Amid increased pressure, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushes for end to Yemen conflict
10/31/2018, 1:53:15 AMSecretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday ratcheted up his push for an end to the deadly war in Yemen. ✔ A growing number of lawmakers in Congress have pressed the Trump administration to withdraw U.S. military support for the war – an effort that gained fresh momentum in the wake of Saudi Arabia’s role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident
US defence chief demands Yemen ceasefire; peace talks in 30 days
10/31/2018, 1:07:55 AMJames Mattis says the US has watched the bloody conflict 'long enough' and he wants 'dropping of bombs' to stop. ✔ At least 10,000 people - a figure that hasn't been updated in years and is likely significantly higher - have since been killed and the country that now stands at the brink of famine that threatens millions ✔ Inside Story Have war crimes been committed in Yemen
Mattis and Pompeo call for Yemen ceasefire 'within 30 days'
10/31/2018, 2:02:08 AMSecretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on all participants in the Yemen civil war to agree to a ceasefire "in the next 30 days," a call that comes amid criticism of US support for the Saudi-led coalition in the conflict. ✔ We've got to move toward a peace effort here, and you can't say we're going to do it sometime in the future ✔ He sought to distance the US backing of the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen from the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, an event that he once again condemned
US calls for Yemen ceasefire
10/31/2018, 2:18:40 AMThe United States called Tuesday for a ceasefire and peace talks in Yemen, as the Saudi-led military coalition sent more than 10,000 new troops toward a vital rebel-held port city ahead of a new assault. ✔ US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for an end to all coalition air strikes in Yemen's populated areas ✔ A cessation of hostilities and vigorous resumption of a political track will help ease the humanitarian crisis as well, he added ✔ It is time to end this conflict, replace conflict with compromise and allow the Yemeni people to heal through peace and reconstruction
BREAKING: US DEMANDS the Saudi Arabia STOP airstrikes in Yemen after Khashoggi murder
10/31/2018, 1:00:20 AMUS SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has demanded the Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen stop using air strike in populated areas in the hopes of bringing an end to the conflict. ✔ He said both the missile and UAV strike from the Iranian backed Houthi rebels and government coalition forces needed to end ✔ The secretary of state added: A cessation of hostilities and vigorous resumption of a political track will help ease the humanitarian crisis as well
US urges Saudi-led coalition to stop airstrikes in ‘populated areas’ of Yemen
10/31/2018, 1:38:47 AMThe US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has urged the Saudi-led coalition to stop airstrikes in heavily populated Yemen, shortly after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said a that long-lasting ceasefire is the only possible solution. ✔ The calls to cut the sales of weapons to the Gulf Kingdom, however, really intensified only in wake of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the dissident Washington Post columnist killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month ✔ Share it with a friend! Trends: James Mattis news Mike PompeoSaudi-led coalition strikes in YemenYemen news
They’re Trained for War. Now American Troops Are Headed to the U.S. Border
10/31/2018, 12:57:54 AMPresident Trump’s pledge to send soldiers to the border likely will be costly, divert military resources from other conflicts and threats and has echoes in a 2014 scare about Ebola. ✔ Getting to the border will consume other resources ✔ Television news programs stopped round-the-clock coverage; Media Matters, the press watchdog group, reported that evening broadcast and cable news programs aired close to 1,000 segments on Ebola in the four weeks before the midterm elections and only 49 segments in the two weeks after ✔ None of this practically is going to amount to anything, said Jon Soltz, an Iraq war veteran and co-founder of VoteVets.org, a progressive veterans advocacy group
[after deadline; anniversary special] 'Sanctions relief fundamental for NK denuclearization'
10/31/2018, 1:54:45 AMundefined ✔ The human rights situation in the North is so bad that we should be willing to trade sanctions relief for human rights improvement as well, he said ✔ From the perspective as an outsider, President Moon's policy is a pro-South Korea policy in that it directly represents the interests of all South Koreans in its priority of threat reduction
Palestinian determination turns Israeli fence to warzone
10/31/2018, 12:49:03 AMThe grass-roots, civil society movement was established to draw international attention to the Palestinian refugee issue and the 12-year-old Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip. But the 40-mile-long border fence has quickly turned into a war zone. ✔ Fixators are large metal rods secured outside their legs with screws in the bone above and below fractures caused by the military-grade bullets ✔ On Sunday, a fifth man died of injuries sustained while participating in the protests, according to the Health Ministry ✔ We cannot stay in silence because before the return march [started], we were [slowly] dying inside
[anniversary special] 'There's no way out if US sees NK through its frame'
10/31/2018, 1:28:09 AMundefined ✔ Inter-Korean relations should lead denuke process The U.S. has been calling for South Korea to slow things down with the North, to align this with progress in denuclearization talks ✔ It needs to shut down political prison camps and address the human rights problem in order to have diplomatic normalization with the U.S.
[anniversary special] Moon faces daunting task to advance denuke talks
10/31/2018, 1:54:42 AMundefined ✔ Also, Moon apparently failed to win backing from France and the United Kingdom, which both hold permanent seats on the UNSC, with his updated suggestion ✔ The special presidential adviser also said if North Korean leader Kim Jong-un directly addresses the human rights issue including plans to dismantle political prison camps in North Korea and announces further steps, then that will be a huge plus for the North to gain more trust and appeal to the international community in reaffirming the North's commitment toward denuclearization and fulfill its desire to be treated as a normal state
Spooky towns abandoned after volcanoes, earthquakes and nuke disasters
10/31/2018, 12:25:16 AMIMAGES from Ghost Town show abandoned spaces across the globe that have been left hauntingly without life. The new book from Chris McNab reveals lost places that few have seen – a perfect Hal… ✔ IMAGES from Ghost Town show abandoned spaces across the globe that have been left hauntingly without life ✔ 24 Ghost Towns by Chris McNab published by Amber Books Ltd and available from bookshops and online booksellers The fascinating pictures featured in Mr McNab's eerie new book show dozens of deserted communities where life once bustled ✔ Ironically, the town was abandoned after heavy flooding destroyed many buildings during the 1960s
Damascus slams Israel’s ‘Judaization plans & illegal elections’ in occupied Golan Heights
10/31/2018, 3:17:15 AMSyria has condemned the “illegal elections” being held by Israel for the first time in the occupied Golan Heights, as an attempt to assimilate the Druze minority, who for their part have largely refused to take part in the polls. ✔ Druze leaders even warned the candidates that they will be excluded from the community if they take part in the election ✔ READ MORE: Top Palestinian body suspends Israel recognition until it recognizes Palestine Syria reiterates that the occupied Golan Heights is an integral part of its soil, and it will work to return the terrain to the motherland sooner or later by all possible means, the Ministry said in two letters, addressed to the UN chief and the UN Security Council president
Burma Road sacrifices recalled on 80th anniversary
10/31/2018, 2:03:19 AMVital wartime lifeline built at considerable human cost ✔ An air route known as the Hump, which passed over the Hengduan Range on the eastern fringes of the Himalayas, replaced the road as a vital lifeline to China from May 1942 until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) ✔ The funding provided by China for the project was insufficient even to buy building materials for bridges and culverts, work that was carried out by the most experienced engineering corps in the Chinese army, with help from local laborers
Father of 'Jihadi Jack' asks Canada to help bring son home
10/31/2018, 1:18:06 AMThe father of a British-Canadian national detained in Kurdish-held northern Syrian has asked Canadian officials to help secure his release. ✔ The parents, from Chilswell Road, Oxford, have denied three charges of funding terrorism ✔ In a statement, Canada's Foreign Affairs department told the BBC that its ability to provide consular assistance is extremely limited but that it is engaged to the extent possible in the cases raised by Fave
North Korean media steps up demand for Seoul to lift sanctions
10/31/2018, 2:07:03 AMundefined ✔ South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha recently caused a stir by saying that the government is reviewing lifting the 2010 sanctions ✔ It is very tragic to see such a legal and institutional device in place even today when the relations between the North and the South have entered into a new phase of development, it said
If you can’t take a joke you shouldn’t have joined the human race
10/31/2018, 12:03:11 AMI honestly believe (as would any rational person) that the editor of Waitrose Food Magazine was joking when he wrote he’d like to run a feature about ‘killing vegans one by one’, writes Janet Street-Porter. ✔ Our use of language and our ability to trade insults is becoming pitifully safe as we strive not to upset each other ✔ He called Senator Elizabeth Warren 'Pocahontas' because she claimed Native American Indian ancestry - a claim which turned out to be (just about) true ✔ Millennials need to grow thicker skins and chill – because nowadays most bullies are frightened men of a certain age
Synagogue shooting tests Pittsburgh, a community proud of welcoming refugees
10/31/2018, 12:11:31 AMBhutanese, Somalis, Iraqis are on edge after a man charged in a deadly gun attack on a synagogue was said to have made hostile statements online about a resettlement agency. ✔ Some were wearing clothes with the logos of a prominent statewide skinhead group ✔ Leslie Aizenman, director of refugee and immigrant services for the Jewish Family and Community Services, speaks with the news media Oct. 30 in Squirrel Hill, the Pittsburgh neighborhood that is home to Tree of Life synagogue
In land of sushi, warming seas push squid out of reach
10/31/2018, 3:58:13 AMHAKODATE, Hokkaido--Takashi Odajima picked up a cracked and faded photograph and dusted it off with ✔ HAKODATE, Hokkaido--Takashi Odajima picked up a cracked and faded photograph and dusted it off with his sleeve ✔ Until recently, his crew could return to port in two weeks after the start of the squid-fishing season in early June with their ship's hold full of flying squid
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