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U.S. halting refueling of Saudi-led coalition aircraft in Yemen's war

11/10/2018, 3:41:20 AM
The United States is halting refueling of aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition ... ✔ Mattis said the United States would play a continuing role to help the Saudi-led coalition and Yemeni forces minimize civilian casualties and expand humanitarian efforts ✔ He also suggested plans to build up Yemeni troops ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Melbourne attacker had passport cancelled in 2015 because he wanted to fight for Isis

11/10/2018, 2:23:40 AM
Police say that while Hassan Khalif Shire Ali had held radicalised views, he was not seen as a threat to national security ✔ Shire Ali, drove a 4x4 vehicle loaded with gas bottles into the city centre, ignited the vehicle into a ball of flames and then attacked passers-by with a knife ✔ The assessment was made that while he held radicalised views he did not pose a threat in relation to national security, McCartney said ✔ Morrison is expected to travel to Canberra for security briefings on Sunday afternoon



Trump's trade war could dent China's domestic consumption, dragging down the rest of Asia

11/10/2018, 2:59:18 AM
Asian countries' exports are potentially vulnerable to the U.S.-China trade war on two fronts: changes to global supply chains and slowing Chinese domestic demand. ✔ Nelson Ching | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Chinese flag flies on a vessel moving past shipping containers being unloaded at a Tianjin Port Group Co. dock in Tianjin, China ✔ In any case, given the significance of its impact on most or all Asian economies, the U.S.-China trade war is likely to remain negative for the region over the coming two years, Kuijs said



DOMINIC SANDBROOK says Europe's balance of power could be lost again

11/10/2018, 1:54:47 AM
A hundred years on, a return to the days of great alliances and superpower blocs seems unlikely. But we would be deluded to imagine that we have left war behind for ever. ✔ Deep in the heart of the Compiegne Forest, in north-eastern France, there stands a handsome two-storey building ✔ We know where that mentality leads: from confrontation to confrontation, ending in the charnel house of the trenches ✔ That carriage in the museum at Compiegne is a replica



Trump Has Only Sticks, No Carrots

11/10/2018, 12:45:35 AM
This administration’s entire foreign policy relies on sanctions. But that’s not coercing anyone — it’s isolating America. ✔ The Trump administration imposed crippling sanctions on Iran on Monday in a widely anticipated slap at the country ✔ 25, adding that responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty not just from global governance, but also from other new forms of coercion and domination



Melbourne knife attacker inspired by Islamic State, police say

11/10/2018, 2:50:20 AM
A Somali-born man who set fire to a truck laden with gas cylinders in the center... ✔ Shire Ali stabbed bystanders and attacked police while his utility truck carrying barbecue gas cylinders burned on busy Bourke Street, (tmsnrt.rs/2Qu5stX) The cylinders did not explode and the fire was put out in 10 minutes, by which point the attack was over, though not before one man was fatally stabbed



Meet the 30-year-old woman rebuilding Raqqa after Isis

11/10/2018, 2:23:47 AM
In the first part of a new series from Syria, Richard Hall meets Leila Mustafa, who watched the city she grew up in taken over by Isis and destroyed. Now, the 30-year-old civil engineer is back to rebuild ✔ And while the US has shown little interest in supporting the Kurdish-led autonomous project in Syria, its presence has kept at bay those forces that would see it destroyed: Turkey, which sees any Kurdish attempts at self-rule as a threat to its hold over its own Kurdish land, and the Syrian government, which has promised to bring the entire country back under its control



Trump jabs Macron as he arrives in France for Armistice visit

11/10/2018, 2:16:06 AM
The president arrived in Paris for events marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I ✔ President Trump wasted no time taking a jab at his French counterpart Friday as he arrived in Paris for events marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I ✔ And we look forward to that, Mr. Trump told reporters Friday before leaving the White House



MH17 bereaved, including Australians, call on Trump to shirtfront Putin

11/10/2018, 3:41:32 AM
On Armistice Day, at a new forum dedicated to peace, it's time for Putin to own up to Russia's role in the MH17 tragedy. ✔ We call on you to try and convince him that it is never too later for redemption ✔ We just hope that – just as people – they can put politics aside for just one moment and acknowledge that this is not the way decent people should be acting in this world



Trump blames Thousand Oaks shooting on ex-Marine's PTSD - Los Angeles Times

11/10/2018, 2:25:38 AM
President Trump on Friday called the ex-Marine suspected as the gunman in this week's Thousand Oaks killings "very sick," and in the telling seemed to suggest that all returning combat veterans suffer from mental illness: "They come back, and they're never the same," he said. ✔ They perpetuate a false and damaging narrative that veterans are broken and dangerous ✔ And he slapped back when asked about former First Lady Michelle Obama’s contention in her forthcoming book that she would never forgive him for endangering her children by promoting his birther conspiracy that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States. ✔ I'll give you a little controversy back: I'll never forgive him for what he did to our United States military by not funding it properly, he said



Forces KNEW Melbourne terrorist had links to terror organisations

11/10/2018, 1:09:14 AM
Mohamed Khalif crashed his car on Melbourne's Bourke Street before setting it on fire, knifing bystanders and slashing at police officers who tried to stop him at around 4.20pm on Friday. ✔ and the passers-by whose first instinct was to go to the aid of others.'  A man caught a birds eye view of the explosion, recording the car bursting into flames from his bedroom window  Witnesses said the Holden Rodeo hit a pedestrian as it mounted the kerb and burst into flames outside Target near the Swanson Street intersection about 4.20pm on Friday, before the stabbing rampage began The man was quickly arrested on the pavement by two officers in front of shocked pedestrians who stood back to film it Victoria Police said officers responded to reports of a car fire before they were confronted by the man



Killed by the husband and father they were trying to flee

11/10/2018, 12:18:46 AM
Claire Hart, aged 50, and her daughter Charlotte, aged 19, were shot dead by husband and father Lance Hart in Spalding in 2016. Here, sons and brothers Luke and Ryan reveal their heartache. ✔ I was escorted to a private room, where I gave them a rapid summary of our home life with our father ✔ Yet, among all the utter exhaustion, came a faint sense of peace ✔ To order a copy for £10.39 (offer valid to Nov 15, 2018), visit www.mailshop.co.uk/books or call 0844 571 0640



Trump rankles veterans with comments about PTSD and California shooter

11/10/2018, 12:31:07 AM
Veterans and mental health advocates say president’s remarks were unhelpful in effort to remove the condition’s stigmas. ✔ Williams said veterans come home from combat changed often in good ways, with a greater eagerness to be engaged with their communities and their country, and while there can be correlation with PTSD and increased anger and aggression, it’s unethical and dangerous to encourage Americans to be afraid of veterans because of their combat experiences and suggest they return home damaged



Saudi Arabia MURDER: Regime's defence AT RISK as arms deal withdrawn after Khashoggi death

11/10/2018, 2:03:08 AM
SAUDI ARABIA risks being left with depleted defences following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after licenses for weapons to the country were denied. ✔ Saudi Arabia has found itself being snubbed by allies as a result of their horrific actions ✔ Shortly after the murder, he said: They had a very bad original concept, it was carried out poorly, and the cover-up was one of the worst in the history of cover-ups



Scenes of anarchy on streets of Sheffield where Roma kids 'strike at resident'

11/10/2018, 2:32:52 AM
ALONE in the afternoon gloom of a Sheffield street, householder Sharon Hall is surrounded by a group of Roma children brandishing home-made whips. I hear one child scream at her to “f*** off”, then… ✔ I’ve rung the police 15 or 20 times in the past few months ✔ Times Newspapers Ltd 10 Roma living conditions in Slovakia are poor and there aren't many opportunities for them They tell me to keep reporting what happens to them ✔ RING The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL exclusive@the-sun.co.uk



The US and Japan finished their 'largest and most complex' military exercise, amid rising tensions with China

11/10/2018, 2:17:17 AM
The US and Japan finished the biennial exercise Keen Sword this week, as both face China over disputed areas of the South and East China seas. ✔ It comes amid growing tension with China in the seas and airspace of East Asia ✔ US Air Force crew members fly a C-130J Super Hercules over Kyushu, Japan, during Keen Sword 19, Nov. 4, 2018 ✔ These exercises are key because this is what keeps us ready to 'fight tonight,' Somers added



Arriving in Paris, Trump wastes no time assailing French President Macron - Los Angeles Times

11/10/2018, 12:22:52 AM
Arriving in France on Friday, President Trump tweeted that French President Emmanuel Macron had made an "insulting" proposal to build up Europe's military to counter the U.S., China and Russia. ✔ The White House and the Kremlin had previously considered a formal meeting in Paris ✔ At the same time, Macron has increasingly been positioning himself as a leader in the resistance to the rising tide of Trump-style populism across Europe, speaking out loudly against the dangers of nationalism and isolationist retreat



Opinion | Mike Pence: The United States seeks collaboration, not control, in the Indo-Pacific

11/10/2018, 12:54:37 AM
Our nation’s security and prosperity depend on this vital region. ✔ Under our Indo-Pacific strategy, the United States will continue to work with like-minded nations to confront the most urgent threats facing the region, from nuclear proliferation to extremism and terrorism ✔ Kaplan: How President Trump is helping Beijing win in the South China Sea



PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Camilla's virtues have won me over finally

11/10/2018, 1:54:51 AM
Devoted to good causes, a loving father and grandfather, Charles had shed the angst that once seemed to bedevil him and was clearly determined to make his time as king-in-waiting worthwhile. ✔ She also brandished a badge calling for equal pay for women, and railed against ‘holiday hunger’, where children can’t afford to eat during the holidays ✔ Former Lance Corporal Sean Laidlaw, 30, says: ‘It may come across that I saved Barrie’s life, but I feel like she saved mine.’ Any pet lover will understand that



Is the financial system broken?

11/10/2018, 12:19:51 AM
undefined ✔ At the height of the financial crisis, Adair Turner, then head of the UK’s financial regulator, dared to suggest that the sector he oversaw had become swollen and addicted to socially useless activities ✔ Bullough is best when he deploys traditional shoe-leather journalism



Two Republican former AGs raise questions on Trump's naming Matthew Whitaker to lead Justice Department

11/10/2018, 12:10:44 AM
Two former AGs raise questions about Whitaker appointment at Justice ✔ I don't know Matt Whitaker, Trump said in his first public remarks since the appointment ✔ The news comes a day after Hicks was interviewed for nine hours by the panel investigating Russia interference in the 2016 election and contact between Trump's campaign and Russia ✔ J. SCOTT APPELWHITE/AP Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide



Thousand Oaks gunman had a history of angry outbursts

11/10/2018, 3:37:37 AM
Some who knew Ian David Long in high school say his aggressive behavior predated his time in the military. ✔ The violence in Thousand Oaks where the victims included an 18-year-old who had just started college, a sheriff’s deputy who rushed in to confront the shooter and a Navy veteran who survived last year’s mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas echoed previous mass shootings throughout the country



What is the point of Prince Charles, the longest-serving heir to the throne?

11/10/2018, 2:23:49 AM
The Prince of Wales has always been the odd royal out. He spent his youth surfing on the margins of society, before floundering on the seas of a troubled marriage. Since then, he has taken up the only sensible function now left open to him – to offer opinions on everything under the sun. By Andy Martin ✔ Royal wedding ceremonies: through the years in pictures 1/40 Royal Wedding - Harry and Meghan, 2018 Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex emerge from the West Door of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle after their wedding ceremony AFP/Getty 2/40 Royal Wedding - Edward and Alexandra, 1863 Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), and his bride, Princess Alexandra of Denmark, after their wedding PA 3/40 Royal Wedding - Princess Patricia and Commander Alexander Ramsay, 1919 Princess Patricia of Connaught, driving from Westminster Abbey, with her husband Commander Alexander Ramsay, after their wedding ceremony PA 4/40 Royal Wedding - Elizabeth and Albert,1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later to be Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) and Prince Albert, Duke of York (later to be King George VI) on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey PA 5/40 Royal Wedding - Prince Henry and Lady Alice, 1935 The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester on their wedding day



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