U.S. Ends Saudi Jet Refueling Missions in Yemen Conflict
11/10/2018, 9:20:17 AMThe U.S. is stopping aerial refueling of warplanes bombing Yemen, dialing back support for a Saudi-led military coalition as criticism of the kingdom grows in Washington over the conflict’s civilian impact. ✔ A Saudi F-15 fighter jet landing at the Khamis Mushayt military airbase, some 880 kilometers from the capital, Riyadh ✔ The move comes at a fraught juncture in Saudi Arabia’s relationship with Washington ✔ Aerial refueling allows jets to strike targets at a greater distance and carry heavier payloads
Saudi-led coalition ends US refueling deal in war with Yemen
11/10/2018, 9:23:34 AMSaudi Arabia and the United States have agreed to end U.S. refuelling of aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi insurgents in Yemen, ending a divisive aspect of U.S. support to a war that has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine. ✔ by the U.S.-Saudi-Emirati coalition confirms that the American calls for a cease-fire are nothing but empty talk, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the group’s supreme revolutionary committee, wrote in a column published by the Washington Post on Friday
Civilian death toll in Yemen mounting despite US assurances
11/10/2018, 10:22:08 AMCAIRO (AP) — A database that tracks violence in Yemen shows that airstrikes by Saudi Arabia and its allies are on a pace to kill more civilians than last year. That's despite the United States' repeated claims that the coalition is taking precautions to prevent such bloodshed. The database gives an indication of the scope of the disaster wreaked in Yemen by nearly four years of civil war. At least 57,538 people - civilians and combatants - have been killed since the beginning of 2016, according to the data assembled by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED.
Pro-government forces in Yemen take hospital in strategic port city
11/10/2018, 11:46:50 AMPro-government forces fighting Huthi rebels in Yemen have taken the main hospital in the strategic Red Sea port city of Hodeida, government military officials said Saturday. ✔ Amnesty International had accused the Huthis on Thursday of deliberate militarisation of the facility after they stationed fighters on its roof ✔ A medical source told AFP on Wednesday that the rebels had forced staff out of the hospital and set up sniper positions ✔ Human rights groups say the real death toll may be five times higher
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One easy thing Facebook should do in Myanmar
11/10/2018, 11:04:52 AMIn March, human-rights investigators from the United Nations found that Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech in Myanmar, fueling ethnic violence that has spurred more than 650,000... ✔ Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy ✔ The White House used a doctored video to tell a lie Bijan Stephen has two more experts to say that yes, the Acosta video was doctored
Poppy appeal has raised £1 every second since first world war
11/10/2018, 10:40:41 AMDespite controversy, fund has brought in £3bn since 1921 and this year could see record haul ✔ The UK’s poppy appeal has raised nearly £3bn in today’s money in the 100 years since the end of the first world war, the Guardian has established, making the yearly autumn fundraiser one of the most successful street donation campaigns in the country’s history ✔ They put me back together and helped me find myself again
Yemeni forces 'seize Hodeidah's main hospital' amid air strikes
11/10/2018, 11:43:42 AMSaudi-backed Yemeni forces claim to have captured the city's May 22 hospital which was taken over by Houthi fighters. ✔ We warned that the violence would see another half a million people flee their homes, and it did ✔ Concerned by the rise of Houthis, a US-backed Saudi-UAE military coalition intervened in 2015 with a massive air campaign aimed at reinstalling Hadi's government ✔ Weddings, funerals, schools and hospitals, as well as water and electricity plants have been targeted, killing and wounding thousands
Macron, Trump meet ahead of World War I commemoration
11/10/2018, 10:26:46 AMFrench President Emmanuel Macron is set to meet with his US counterpart Saturday ahead of a ceremony to be attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders to commemorate the end of World War I. ✔ Macron and Trump are to meet at the Élysée Palace at around 11am (1000 GMT) Saturday for bilateral talks on issues expected to include Syria and Iran before lunching with Melania and Macron’s wife Brigitte ✔ Macron will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the site, in a visit symbolising the close ties between two countries that fought three wars between 1870 and 1945
Poppy Sellers suffering wore abuse than ever: ‘We don’t deserve this’
11/10/2018, 10:51:14 AMWAR hero poppy sellers are suffering worsening levels of abuse. ✔ Mr Thomson said: I have had people say 'no' or tell me they haven't any change, which is a nice way of saying they don't want one - that's fine ✔ He added: The Poppy Appeal helps the widows, the children who have lost a mother, a father - that's what it's for
How can we betray the debt we owe to our brave Forces? asks STEPHEN POLLARD
11/10/2018, 11:45:40 AMEVERY Remembrance Sunday is special. Once a year, the nation stops whatever it is doing and goes quiet to commemorate those brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for their country. ✔ But there is a bigger point behind its behaviour - the fact that it was a budget cut that led it to stop treatment ✔ Most often, the conclusion to a piece such as this is that the solution is about more than money ✔ In the end, in this case, it really does all boil down to money
She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life
11/10/2018, 10:54:50 AMLindsey Hilsum’s “In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin” is a powerful portrait of a woman drawn to danger — and truth. ✔ I had first met this acclaimed journalist in the Albanian mountain town of Kukes in April 1999, during the Kosovo war ✔ She struggled to breathe, regretting every cigarette she had smoked, Hilsum writes in an excruciatingly vivid account ✔ Now, thanks to Hilsum’s deeply reported and passionately written book, she has the full accounting that she deserves
How to Be a Reliable ‘Mainstream’ Journalist
11/10/2018, 10:18:49 AMThere are certain rules you need to follow as a journalist if you are going to demonstrate to your editors, and the media owners who employ you, that you can be trusted. ✔ That was the year Iranian students started a 444-day occupation of the US embassy in Tehran ✔ She added: 'Although the Swedish probe was ultimately terminated, Assange remains confined ✔ Or would you rather keep the public in the dark about the extent of UK government complicity in #Yemen's nightmare?' As ever, the BBC did not respond
Afghan pilot writes touching letter to wife of slain Utah mayor
11/10/2018, 11:20:51 AM“He died for the success of freedom,” the officer wrote of Maj. Brent R. Taylor, who was killed in an insider attack this month. ✔ By Sharif Hassan Sharif Hassan Reporter covering Afghanistan Email Bio Follow November 10 at 6:00 AM KABUL When Maj ✔ (Rick Egan/Salt Lake Tribune via AP) Taylor, a Purple Heart recipient, had deployed twice in Iraq and once before in Afghanistan
Trump meets Macron at Élysée after slamming him in arrival tweet
11/10/2018, 10:12:13 AMTrump is meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron this morning at Élysée Palace in Paris after slamming his Friday night in a tweet seconds after landing at Orly in Air Force One. ✔ ‘The President's participation in these events will also serve as the reminder of the important role that the United States has played and continues to play in ensuring peace and security in Europe,’ a senior official said ✔ He insisted later that he meant it to be a laugh line for friends in the room
Trump-Macron spat ahead of WWI visit
11/10/2018, 9:16:27 AMThe US president attacks his French counterpart's calls for an EU army ahead of talks in Paris. ✔ Visiting heads of state will gather for a dinner in Paris in the evening ✔ The status of this proposed meeting has changed repeatedly in recent weeks ✔ The two men may meet at a lunch for world leaders on Sunday, but it remains to be seen if a more formal discussion will ultimately materialise
BRICS After Bolsonaro Will Be Much Like BRICS Before Bolsonaro
11/10/2018, 9:15:20 AMBRICS is the acronym of the “alliance” that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In reality, and with all due respect to Brazil and South Africa, BRICS is about RIC. With Russia, India and China, in any order, there lies the future of Eurasia; the virtually unchartered quarter that houses over one third of the entire world population; a huge chunk of landmass, rich in resources, not only human resources, and just waiting for the right moment to make its mark in history. ✔ They certainly cannot use democracy; not only because such an adoption would make them look as copycats, but also because they have different ideas about democracy, and Russia and China definitely do not endorse Western-style democracy ✔ These are the real challenges facing the BRICS alliance now; not the Bolsonaro win
Trump and Macron meet amid tensions over Macron’s military comments
11/10/2018, 11:20:00 AMThere were some visible signs of strain between the two leaders even as they exchanged warm words. ✔ By David Nakamura , David Nakamura Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow Seung Min Kim and Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow James McAuley James McAuley Foreign correspondent focusing on French and European politics and culture Email Bio Follow November 10 at 6:01 AM PARIS President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron met Saturday amid tensions over Macron’s call for a true European army remarks the U.S. president deemed very insulting moments after he landed here for World War I commemoration ceremonies this weekend ✔ On trade, Trump said that we’ve made a lot of progress; let’s see if we can get it over the line
Trump, Macron agree on European defense after European army spat
11/10/2018, 11:31:08 AMFrance's Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Saturday... ✔ Trump and Macron are set to hold around an hour of bilateral talks before they are joined by their wives, Melania and Brigitte, for lunch at the Elysee Palace ✔ It is the second time the four have dined together in Paris ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The 20 photographs of the week
11/10/2018, 8:11:19 AMThe migrant caravan in Mexico, wildfires in California, another fatal suspected stabbing in London, protests in Gaza and the US midterms 2018 – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists ✔ Photograph: Noah Berger/AP London Two youths stand after laying flowers near the scene where a 16-year-old-boy was killed the previous evening in the fifth fatal stabbing in London in a week.The victim was found with stab wounds in Tulse Hill after police were called to reports of a shooting in Greenleaf Close at 10.53pm on Monday
Macron's AWKWARD attempt to defend 'INSULTING' call for EU Army as he greets Donald Trump
11/10/2018, 11:57:35 AMEMMANUEL Macron has attempted to defend his call for "more EU defence" as he greeted Donald Trump in Paris on Saturday after the US President branded his call for a European Army as "insulting". ✔ Macron defends his call for a European Army as he greets Trump in Paris (Image: RUPTLY) Macron and Donald Trump meet in Paris ahead of the Sunday WW1 commemoration event (Image: RUPTLY) Because it means more Europe in NATO and more capacity in order to take our part of the burden
Bourke Street terrorist was a tradesman living in a bungalow
11/10/2018, 9:17:39 AMHassan Khalif Shire Ali, 30, is believed to have lived in the backyard of a young family's home in Meadow Heights for about a year before he went on a knife rampage through Burke Street on Friday. ✔ 'It's a complex and challenging business working on these threats on a daily basis the assessment was that he wasn't a threat at that time ✔ November 7, 2018: Gargasoulas' trial begins in Melbourne ✔ November 8, 2018: Gargasoulas pleads not guilty to all 33 charges against him, including murder
Trump, Macron gloss over differences in France after rough start
11/10/2018, 10:36:25 AMUS President Donald Trump began his 48-hour visit to Paris on Saturday meeting with his host, French President Emmanuel Macron, a onetime friend who he chided on Twitter within minutes of landing in the French capital. ✔ When I see President Trump announcing that he's quitting a major disarmament treaty which was formed after the 1980s euro-missile crisis that hit Europe, who is the main victim ✔ Macron has been advocating a similar position for months ✔ CNN's Maegan Vazquez and Michelle Kosinski contributed to this report
Bourke Street attacker: Hassan Khalif Shire Ali 'delusional, agitated' before deadly rampage
11/10/2018, 11:04:55 AMHassan Khalif Shire Ali believed he was being chased by "unseen people with spears" as he grew increasingly agitated and delusional in the weeks before he went on deadly knife rampage in Bourke Street. ✔ He appeared agitated, one neighbour told The Age ✔ I’d often see the father and would wave to him across the street but they mostly kept to themselves ✔ They were always playing in the street and laughing .. ✔ As police packed and left, the blinds of the house remained drawn
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