North Korea tests new 'ultramodern tactical weapon' amid stalled diplomatic efforts
11/16/2018, 6:55:45 AMNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the successful testing of a “newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon,” state media reported Friday. ✔ The US State Department said described the postponing of diplomatic talks between the US and North Korea as purely a matter of scheduling but refused to elaborate ✔ Dita Alangkara, AP Fullscreen Dancers perform during The Glorious Country mass games at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, Oct. 25, 2018
With sanctions and banned arms sales, bipartisan Senate group tries to bring an end to Yemen war
11/16/2018, 12:21:02 AMThe proposal, backed by Trump ally Sen. Lindsey O. Graham and others, would ban the sale of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia and impose sanctions on those blocking humanitarian aid from reaching civilians ✔ It would defy credulity that announcement came out today when they know what we’re doing here in the Senate ✔ Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who sits on both the Armed Services and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, are also original co-sponsors of the legislation
Robot-soldiers, stealth jets and drone armies: the future of war
11/16/2018, 5:05:39 AMundefined ✔ Jason Pusey, a mechanical engineer, thinks these dry particles, when shot through with air, will fluff up enough to approximate the conditions of water without electrocuting him in the process ✔ He tells me of extensive efforts to determine which futuristic technologies show the most promise or could be the biggest game-changer ✔ Katrina Manson is the FT’s US foreign policy and defence correspondent
Group calls for bigger Seoul role in tackling TB in NKorea
11/16/2018, 4:14:48 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.S.-based nonprofit group has called for South Korea to take stronger steps to fight a tuberculosis crisis in North Korea it says has worsened under strengthened U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile program. Eugene Bell Foundation Chairman Stephen Linton on Friday criticized Seoul's supposed lack of urgency to help aid organizations gain sanctions exemptions to facilitate the delivery of supplies to treat patients in North Korea. The World Health Organization says about 107,000 cases of tuberculosis were reported in North Korea in 2017, resulting in about 16,000 deaths.
U.N. Tribunal for First Time Finds Former Khmer Rouge Leaders Guilty of Genocide
11/16/2018, 7:34:36 AMMore than 40 years after an estimated 1.7 million people were killed during the Khmer Rouge’s rule in Cambodia, an international tribunal for the first time found two surviving senior leaders of the regime guilty of genocide and sentenced them to life in prison. ✔ Defense lawyers for Mr. Nuon Chea and Mr. Khieu Samphan have also described the proceedings as one-sided, while other observers note that the country’s current leader, Prime Minister Hun Sen, was himself a midranking Khmer Rouge commander before defecting to rival Vietnamese forces
Abe tells Putin no U.S. bases to be allowed on returned islands
11/16/2018, 7:39:30 AMPrime Minister Shinzo Abe has told Russia's president that Japan would not allow U.S. military bases ✔ In response, Yachi said, It's possible, and as a result, the negotiations entered a deadlock ✔ But it remains unclear whether the United States will cooperate, as the country is in conflict with Russia over such issues as the crisis in Ukraine, a civil war in Syria and Russia's suspected meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election
EDITORIAL: Japan needs to tread lightly in territorial talks with Russia
11/16/2018, 4:02:34 AMMore than seven decades after the end of World War II, Japan and Russia have yet to conclude a bilat ✔ More than seven decades after the end of World War II, Japan and Russia have yet to conclude a bilateral peace treaty ✔ A bilateral peace treaty that fails to clearly define and demarcate borders between the two countries would postpone settling an issue that is a potential source of conflict
ADF rebels in DRC kill seven UN peacekeepers
11/16/2018, 3:00:22 AMTen other peacekeeping troops were wounded, and another is missing, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York. He added that the dead included six peacekeepers from Malawi and one from Tanzania. ✔ He added he was unable to provide any information about reports at that time of fatalities ✔ Forced out of Uganda, it operates in the border area in the DRC’s North Kivu province ✔ Created in 1999 during the Second Congo War, it has an annual budget of $1.153 billion (1.02 billion euros)
US to reduce number of troops in Africa
11/16/2018, 12:46:32 AMThe Pentagon has approved a long-awaited plan to reduce the number of US troops conducting counterterrorism missions in Africa over the next three years, three US officials tell CNN. ✔ US Marines assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa ground combat element trained with the Cameroon Marines in infantry tactics at a training site in Cameroon, Feb. 13, 2018 ✔ The official said that the US would be changing, and yes, reducing some of our efforts and said by recouping some of this investment, it allows us to train, experiment and plan for the near peer competitors
How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the West’s Secrets
11/16/2018, 6:21:16 AMAmerican officials say Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks probably have no direct ties to Russian intelligence services. But the agendas of WikiLeaks and the Kremlin have often dovetailed. ✔ Julian Assange looking out from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in February ✔ It relied on a diplomatic cable that had garnered headlines when WikiLeaks released it four years earlier ✔ Let’s imagine that rival intelligence services in the U.S., in China went to settle their conflicts about who is right, who’s the good actor, who’s the bad actor, on a particular situation by presenting the public the truth
No more 'moderates'? Al Nusra terrorists unite ALL Idlib militants under single anti-Assad command
11/16/2018, 7:27:54 AMThe notorious Al Nusra terrorist group has announced it has united all the rebel factions in Idlib under a single command, eroding whatever thin line ever existed between the so-called 'moderate' militants and hardcore jihadists. ✔ The Al Nusra announcement changes the framework of the multilateral agreement, global affairs analyst and founder of the 21st Century Wire Patrick Henningsen explained ✔ Share it with a friend! Trends: Syria newsSyria war news Terrorism news
Julian Assange: A Legal History
11/16/2018, 6:21:19 AMHere are key points in his case since WikiLeaks burst onto the digital scene in 2010. ✔ The decision left Mr. Assange confined to the embassy: Ecuador could protect him as long as he remained on Ecuadorean territory, but if he left the embassy he was subject to arrest by the British police ✔ Dec. 21, 2017 Assange, Avowed Foe of Clinton, Timed Email Release for Democratic Convention Jan. 20, 2018 Snowden and WikiLeaks Clash Over How to Disclose Secrets Dec. 21, 2017
Trump’s summit no-show draws Asian nations closer
11/16/2018, 4:10:35 AMSINGAPORE--U.S. President Donald Trump didn't make it to this week's summit of Asian nations in Sing ✔ Another fretted that the international order could splinter into rival blocs ✔ Vice President Mike Pence, who represented Trump in Singapore, told the meeting that United States' commitment to the Indo-Pacific is steadfast and enduring ✔ The choices of Southeast Asian states in the end bear some responsibility
Opinion | Saudi Arabia After Khashoggi
11/16/2018, 3:15:24 AMThe kingdom comes up with another story on the journalist’s murder. The Trump administration appears ready to buy it. ✔ Campaigning to contain the rival power of Iran, he launched an ill-conceived war in Yemen, which has blown up into a humanitarian disaster of unspeakable proportions in which America is complicit as provider of weaponry and military support; he blockaded Qatar; he detained the prime minister of Lebanon
Back from the red – return of the Russian baddie
11/16/2018, 7:37:38 AMWith the son of Drago showing up in Creed II – and a real live Dr Evil in the Kremlin – the beasts from the east are having a menacing resurgence ✔ As Theron batters her way down the umpteenth Berlin staircase, this is realpolitik as MMA endurance bout ✔ The original novel – published in 1959 – was written in the wake of McCarthyism, but its central ideas remain piercing: how demagoguery and nationalism thin the fabric of the nation, and how centralising authority renders it more susceptible to takeover ✔ One thing’s for sure: things were simpler when your arch-enemy was a 6ft 5in heavyweight in bright-red trunks promising to kill you
How Syria’s flag carrier plans to remain airborne
11/16/2018, 6:24:06 AMAn airline much despised in the West goes shopping for Russian planes ✔ Our friends have their own ways, shrugs Talal Abdulkarim, SyrianAir’s chief executive ✔ But blocking transactions that circumvent the West is trickier than clamping down directly on Airbus and Boeing ✔ On current form, Mr Trump taking such a tough line with President Vladimir Putin looks like pie in the sky
UN panel adopts resolution condemning North Korea's human rights abuses
11/16/2018, 1:30:38 AMundefined ✔ A United Nations committee on Thursday adopted a resolution calling for accountability for gross human rights violations in North Korea ✔ General Assembly next month for the 14th consecutive year ✔ The commission strongly urges the North Korean government to take a series of measures to respect human rights
El Niño gives warm relief to China’s soyabean importers
11/16/2018, 4:08:29 AMundefined ✔ Ahead of this month’s G20 talks that could cool the Sino-US trade war, another issue on soyabean traders minds’ is El Niño ✔ In its latest forecasts for the current crop year, the USDA downgraded its soyabean trade figures, reflecting China’s shift to Brazil
Malaysia police detain 8 Abu Sayyaf fighters in raids
11/16/2018, 6:45:43 AMSuspects include seven Filipinos and the alleged 'right-hand man' of a senior commander of the armed group. ✔ More recently, some of its leaders have pledged allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) ✔ Two others - both Filipinos - were allegedly looking to recruit children who could be used as human shields in any fighting with the Philippine military ✔ All eight are being held under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act ✔ UpFront Is the Philippines winning its war against ISIL
Why America struggles to sell LNG in Europe
11/16/2018, 6:24:08 AMIt looks unlikely to challenge the pre-eminence of pipelined Russian gas ✔ Mr Perry said the deal was a signal across Europe that this is how your energy future can be developed ✔ European leaders began looking for alternative gas supplies, including American LNG ✔ Ensuring that President Donald Trump’s trade war with China doesn’t close off this market is more important to American LNG suppliers than any deal signed in Europe
NBA: Unapologetic Draymond Green and Warriors moving on; Rockets cut ties to Carmelo Anthony
11/16/2018, 12:27:09 AMDraymond Green isn't apologizing for his part in a dust-up with Kevin Durant that led to a one-game suspension by the Golden State Warriors. Green says he and Durant have spoken and are “moving forward” after the heated exchange Monday between the players during an overtime loss to the Clippers. ✔ However, he did rave about Green and what he's done for the Warriors in his seven seasons with the team ✔ And that's what we're really trying to achieve, this sense that their work warrants their advancement ✔ Myers spent more than a decade in the G League, and Ransom was there for six seasons
Trump’s New Iranian Oil Sanctions May Inflict Pain At Home
11/16/2018, 6:55:13 AMIf Iranian crude exports decline further it could make oil and gas prices rise. ✔ Saudi Arabia claims it can pump an extra 2 million barrels per day ✔ Whatever the intent, this move did soothe fears of a supply shortage ✔ Gregory Brew is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University ✔ This article originally appeared in The Conversation
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