Ukraine Launches Gas War on...Ukraine
11/15/2018, 10:17:39 AMAngry Ukrainians took to the streets and blocked roads Tuesday as hundreds of thousands remain without heating at a time when temperatures are plunging because of a dispute between the national gas company and regional utility providers. ✔ Smila’s mayor said in comments carried by Ukrainian media that the city may be forced to announce a state of emergency if the dispute is not resolved ✔ Ukraine is facing a presidential election next year, and rivals of incumbent President Petro Poroshenko have been blaming the heating crisis on his administration
Map reveals world's most dangerous countries you should NEVER visit on holiday
11/15/2018, 11:39:11 AMWAR torn Syria along with Libya, Afghanistan and Somalia are among the world’s most dangerous countries, a new map designed for travellers has revealed. The “Travel Risk Map” for 2019 also highligh… ✔ WAR torn Syria along with Libya, Afghanistan and Somalia are among the world’s most dangerous countries, a new map designed for travellers has revealed ✔ 3 The countries of the world ranked in terms of health 3 The safest and most dangerous places in the world to drive Also labelled a high risk counties to travellers’ health are Iraq, Lebanon, Venezuela and North Korea
To avoid new migration wave, Europe should abandon ‘phobia’ of helping Syria – Putin
11/15/2018, 10:21:58 AMThe EU must abandon its phobias regarding helping war-ravaged Syria, if it doesn’t want a new migration influx, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. ✔ If the world community, and mainly Europe, doesn’t want a new influx of migrants, it should think, get rid of some phobias, and just help the Syrian people, regardless of political bias, Putin said at a press conference following his visit to Singapore ✔ Putin has repeatedly stated that the European Union should address immigration issues carefully and review its policies which have encouraged migration ✔ DETAILS TO FOLLOW Trends: EU refugee & migrant influxEurope newsVladimir Putin news
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition orders halt to Hodeidah offensive
11/15/2018, 10:45:32 AMMilitias ordered to stop assault in Red Sea port city, raising hopes of lasting ceasefire ✔ The decision appears to have been a response to calls from aid agencies and intense shuttle diplomacy efforts by the UN and the UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, ahead of a briefing on the urgent humanitarian situation by UN special envoy Martin Griffiths on Friday ✔ It is quieter now but the fighting continues, said local Ibrahim Seif
The U.S. considered denouncing Myanmar for ‘crimes against humanity.’ It didn’t happen.
11/15/2018, 9:34:56 AMThe State Department documented atrocities in Myanmar but left out a legal determination that critics say blunted its impact. This week’s talks in Singapore reflected the same stance. ✔ The part of the State Department report made public a 20-page executive summary released after hours on Sept ✔ justice for victims, and [ensure] that those responsible for mass killings, gang rapes and other atrocities are held accountable, the spokesman said
As India eases citizenship path for Hindus, Rohingya Muslims fear...
11/15/2018, 8:32:36 AMNar Singh can vividly recall the day in 2014 when Narendra Modi promised to prov... ✔ Like many of the Rohingya in Jaipur, he started off picking up scrap and selling it for recycling, but now he drives an electric rickshaw ✔ Such is the fear of deportation among the Rohingya in India that some families have fled for Bangladesh in recent weeks, according to community leaders in the capital New Delhi ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
FBI: Neo-Nazi Militia Trained by US Military in Ukraine Now Training US White Supremacists
11/15/2018, 8:17:46 AMAccording to a recent FBI indictment, several American white supremacists were allegedly radicalized by and received training from Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which receives funding from the current government of Ukraine as well as ✔ According to a recent FBI indictment, several American white supremacists were allegedly radicalized by and received training from Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which receives funding from the current government of Ukraine as well as the U.S.government ✔ As usual, U.S. chickens come home to roost The Azov Battalion’s ability to provide training to U.S. white supremacy groups is a testament to the group’s prominence in far-right and neo-Nazi circles
Saudi-UAE alliance orders halt in Hodeidah attack amid peace push
11/15/2018, 11:51:39 AMAir and ground offensive have stopped as the alliance says it backs UN-proposed talks to end the weeks of fighting. ✔ We welcome early convening of UN-led talks in Sweden ✔ We look forward to hosting Martin Griffiths this week in Abu Dhabi ✔ Weddings, funerals, schools and hospitals, as well as water and electricity plants, have been targeted, killing and wounding thousands
Saudi-led coalition halts Hodeidah assault as West presses for...
11/15/2018, 10:36:02 AMThe Saudi-led coalition has ordered a halt in its offensive against Iranian-alig... ✔ The killing of Khashoggi sparked a global outcry and opened the kingdom to possible sanctions ✔ We heard some sporadic (mortar) shelling this morning, but it is very calm, said resident Arwa Mohammed ✔ Almost 18 million are considered hungry and 8.4 million severely hungry ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Why journalists should be haunted by history
11/15/2018, 9:26:00 AMWhen news of the Holocaust first hit papers, it didn't make the front page – now, writers report impending wars that never materialise. Both approaches are dangerous, says Robert Fisk ✔ There’s an old saw that journalists write the first draft of history ✔ They were at Dunkirk and watched the Battle of Britain ✔ Even the Russians had journalists on their front lines ✔ Broken by this terrible news and the public’s indifference to his reporting of the mass murders, Zygielbojm took poison
Opinion | Armistice Day and Our ‘Forever Wars’
11/15/2018, 11:15:00 AMWhy do they drag on interminably? Because one side lacks the means to win and the other lacks the will. ✔ Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president-for-life, is a sad excuse for a moderate, but there can be no hope of genuinely moderate Palestinian politics when Hamas is the pre-eminent actor in them ✔ Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook , Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram , join the Facebook political discussion group, Voting While Female , and sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter
DMZ guard posts dismantled with dynamite, excavators
11/15/2018, 10:12:56 AMCHEORWON, South Korea--South Korea was dismantling front-line guard posts with dynamite and excavato ✔ Those guard posts are inside the 248-kilometer-long, 4-kilometer-wide border, called the Demilitarized Zone ✔ The fast-improving inter-Korean ties have raised worries among many in South Korea and the United States as a global nuclear diplomacy on the North's weapons program has produced little progress recently
Netanyahu Fails to Mend Russia Ties in Paris
11/15/2018, 9:24:03 AMThe talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris turned out to be “successful and significant,” according to Netanyahu. Questions about whether the meeting would even take place were raised until the last moment. ✔ It is impossible to cancel the event which was not planned, officials in Moscow claimed, reacting to media reports about the cancellation of the meeting ✔ Moscow strives to settle the controversies around Syria and ensure that its skies are peaceful so there will be no need to use the S-300
Power Up: NAFTA 2.0 looks like a hard sell to new Congress
11/15/2018, 11:08:42 AMEven though some Democrats agree with Trump on trade. ✔ Redeployed: Due to worsening security concerns, the U.S. has no plans to redeploy people to fight the outbreak on the ground there, administration officials said yesterday ✔ Speaking at a conference, the legendary journalist said, Too many people for Trump or against Trump have become emotionally unhinged about this … The remedy [isn’t a lawsuit], it’s more serious reporting about what he’s doing
Analysis | Gillibrand’s cascade of misfired employment statistics
11/15/2018, 8:26:43 AMSen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a potential 2020 presidential candidate, mangled three employment statistics while making the case the economy can do better. ✔ Using detailed, but not seasonally adjusted, BLS data for October, one can calculate that the unemployment rate for African American men and women ages 18 to 24 was 16.4 percent and 8.4 percent, respectively ✔ (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form Sign up for The Fact Checker weekly newsletter The Fact Checker is a verified signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network code of principles
Pilot's crazy photos from an airplane cockpit
11/15/2018, 11:21:11 AMNorthern lights, glowing clouds and spectacular sunsets -- pilot Christiaan van Heijst takes incredible images from an airplane cockpit ✔ Pictured here: Sunrise and thunderstorms over Texas ✔ It takes a long breath, a lot of effort, and willingness to fail very often [...] you will encounter situations where it's frustrating you couldn't capture it, but persistence, that's the best word to describe it
US criticises China’s ‘empire and aggression’ in Asia
11/15/2018, 10:01:01 AMundefined ✔ If no deal is reached, the most likely scenario is that the tariff rate on most of the $250bn of targeted Chinese exports to the US will rise from 10 per cent to 25 per cent in January ✔ At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Papua New Guinea this weekend, Mr Pence is due to unveil details of America’s Indo-Pacific strategy, aimed at providing an alternative to China’s BRI
Ghanaians react as U.K. deports rogue trader, Kweku Adoboli
11/15/2018, 9:55:55 AMAdoboli, now in his late thirties has been appealing against an order made by the British authorities in July 2014 that he should be sent back to Ghana as a foreign criminal. ✔ Authorities in the United Kingdom, UK, have deported a former UBS trader jailed for Britain’s biggest fraud over unauthorised trades that cost the Swiss bank $2.3 billion ✔ Njonjo Ndehi (@NjonjoNdehi) November 15, 2018 After solid 34 years out of Ghana, Kwaku Adoboli is finally home, deported! Can we have another home apart from our homes
Tom Cruise to be replaced for Jack Reacher reboot because he's 'too short'
11/15/2018, 9:26:11 AMAuthor Lee Child says he wants to find a completely new actor to star in the TV series based on his action character ✔ The imposing Prince Don Fabrizio presides over a town close to Palermo during the last days of an old world in which class stratifications are stable and understood ✔ However, the sequel – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – grossed $162m and received mixed reviews
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