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Two Miles from North Korea, Islanders Brace for an Uneasy Peace

11/3/2018, 4:12:53 PM
An agreement between the North Korea and South Korea to end border hostilities is now in effect, but on a contested island where the North killed four people in 2010, fears linger. ✔ Members of the 1,500-strong South Korean marine garrison that defends the island said that prospects for peace have increased with the detente ✔ The daily drills, which aren’t covered by the military agreement and will continue, serve as a reassurance for residents like Mr. Park, the fisherman, who worries that the South Korean garrison could soon leave the island altogether


Yemen troops make gains as air raids pound Houthi-held Hodeidah

11/3/2018, 4:17:18 PM
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces claim to have captured two areas on the outskirts of the port city of Hodeidah. ✔ It would be a big blow [if the Houthis lost the port to the alliance], but not a killer blow, he added ✔ The conflict in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, began with the 2014 takeover of by the Houthi rebels, who toppled the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi ✔ Inside Story What can a UN investigation achieve in Yemen


Freed journalist Jumpei Yasuda expresses gratitude, apologizes over Syria ordeal

11/3/2018, 4:51:15 PM
Journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who returned to Japan last month after being held by militants in Syria for more than three years, said Thursday that he did not ✔ I’m really sorry for involving, and thus endangering, the government ✔ The group was reported to have been seeking $10 million (¥1.1 billion) ✔ Yasuda said the militants informed him that the government was willing to pay ✔ I still want to learn more about Syria and convey the voices of people living there


Southeast Asia passes China in luring Japanese staff and money

11/3/2018, 6:44:24 PM
Trade war also pushes Panasonic and others to relocate ✔ Luxury apartment buildings under construction in Bangkok ✔ Nikon closed a digital camera factory in Jiangsu Province last year ✔ Panasonic plans to start shipping car stereos and other in-car devices out of Thailand and other countries instead of China ✔ Myanmar in particular has enjoyed an influx thanks to its efforts to open the economy, with the number of Japanese workers there growing sevenfold in five years to 1,200


Military officials alarmed about shrinking military footprint in Middle East as administration pressures Iran

11/3/2018, 4:45:32 PM
Aircraft, fighter planes and antimissile batteries have been moved as administration shifts focus to China and Russia. ✔ Officials estimate that Iran could lay a thousand mines in less than a week ✔ If you’re going to blow up the JCPOA, the prospects for conflict are higher, period, she said, using an acronym for that agreement ✔ It’s a difficult adjustment and it does require some really hard discussions, she said


Drop sanctions & reach out to Russia or drive it into China’s embrace – France’s Sarkozy

11/3/2018, 7:46:30 PM
Europe should reach out to Russia and abandon “counterproductive” economic sanctions – or risk seeing it drifting further towards China, former president of France Nicolas Sarkozy has warned, in a candid interview. ✔ READ MORE: Common ground on Syria: What France, Germany, Turkey & Russia agreed in Istanbul He also suggested that a supranational organization should be created, bringing together Europe, Russia and Turkey – a country stuck in a long-simmering spat with Brussels over its EU accession bid


Fleeing Isis militants sell Yazidi captives to fund escape from terror group

11/3/2018, 6:35:46 PM
Militants desperate to escape the crumbling caliphate have made millions of dollars to fund their flight selling back their slaves to desperate families, writes Bel Trew ✔ Smuggling costs – sometimes separate to the funds demanded by Isis – have also shot up as the journey has become longer and riskier ✔ In the past, a 10-man team would ask for just $2,000 to buy gas, weapons, food, satellite phone, and other equipment ✔ *All the names have been changed to protect the identities of the interviewees


Erdogan says Turkey discussing Halkbank with U.S. after Trump call

11/3/2018, 6:12:35 PM
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he and President Donald Trump had disc... ✔ The Turkish president said he and Trump discussed Halkbank in a call on Thursday and the U.S. president told him he would instruct the relevant ministers immediately, without specifying what the president had promised to do ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Trump has disgraced US prestige

11/3/2018, 5:27:18 PM
Khamenei says Iran has defeated the US in what he called its 40-year challenge against the Islamic republic. ✔ The challenge between the U.S. and Iran has lasted for 40 years so far and the U.S. has made various efforts against us: military, economic and media warfare ✔ Syria was the only country that supported Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, when the United States and the Europeans gave outlawed chemical weapons to Iraq to use on the Iranians


Troops dispatched by Trump install razor wire on Mexico border in 'political stunt' days ahead of midterm elections

11/3/2018, 6:35:45 PM
Up to 7,000 troops are due to head south ✔ Addressing supporters in Sao Paulo, Haddad did not concede or even mention Bolsonaro by name ✔ Martin Dempsey, another former general and onetime JSC chairman, said on Twitter, the border operation was a wasteful deployment of over-stretched soldiers and marines


Opinion | Trump’s racist closing argument

11/3/2018, 5:36:21 PM
The real threat to America comes not from the caravan but from Trump’s assault on our democratic norms. ✔ He has even said that the troops would be expected to shoot people throwing rocks a violation of the laws of war ✔ Republicans who do not denounce Trump’s racist tactics and even imitate them will never escape the stench of this year’s campaign as long as they live


Japanese towns that thrive on once-abundant squid suffer as numbers decline at alarming rate

11/3/2018, 4:51:11 PM
Takashi Odajima picked up a cracked and faded photograph and dusted it off with his sleeve. He smiled a little sadly at the image from long ago, back when ✔ HAKODATE, HOKKAIDO – Takashi Odajima picked up a cracked and faded photograph and dusted it off with his sleeve ✔ Now, it takes them almost 50 days to catch that much ✔ Outside, leaning against the mall’s glass façade, Odajima was happy for the moment, at least


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