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Famine stalks Yemen as warring parties block aid, UNICEF warns

11/3/2018, 11:14:12 AM
The United Nations Children’s Fund has warned that both sides in Yemen’s brutal conflict are making it “impossible” to deliver and distribute much-needed humanitarian aid to the country, where some 14 million people are threatened by famine. ✔ The urgency of the humanitarian crisis leaves no room for complacency, the UN chief told reporters, urging the country’s warring parties to immediately halt the violence ✔ The diplomatic initiative is being driven by the increasing threat of famine, but also by international outrage over the murder of US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has put a spotlight on Saudi Arabia's role in the war


Saudi leaders are on the defensive. Let's push them to bring the atrocious war in Yemen to an end - Los Angeles Times

11/3/2018, 10:13:58 AM
The Trump administration should use its leverage to end a humanitarian disaster. ✔ Now the Trump administration is finally moving to try to end the conflict ✔ Enter the Fray: First takes on the news of the minute from L.A ✔ It has seen the kingdom as a bulwark against Iranian influence and a potential partner in negotiating peace between Israel and the Palestinians


Photojournalist and university professor 'tortured' in Bangladesh jail

11/3/2018, 10:14:27 AM
Shahidul Alam (pictured), 63, was attacked, tortured and jailed in Bangladesh after reporting on a protest, his family in the UK have said. Luminaries are lining up to call for his immediate release. ✔ Nobel laureates from across the globe are calling for the immediate release of a jailed photojournalist who has been 'abducted, abused' and jailed in Bangladesh ✔ In the US a plane was flown over the Statue of Liberty with the banner: 'Free Shahidul' ✔ It is claimed the theft took place while Zia was prime minister between 2001 and 2006


U.S. service member killed in "apparent insider attack" in Afghanistan

11/3/2018, 11:41:44 AM
Another U.S. service member was wounded in the attack ✔ More than 2,400 Americans have been killed in the 17-year-old war, CBS News' Charlie D'Agata has reported ✔ Timothy Bolyard was shot dead in an insider attack, killed by one of the Afghan security members he came to Afghanistan to train ✔ That followed another insider attack that claimed the life of 20-year-old Army Cpl


African countries where journalist killers 'get away with murder': CPJ

11/3/2018, 5:04:15 AM
According to CPJ, at least 324 journalists have been silenced through murder worldwide, over the last 10 years. However, in 85% of these cases, the perpetrators have not been convicted. ✔ Methodology The Impunity Index calculates the number of unsolved murders over a 10-year period (September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2018) as a percentage of each country’s population ✔ Journalists covering corruption, crime, politics, business and human rights were also targeted, adding that suspects use political influence, wealth or intimidation to intefere with justice


In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum review – the life of war correspondent Marie Colvin

11/3/2018, 8:03:24 AM
A friend and fellow war reporter details Colvin’s hard-drinking, hard-living decades and her inspiring career covering one humanitarian disaster after another ✔ I am so free that the atom cannot be freer, Gellhorn wrote during the second world war as her marriage to Hemingway fell apart: I am free like nothing quite bearable, like sound waves and light ✔ As for me, my life is already being poured as a libation, and the time has come for me to be gone


The 20 photographs of the week

11/3/2018, 10:49:41 AM
The migrant caravan in Mexico, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, funerals in Haiti and Simone Biles at the world gymnastics championships – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists ✔ Photograph: Kamil Altıparmak/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Leicester, England A firefighter works near the wreckage of a helicopter, covered by blue tarpaulin, in a car park outside Leicester City football club’s King Power stadium ✔ Eventually the police let them pass, with the agreement that the dialogue with authorities would continue at their next stop


US soldier killed in 'apparent insider attack' in Kabul - NATO

11/3/2018, 11:59:15 AM
A US soldier has been killed and one more wounded in an “apparent insider attack” in Kabul, according to AFP citing NATO mission in Afghanistan. The attacker was reportedly killed. ✔ NATO’s Resolute Support confirmed that the perpetrator served in the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, according to Tolo ✔ The victim wounded in the shooting is in stable condition and was reportedly sent to Bagram Airfield, north of Kabul ✔ The name of the deceased soldier has not been disclosed


Fragile peace? N. Korea threatens to produce nukes again if US sanctions remain

11/3/2018, 11:10:44 AM
Pyongyang may resume building up its nuclear arsenals if Washington’s economic sanctions remain in place, the reclusive state has said amid diplomatic bargaining over the future of Korean peace talks. ✔ North Korea is widely thought to have obtained enough weapons-grade plutonium to weaponize dozens of warheads ✔ The US thinks that its oft-repeated ‘sanctions and pressure’ leads to ‘denuclearization.’ We cannot help laughing at such a foolish idea, the North Korean statement offered ✔ Share it with a friend! Trends: North Korea nukes news


Iran's Khamenei says the world opposes Trump's decisions: TV

11/3/2018, 10:59:45 AM
Iran's top leader said on Saturday U.S. President Donald Trump's polic... ✔ Most international sanctions on Iran were lifted in early 2016 under a deal Iran signed with world powers the year before under which it curbed its uranium enrichment program, widely seen abroad as a disguised effort to develop an atomic bomb ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


America turns the screws on Iran

11/3/2018, 8:44:19 AM
Europe cannot save Iran from the pain of oil sanctions ✔ When it switched its transponder back on days later it was near Taiwanand riding higher on the water ✔ No EU member state is yet willing to host the proposed clearing-house ✔ Hizbullah is poised to gain influence in Lebanon’s next government ✔ And if the oil pumps are still off, the centrifuges may come back on


US Now Using Dollar as Weapon Against Allies

11/3/2018, 9:22:55 AM
BERLIN – Donald Trump may not want to launch wars in the Middle East, but that doesn’t mean he’s getting the United States out of the regime-change business. His administration has made it clear that it wants crippling sanctions on Iran to serve the same purpose as the Bush administration’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. ✔ Because they are more of a scalpel than a sledgehammer, they were particularly attractive to Europeans, who recognized them as an effective alternative to war ✔ Unlike the West’s sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s, they offered a way to punish regimes rather than entire populations ✔ That, unfortunately, is the only diplomatic language Trump seems to understand


MH370 latest news indicates 'crash wreckage' found in Cambodian jungle on Google Maps may have down to hackers

11/3/2018, 10:38:47 AM
AN image on Google Maps purportedly of missing jet MH370 may have been the work of hackers, a software expert has claimed. Open University academic Dr Yijun Yu believes what was spotted on the tech… ✔ The piece apparently measures 31.7ft – whereas a tail piece normally measures 30ft ✔ Other than the Cambodian jungle theory, these include the suicidal pilot deliberately crashing into the sea, the aircraft being shot down by North Korea and a conspiracy to bring down the Malaysian government


Trump puts migrants at the centre of election campaign

11/3/2018, 11:41:17 AM
undefined ✔ Two days earlier, when Mr O’Rourke was in Dallas taking selfies with fans, Casey Littlejohn, a veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he was sympathetic to asylum seekers but that Mr Cruz and Mr Trump were stronger on border security ✔ It is reminiscent, I think, of what happened in Germany in World War II


Three ways the US midterm elections will affect world politics

11/3/2018, 11:39:59 AM
The world is watching the 2018 midterm elections more closely than ever for clues as to whether U.S.-style democracy can retain its global influence and remain the foremost model for rising nations around the globe.  ✔ The anti-immigrant fervor among voters that Trump has played up ahead of the mid-terms was what, in part, provided Brexit campaigners their momentum ahead of Trump's election ✔ For more insight from CNBC contributors, follow @CNBCopinion on Twitter


Suburban Democrats campaign on gun-control policies as NRA spending plummets

11/3/2018, 11:23:27 AM
The candidates’ emboldened approach, combined with the changes in spending trends, reflect a shift in the politics of gun policy over the past two years. ✔ Rick Scott, a Republican who is now in a tight race for Senate, signed a suite of gun control bills into law ✔ The organization is boosting GOP Senate candidates in Missouri, Tennessee, Arizona, Indiana and Montana ✔ The change is pretty profound, and it’s been lightning quick, said Peter Ambler, Giffords’s executive director


George Soros on the new world disorder

11/3/2018, 6:24:02 AM
His enemies paint him as all-powerful, but the billionaire philanthropist believes his political legacy has never been in greater jeopardy. ✔ The episode was a nearly identical reprise of what happened to the British pound ✔ Tens of thousands of refugees passed through the Balkans and arrived on Hungary's border ✔ To read more from Good Weekend magazine, visit our page at The Sydney Morning Herald or The Age


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