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US calls for swift ceasefire in Yemen

10/31/2018, 6:05:07 AM
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urge all sides to hold talks soon. ✔ We need to be doing this in the next 30 days, he said ✔ The fighting and a partial blockade by the coalition has also left 22 million people in need of humanitarian aid, created the world's largest food security emergency, and led to a cholera outbreak that is thought to have affected a million people


NATO Is at War With NATO In Northern Syria

10/31/2018, 7:45:15 AM
Not for the first time the Turkish army has attacked U.S.-backed forces in northeastern Syria on Sunday in yet another absurd contradiction of American policy in the region. It highlights the awkward fact that in northern Syria for over the past year one NATO country (Turkey) is at war with another NATO country's proxy force, namely the Pentagon armed and trained Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, of which the YPG is a core part). ✔ The report further noted the timing of Turkey's shelling US-backed fighters east of the Euphrates, coming just after Erdogan, Putin, Macron, and Merkel met in order to talk Syria, and among other things shore up the shaky ceasefire over Idlib brokered between Turkey and Russia


DR Congo opposition says logistics delivery a PR stunt

10/31/2018, 5:03:21 AM
The opposition says the handover of the trucks, planes and helicopters, conducted with great fanfare on Monday, was "staged" to lend international credibility to the elections. ✔ Gov’t determined and capable During Monday’s ceremony, the Congolese authorities said the vote, postponed in 2016 and again last year, would go ahead without help from the international community ✔ Months of feverish speculation over his intentions, marked by protests that were bloodily repressed at a cost of dozens of lives, ended in August when he threw his weight behind Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, a hardline former interior minister


The Latest: Helicopter crash kills 25 in Afghanistan

10/31/2018, 6:46:11 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on the war in Afghanistan (all times local): 10:45 a.m. An Afghan official says an army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed in bad weather in the western Farah province, killing all 25 on board. Naser Mehdi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, says the helicopter crashed around 9:10 a.m. (0440 GMT), shortly after taking off from the mountainous Anar Dara district heading toward nearby Herat province. He says the passengers included the deputy corps commander of Afghanistan's western zone and the head of the Farah provincial council.


After tragic losses, Hyundai aims to reverse N. Korea fortunes

10/31/2018, 4:03:07 AM
SEOUL--For Hyundai, the South Korean conglomerate, North Korea has been a story of lost opportunitie ✔ Before the 2016 closure of Kaesong, some 120 South Korean companies employed 55,000 North Korean workers there, making everything from clothes and kitchen utensils to electronic components ✔ There are many hurdles to be overcome, but I feel there is hope ahead of us, Hyun Jeong-eun said


Afghanistan army helicopter crash: Senior officials among 25 dead

10/31/2018, 7:04:03 AM
Army helicopter carrying senior officials crashes in western Farah province on way to Herat, killing all 25 on board. ✔ Officials say an Afghan army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed, killing all 25 on board ✔ Naser Mehri, a spokesman for the governor of western Farah province, said two army helicopters were on their way to neighbouring Herat province when one lost control ✔ A Taliban spokesperson said fighters belonging to the armed group shot it down


More than 30 dead in chopper crash, suicide bombing in Afghanistan

10/31/2018, 7:05:55 AM
Army helicopter goes down, killing all 25 on board, and suicide bomber hit outside country's biggest prison, killing at least 7, officials say ✔ He said the passengers included the deputy corps commander of Afghanistan's western zone and the head of the Farah provincial council ✔ The sprawling Pul-e-Charkhi prison houses hundreds of inmates, including scores of Taliban ✔ No one took immediate responsibility for the attack


Afghan army helicopter crash kills 25, including a top commander

10/31/2018, 7:54:19 AM
An army helicopter crashed in southwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 ... ✔ A suicide bomber blew himself up near the gate of Afghanistan’s largest prison on Wednesday, killing at least six people, officials said, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility ✔ The sprawling Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul houses hundreds of inmates, including scores of Taliban ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Trump's plans to scrap a nuclear pact with Russia could heighten tensions in Asia

10/31/2018, 5:54:31 AM
Washington's plans to withdraw from a Cold War-era agreement with Moscow could have reverberating consequences around Asia. ✔ STR/AFP/Getty Images October 24, 2018: Thai sailors visiting Chinese guided missile destroyer Guangzhou during the ASEAN-China Maritime Exercise at a military port in Zhanjiang ✔ If the U.S. leaves the treaty, it will be free to develop and install weapons on its military bases around Asia, according to Bhandari


Lame Duck Merkel Has Her Legacy on Her Mind

10/31/2018, 6:55:59 AM
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stepped down as the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, the party she has led for nearly two decades.  Yesterday’s election in Hesse, normally a CDU/SPD stronghold was abysmal for them. She had to do something to quell the revolt brewing against her. Merkel knew going in what the polls were showing.  Unlike American and British polls, it seems the German ones are mostly accurate with pre-election polls coming close to matching the final results. ✔ And Macron should stop looking in the mirror long enough to see he’s standing on a quicksand made of blasting powder ✔ This points to the next major election for Europe, that of the European Parliament in May where all of Merkel’s opposition are focused on wresting control of that body and removing Jean-Claude Juncker or his hand-picked replacement (Merkel herself?) from power ✔ There will be a renaissance of culture and tradition there that is similar to the one occurring at a staggering pace in Russia


South Sudan rebel leader Machar back in Juba after two years

10/31/2018, 7:43:08 AM
Ex-vice president Riek Machar returned for the first time since 2016 to take part in a peace ceremony. ✔ Machar's previous homecoming in April 2016 was put off by wrangling over how many bodyguards he could bring with him and what weapons they would carry ✔ Ethnically-charged fighting soon spread from the capital across the impoverished state, shutting down oil fields, forcing millions to flee and killing tens of thousands of people ✔ But it collapsed a year later in a deadly battle that saw Machar flee into exile


Trump Targets Citizenship, Stokes Pre-Election Migrant Fears

10/31/2018, 5:16:37 AM
Trump escalates midterm immigration play as he says he's considering trying to end the constitutional right to birthright citizenship. ✔ He called it outrageous that the president can think he can override constitutional guarantees by issuing an executive order, James Ho, a conservative Trump-appointed federal appeals court judge, wrote in 2006, before his appointment, that birthright citizenship is protected no less for children of undocumented persons than for descendants of Mayflower passengers


Japan quickly blasts S. Korea court ruling on wartime labor

10/31/2018, 6:46:36 AM
Japanese officials warned of a deterioration in relations with South Korea after its Supreme Court o ✔ With that as background, the top court said the 1965 agreement did not apply to the plaintiffs’ case because they were not seeking unpaid wages and compensation, but were making a claim for consolation money from the Japanese company as a victim of the forced labor movement


New tyranny of the dollar

10/31/2018, 6:28:25 AM
undefined ✔ Unlike the West's sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s, they offered a way to punish regimes rather than entire populations ✔ Under President Barack Obama, targeted sanctions became America's weapon of first resort ✔ Copyright belongs to Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org)


Analysis | Fact-checking Trump’s macho talk on birthright citizenship, military at the border

10/31/2018, 7:26:19 AM
With the midterms coming up, the president has been exaggerating what he can do to deter illegal immigration. ✔ It would be a departure from precedent, but it is possible, she said ✔ Three Pinocchios (The Washington Post Staff/Washington, D.C.) (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form Sign up for The Fact Checker weekly newsletter The Fact Checker is a verified signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network code of principles


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