For war-ravaged Yemen, few expect ‘game changer’ in Saudi-led airstrikes after U.S. ends refueling support
11/10/2018, 7:29:37 PMThe decision to stop aerial refueling of Saudi jets was welcomed as a positive step, but few expect it to have significant impact in changing the course of the war. ✔ After each airstrike, Yemenis often blame the United States in the same breath of the Saudi-led coalition for their tragedies ✔ The question now is: Will this be enough to satisfy Congress that the U.S. cannot be held responsible for errant airstrikes, or is it just a first step to further measures
Pentagon to halt aircraft refueling assistance to Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen - Los Angeles Times
11/10/2018, 7:41:16 PMU.S. involvement in the refueling and other support to the coalition has led to charges the U.S. was complicit in war crimes ✔ But the move is likely to have little effect on the Saudi-led air campaign, since only one-fifth of Saudi-led coalition aircraft require U.S. in-air refueling help, officials said ✔ A cutoff might embolden the Houthis, who have fired missiles at Saudi Arabia and targeted commercial and military vessels off Yemen’s coast, he argued
Remembrance Day: The legacy of First World War poetry
11/10/2018, 4:18:32 PMWilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon captured the barbarity of war. Now Carol Ann Duffy has released an anthology, and it broadens our understanding of what war poetry can be, says Ceri Radford ✔ In a similar vein Dorothy Parker, best known for her flip epigrams, imagines Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, stranded a long way from heroism: I shall sit at home and, and rock; Rise, to heed a neighbour’s knock; Brew my tea, and snip my thread; Bleach the linen for my bed
Macron and Merkel lay wreath at WW1 armistice site
11/10/2018, 4:03:48 PMFrench President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday laid a wreath and unveiled a ceremonial plaque at a war memorial in eastern France where the armistice was signed ending World War I. ✔ President Macron of France has just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the US, China and Russia, the US president tweeted, referring to remarks made by Macron three days earlier ✔ The events cap a week packed with symbolism, with memorials held across the world for a conflict that claimed around 18 million lives and involved more than 70 current-day nations
Remembering World War I, 100 Years Later
11/10/2018, 7:24:46 PMNov. 11 marks 100 years since the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. Readers share how their families commemorated the centennial. ✔ We asked readers to tell us how their families commemorated the centennial ✔ They captured three outposts before they realized they were surrounded on three sides ✔ Please email thoughts and suggestions to atwar@nytimes.com ✔ Read more from At War here or follow us on Twitter
US denies 'Cold War' with China as summit buildup quickens
11/10/2018, 6:41:16 PMBut renewed security talks underscore divide on South China Sea and Taiwan ✔ Pompeo, Yang, Mattis and Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe to part in the talks, which were originally scheduled for October, but was postponed due to mounting tensions over trade, as well as U.S. sanctions against Chinese military officials ✔ They have not discussed the topic since a working-level meeting in late August
Salomón Rondón’s double against Bournemouth keeps Newcastle going forward
11/10/2018, 5:43:35 PMVenezuela striker gives Newxastle second win in two weeks as they hold on for a 2-1 win after Jefferson Lerma pulled one back for Bournemouth ✔ If Salomón Rondón can stay fit Newcastle United will surely stay up ✔ His second goal was an imperiously powerful flying header, directed beyond Begovic in the wake of Ki Sung-yueng’s excellent crossfield pass and Kenedy’s fine left-wing cross ✔ Nathan Ake, supposedly marking Newcastle’s centre forward, was comprehensively out-leapt
Trump and Macron bond in Paris after trading barbs - Los Angeles Times
11/10/2018, 6:25:18 PMFrench President Emmanuel Macron offered pomp and warm words to President Trump Saturday but did not back down from comments he made earlier in the week that Trump called “very insulting.” ✔ Macron set off the friction before Trump’s arrival by telling Europe 1 radio that the European Union needs a real army so that it could rely less on the United States, while criticizing Trump’s vow to withdraw from the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty with Russia, a major arms control pact from 1987 ✔ The European Union has already stepped up spending and planning for more military cooperation within the continent ✔ The White House has said Trump has no plans to meet with Putin beyond a greeting
Donald Trump's executive order to limit asylum being challenged in court
11/10/2018, 7:04:48 PMMigrant caravan in Mexico still several hundred miles from US border ✔ Undocumented immigration across the US-Mexico border Show all 14 left Created with Sketch ✔ Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds At various times he referred to them as criminals and groups which contain unknown Middle Easterners ✔ After several challenges from federal courts, it was upheld by the Supreme Court earlier in the year
Merkel And Macron Embraced At WW1 Memorial But Trump Couldn't Visit A Different Cemetery Due To Bad Weather
11/10/2018, 6:48:24 PMTrump's visit was reportedly cancelled because his helicopters can't fly in bad weather. ✔ A German leader had not visited the site since WWII, according to Agence France-Presse ✔ And now he won't honor the fallen at a World War I cemetery because of a little rain, he said ✔ That’s why I do believe that we need more European capacities, more European defense, in order to take this part of the burden
Naked FEMEN protesters dragged away by police outside Arc de Triomphe
11/10/2018, 5:59:48 PMWith the words 'Fake Peacemakers' written on their bare chests, three female protesters demonstrated in front of the Paris monument where Donald Trump and Angela Merkel visited. ✔ French news reports said police quickly took the protesters away ✔ Here, the women continue to hold up the signs even mid-arrest The organization became internationally known for organizing controversial topless protests against sex tourism, religious institutions, sexism, homophobia, and other social, national, and international topics ✔ Exiled in France since 2013, she had since left the group and was working as an artist
Trump says California gunman who killed 12 was 'very sick puppy'
11/10/2018, 4:42:18 PMGunman Ian David Long walked into Borderline Bar and Grill and opened fire on dancing college students, before apparently killing himself ✔ Stunned bystanders wait for news after the mass shooting (Image: MIKE NELSON/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) Two women wearing blankets leave the area near the bar (Image: EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) One of the dead, Telemachus Orfanos, had survived the mass shooting at a country music concert in October 2017 in Las Vegas that killed 58 people, the worst such incident in modern U.S. history, ABC News said, citing a friend
Newcastle news: Rafa Benitez reveals what Salomon Rondon must improve after Bournemouth
11/10/2018, 6:23:07 PMNEWCASTLE boss Rafa Benitez has called on Salomon Rondon to improve his fitness after his match-winning display against Bournemouth. ✔ Newcastle boss Rafa Benitez wants Salomon Rondon to improve his fitness (Pic: GETTY) Rondon, who arrived from West Brom on a season-long loan deal in the summer, opened his Premier League account for the Magpies with a brace in the 2-1 victory against Eddie Howe’s high-flying side ✔ We did well, they have pace and ability up front but we had to take chances and finish the game
Turkey’s President Says Recording of Khashoggi’s Killing Given to U.S.
11/10/2018, 4:02:48 PMThe recordings would be another piece of evidence in the October killing of the dissident by Saudi agents in the country’s consulate in Istanbul. ✔ He was speaking to reporters before flying to Paris for an international gathering to commemorate the end of World War I ✔ Turkey has said Saudi Arabia sent a 15-member team to kill Mr. Khashoggi and dispose of his body ✔ Mr. Trump has vowed severe consequences, but resisted canceling arms sales despite bipartisan pressure from Congress
Bar gunman apparently paused during massacre to make Instagram post
11/10/2018, 5:36:03 PMAt least one social media post Ian Long made after beginning the massacre has emerged as an early focus ✔ -- Authorities trying to make sense of why a gunman killed 12 people at a Southern California bar are not publicly discussing what they've learned, but at least one social media post he made after beginning the massacre has emerged as an early focus ✔ Dominique Colell, who coached girls' track and field at the high school where Long was a sprinter, remembers an angry young man who could be verbally and physically combative
Emmanuel Macron touches 'friend' Donald Trump's knee after US president blasted his idea for an EU army to defend Europe from America as ‘very insulting’
11/10/2018, 4:59:40 PMDONALD Trump cancelled his Remembrance Day visit to a WW1 cemetery to mark the Armistice Centenary because of rain. The White House said “bad weather” had created “logistical diff… ✔ Reuters 13 The first wives also met one another Reuters 13 Brigitte Macron and Melania Trump seemed to be on friendly terms Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the US subsidises greatly! It comes three days after the French President said the US is as big a threat to the EU as Russia and China and called for a true European army to defend the bloc
Reunited: Syrian refugee and the artist who drew him in Calais
11/10/2018, 5:27:28 PMAt a London exhibition on migrants, Olivier Kugler and Ammar Raad meet for the first time since their 2016 encounter in a shack ✔ I had the impression people in the camp weren’t very interested in talking to me ✔ Palestinian-Syrian Mahmoud Salameh’s cartoons were inspired by 17 months spent in an Australian detention centre, while British Libyan Asia Alfasi’s manga work explores some of the issues refugees face ✔ Journeys Drawn: Illustration from the Refugee Crisis is at the House of Illustration, King’s Cross, London, until March 24; houseofillustration.org.uk
California Is Already Tough on Guns. After a Mass Shooting, Some Wonder if It’s Enough
11/10/2018, 4:51:50 PMGun control activists and politicians in the state were already weighing what more can be done, and whether existing measures could have prevented the killing. ✔ By that measure, California has been successful: It has cut its gun-death rate in half over the last 25 years, and California is among the states with the lowest rates, with 7.9 deaths per 1,000 residents in 2016, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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