Mattis calls for ceasefire in Yemen within 30 days
10/30/2018, 11:53:29 PMThe secretary of defense addressed the Saudi-supported conflict in Yemen, calling for a ceasefire in the next 30 days ✔ Secretary of Defense James Mattis called for a ceasefire in war-torn Yemen within the next 30 days during a discussion at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on Tuesday ✔ But he said that the parties involved needed to work towards a long-term solution to end the conflict
Ukraine media wars
10/30/2018, 8:41:13 PMAs we have seen in the United States in vibrant real time over the last several years, the media have become a battleground for the powerful to fight it out with the goal of altering public opinion and, therefore, influencing policy — in other words, to gain power. ✔ ANALYSIS/OPINION: ANALYSIS/OPINION: As we have seen in the United States in vibrant real time over the last several years, the media have become a battleground for the powerful to fight it out with the goal of altering public opinion and, therefore, influencing policy in other words, to gain power ✔ This is an example of how oligarch-owned media outlets can try and influence opinion on the ground
British Hurt Locker bomb disposal expert killed in Syria after wedding
10/30/2018, 9:07:22 PMLance Corporal Chris Harris, 41, was working for a private company in newly-liberated Raqqa after previous stints in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, when he died in October last year. ✔ He triggered the device that killed him after stepping on it during an operation to clear a warehouse of similar bombs on October 24 last year ✔ Team leader of the call sign Andy said: 'We were walking through the warehouse and on exiting noticed a crushed switch IED ✔ Tragic: Lance Corporal Chris Harris and his wife Claudie before he was killed by an explosive
US-China war looming? Russia bracing for conflict? Week of warmongering predictions by top officials
10/30/2018, 10:38:41 PMSeveral top officials have issued thinly veiled –and outright blunt– ‘warnings’ about war over the past week. While the beating of war drums worldwide remains, for now, just hot air, many messengers seem a bit too eager about it. ✔ At a recent meeting, the US stated that Russia is preparing for war ✔ The official pinned the blame for the soaring tensions on the US and its recently announced move to abandon the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ✔ Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you
Hero British bomb expert blown up while clearing explosive devices in Syria
10/30/2018, 9:54:42 PMChristopher Harris, 41, of Exeter in Devon is said to have died in a blast in October 2017 after he triggered a ball bearing-packed mine in Syria ✔ The explosion occurred at 10.30am as he walked on a concrete ramp to a warehouse, the inquest heard ✔ Read More Top news stories from Mirror Online Suzy Lamplugh police dig garden Prince Charles 'speaks to the dead' Pride of Britain Awards New mum found hanged
‘Stop starving people as instrument of war.' One Republican’s blunt message to Saudis — and Trump
10/30/2018, 11:29:27 PMSen. Todd Young is an ex-Marine and staunch conservative not known for bucking President Donald Trump or the GOP party line. Except Yemen’s civil war. ✔ Yemeni people attend the funeral of victims of a Saudi-led airstrike, in Saada, Yemen, in August ✔ And starving people – denying them basic humanitarian assistance – leads to radicalization ✔ Five months later, amid growing international outrage, the Saudis relented and agreed to let the cranes through
After tragedies and big losses, Hyundai looks to reverse North...
10/30/2018, 11:19:27 PMFor Hyundai, the South Korean conglomerate, North Korea has been a story of lost... ✔ The North Korean workers were well qualified, hard working and cost just a fraction of what workers in the South were paid, factory owners said ✔ A spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department declined to comment on details of private diplomatic conversations ✔ Indictments against him were dropped after his death ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
It’s in America’s security interest to prevent Iranian expansion
10/30/2018, 11:09:26 PMNow that the first blast of hot air is gone, it may be possible to discuss l’Affaire Khashoggi rationally. First, the stipulations: ✔ ANALYSIS/OPINION: Now that the first blast of hot air is gone, it may be possible to discuss l’Affaire Khashoggi rationally ✔ If closing the Red Sea to American allies is important to Iran, equally important is establishing a permanent presence in Syria along the land route to the Mediterranean Sea
U.N. chief taps Norwegian diplomat as new Syria envoy: letter
10/30/2018, 11:19:14 PMNorwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen will be the new United Nations Syria envoy, U.N... ✔ De Mistura told the Security Council on Friday that Syria wants the United Nations to simply facilitate efforts to rewrite the constitution and not choose a third of the committee that will do it, presenting a serious challenge ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Civilian deaths not enough to scrap Britain's arms sales to Riyadh, but Khashoggi probe may be – MP
10/30/2018, 9:45:22 PMThe UK's Middle East minister seems unfazed by civilian suffering in Yemen, saying that ending Britain's arms sales to Saudi Arabia won't help, but that the probe into the Khashoggi death may influence Britain's support of Riyadh. ✔ He said it was a mistake that Riyadh has investigated, failing to mention that the Saudi government had initially called that attack legitimate before expressing its regret ✔ The Saudi-led coalition intervened in the conflict in Yemen in 2015, in an effort to restore the internationally recognized government after it was driven out by Houthi rebels
NATO Exercise Sends Warning to Russia—And to Members
10/30/2018, 8:46:58 PMA force of NATO warships, aircraft and marines stormed a beach in Norway to practice repelling an invader, part of the bloc’s largest military exercises since the Cold War. ✔ U.S. soldiers participating in the two-week Trident Juncture exercises involving some 50,000 service members, 250 aircraft and 65 ships from NATO, Sweden and Finland ✔ People don’t feel particularly threatened by Russia, said Paal Sigurd Hilde, associate professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, part of the education and research arm of the country’s armed forces
Girl visits UK to honour great-great grandad who won Victoria Cross
10/30/2018, 8:20:32 PMEight-year-old Clara Levacy visited to honour Harry Greenwood, who is one of the most decorated men in British military history ✔ Last week, an eight-year-old girl from San Diego, California, left the United States for the first time in her life to travel to Windsor in Berkshire ✔ He had been at war for four years, blown up by shells including friendly fire, been gassed and watched hundreds of his friends killed
U.S. presence at Cuba trade fair dwindles given Trump hostility
10/30/2018, 9:02:20 PMA yellow excavator, forklift and other heavy equipment made by U.S. firm Caterpi... ✔ Brickman, Aparicio and others at Cuba’s premier business event said the country’s dire financial situation was another factor in declining U.S. business interest ✔ Cuba is battling a cash crunch amid lower aid from ally Venezuela and weaker exports ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Trump makes controversial visit to Pittsburgh as city starts to bury its dead from synagogue massacre
10/30/2018, 9:10:00 PMTop officials — including the governor of Pennsylvania and mayor of Pittsburgh — have refused to meet with the president during his visit ✔ The flight was en route to Pangkal Pinang, and reportedly had 189 people onboard EPA 3/50 28 October 2018 A supporter of Workers' Party presidential candidate Fernando Haddad embraces a fellow weeping supporter, after learning that rival Jair Bolsonaro was declared the winner in the Brazil presidential runoff election
Donald Trump sends 5,200 soldiers to US border to counter 'migrant caravan' just a week before midterms
10/30/2018, 9:36:24 PMDonald Trump has sent 5,200 American soldiers to the US-Mexico border in a major escalation of the White House's response to the migrant ‘caravan’ approaching through Mexico. ✔ Robert Bowers, the suspect in the deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in PittsburghCredit:Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP Yes, he answered in a clear, firm voice each time ✔ The very first thing that the media did was condemn the president, she said
Robert Mueller asks FBI to investigate 'women offered money to make false sexual harassment claims against him'
10/30/2018, 9:09:57 PMSupporters of Donald Trump have long sought to discredit Russia investigation ✔ She also dug a cave under her home AFP/Getty 50/50 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
Opinion | I Thought the Web Would Stop Hate, Not Spread It
10/30/2018, 8:28:01 PMThis is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like Cesar Sayoc and Robert Bowers. ✔ because draining the cesspool would mean losing users, and that would hurt the bottom line ✔ Oct. 21, 2018 Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook , Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram , and sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter
Analysis | A timeline of the Roger Stone-WikiLeaks question
10/30/2018, 10:06:42 PMAs the special counsel's attention turns to Stone, we compiled a walkthrough of what's known. ✔ (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow October 30 at 5:02 PM One of the challenges with assessing claims made by Roger Stone, the longtime political operative and Donald Trump ally now apparently at the center of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, is that he’s made a career of offering spin ✔ is going to continue to drop information on the American voters that is going to roil this race, Stone said, according to the Wall Street Journal ✔ The question, as usual, is which Roger Stone to believe
Merkel’s political exit is a kind of vindication for Trump
10/30/2018, 11:07:29 PMThe “president of Europe” and the U.S. president have tangled over trade, defense and Russia, but the long-serving German leader rarely takes on Trump directly. ✔ By Anne Gearan and Anne Gearan White House reporter Email Bio Follow Griff Witte Griff Witte Europe-focused correspondent with extensive experience in the Middle East and South Asia Email Bio Follow October 30 at 6:27 PM When German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived at the White House in April, President Trump was eager to sell her on a long-shot idea: She should push aside the European Union so the two could strike a trade deal of their own ✔ Basically she walks in and he says, ‘your planes don’t fly, your ships don’t sail, your submarines don’t submerge, an outside adviser to the White House knowledgeable about the Oval Office in April meeting said
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