North Korea and the art of surviving sanctions
11/16/2018, 2:14:01 PMNorth Korea earns much-needed currency and burnishes its image abroad with a surprising endeavor: art sales ✔ There's a North Korean art scene flourishing beyond propaganda posters and far from the country's rigid borders a scene that can be found in Florence, Italy, the cradle of the Renaissance ✔ He emphasizes that things don't appear to be so bad ✔ If the Senegalese government accept North Korean society to build this monument, it was because they have got a good relationship, Diatta said
North Korea deports US citizen detained since October, state media reports
11/16/2018, 3:40:12 PMNorth Korea deported a US citizen who was detained last month after he "illegally entered our country through the border between North Korea and China," the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Friday. ✔ In 2017, a man with the same name was deported from South Korea after he was caught wandering near the North Korean border, according to the LA Times ✔ Satellite images released Monday showed over a dozen undeclared North Korean missile operating bases, further suggesting that the country is pursuing its ballistic missile program amid faltering talks
The US Would Rather Burn the Middle East in a Sunni-Shia War Than See Itself Outplayed by Russia
11/16/2018, 1:30:02 PMAll wars initiated or supported by the US establishment – from the occupation of Iraq in 2003, the second Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, the regime-change in Syria in 2011 and the occupation of a third of Iraq in 2014 – have failed in their goal of stoking the fire of sectarian war between Sunni and Shia in the Middle East. ✔ Unwilling to surrender to the regional realignment, the US establishment envisions an Arab NATO – similar to the western NATO – to counter Russia in the Middle East ✔ And last, the US is trying to twist the arm of the Palestinians by imposing its agenda on Jerusalem and threatening the security and stability of Jordan by refusing the right of return of Palestinians to their land and proposing an alternative settlement policy in Jordan ✔ All this is being done with the support of Saudi Arabia
The big sleep: how the world's most chaotic country is beating a deadly disease
11/16/2018, 12:21:17 PMBeset by war and instability, the Democratic Republic of the Congo isn’t the ideal place to try stamping out sleeping sickness. But that is what is happening ✔ Chaida got no better and was falling asleep all the time ✔ https://interactive.guim.co.uk/docsdata-test/1bHJvQudK2K38GQ4kTihmIAhJ-oWOoAWEAqukn5KVjiI.json Commenting on this piece ✔ This article is part of a series on possible solutions to some of the world’s most stubborn problems
UN peacekeepers killed in fight with Islamist militias in DRC
11/16/2018, 12:37:51 PMAt least seven killed in clashes with ADF jihadists near Ebola-stricken city of Beni ✔ At least seven UN peacekeepers have been killed in clashes with militias in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ✔ A report by the Congo Research Group at New York University this week said the ADF had received money from a key financial facilitator who has been linked to Islamic State
WW3: American warship 'heads towards Syria' as Russia accuses US of 'illegal bombing'
11/16/2018, 1:31:02 PMTHE USS Harry Truman warship has entered the Mediterranean Sea "towards Syria", as Russia accuses the US of "illegal bombing" in Syria. ✔ These exercises were the largest since the Cold War ✔ The message is clear – we have a force that can respond rapidly ✔ In the exercise a battle took place between NATO forces, with the UK at the helm, and an enemy played by Norwegian, German and Swedish soldiers
Jewish history can be used as a weapon to fight antisemitism | Hella Pick
11/16/2018, 2:05:26 PMWe can apply the lessons of Kristallnacht to improve civil society, says the British-Austrian journalist Hella Pick ✔ The cruel treatment of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman in Pakistan, personifies the dangerous senselessness of blasphemy laws ✔ But, as the rise of the AfD party shows, it is far from gone ✔ But this approach is not enough to make any meaningful headway in the fight against antisemitism
Friday Morning Briefing
11/16/2018, 2:15:22 PMTally of missing in California's deadliest blaze surpasses 600, Hand recoun... ✔ A leadership challenge is triggered if 48 Conservatives write such letters to the chairman of the party’s so-called 1922 committee ✔ World An Israeli soldier stands near the Quneitra crossing in the Golan Heights on the border line between Israel and Syria, October 15, 2018 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
U.S. peace envoy seeks to reassure Kabul it won't be blocked from...
11/16/2018, 12:53:44 PMThe U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan is trying to reassure the U.S.-backed gov... ✔ In October, Pakistan released one of the co-founders of the Taliban and another high-ranking commander ✔ No date has been announced for another round of talks but the Taliban have stepped up their attacks on government forces, inflicting hundreds of casualties over recent weeks in assaults in different parts of the country ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Saudi Arabia defies U.S. pressure to end Qatar row after Khashoggi...
11/16/2018, 3:55:04 PMSaudi Arabia is defying U.S. calls to mend ties with Qatar despite signs that pr... ✔ ‘Don’t get worried about Qatar because you still have a strong economy in Qatar’, one Arab diplomat told Reuters ✔ A Gulf source said Prince Mohammed, known as MbS, would avoid any move that could be interpreted as weakness as he tries to recover from the diplomatic fallout over Khashoggi ✔ The only face-saving way for them to get out is to apologize ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Russia's Game in Libya Explained
11/16/2018, 12:20:19 PMThe strategy of Vladimir Putin, in the difficult Libyan chessboard, has always been particularly silent. The Kremlin, after the fall of Muhammar Gaddafi, moved with caution, aware that the end of the colonel had a disastrous effect on the construction of the Russian strategy in the Mediterranean after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the West, which has made a hell out of that Libya, has not supplanted the other superpowers. After Gaddafi, another leader did not arrive, but the war exploded: civil and not. ✔ Moscow has always needed to have outposts in the Mediterranean ✔ To begin, as mentioned, from the infrastructural one ✔ Contracts for railways and highways had already been concluded when there was still Gaddafi ✔ And now there are many who want to brush up those agreements
US pulling troops from Africa despite Russia and China’s growing presence
11/16/2018, 2:57:20 PMAMERICAN military bosses are withdrawing almost 10 percent of its troops out of African bases because it wants to concentrate on countering Russia and China. But the draw down come as Moscow and Be… ✔ AFP or licensors 5 A US marine stands guard next to Japanese Ground Home Defence Forces facing the South China Sea The Pentagon is also increasingly focused on China’s growing assertiveness in areas like the South China Sea ✔ Reports that Djibouti, heavily indebted to Beijing, would likely cede the port's operations to a Chinese state-owned enterprise were even more alarming
Urban ranching: A socialist commune's response to Venezuela's crisis
11/16/2018, 3:11:28 PMA socialist commune has drawn the ire of its neighbors in a wealthy area of Cara... ✔ This experience shows the resolve of the people to push back against the economic war, said commune leader Sulimar Pedrozar, as two cow heads boiled in a pot over a wood fire and a group cleaned out a cow stomach for a soup ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Mickey Mouse, fireworks and Florence: Friday's best photographs
11/16/2018, 3:03:47 PMOur picture editors choose their favourite images from the past 24 hours ✔ Helus was one of 12 victims of the Borderline Bar & Grill mass shooting in Thousand Oaks on 7 November Photograph: Al Seib/POOL/EPA Moscow, Russia Julian Zhi Jie Yee of Malaysia falls during the men’s short programme of the ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix Rostelecom Cup Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA Taunggyi, Myanmar People watch a fireworks explosion from a hot-air balloon during the Tazaungdaing festival at Taunggyi in Myanmar’s north-eastern Shan state Photograph: Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images
Unfixable: Several nations have tried to restore democracy after populist strongmen. It was never the same.
11/16/2018, 12:30:49 PMSeveral nations have tried to restore democracy after populist strongmen. It was never the same. Leaders like Trump do lasting damage to their political systems. ✔ In April, aided by massive gerrymandering, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling coalition crushed opposition in Hungary’s national elections, claiming a supermajority in the parliament ✔ But in these places, there was a relatively clean break with the ancien regime
Santa rally for stocks? Get out while the getting is good, says this strategist
11/16/2018, 12:20:38 PMOur call of the day says investors should be ready to grab and rally with both hands...and head for the exit. ✔ In RBC’s so-called Hot Dogs Screen, which shows the S&P 500 stocks that have seen the most hedge fund dollars invested, Microsoft MSFT, +2.20% has claimed the No. 1 spot, after Facebook fell to No. 5 ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment
Analysis | The Daily 202: Only one New England Republican remains in Congress – and she could lose or retire in 2020
11/16/2018, 2:47:28 PMThe GOP might get shut out in the O.C., as the Trump realignment affects every region. ✔ Susan Collins (R-Maine) meets with Brett Kavanaugh in her office in August ✔ Bruce Poliquin (R) was narrowly defeated by Democratic challenger Jared Golden after an instant runoff using ranked-choice voting ✔ 'That option and that discussion is underway,' Vitiello [said at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday]
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