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Ukraine rebel regions vote in polls slammed by Kiev and the West

11/11/2018, 8:23:26 PM
The rebel-held regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine voted on Sunday to elect local heads of government. ✔ I was afraid of going to vote, Natalya, a 61-year-old retiree who lives on the outskirts of Donetsk told the AFP news agency ✔ In a statement on Twitter on Sunday, he referred to the rebel-held regions as a second-rate police state run by crooks and thugs, all subsidised by Russian taxpayers ✔ In the Field Eastern Ukraine: Enduring the suffering of war


DR Congo opposition picks little known joint presidential candidate

11/11/2018, 8:06:24 PM
Seven opposition leaders from the DR Congo on Sunday picked little known lawmaker Martin Fayulu as their joint candidate for long delayed presidential elections at the end of December when Joseph Kabila stands down after ruling for 18 years. ✔ Seven opposition leaders from the DR Congo on Sunday picked little known lawmaker Martin Fayulu as their joint candidate for long delayed presidential elections at the end of December when Joseph Kabila stands down after ruling for 18 years ✔ Kabila, 47, has been in power since 2001 at the helm of a regime with a reputation for corruption, incompetence and human rights abuses


Dan Crenshaw sacrifices one more time

11/11/2018, 11:39:03 PM
The “war to end all wars,” for many of us, is also the “forgotten war.” ✔ But what of that First World War, the war that ended with Armistice Day 100 years ago Sunday ✔ It was a war that introduced the world to intractable trench warfare, where enemies dug in to hold the line or die trying ✔ A soldier had to survive bullets and mortars, as well as disease and starvation ✔ • Contact Charles Hurt at [email protected] or on Twitter @charleshurt


Doctor Who Recap: Demons in India and threat of partition

11/11/2018, 8:47:51 PM
This week's Doctor Who saw a demon presence collide with an all-to-real international conflict, as we saw the reality of the 1947 India partition ✔ Doctor Who has never shied away from showing the brutal nature of some of history's most catastrophic events ✔ What followed was the biggest mass migration in human history, along with sexual violence, mutilation, torture and abductions ✔ In a show of loyalty to his new nation, he orders armed forces to come and gun Prem down for choosing to instead marry a woman of Islam


After a weekend in Paris, President Trump faces challenges back home

11/11/2018, 10:16:49 PM
After attending ceremonies in Paris, President Donald Trump returns to face a political maelstrom in Washington, D.C. ✔ Hours before, Erdogan had said he provided the United States and other countries with audio tapes demonstrating Saudi complicity in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi ✔ You may also want to view these photo galleries: Replay Last SlideNext Slide


DRC opposition picks Martin Fayulu as presidential candidate

11/11/2018, 8:23:25 PM
Opposition leaders selected 62-year-old legislator as joint candidate for presidential elections in December 23. ✔ The meeting included two heavyweights - former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba and ex-Provincial Governor Moise Katumbi - who have both been barred from standing in the long-delayed December 23 election ✔ The country has been struggling with various internal conflicts, which have forced millions of people from their homes ✔ UpFront DR Congo: Does Kabila intend to stay in power


Veteran mocked by Pete Davidson on SNL mocks Pete Davidson on SNL

11/11/2018, 8:18:39 PM
Texas Congressman-Elect and Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw got in some good jabs, but made peace with the comic. ✔ And then he took a few cracks at Davidson's photo, joking that the comic looks like if the meth from Breaking Bad is a person ✔ Catch up on Alexa's upgraded home How To • How to sell your old Amazon Echo News • I just bought an Amazon Echo Dot for $1


‘Left to count their dead’: Striking report breaks MSM silence on plight of ‘liberated’ Raqqa

11/11/2018, 9:43:41 PM
Entire families perished in US-led strikes on Raqqa that may have claimed more civilian lives than those of ISIS, NPR said in a shocking report tilting the Western media narrative on what has become of the “liberated” city. ✔ The rescue workers’ findings, which they document in meticulous notes shown to NPR, point to an offensive that killed many more civilians than it did ISIS members, and where the majority of those civilians likely died in American airstrikes ✔ A shadow of its former self, the ruined city still smells of decomposing bodies and is strewn with IS landmines that hamper reconstruction efforts


Moment German President joined the Royals to remember fallen soldiers

11/11/2018, 11:00:28 PM
ROBERT HARDMAN: 'For the first time in history, the old foe was in pride of place at the most sacred event in our national calendar.' ✔ 'I don't like to cry, but this event always brings tears to my eyes,' he said ✔ After much glad- handing of world leaders and energetic striding around in front of the television cameras at the Arc de Triomphe, he delivered a speech on the perils of nationalism ✔ As the inscription in our war cemeteries declares: 'Their name liveth for evermore.' And so it shall


Wife of Wounded Warrior Writes Children's Book to Help Daughters Understand Their Dad's Injuries

11/11/2018, 8:06:23 PM
Sarah Verardo wrote a book to show other families what life is like after a soldier comes home severely wounded ✔ RELATED : Veteran with ALS Inspires 20 Years After Diagnosis: ‘I Don’t Think About Being a Sad Person’ Sarah who is an executive director at the Independence Fund, a nonprofit that helps wounded veterans and their caregivers wanted to create a story that illustrated her family


GoFundMe page raises £56,000 for homeless 'trolley man' who rammed ISIS knife attacker during Melbourne terror attack

11/11/2018, 10:16:38 PM
WELLWISHERS have raised more than £56,000 for the homeless “trolley man” who rammed an ISIS knife attacker during the Melbourne terror attack. Michael Rogers, 46, lept into action when Hassan Khali… ✔ The trolley appeared to startle Ali before the man who pushed it tripped and fell to the ground ✔ The terrorist then ran across the road, followed by police, as Michael got up and gave chase, pushing his cart towards the attacker a second time ✔ A version of this story originally appeared on News.com.au


These British Women Narrowly Escaped Being Forced Into Marriage As Children. They Say The Government Must Act Now

11/11/2018, 10:08:23 PM
A Tory MP has put forward a bill to increase the legal age of marriage to 18, which campaigners say will close a loophole and save girls from forced marriages. Ministers, however, are unlikely to support it. ✔ However: It’s only going to delay the situation by a couple of years if you really want to do it, you’re going to do it, and if you want to get married, you’ve got a whole lifetime together ✔ The government has not seen evidence of any connection between forced marriage and the marriages of people of 16 and 17 years in England and Wales with the appropriate consents


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