New U.S. Push for Yemen Peace Faces Hurdles
11/1/2018, 8:30:03 PMYemen’s internationally recognized government on Thursday welcomed new U.S.-led peace efforts, while analysts cautioned that previous diplomatic failures point to the challenges facing any renewed bid to end the three-year war. ✔ The coalition later admitted it made mistakes in that strike ✔ As the conflict grinds on, getting food, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid into swaths of the country has become difficult, leaving millions of people on the verge of famine ✔ Many rights groups blame the Saudi coalition for helping stoke the suffering by restricting commercial traffic through Yemeni ports and airports
Oman welcomes U.S. and British calls for ceasefire in Yemen
11/1/2018, 8:27:47 PMThe Gulf state of Oman on Thursday welcomed calls by the United States and Brita... ✔ Oman is a Gulf ally of Saudi Arabia, but not a member of the Saudi-led military coalition trying to oust the Houthi militia that has seized the northern part of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa ✔ It maintains good relations with the Houthis, who, like the Saudi-backed government, have expressed a readiness to return to the negotiating table ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Yemen Girl Who Turned World’s Eyes to Famine Is Dead
11/1/2018, 10:21:59 PMWhen a photo of an emaciated Amal Hussain appeared in The Times, many readers were moved to try to help the children of Yemen. For Amal, it is too late. ✔ CAIRO A haunted look in the eyes of Amal Hussain, an emaciated 7-year-old lying silently on a hospital bed in northern Yemen, seemed to sum up the dire circumstances of her war-torn country ✔ Saudi airstrikes had forced Amal’s family to flee their home in the mountains three years ago
White House denounces Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua as a 'troika of tyranny' - Los Angeles Times
11/1/2018, 11:37:47 PMNational Security Advisor John Bolton announces new sanctions on Venezuela in a speech decrying leftist governments ✔ In September, it announced plans to admit a maximum of 30,000 refugees in 2019, the lowest cap in U.S. history ✔ Bush’s description of Iran, North Korea and Iraq as an axis of evil in his 2002 State of the Union speech ✔ Now Cuba has joined Bolton’s troika of tyranny
Global stocks begin November stronger, lifted by results, trade war...
11/1/2018, 8:39:18 PMWorld equity markets began November with a broad rally on Thursday after a bruta... ✔ NEW YORK (Reuters) - World equity markets began November with a broad rally on Thursday after a brutal October, boosted by strong corporate earnings and signs that a trade war between economic giants, China and the United States, could be contained ✔ Sterling’s advance nudged the U.S. dollar off its recent peak ✔ The dollar index, tracking the greenback against six major currencies, fell 0.87 percent, with the euro up 0.88 percent to $1.1409 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
An ugly, gloves-off fight that defines US election
11/1/2018, 9:37:51 PMTwo candidates who represent the beating hearts of their party's base are locked in a no-holds barred fight. ✔ An ugly, gloves-off fight that defines US election Getty Images Two candidates who represent the beating hearts of their party's ideological base - a left-wing progressive and a Trumpist conservative - are in a brawl that says much about the first US election campaign in the Trump era ✔ And when you say Trump is a Republican, they know they're Democrats
Dark Heart viewers spot Bodyguard star in ITV's new crime drama - but did you see him?
11/1/2018, 10:18:06 PMEAGLE-EYED Dark Heart viewers recognised a star of the BBC’s recent smash hit crime drama Bodyguard in tonight’s episode. As Inspector Will Wagstaffe [Tom Riley] conducted a briefing wi… ✔ The link between him and David was eventually discovered after Julia was blown up on stage by a bomb at a political party conference ✔ David became the prime suspect due to his own troubled military background and links to Apsted, and faced a life and death struggle to clear his name and expose corruption at the very top of the British police force ✔ You’re literally changing in a pub toilet and rushing to another location
Analysis | Mattis, who used a Hollywood actor as a stand-in spokesman, says the military doesn’t ‘do stunts’
11/1/2018, 8:42:16 PMActor Gerard Butler took questions from reporters in October, even as the real spokeswoman has disappeared almost entirely from the briefing room. ✔ A reporter Wednesday asked Defense Secretary Jim Mattis if the mobilization was a stunt to stoke Trump’s base ✔ Tillman turned down millions in contracts to enlist following the Sept ✔ Read more: Migrant caravan: U.S. troops at the border will be armed ✔ U.S. says the time to end the Saudi-backed war in Yemen is now
Trump may tap State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as U.S. envoy to United Nations - Los Angeles Times
11/1/2018, 11:49:29 PMHeather Nauert, the State Department spokeswoman and a former Fox News anchor, has emerged as a leading contender to replace Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a White House official said Thursday. She has no diplomatic experience but is considered a Trump loyalist. ✔ Nauert cemented her loyalty to Trump early last year before she joined the State Department ✔ Nauert’s appointment would further cement Trump’s affinity for Fox News ✔ He is a devoted consumer of the network’s shows that are most favorable to him, and has given more interviews to Fox personalities than to any other network
I grew up Jewish in Pittsburgh. Here’s how I am taking action after the deadly synagogue shooting. - The Lily
11/1/2018, 10:28:30 PMNo community should live in fear of gun violence in their houses of worship ✔ I was blessed to grow up in a time that was relatively safe in the world for Jews ✔ He’s part of a growing group of domestic terrorists moved to take violent action against their perceived enemies ✔ Part of the 20 percent of hate crimes motivated by bias against a religion ✔ Andrea Chamblee July 14 July 14
Corruption Currents: Graft-Busting Brazilian Judge Accepts Position in Bolsonaro Government
11/1/2018, 9:25:30 PMSergio Moro, a crusading, corruption-busting Brazilian judge, accepted a position in far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro's government as his justice and public security minister. ✔ Brazilian Judge Sergio Moro leaves the house of Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday after a meeting in Rio de Janeiro ✔ Separately, brothers accused in the killing of a Maltese journalist were granted bail on separate money-laundering charges
U.S.-Russia space partnership has had its ups and downs, but failed launch might end up helping - Los Angeles Times
11/1/2018, 11:49:27 PMNASA’s relationship with Roscosmos has been the model of post-Cold War reconciliation between Washington and Moscow. But a failed rocket launch has tested that. ✔ According to an official Roscosmos accident report, released Thursday, a deformed sensor led to poor separation of one of the four side boosters from the main rocket ✔ There are a number of issues they still need to work out, and the future of the partnership beyond [the space station] is a big question
Fed-up waiters slam cake into rude diners' faces - and bosses won't punish them
11/1/2018, 8:17:34 PMThe waiters got their revenge after a woman said to them: "Why the f*** would I eat your cake?" ✔ At this point, the two cake-covered diners can be heard shouting: What the f*** is going on here ✔ Read More McDonald's fights Brawl over counter Customer threw milkshake Worker restrained by security Actor's treatment sparks brawl
Donald Trump says migrant caravans will meet 'wall of people' at border as rhetoric escalates further
11/1/2018, 8:47:29 PMDonald Trump has vowed that migrant caravans heading through Mexico will be met with a “wall of people” at the US border as he doubled down on immigration ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections. ✔ The groups contain some children and can travel 20 miles or more a day by foot ✔ Jeff Flake, the outgoing Republican senator for Arizona, said the advert was sickening and called on members of his party to denounce it ✔ Mr Trump had tweeted the video to his 51 million followers with the words: It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country
Trump, Xi upbeat on U.S.-China trade; U.S. targets more Chinese firms
11/1/2018, 9:31:13 PMU.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping both expressed opti... ✔ But Trump struck a more affable tone on Twitter after the phone call with Xi ✔ Just had a long and very good conversation with President Xi Jinping of China ✔ relationship’s ups and downs over the past four decades of diplomatic ties ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Kanye West 'denies Yeezy has been negatively affected by his politics'
11/1/2018, 9:09:19 PMThe rapper released his Yeezy Mauve 700 on Saturday, but unlike previous release, it did not instantly sell out. ✔ But Kanye West is insisting it had nothing to do with falling sales of his Yeezy shoe line ✔ And Chicago is the core of middle America, and we have to make middle America strong ✔ REPORTER: Mr. President, is it a law enforcement issue, a legislation or legislative issue
U.S. Redoubles Efforts to Resolve Oil-Field Disputes to Boost Global Supply
11/1/2018, 11:17:23 PMThe Trump administration has intervened in a pair of Mideast disputes that have hobbled regional oil production, aiming to boost global supplies as Iranian oil sanctions take effect. ✔ A petrochemical complex in Iran, along Persian Gulf coast ✔ The two shut down about 500,000 barrels a day of production there three years ago, citing disputes about land and environmental permits ✔ To ramp up diplomatic efforts that began weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called high-ranking Saudi and Kuwaiti leaders in late October to jump-start the mediation process, according to a person familiar with the matter
Saudi crown prince is said to have disparaged slain journalist in call with White House - Los Angeles Times
11/1/2018, 9:43:53 PMSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a dangerous Islamist days after his disappearance in a phone call with President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and national security adviser John Bolton, according to people familiar with the discussion. ✔ Officials cautioned that no decision has been made, and Trump has expressed little desire to significantly alter U.S.-Saudi-relations, but there is an interest in a full vetting of the potential options ✔ Erdogan called Trump on Thursday morning, according to people familiar with the conversation
How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art
11/1/2018, 10:21:53 PMAt the Met Breuer, the crackpot exhibition “Everything Is Connected” reveals how artists have tracked, critiqued and sometimes embraced conspiracy theories. ✔ These artists are not endorsing conspiracy theories (at least, I hope not!), but using them to sketch a vision of America: weird, unserious and tilting into madness ✔ You Don’t Need to Go to the Dark Web to Find Hateful Conspiracy Theories Oct. 31, 2018 Mike Kelley’s Underground Afterlife March 8, 2017
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