "hurtful words matter only when he's on the receiving end, not when he delivers them," she writes. ✔ MUST WATCH Trump: Media using mail bombs for political gain 02:23 Alisyn Camerota is a CNN anchor and co-host of CNN's morning show, New Day ✔ The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author ✔ I wanted to know what was keeping him from coming on our program and, if possible, resolve it


How Github, and open source software, helps solve social issues with code

10/29/2018, 11:44:28 PM
From 3D-printed stethoscopes to websites that connect the needy with nearby donors, there are millions of projects on the online code repository. ✔ It's quite inherent of a developer to look at the world around us to see some sort of intractable problem and try to find a solution to it using code and software ✔ There were other similar keyboards on the market but they were expensive, making them inaccessible to most ✔ As a result, OptiKey has evolved to include nineteen languages


What is HIAS and why was the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect obsessed with it?

10/29/2018, 10:19:40 PM
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) is a non-profit organisation providing relief and support to refugees around the world ✔ 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 50/50 10 September 2018 An Indian man makes his way through floodwaters from the overflowing Panchanai River in Siliguri


Republican party headquarters in Florida vandalised with gunshots

10/29/2018, 10:19:49 PM
No one was injured or killed. ✔ Continuous rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Siliguri and surrounding areas, affecting road travel and daily life AFP/Getty 1/50 29 October 2018 Rescue team members collecting the remains of the crashed plane at Tanjung Priok Harbour, Indonesia


Swords to ploughshares: Russian ICBMs to be repurposed as commercial launch rockets (VIDEO)

10/29/2018, 8:28:03 PM
Russia is likely to use the Topol-M nuclear-tipped missiles, which are due to be phased out of service, as launch vehicles for civilian space missions. Many of their predecessors were repurposed in a similar way. ✔ The Yars is available in both silo-based and road-mobile variants ✔ Due to the strained relations between Kiev and Moscow, unless Russia develops a replacement the remaining stockpile of the 'Stilettos,' as the missile is called by NATO, is likely to be scrapped ✔ Unlike the Rokot, it was launched from a silo and lacked a third stage ✔ Share it with a friend! Trends: Nuclear weapons news Russia news Space exploration


Iranian immigrant raises more than $650,000 on GoFundMe for Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims

10/29/2018, 10:19:48 PM
The new fundraising goal for the GoFundMe campaign is $1m ✔ The 29-year-old initially thought about making a small donation ✔ Pictured here are the smashed windows of an office tower in Hong Kong ✔ Mr Khatiri believes small steps could cross that bridge of racial tension seen in this country and across different communities


If Bitcoin continues to take so much energy 'it will kill the planet'

10/29/2018, 10:19:43 PM
It could increase global temperatures by two degrees Celsius by 2033 ✔ Fearing government forces and their allies military advance to retake Idlib province, the mother of three learnt from YouTube videos how to make gas masks from charcoal, wood, paper cups, cotton, nylon plastic bags and tapes ✔ Mr Truby said: If we continue like this – yeah, it will kill the planet


Woman suicide bomber blows herself up in Tunisia city centre

10/29/2018, 8:28:31 PM
Police cordon off area after explosion on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue ✔ She also dug a cave under her home AFP/Getty 49/50 11 September 2018 People waving pro-independence Catalan flags 'Esteladas' while holding letters reading independence during a pro-independence demonstration in Barcelona to mark the National Day of Catalonia, the Diada


Corruption Currents: JPMorgan Breaks Free of Secret Growth-Freeze

10/29/2018, 11:51:25 PM
. ✔ (Reuters, FT) Serbia remains on an FATF watchlist for money-laundering failures ✔ for officials to be forced to declare their overseas financial links ✔ (ABC) A judge was skeptical about the arguments made by the Trump Foundation to toss a lawsuit filed by New York state prosecutors


Former white supremacist: The fear behind the hate

10/29/2018, 9:19:10 PM
Arno Michaelis writes that fear is the underlying motivator driving nationalism -- and in order to combat this despicable ideology, we must prove the fear is unfounded. ✔ It is how we unlearn fear and separatism and find not only peace with change, but joy as well ✔ I write this from my heart, broken yet again -- this time with deep love and sadness for the Jewish community of Squirrel Hill, the Jewish community worldwide and all of humanity


Meet the Would-Be House Committee Leaders Who Could Torment Trump

10/29/2018, 11:24:26 PM
If Democrats win control of the House, they will gain control of powerful committees that could put a check on Mr. Trump’s agenda. Expect subpoenas, must-see hearings and lots of investigations. ✔ Education and the Workforce Bobby Scott Virginia A soft-spoken but forceful presence on Capitol Hill, Mr. Scott, 71, is the first African-American elected to Congress from Virginia since Reconstruction and a Harvard-educated former civil rights lawyer


Why 'Have you been?' isn't the only toilet-related question we should be asking

10/29/2018, 10:39:26 PM
Continuing her series tackling socially unacceptable questions, Christine Manby says when so many are still struggling to access public facilities, it’s a conversation we should all be privy to ✔ You can get at least three perms’ worth of conversation out of this single simple topic ✔ However, the card won’t solve the problem for everyone ✔ There is already a changing places loo in Westminster ✔ Christine Manby has written numerous novels including ‘The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club’


Italian cyclist Andrea Manfredi, 26, among 189 dead in Indonesia crash

10/29/2018, 10:42:08 PM
The Italian rider, 26, was on board Lion Air's flight JT-610, which was heading to Pangkal Pinang, an island north of the capital, Jakarta, when it lost contact with air control about 6.33am. ✔ Military families - In June 2015 an Indonesian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff, also coming down in a residential area in Medan, killing around 122 people on board, many of them servicemen and women and their families ✔ Three years prior, in August of 2015, 54 people were killed after a Trigana aircraft crashed in poor weather conditions


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