Breakaway Ukraine republics vote for new leaders
11/11/2018, 10:03:14 AMundefined ✔ Ukraine: On the front line of Europe’s forgotten war The warring sides have accused each other of plotting to flare up fighting during the vote ✔ Late last year he staged a coup-styled takeover of power from Igor Plotnitsky, who then fled for Russia after multiple assassination attempts
World War I was not the 'war to end all war,' but it was the beginning of the end
11/11/2018, 11:11:44 AMThe worst prediction of the last century -- that World War I was "the war to end all war'' -- looks better in this one. ✔ This, the greatest of all wars, is not just another war,’’ Wells argued ✔ Wells’ dream was as dead as the 20,000 Britons lost on the first morning of the Battle of the Somme ✔ You may also want to view these photo galleries: Replay Last SlideNext Slide
Fighting in Yemen city of Hodeidah reaches residential streets
11/11/2018, 11:37:14 AMHuthi insurgents mount fierce resistance to Saudia-backed government forces ✔ Aid groups have urged warring parties to keep the port open ✔ Other rights groups believe the toll may be five times as high ✔ The conflict has triggered what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 14 million Yemenis at risk of starvation
It was never quiet on the Eastern Front. Still isn't
11/11/2018, 11:25:20 AMSomething has always been missing from our popular understanding of the World War I armistice of 100 years ago. It didn't stop the fighting on the eastern front, which went on and on. ✔ The peoples of the former Romanov empire saw more than 10 times as many people killed and wounded during the multitiered Russian Civil War (and the related Volga famine of 1921) as during the First World War ✔ It is, however, a worldview rooted in hard historical lessons that we would be wise to heed
Iraq rail service back on track after war with Islamic State
11/11/2018, 9:15:51 AMAt Baghdad's grand but half-empty railway station, a single train is sputte... ✔ Sometimes it runs out of fuel on the journey, or has technical failures, Mohammed said ✔ Abdul Sittar Muhsin, a media official for the national operator Iraqi Republic Railways, said the company was in dire need of funding to keep the service running ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
President snubs war graves visit 'because of rain' after public spat
11/11/2018, 8:43:50 AMMr Trump and First Lady Melania’s no-show followed a row with Mr Macron over France’s contribution to Nato. Among the furious critics was Winston Churchill's grandson. ✔ Although low cloud apparently prevented the President’s Marine One helicopter from flying the 55 miles from Paris to Belleau Wood battlefield and the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial, critics wondered why the 90-minute journey couldn’t have been made by road ✔ And I think it’s very fair and it’s very important,' he said ✔ 'His good personal relationship with Emmanuel Macron provides at least some hope that progress can be made.'
Remembrance Sunday 2018: The Royals who have seen active combat - REVEALED
11/11/2018, 9:02:20 AMIT IS tradition for nearly all senior members of the Royal Family to join the armed forces and even the Queen famously did her bit as a mechanic during World War 2. However few royals actually see live combat. ✔ The future husband of the Queen enrolled in the Royal Navy and was sent to protect convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian Ocean aboard HMS Ramillies as well as shorter postings on HMS Kent and HMS Shropshire in what is now Sri Lanka
David Olusoga: ‘Black soldiers were expendable – then forgettable’
11/11/2018, 9:06:25 AMBlack and Asian troops fought beside white comrades – but after the armistice came the violent return of racial subjugation ✔ Although the guns on the western front fell silent, literally with military precision, at the striking of the 11th hour on 11 November 1918, the end of war did not mark the coming of peace ✔ The war was of its time, an era in which social Darwinian concepts of racial purity and racial degeneracy were in the ascendancy
Battle for Hodeidah: More than 40 Houthis killed in 24 hours
11/11/2018, 8:22:55 AMPro-government forces close in on rebel-held Yemeni city, killing at least 43 Houthis in ground offensive and air raids. ✔ The Pentagon had been providing refuelling capabilities for about 20 percent of the alliance's flying sorties over Yemen ✔ Weddings, funerals, schools and hospitals, as well as water and electricity plants, have been targeted, killing and wounding thousands
'We Feel Comfortable Back-to-Back': China and Russia Better Friends Than at Any Time in 400 Years of Contact
11/11/2018, 8:27:09 AM“There is no sense of threat from Russia. We feel comfortable back-to-back.” A new deep dive by Bloomberg examining the growing closeness of Russia and China as both face down increased U.S. pressures and sanctions contains some deeply revealing quotes by analysts as well as a high official in the Chinese communist government reacting to Trump's trade war. ✔ Early this year Russia ramped up its capacity to pipe crude oil to China, to about 600,000 barrels per day, which is about double the prior capability Increased coordination at the U.N ✔ This echoes precisely what President Xi affirmed to Putin during their last major summit: Both nations have to oppose unilateralism and trade protectionism, and build a new type of international relations and shared human destiny, he said
In latest trust-building step, North and South Korean military finish withdrawal from front-line guard posts - Los Angeles Times
11/11/2018, 8:10:13 AMThe North and South Korean military completed withdrawing troops and firearms from 22 front-line guard posts on Saturday as they continue to implement a wide-ranging agreement reached in September to reduce tensions across the world's most fortified border ✔ He said the ministry believes the North has also finished withdrawing personnel and weapons from 11 guard posts on the northern side of the DMZ ✔ Pyongyang insists that sanctions should be removed before there is any progress in nuclear negotiations, while Washington says they will remain until the North takes concrete steps toward irreversibly and verifiably relinquishing its weapons
At least 16 killed in Taliban attack on army base in Baghlan
11/11/2018, 11:32:52 AMAt least 12 soldiers and four tribal elders killed in an attack claimed by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's north. ✔ The latest phase of Afghanistan's decades-old war began in 2001, when the US-led troops overthrew the Taliban government in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States ✔ The meetings ended without the sides agreeing on a path to direct dialogue, the delegations from the Taliban and HPC said
Economic diplomacy
11/11/2018, 8:32:38 AMundefined ✔ He has already visited Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam ✔ It should also be noted that Moon will be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit ✔ We hope it will be an occasion to expedite the New Northern Policy, which aims for more economic cooperation with Eurasian countries
Topless protester gets close to Donald Trump's car in Paris
11/11/2018, 11:33:44 AMThe incident is likely to raise questions about security at the event attended by some 70 world leaders. ✔ Femen, an anti-war group with origins in Ukraine, frequently carries out shock protests against sexism, racism, homophobia and other social and political issues ✔ Some leaders, including Mr Trump and Mr Putin, did not participate in the march, citing security concerns
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To build bridges
11/11/2018, 8:15:48 AMundefined ✔ Then, Alfred Xuereb worked to reform of the economic-administrative structure of the Holy See in his role as the first Prelate Secretary of the Secretariat for the Economy ✔ Instead of driving a car, he rode a bicycle to the office every day ✔ Learn more about the congregation at fsp.pauline.or.kr
How love and a taste of honey brought one Indian woman’s 16-year hunger strike to an end
11/11/2018, 9:12:55 AMForce-fed through a nasal tube, human rights activist Irom Sharmila was revered by supporters. But she grew disillusioned. Then a suitor arrived from England… ✔ Journalists from around the world watched expectantly ✔ I was isolated and idolised, living on a pedestal, without voice, without feeling, she says ✔ Early in 2007, a British-Indian named Desmond Coutinho arrived in the country ✔ Manipuri society is traditional, and there is a certain way courtship should take place
Dan Crenshaw started the week as an SNL joke and ended it as a GOP star. The real story came before that.
11/11/2018, 11:29:02 AMHow the Navy SEAL with an eyepatch came out of nowhere to become his party’s most promising newcomer. ✔ The rest of his body screamed like it had been scratched open and doused in Tabasco ✔ The district has changed demographically, and is no longer as solid red as it used to be ✔ Jones, a political-science professor at Rice University, in Crenshaw’s district ✔ Staff reporter Dan Lamothe contributed to this report
‘S.N.L.’: Stressing Unity, Rep.-Elect Dan Crenshaw Accepts Pete Davidson Apology
11/11/2018, 11:40:52 AMCrenshaw, a Texas Republican, used the moment to make an earnest plea for unity. But he also had a few zingers for Davidson up his sleeve. ✔ Kate McKinnon, as Sessions, lamented that she was not prepared to be pushed out of office ✔ The show went on to celebrate such seemingly familiar programs as the preppy liberal podcast ‘Bros Save Politics’ and Blood Feud: The Cocaine Graveyards of Mexico ✔ It also gave out awards in categories like Most Jarring Transition into a Sponsor and Best Nervous White Girl in a Place She Doesn’t Belong
Veterans returning to civilian life find a more welcoming labor market
11/11/2018, 11:11:45 AMSeveral years ago, many veterans returning to civilian life struggled to find jobs. But they're finding jobs more plentiful today. This is why. ✔ But Johnson, who now lives in Chandler, Arizona, soon realized the process wasn't that difficult ✔ Branching out Veterans themselves aren't always sure which jobs they might qualify for ✔ The hidden reality is that what has happened is really good news, said Starich
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