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Yemen crisis: The battle for Hudaydah

11/13/2018, 7:47:39 PM
Yemen's civil war is approaching a pivotal moment, but the UN warns that the humanitarian crisis could be about to get much worse. ✔ Media player Media playback is unsupported on your device Yemen crisis: The battle for Hudaydah Yemen's civil war is approaching a pivotal moment, but the UN warns that the humanitarian crisis could be about to get much worse


Opinion | The world must finally give us Rohingya a say in our fate

11/13/2018, 6:57:13 PM
Myanmar and Bangladesh cannot be allowed to set policy on the Rohingya without any input from those who are directly affected. ✔ By now, the world is well aware of the horrors experienced by Myanmar’s Rohingya minority over the past two years ✔ The problem is compounded by the lack of independent media access to the areas concerned ✔ As the history of the past 40 years has taught us, official promises in Myanmar provide no guarantees of security or survival, let alone equal rights


U.S. hostage envoy urges Iran and Russia to help free journalist taken captive in Syria 6 years ago

11/13/2018, 6:52:24 PM
American Austin Tice vanished in 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria. The U.S. believes he is still alive and being held in Syria. ✔ Oh, Jesus, as armed men led him blindfolded down a rocky mountainside ✔ Restaurants in the Washington area are being encouraged to donate a share of their proceeds on May 2, the evening before World Press Freedom Day ✔ The organizers plan to eventually to take the campaign nationwide ✔ Every time we go, our greatest desire to is to bring Austin home, his father said


Trump says North Korean missile sites are 'nothing new'

11/13/2018, 5:42:55 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized what he called "inaccurat... ✔ We fully know about the sites being discussed, nothing new - and nothing happening out of the normal, Trump wrote on Twitter ✔ I will be the first to let you know if things go bad! Pyongyang halted missile and nuclear bomb testing earlier this year but U.S. and South Korean negotiators have yet to elicit from North Korea a concrete declaration of the size or scope of the weapons programs or a promise to stop deploying its existing arsenal ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


'Mini-Merkel' calls for Syrian migrants to be returned home as CDU leadership rivals jostle for position

11/13/2018, 5:45:02 PM
One of the frontrunners to succeed Angela Merkel as leader of her political party has called for Germany to deport migrants to Syria. ✔ Certain regions of Syria could be secure enough in the foreseeable future, she told Bild newspaper ✔ She has also called for asylum-seekers who commit crimes in Germany to be barred from the entire Schengen Area ✔ We will not stoop to such a shabby level, Jörg Meuthen, the party's deputy leader said


Climate change led to demise of the ancient Indus valley civilisation

11/13/2018, 6:42:05 PM
Scientists say that climate change led to the advanced Indus valley civilisation's demise by driving them out of their cities, which were among the earliest ever built. ✔ At its peak, the civilisation may have had a population of more than 5 million, making up 10 per cent of the world's population ✔ Likewise, weaker winds other times of year provide fewer nutrients, causing slightly less productivity in the waters offshore ✔ 'But it's very likely that the winter monsoon played a role.'


NHS launches quest to eliminate scars 'within a generation'

11/13/2018, 5:45:01 PM
The NHS has launched a project to find medical cures for all types of scar as it opens the world’s first scarring research centre in response to wounded veterans and rising crime. ✔ Brendan Eley, Chief Executive of the Scar Free Foundation, which supports the centre, said: The physical and emotional effects of scarring are serious and often life changing ✔ £3 million of this has been allocated by The Treasury from fines on banks for illegally fixing the LIBOR interbank lending rate


British Army officer was recruiting soldiers for neo-Nazi terrorist group

11/13/2018, 7:11:38 PM
Lance Corporal Mikko Vehvilainen vowed to 'die committed to the white race' ✔ We have robust measures in place, including during the recruitment process, to ensure those exhibiting extremist views are neither tolerated nor permitted to serve ✔ But extreme groups such as National Action also have the potential to threaten public safety and security


California Wildfires Updates: 42 Dead in Camp Fire and Toll Expected to Rise

11/13/2018, 4:21:59 PM
Search teams were heading back into the devastated town of Paradise on Tuesday with the grim expectation of finding more bodies in the charred remnants of the town. ✔ Search teams were heading back into the devastated town of Paradise on Tuesday with the grim expectation of finding more bodies in the charred remnants of the Sierra Nevada retirement community ✔ The death toll in the Camp Fire surpassed the Griffith Park Fire of 1933, which killed 29 people and for decades had held the infamous distinction of being California’s deadliest wildfire


Watch the adorable moment these Eritrean refugee children experience snow for the first time

11/13/2018, 7:11:41 PM
Video has been viewed almost two million times ✔ Indians all over the country celebrate Gandhi's birthday on October 2 AFP/Getty 45/50 30 September 2018 An Albanian man casts his vote at a polling station in the village of Zajas on September 30, 2018, for a referendum to re-name the country ✔ All costs related to their sponsorship are from voluntary, private donations


Billions are now spent to protect kids from school shootings. Has it made them safer?

11/13/2018, 7:06:10 PM
Since the Parkland shooting, the business of staying safe in American schools is growing ✔ The expo had finally begun, and now hundreds of school administrators streamed into a sprawling, chandeliered ballroom where entrepreneurs awaited, each eager to explain why their product, above all others, was the one worth buying ✔ He argued that the benefits over resource officers were obvious


No One Has Ever Crossed Antarctica Unsupported. Two Men Are Trying Right Now.

11/13/2018, 5:20:43 PM
Colin O’Brady and Louis Rudd are both trying to become the first to finish the 921-mile odyssey on ice completely unsupported. It is a journey that killed a man who tried two years ago. ✔ Though a handful of adventurers have used kites to ride the winds across the continent or arranged for caches of food and fuel to be dropped along the way, the accomplished English polar explorer Ben Saunders was the last to attempt a solo, unsupported crossing


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