North Korea keeps undeclared missile bases up and running: U.S....
11/12/2018, 10:35:01 AMA U.S. think tank said on Monday it had identified at least 13 of an estimated 2... ✔ Last week, North Korea called off a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York, and state media said on Monday the resumption of some small-scale military drills by South Korea and the United States violated a recent agreement aimed at lowering tensions on the Korean peninsula
World War 3 ALERT: North Korea’s secret missile bases - and nuclear strike could hit US
11/12/2018, 11:44:04 AMNORTH Korea has 13 secret missile bases capable of launching nuclear strikes hitting the United States, a shock report has warned as tensions between Pyongyang and Washington soar. ✔ North Korea RAGING at US as tensions peak over cancelled meetings North Korea has secret missile bases capable of launching strikes hitting the US, a report claims (Image: GETTY) Mr Bermudez wrote: North Korea's decommissioning of the Sohae satellite launch facility, while gaining much media attention, obscures the military threat to US forces and South Korea from this and other undeclared ballistic missile bases
In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception
11/12/2018, 11:39:59 AMPresident Trump says the nuclear threat from North Korea is over. New satellite images of 16 hidden ballistic missile bases suggest that it has worsened since his summit meeting. ✔ It looks like they’re trying to maximize their capabilities, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., a co-author of the report and a veteran analyst of satellite images of North Korea, said in an interview ✔ The North’s heavy reliance on missiles that can be repositioned with the changing circumstances of war is part of an effort to avoid that mistake, while giving the country a stronger hand in the game of nuclear diplomacy and brinkmanship ✔ It’s not like these things have been frozen and are decaying
California gunman Ian Long was "ticking time bomb," high school coach says
11/12/2018, 11:04:46 AM"Warning signs were there," says track coach who recalls Ian Long as "sadistic"; second coach recalls when Long mimicked shooting her ✔ -- A high school coach of the gunman who killed 12 people at a Southern California bar recalled him on Sunday as volatile and intimidating, and said repeated complaints to school administrators about his behavior failed to prompt any discipline ✔ Long rejoined the team after apologizing in front of several coaches and administrators
Bangladesh delays general election by a week to December 30
11/12/2018, 9:05:30 AMBangladesh will defer general elections by a week, to Dec. 30, a top election of... ✔ This time will give us some relief to get further preparations done ✔ The BNP, one of Bangladesh’s two main parties since 1978, boycotted the last election in 2014 that was marred by deadly violence and shunned by international observers as flawed ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Soldier outline appears on street named after rifleman killed in Afghanistan
11/12/2018, 8:18:20 AMTHE haunting outline of a soldier has appeared, marked in rain water, on a street named after a fallen rifleman. Samuel Bassett was just 20-years-old when he was killed in Afghanistan – 31 da… ✔ 4 The street was named after the fallen rifleman A third added: That is unbelievable ✔ Rifleman Samuel Bassett was serving as part of the 3rd Battalion The Rifles (3 RIFLES) Battle Group, killed as his platoon was conducting routine patrolling ✔ We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team ✔ Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368
In Riyadh, Britain's Hunt calls for Khashoggi justice, end to Yemen...
11/12/2018, 11:53:58 AMBritish foreign minister Jeremy Hunt met Saudi Arabia's King Salman in Riya... ✔ So today I am traveling to the Gulf to demand that all sides commit to this process ✔ Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says Khashoggi’s murder was ordered at the highest levels of the Saudi government ✔ After initial denials, Saudi officials acknowledged it was planned in advance but said Crown Prince Mohammed had no knowledge of the specific operation ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
List: African leaders in Paris for World War I event, peace forum
11/12/2018, 10:04:35 AMThe list of African leaders attending the event spans across the different continental blocs. It, however, has leaders of Francophone Africa in the dominant number. ✔ British Prime Minister Theresa May and Queen Elizabeth will attend a separate event in London, while New Zealand and Australia are holding their own ceremonies ✔ In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will address crowds at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Sunday morning
Perspective | Why teaching World War I is crucial in 2018
11/12/2018, 11:16:41 AMWe are living in the world the Great War made. ✔ American troops cheer on Nov. 11, 1918, after hearing the news that the Armistice had been signed, ending World War I ✔ Understanding World War I also allows students to move from seeing history as most people see it simply chronicling what happened to how historians see the past: as a matter of interpretation and re-interpretation
Children young as EIGHT are taught to fire AK-47s at nationalist camp
11/12/2018, 11:16:24 AMChildren as young as eight are being trained to defend their country from Russian invasion at a radical nationalist youth camp called Temper of will in Ukraine. ✔ A radical nationalist youth camp in Ukraine is training children to defend their country from Russian invasion ✔ Hidden in a forest in the west of the country, boys and girls are taught to carefully aim their assault rifles as their instructor offers the advice: 'Don't think of your target as a human being' ✔ Pictured: A young boy of the summer camp buttons up a camouflage shirt as he prepares for an exercise in a village near Ternopil, Ukraine
Yemenis brace for street fighting as UAE-backed troops enter Hodeida residential areas
11/12/2018, 9:48:53 AMYemeni troops, backed by the United Arab Emirates, pushed into residential areas of Hodeida Monday, sparking fears of street fighting as nearly 150 people were killed in 24 hours of clashes, according to medical and military sources. ✔ The Saudi-led alliance drove the rebels from the Yemeni coast, but have failed to retake Hodeida despite multiple attempts ✔ Nearly 600 people have been killed since clashes erupted in Hodeida on November 1, ending a temporary suspension in a government offensive to take the city that began in June ✔ Rights groups believe the toll may be five times as high
Trudeau mocks Trump for saying it was too rainy to turn out and honour the war dead
11/12/2018, 11:55:12 AMJUSTIN Trudeau braved the weather to pay an emotional tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives in World War 1, a move that fuelled criticism of Donald Trump after he didn't show up to a commemoration because of the rain. ✔ Justin Trudeau visited the Vimy Ridge War Memorial (Image: GETTY) Winston Churchill's grandson branded Donald Trump 'inadequate' (Image: TWITTER) #NeverForget William Franklin Waters ✔ Who cares about the others?’ we erase what nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great, and what is essential: its moral values
Battle for Hodeidah: 110 Houthis, 7 civilians killed in 24 hours
11/12/2018, 10:39:31 AMPro-government forces close in on port city, killing at least 110 Houthis nearly a month ahead of planned peace talks. ✔ If the port at Hodeida is destroyed, that could create an absolutely catastrophic situation, Guterres told France Info radio during a trip to Paris ✔ Weddings, funerals, schools and hospitals, as well as water and electricity plants, have been targeted, killing and wounding thousands
Macron reportedly asked Putin not to privately meet Trump during WWI commemorations — but they talked anyway
11/12/2018, 11:00:23 AMThe two leaders were meant to sit next to each other at lunch, but France changed the seating plan at the last minute. ✔ Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both attended a World War I commemorative event in Paris this weekend ✔ Reuters The leaders had been in Paris over the weekend to mark 100 years since the armistice that ended World War I ✔ White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the leaders discussed a variety of issues, including the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty that Trump threatened to withdraw from, North Korea, and Syria
North and South Korea start to remove troops along the border
11/12/2018, 10:38:44 AMDemilitarization of the Korean border is part of a September agreement to reduce tensions, but critics say the North should do more towards the removal of its nuclear weapons first. ✔ Unless the sanctions are lifted, it would be impossible for Moon to push ahead with his more ambitious plans for engagement, such as reconnecting railways and roads across the border and normalizing operations at a jointly-run factory park ✔ 'It's an anachronistic military move to openly hold war drills aimed at others while the United States naval forces residing in Japan are also participating,' Rodong Sinmun said
Meet Femen, the ‘naked shock troops of feminism’ who greeted Trump with a topless protest in Paris
11/12/2018, 10:55:34 AMThe Paris-based group, described “the shock troops of a new feminism” by one founder and “feminist terrorists” by another, has a history of pulling similar stunts. ✔ In protest-spirited France, they quickly became media darlings ✔ Calling themselves sextremists, they targeted, among others, Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Russian Orthodox church and Putin and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ✔ Yesterday, they spent 10 hours in custody, and they have been charged for sexual exhibition
Jamal Khashoggi's harrowing last words moments before he was murdered
11/12/2018, 8:59:49 AMThe Saudi journalist is said to have been strangled before his body was cut up and dissolved in acid after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month ✔ Jamal Khashoggi pleaded for his life and told his alleged torturers he was suffocating in his final harrowing words, it is reported ✔ Saudi Arabia has claimed that his death was the result of a fight, but Turkish authorities believe that he was tortured and dismembered ✔ He was a popular political commentator and had appeared on various TV channels, including the BBC and Al Jazeera
'Populism easily turns into the promotion of radical nationalism'
11/12/2018, 11:54:40 AMTALKING EUROPE : Andreï Kurkov is a Ukrainian writer whose work has been translated into more than 30 languages. Best known for his novel "Death and the P... ✔ His latest book Vilnius, Paris, London, published in French, discusses internal migration within the EU ✔ Despite the tensions on this topic, he remains optimistic and believes the Schengen zone will remain an area of freedom and movement that other countries could join ✔ A programme presented by Luke Brown Produced by Isabelle Romero, Roxane Runel and Mathilde Benezet
Sudan seeks to attract western oil groups as US relations thaw
11/12/2018, 9:29:04 AMundefined ✔ Before South Sudan gained independence in 2011, Sudan produced about half a million barrels a day that were transported via a Chinese-built, 1,000-mile pipeline from oilfields in the south and centre of the county to a terminal on its Red Sea coast in the north
Trump missed rainy WW1 event ‘because he didn’t want to cause TRAFFIC JAM’
11/12/2018, 9:07:22 AMDONALD TRUMP today changed his excuse for snubbing a First World War commemorative ceremony from blaming the “bad weather” to “not wanting to disrupt traffic”. The American … ✔ It's worth a few miles in a limo, a few words from under a tarp David Frum (@davidfrum) November 10, 2018 I helped plan all of President Obama’s trips for 8 years ✔ That means helping and not obstructing a strong partnership with Britain and strengthening the NATO alliance
What is post-traumatic stress disorder, what are the signs and how is PTSD treated?
11/12/2018, 10:11:27 AMPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect anyone and can have a major impact on someone’s life. Those suffering from the condition can have nightmares and flashbacks – what other… ✔ Watchful waiting: Monitoring someone's symptoms to see if they get better or worse without treatment ✔ Psychotherapy: Examples include trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), or eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) ✔ Family members may be invited along, if appropriate ✔ Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368
Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk Betting Odds: Heavyweight Champion Heavily Favored
11/12/2018, 11:09:15 AMThe heavyweight division appears to be next for unified cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk following his title defense over Tony Bellew. ✔ Despite the odds favoring Joshua, it still remains an intriguing contest due to Usyk's style and level of boxing ✔ However, many in the boxing world are hoping he instead faces the winner of December's World Boxing Council heavyweight title fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury in a title unification fight
Ex-lawmaker wins leadership award in Malaysia
11/12/2018, 8:07:34 AMundefined ✔ It added that extensive work in promoting sustainable economic growth, democracy and human rights, integration and regional cooperation through Asia Future Institute ✔ Past winners of the award include the late Nelson Mandela of South Africa, former U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamed, according to the APBF
Duterte's moves against media critics draw international outcry
11/12/2018, 8:09:52 AMRappler indicted on tax evasion charge; ABS-CBN faces threat to operating license ✔ The sale of the certificates to Omidyar several years ago was also used by the Securities and Exchange Commission as grounds for revoking Rappler's corporate certification early this year ✔ Last year, The Cambodia Daily, an independent media outlet, was forced out of business after it received closure and legal threats over a tax dispute
How to bring peace to Libya
11/12/2018, 10:28:15 AMThe UN’s plan offers the best hope of ending Libya’s chaos, but Italy and France are making things worse ✔ More recently, their leaders have come to embody rival visions of Europe: President Emmanuel Macron of France champions an open, integrated and liberal Europe; Matteo Salvini, the interior minister and head of the Northern League (the main force in Italy’s new populist government), calls for a more nationalist Europe that is closed to migrants
Afghan forces suffer scores of casualties in heavy fighting
11/12/2018, 8:20:46 AMAfghan security forces suffered scores of casualties in heavy fighting, official... ✔ Ghazni, briefly overrun by the Taliban in August, sits on the highway linking Kabul, the capital, to the major southern city of Kandahar ✔ It is also a gateway into the mountainous central provinces of Hazarajat, home mainly to Hazara people ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The Nucleosis of Macron's European Army Trump Bashed and Putin Welcomed Already Exists
11/12/2018, 11:39:34 AMTen European states have created a new defense coalition. It was launched on June 25 and held its first historic meeting in Paris on Nov.7 to start thrashing out details of how the force will operate and welcome Finland as the tenth participant. All founding nations are EU members, including Great Britain, which is to leave the bloc in March, 2019. ✔ All founding nations are EU members, including Great Britain, which is to leave the bloc in March, 2019 ✔ An independent military bloc will weaken NATO and reduce the Europe’s dependence on the United States ✔ While the United States is preoccupied with the promotion of America First concept, the EII and Russia can talk
California, Florida, Michelle Obama: Your Monday Briefing
11/12/2018, 10:58:42 AMHere’s what you need to know to start your day. ✔ And outside Los Angeles, a mass evacuation from a fire in the Malibu area has been hampered by congestion on the Pacific Coast Highway, leaving at least two dead ✔ • Silicon Valley is undermining democracy, Yuval Noah Harari says ✔ Check out our full range of free newsletters here
ASIO would need to grow six-fold to watch all terrorism suspects, experts say
11/12/2018, 8:39:00 AMSecurity agency would have to add at least 9000 staff at a cost of $1 billion a year to watch all potential terrorism suspects. ✔ Although Bourke Street killer Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, 30, had his passport cancelled in 2015 on the grounds he planned to travel to Syria to fight with the so-called Islamic State, police and the federal government have said there had been no intelligence to suggest he was preparing an attack ahead of last Friday
They Were Stopped at the Texas Border. Their Nightmare Had Only Just Begun.
11/12/2018, 11:40:02 AMAfter crossing the Rio Grande, three immigrant women were picked up by a Border Patrol agent. Their relief soon turned to terror. ✔ He told me that the only thing that he did was to pray Psalm 91 many times, and he told me that’s how God had saved him and protected him, she said ✔ acts decisively and appropriately to address any misconduct ✔ Mitchell Ferman contributed reporting from McAllen, Tex
Opinion | Saudi Arabia Is Misusing Mecca
11/12/2018, 11:09:40 AMIn the aftermath of the Jamal Khashoggi murder, the kingdom has exploited the podium of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by using its imams to praise, sanctify and defend the rulers and their actions. ✔ No imam of the Grand Mosque had ever anointed a Saudi ruler as the mujtahid of the age or dared to imply as much ✔ Abou El Fadl is a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Reasoning With God: Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age
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