Calls for end to Yemen war offer little hope for hungry children
11/14/2018, 3:24:37 PMLying on a dust-covered bed in a hospital ward in the Yemeni city of Taiz, 10-ye... ✔ In Taiz, children fighting for their lives in hospitals are traumatized by daily artillery fire, rockets and anti-aircraft guns as Saudi-backed government forces battle the Iran-aligned Houthis along pulverized streets ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Rosamund Pike digs in to play a gritty, real-life journalist in 'Private War' - Los Angeles Times
11/14/2018, 3:14:32 PMCorrespondent Marie Colvin largely covered war's effect on civilians in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. And through it all, "she remained such an optimist," says Rosamund Pike, who plays her in "A Private War." ✔ The pair finally connected at a screening of Heineman’s documentary City of Ghosts in Los Angeles and discussed the potential film over breakfast the next day ✔ That’s a tiny fraction of what Marie would have been exposed to ✔ I’ve understood war in a profoundly different way than I’ve ever understood it before, the actress says ✔ She saw all that and she remained such an optimist, in such a lovely way
British mother begs government to rescue her daughter from Yemen
11/14/2018, 12:47:48 PMSafia, 34, was snatched from her mother in Cardiff in 1986 and taken to Yemen. She now lives with four children, including a 2-year-old, in war-ravished Aden but the government say they cannot help them. ✔ 'I barricaded myself in a room, terrified that he was going to find me, before I fled to the airport.' Later the same year, Jackie paid for Rahannah and Nadia to spend three months visiting Cardiff ✔ 'Jackie and Safia have been through so much and I really hope they can be reunited.' Donate to the crowdfunder here
Car plant shows limits to Iran's economic ambitions in Syria
11/14/2018, 1:02:43 PMAt an Iranian government-owned car plant near Homs, the small number of vehicles... ✔ But it’s also an opportunity, said Reza Aghaziarati, export manager and adviser for Feridolin home appliances manufacturer ✔ Syrian law protecting domestic industry bars imports of electrical appliances, but Feridolin wants to set up a factory in Syria to make them there, Aghaziarati said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
America’s Absence From Summit on Syria: A Sign of Rapidly Declining Power
11/14/2018, 12:10:22 PMYou would hardly know it from reading the U.S. press, but a summit of considerable significance took place late last month. German, French, Russian, and Turkish leaders convened in Istanbul Oct. 27 to create a comprehensive plan to end the seven-year war in Syria. On the agenda: increase humanitarian aid, rebuild ruined towns and cities, assist returning refugees, draft a new constitution and arrange internationally supervised elections. ✔ You would hardly know it from reading the U.S. press, but a summit of considerable significance took place late last month ✔ We are a long way from the indispensable nation, the phrase that Madeleine Albright used for the United States during her time as secretary of state in the Clinton administration
California Today: In the Wake of the Fires, Memories of a War Zone
11/14/2018, 2:10:19 PMWednesday: Similarities in the chaos, Juul suspends sales, and Shake Shack goes local for its first Bay Area opening. ✔ Here’s the sign-up .) Across California, with firefighters battling blazes in the north and south and search-and-rescue teams looking for human remains, the dramatic imagery emerging looks much like what comes out of the world’s conflict zones not a slice of America known for its beaches and other natural wonders ✔ For San Francisco’s homeless , that’s easier said than done
Britain's first specialist wound hub opens
11/14/2018, 3:18:22 PMThe Countess of Wessex is pictured opening The Centre for Conflict Wound Research at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday. Acid-attack victims are among those who are set to benefit. ✔ But, nearly a decade on, Mr Boggi still suffers tears to his scars ✔ An additional £1.5million will come from the Foundation's partners ✔ 'I hope my challenge might just encourage others to take a step outside that comfort zone and see what they can achieve.'
World War 3 WARNING: Iran leader Rouhani vows to DEFEAT Trump as tensions peak
11/14/2018, 12:04:12 PMIRAN President Hassan Rouhani has vowed to “defeat” Donald Trump after the US unleashed fresh sanctions on Tehran. ✔ Mr Trump vowed that companies trading with Iran would be hit by secondary sanctions but the EU wants to support companies that trade with Iran ✔ His US administration wants Iran to halt development of ballistic missiles and its support for forces in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen
Trump Picks Retired General To Fill Vacancy As Ambassador To Saudi Arabia
11/14/2018, 1:15:38 PMIf confirmed, Gen. John Abizaid, who oversaw the Iraq war, would step into rising tensions over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. ✔ President Donald Trump has nominated retired Army Gen ✔ The four-star general, now a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution think tank and a private consultant, headed the U.S. Central Command from 2003 until 2007, overseeing the Iraq war and military operations across the Middle East ✔ Trump’s selection of a military figure may reflect the kingdom’s importance as a customer of U.S. weaponry
Oxfam worried about NK human rights
11/14/2018, 12:21:34 PMundefined ✔ Oxfam's Humanitarian Lead Richard Corbett speaks at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Friday ✔ The international organization which provided aid to South Korea during the Korean War, opened its Seoul branch in 2014 ✔ Government funding consists of some 43 percent of Oxfam's income for its headquarters in the U.K
Mike Pence issues strongest US rebuke yet against Aung San Suu Kyi over Rohingya crisis
11/14/2018, 12:45:32 PMUS Vice President Mike Pence expressed the Trump administration's strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday, telling leader Aung San Suu Kyi that "persecution" by her country's army was "without excuse". ✔ US Vice President Mike Pence expressed the Trump administration's strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday, telling leader Aung San Suu Kyi that persecution by her country's army was without excuse ✔ At a glance | Myanmar’s Rohingya people Amnesty International this week withdrew its most prestigious human rights prize from Suu Kyi, accusing her of perpetuating human rights abuses by not speaking out about violence against the Rohingya
Battle for Yemen's Hodeida: Why the Saudi-led 'Golden Victory' operation is taking so long
11/14/2018, 2:32:20 PMSaudi ground forces are too weak to stand up to the Houthis in Yemen, and their allies and proxies all have their own goals in mind – making the capture of the key port of Hodeida a strategic snarl, experts say. ✔ Rather telling, considering the vast amounts of money Saudi Arabia bundles into its military ✔ UAE's own goals One coalition member, apart from Saudi Arabia, that has a palpable stake in Hodeida, is the United Arab Emirates ✔ Trends: Saudi Arabia news UAE newsYemen news
Thousands flee as Taliban attack Afghanistan's 'safe' districts
11/14/2018, 3:44:49 PMThousands of members of Afghanistan's mainly Shi'ite Hazara ethnic min... ✔ He estimated that more than 7,000 people have fled from Jaghori and Malistan either to Ghazni or into neighboring Bamiyan and more than 3,000 homes had been razed ✔ Abdul Rahman Ahmadi, spokesman for the governor of Bamiyan province, which is adjacent to Ghazni and has a large Hazara population, said more than 4,500 internally displaced people had sought shelter in schools, mosques and private homes there ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Secret screenings: Director Sam Abbas brings LGBTQ film to Middle Eastern audience
11/14/2018, 2:15:07 PMMIDDLE EAST MATTERS : While the majority of the world has legalised homosexuality, the countries where it is still outlawed are concentrated in the Middle East... ✔ The subject remains contentious in the region, even when addressed in art form ✔ The 25-year-old Egyptian-American filmmaker Sam Abbas talks to us about his LGBTQ film The Wedding and the steps he had to take to ensure safety when screening the movie in the region ✔ Meanwhile, the conflict in Yemen is now entering its fourth year ✔ We take a look back at the war that has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis
'They didn't give a damn': first footage of Croatian police 'brutality'
11/14/2018, 1:56:13 PMMigrants beaten by officials while trying to cross the Bosnia-Croatia border call it ‘the game’. New evidence suggests it is anything but ✔ Sami, hidden behind bushes, begins to film what he can ✔ Minutes go by before Hamdi, Mohammed and Abdoul emerge from the woods, faces bruised from the alleged beating, mouths and noses bloody, their ribs broken ✔ According to accounts provided by more than 10 migrants, some officers wear paramilitary uniforms with a badge depicting a sword upraised by two lightning bolts
Russia ‘deliberately disrupted GPS signals during Nato drill’
11/14/2018, 3:30:46 PMCommercial pilots warned over suspected attack but international aviation body insists safety of airliners not at risk from jamming ✔ But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded that the accusation fitted a trend to blame all mortal sins on Russia, adding: We know nothing about Russia's possible involvement in those GPS failures ✔ This latest episode is unlikely to suggest a serious escalation in relations between Russia and Nato, but rather an attempt by Russia to probe Nato’s defensive capabilities, and to assess Nato’s ability to respond, she said
Theresa May's Brexit deal in crisis as Scottish Conservative MPs threaten to rebel
11/14/2018, 3:30:48 PMScottish secretary David Mundell and 12 fellow Tories warn they 'could not support' agreement - if it breaks prime minister's pledges on leaving common fisheries policy ✔ PA 12/14 Alistair Burt Alistair Burt, another Foreign Office minister who worked in Mr Johnson’s team, said: I’m stunned at the nature of this attack ✔ More follows… The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal
Wednesday Morning Briefing
11/14/2018, 2:33:53 PMWhite House hit with staff upheavals, House Democrat to probe census citizenship... ✔ World Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May, leaves 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain November 14, 2018.REUTERS/Henry Nicholls Prime Minister Theresa May will try to convince senior ministers to accept a draft European Union divorce deal that opponents say threatens both her government and the unity of the United Kingdom
Washington always turned a blind eye to Saudi Arabia, says ex-CIA officer on Khashoggi case
11/14/2018, 2:32:22 PMThe White House is far more interested in ensuing Saudi Arabia’s stability than punishing it for the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, former CIA officer Bob Baer said. ✔ The US, however, chose to keep the existing arms deals with the Saudis and said it didn’t believe the nation’s leadership was behind the dissident’s demise ✔ At the same time, Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton, who himself didn’t listen to the tape, strongly suggested that it was not the conclusion the officers have made
Turkish court sentences journalist to 19 years jail over Gulen links
11/14/2018, 3:24:40 PMA court sentenced Turkish journalist Ali Unal to 19 years in jail on Wednesday o... ✔ Unal was chief writer at the now-defunct Zaman newspaper, widely seen as the flagship media outlet for the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara says orchestrated the attempted putsch ✔ Critics say Erdogan has used the crackdown to muzzle dissent and increase his own power ✔ The European Union, which Turkey aspires to join, has also criticized the crackdown ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire 41 gun salute for Charles
11/14/2018, 12:47:49 PMThe King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, the ceremonial saluting battery of Her Majesty's Household Division, first fired a 41-gun Royal Salute from Green Park in London at noon. ✔ The soldiers, horses and guns of the battery had left their forward mounting base in Wellington Barracks at 11am before making their way up Birdcage Walk, past the Queen Victoria Memorial and up Constitution Hill ✔ 44 - Commonwealth countries Charles has visited out of the 53 Commonwealth nations ✔ 56 - Age when he married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 ✔ The pictures were taken by Getty photographer Chris Jackson
The oil price swings dramatically
11/14/2018, 2:55:45 PMBlame the turmoil on American policy ✔ Its shale companies are pumping out oil at a phenomenal rate ✔ Then there is the possibility that Mr Trump could reverse coursestriking a trade deal with China, for instance, or tightening restrictions on Iran once more ✔ On November 12th Mr Trump took to Twitter to call on OPEC to refrain from cutting production
Prince Charles: 70 years in 70 pictures
11/14/2018, 1:32:08 PMTo mark the Prince of Wales' 70th birthday, we present an image from every year of his life. ✔ 1986 PA Prince Charles receives a prize and kiss from his wife after playing for the England II team against Chile, at the Cartier International Polo Spectacular at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire ✔ All photographs from the archives of the Press Association
Analysis | The Energy 202: Green protests at Pelosi's office signal rift over Democratic climate strategy
11/14/2018, 1:49:46 PMThe cracks are already showing. ✔ State ethics laws say it is illegal for a lobbyist or a lobbyist’s client, called a principal, to give a public official a thing of value, including a job, per the report ✔ Martha McSally and stole the show as the candidate conceded the Arizona Senate race to Democrat Rep
Analysis | The Daily 202: Hate crimes are a much bigger problem than even the new FBI statistics show
11/14/2018, 2:56:02 PMMany jurisdictions aren’t keeping track. ✔ THE BIG IDEA: The FBI announced on Tuesday a disturbing 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes last year ✔ This is the third consecutive year that reported hate crimes have increased, and it’s the single biggest spike since the surge of incidents targeting Muslims in 2001 after the attacks on Sept ✔ -- House Republicans will hold closed-door elections today, with Kevin McCarthy expected to cruise to the top role of minority leader
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