Starving girl, 7, whose harrowing image shone spotlight on Yemen War dies
11/2/2018, 11:24:46 AMLittle Amal Hussain became a symbol of the bitter conflict after an image of her emaciated form was published across the globe ✔ The war in Yemen has been raging since 2015, causing the world's worst humanitarian crisis ✔ Read More Top news stories from Mirror Online David Cameron 'to return to politics' Mum wants to prove son was 'real baby' Britain's unhealthiest high streets Flesh-rotting drug Krokodil now in UK
After 17 years of war, top US commander in Afghanistan admits Taliban cannot be defeated
11/2/2018, 10:59:22 AMThe Afghanistan war cannot be won militarily and peace will only be achieved through a political resolution with the Taliban, the newly-appointed American general in charge of US and NATO operations has conceded. ✔ #Afghanistan is on its way to becoming America's longest war ever, and fewer and fewer Americans like it https://t.co/6AI1WUppPe RT (@RT_com) October 11, 2018 Described for years as a stalemate, the conflict has been tipping in the Taliban’s favor in recent months
Saudi-UAE alliance attack airbase, missile sites in Yemen capital
11/2/2018, 8:47:24 AMMore than 20 raids target the al-Dulaimi air base in Sanaa after the US demands warring parties enter into peace talks. ✔ But it's up to the Saudis, it's up to the US to end the fighting as the Houthis will continue defending themselves, he added ✔ Earlier this week, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), an independent watchdog, said around 56,000 Yemenis had been killed in armed violence, a death toll five times higher reported by the UN
EU considers sanctions on Myanmar over Rohingya crackdown
11/2/2018, 11:03:31 AMEU commissioners call for Myanmar to address 'severe shortcomings' in human rights after fact-finding visit. ✔ Myanmar isn’t doing any harmful actions to EU members, he said ✔ The US has imposed targeted sanctions against military commanders and army units as a result of the Rakhine crackdown and is said to be considering more ✔ Last week, Australia slapped sanctions on five generals it said were responsible for human rights violations ✔ Inside Story Is Myanmar 'whitewashing' the Rohingya crisis
Japanese journalist apologizes, recounts days as hostage in Syria
11/2/2018, 11:40:24 AMJumpei Yasuda, a Japanese journalist held by militants in Syria for more than th... ✔ He later converted to Islam because it allowed him more freedom of movement ✔ As I could move only twice a day during meal time, conversion to Islam meant five additional occasions for me to move, he said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Myanmar by-elections a test for leader buffeted by crises
11/2/2018, 9:45:07 AMAsked what Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has changed since becoming Myanmar�... ✔ Toshifumi Kitamura/Pool via Reuters But beyond the city limits, near-perpetual civil war rumbles on ✔ It’s not easy to achieve that by walking alone, by herself, she said ✔ Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Yemen's displaced struggle to survive on leaves, moldy bread crumbs
11/2/2018, 9:11:55 AMMillions of Yemenis have lost everything in nearly four years of civil war, which has pushed the country of 29 million people to the brink of famine ✔ The humanitarian disaster has come as the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition since 2015 has waged a relentless campaign of airstrikes and imposed a blockade, aiming to uproot Shiite rebels known as Houthis, who took over northern and central Yemen ✔ Doctors Without Borders said it is ready to deploy mobile medical teams around the area every day but has only received permission from Houthi authorities for seven days the past month
Review: 'A Private War' is as unflinching as its subject, reporter Marie Colvin - Los Angeles Times
11/2/2018, 10:10:14 AMDocumentary director Matthew Heineman turns expertly to narrative features in "A Private War," which stars Rosamund Pike as war correspondent Marie Colvin. ✔ It’s that this fierce, lived-in performance, complete down to the drawn face and go-for-it personality, is so convincing that people who knew Colvin were shaken at the resemblance ✔ A Private War MPAA rating: R, for disturbing violent images, language throughout, and brief sexuality/nudity Running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes
US, Turkish forces begin joint Syria patrols as Turkey continues to strike Kurds
11/2/2018, 8:04:57 AMTurkish and US troops began joint patrols around the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Thursday, even as Turkey continued to shell nearby positions held by Washington’s Kurdish allies. ✔ Fight against IS group derailed The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, and SDF spokesman Kino Gabriel said Turkish forces shelled and fired on an area near the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on the Turkish border ✔ The Turkish leader's office said they stressed their determination to strengthen ties
Killings in India's northeast raise tension over citizenship survey
11/2/2018, 8:13:41 AMSuspected Indian militants shot dead five Bengali-speaking Hindu men in a sensit... ✔ The government has promised strong action against the perpetrators ✔ The United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent), which has in the past championed the separation of tea and oil-rich Assam from India and is now trying to make a comeback there, denied responsibility for the killings in a statement ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
As China settles in for trade war, leader Xi emphasizes ‘self reliance’
11/2/2018, 8:29:57 AMJust as Washington is talking about “decoupling,” Beijing is looking inward as well. ✔ By Anna Fifield Anna Fifield Beijing bureau chief ✔ I think this is what Xi wanted to do anyway, said Bill Bishop, publisher of the Sinocism China Newsletter ✔ This was punishment for violating sanctions by selling products to Iran and North Korea and then lying about its practices to federal investigators
The New Global Tinderbox: This Is Not You Mother's Cold War
11/2/2018, 10:48:40 AMWhen it comes to relations between Donald Trump’s America, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. ✔ In other words, for China, this is no mere competitive challenge but a potentially existential threat to its future status as a great power ✔ We’re going to terminate the agreement and we’re going to pull out ✔ Yes, but only if preventing it becomes a central, common objective of our moment
Rosamund Pike looks chic in during screening of A Private War
11/2/2018, 10:51:03 AMRosamund Pike arrived to a special screening of A Private War in New York on Thursday, hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists & The Council on Foreign Relations. ✔ Discussion: The British actress, 39, looked absolutely sensational in a cream-coloured suit as she passionately spoke of the Marie Colvin's story ahead of the screening Sensational: Rosamund dressed to accentuate her statuesque figure in an elongated blazer which she teamed with matching trousers - with director Matthew Heineman The former stage star was in her element as she was joined on stage with moderator Greg Kelly, as they spoke about the Matthew Heineman directed film
The powerful entries for the 2018 Smithsonian photo contest
11/2/2018, 9:56:44 AMHere MailOnline Travel serves up a selection of photos from around the world vying for the number one spot. The 2018 competition closes on November 30. ✔ Do you have what it takes to be an award-winning photographer ✔ There are six categories in this year's contest, including 'natural world', 'the American experience', 'travel', 'people', 'altered images' and 'mobile' ✔ Like many members of the indigenous community, they have never had access to electricity ✔ Recently, however, the situation has begun to change
Perspective | Why the arms race is still white hot decades after the Cold War ended — and how to stop it
11/2/2018, 10:30:58 AMOnly a major culture change can triumph over the military-industrial complex. ✔ Reagan and Shultz understood that the supposed bang-for-the-buck of nuclear forces would lead the military brass to ask for the moon in exchange for sacrificing them, but even they were shocked at the military’s recalcitrance ✔ It requires a broader change in how the American people and their defenders think and talk about national security
A tale of two Gulf crown princes
11/2/2018, 8:34:48 AMThe fallout of Khashoggi's murder is also threatening the interests of UAE's Mohammed bin Zayed. ✔ It is the Saudis who are blamed for the blockade that is preventing food and medical supplies from getting to a population on the brink of the worst humanitarian disaster in the world ✔ And it is the Saudis who are primarily stuck with trying to subdue the Houthis, a task which they have signally failed to achieve ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bill Law Bill Law is a Middle East analyst
Donald Trump-supporting militia the Texas Minutemen ‘arm themselves and march to intercept migrant caravans at border’ as first US soldiers arrive
11/2/2018, 11:30:24 AMTRUMP supporting Texans are taking up arms and heading to the Mexican border in a bid head off the migrant caravan bound for the USA. Up to 200 volunteers from the Texas Minutemen are heading to th… ✔ Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in ✔ I see young, fighting-age men who do not look like they’re starving ✔ We go about our business here every day in a peaceful manner, Wright said ✔ The idea that we could be invaded not by illegal immigrants but by militia groups ..
Time to end impunity for crimes against journalists
11/2/2018, 8:58:33 AMFrom Khashoggi's brutal murder to the killing of Daphne Galizia, crimes against journalists still go unpunished. ✔ He has repeatedly dismissed criticism as fake news, called the press the enemy of the people and even mocked a reporter's disability ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Thomas Hughes Thomas Hughes is the Executive Director of the international freedom of expression organisation, ARTICLE 19
Trump Hints at a Trade Deal With China—But Some See It as a Midterm Ploy
11/2/2018, 10:51:33 AM“I don’t buy the story for a second." ✔ Chang Shu, Chief Asia Economist at Bloomberg Economics The telephone conversation on Thursday was Trump and Xi’s first publicly disclosed call in six months ✔ If a Trump-Xi deal at the G-20 Summit can set the broad framework for renewed bilateral trade negotiations it may help the global trading system avert the abyss of an escalating US-China trade war in 2019, said Rajiv Biswas, Asia Pacific chief economist at IHS Markit in Singapore
US shoots down a fake nuke using a 'kill vehicle' interceptor
11/2/2018, 11:35:44 AMThe high-velocity feat was captured on video. ✔ The armament can be deployed both on land and at sea, where it is utilized as part of the Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system ✔ The MDA hailed the test a triumph, based on observations and initial data review, noting that it will continue to evaluate the system's performance
Ruling causes debate on how to screen conscientious objectors
11/2/2018, 9:03:05 AMundefined ✔ At the forefront are conservative groups and politicians, who immediately issued statements citing fears of national security ✔ On an order from the Constitutional Court in June, the government is developing plans for alternative civilian service options and plans to announce these next week
Picfair’s Women Behind the Lens 2018 – in pictures
11/2/2018, 8:36:18 AMOpen photography platform Picfair’s second annual Women Behind the Lens competition ✔ Shot in Sweden on a crisp winter day Photograph: Anna Rebecka Lindberg Nature: Dragonfly Perched on Red Flower Dragonfly perching on a red button ginger flower ( Costus woodsonii ) over a black background, taken at a forest reserved in Johor, Malaysia Photograph: Niney Azman Nature: Pair of European Bee-eaters Sitting on a Branch This pair of European bee-eaters were sitting on a tree branch in a national park in Hungary
Saudi crown prince branded Jamal Khashoggi a 'dangerous Islamist'
11/2/2018, 9:42:45 AMSalman also urged Kushner and John Bolton to maintain US relations with Saudi Arabia in a phone call after Khashoggi vanished, but before Saudi admitted he had been killed, it is claimed. ✔ 'We are reviewing putting sanctions on the individuals that we have been able to identify to date that have - that were engaged in that murder ✔ Whose freedom and human rights can than credibly continue to defend ✔ Now everyone, together, must help finish it and carry the torch of Jamal's soul until his dream is realized
Immigration, Google, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: Your Friday Briefing
11/2/2018, 9:53:25 AMHere’s what you need to know to start your day. ✔ Noteworthy • Finns bare all on tax day Thursday was National Jealousy Day in Finland, when every citizen’s taxable income is made public ✔ Sign up here to get it by email in the Australian, Asian, European or American morning ✔ Check out our full range of free newsletters here
Trump, Xi upbeat on trade after phone call; U.S. targets more...
11/2/2018, 8:57:39 AMU.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who spoke by telep... ✔ We’re optimistic this is a potential off-ramp of increasingly antagonistic trade tensions and hope it leads to a pause and new negotiations, he said ✔ Tu Xinquan, a trade expert at Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics, said he was sceptical that the Trump administration was truly ready to deal, and that other factors, such as the mid-term congressional elections, could be driving statements from the administration ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
‘We have met the enemy and he is us’: Who’s really ‘undermining’ US democracy? asks Stephen Cohen
11/2/2018, 11:45:23 AMAllegations that Russia is still “attacking” US elections, now again in November, could delegitimize our democratic institutions. ✔ We know from critical reporting and from recent opinion surveys that the origins and continuing fixation on the Russiagate scandal since 2016 have been primarily a product of US political-intelligence-media elites ✔ The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT
Power Up: Pick your own election: Is it about immigration or health care?
11/2/2018, 9:49:04 AMThere's the caravan. Or preexisting conditions. ✔ Counterpoint: Hawley has joined other Republicans in saying he supports protecting access to affordable health care for people with preexisting conditions, releasing an ad at the end of September with that argument while also sharing that his five-year-old son was diagnosed with a preexisting condition
>>> Open This Series
Comments
Post a Comment