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MIDDLE EAST
Iran says missile attack in
Syria killed 40 'leaders' of Islamic
State
Syria FM says
Iran coordinated its ballistic missile
strikes:
September saw
lowest civilian casualty of Syrian war
; Of the 1,059 people
who died last month, 436 were rebel
fighters, 239 soldiers and allied
militiamen, and 236 were from extremist
groups
Syria gets S-300 missile system
& more from Russia in wake of Il-20
downing
Russia vs. the F-35: Did a
Russian Made Missile Strike One of
Israel's New F-35s?
Dozens of Militants Killed in
Houthi in-Fighting in Yemen
Saudi Arabia Kills Entire Family
in Yemen
3 killed in Saudi-led airstrike
on Yemen's Hajjah province
Kurdish Moderate
Barham Saleh Elected Iraq President
:
Iraqi president names Adil
Abdul-Mahdi as prime minister
Oman plans pipeline to Iran as
US sanctions loom
Wikileaks: To Weaken Iran, US
Undermined Democratic Elements of Syrian
Opposition to Empower Radical Groups
Trump Targets Iran: Not Just
Talk, This Is Serious
"Hillary Said So": Iran Quotes
WikiLeaks At U.N. To Prove Saudis Are
State Sponsors Of Terror
Gaza: Scores of Palestinians
Injured During Protest Against Israeli
Naval Blockade
Sign On: Tell The International
Criminal Court To Investigate Israel’s
Crimes
Saudi state spies on dissidents
in Canada using software built by
Israeli firm
IAEA dismisses Netanyahu concerns about
existence of Iranian secret atomic
warehouse:
We've checked everything we
needed to in Iran
AFRICA
At least 44
people were killed in Ethiopia:
70,000 fled their homes amid
violence in western Ethiopia, local
officials say.
US airstrike in Somalia kills 9
alleged, al-Shabab extremists
ISIS regroups to
attack a fragmented Libya:
So far this year in Libya,
there have already been more than twice
the number of ISIS attacks
Death sentence for 20 Egyptians
upheld in latest affront to UN calls to
abolish capital punishment
ASIA
Afghanistan: 21 alleged, ISIS
militants killed in drone strikes in
Nangarhar province
Afghanistan: 13 killed as
suicide bomber targets election rally in
Nangarhar
North Korea estimated to have up
to 60 nuclear weapons, South Korea
official says
North and South Korea begin
disarming their heavily fortified border
Chinese warship
sails within yards of US destroyer in
'unsafe' encounter:
A Chinese warship sailed within
yards of an American destroyer – forcing
it to change course
China’s yuan more popular as
reserve currency despite trade war, IMF
data shows
US dollar's share of global
foreign reserves at its lowest since
2013
An
under-the-radar provision in the
US-Mexico-Canada trade deal looks like a
direct shot at China:
The USMCA also contains a
poison pill that could stop Canada or
Mexico from entering into a deal with
China.
Why Russia and
China Are Strengthening Security Ties:
A stronger strategic partnership between
Beijing and Moscow could, given time,
upend a half century of U.S. military
planning and strategy.
Russia and India
'set to sign $5bn S-400 missile deal':
President Putin to oversee the sale of
air defence systems during his visit to
India this week, Kremlin official says.
Indonesia quake, tsunami death
toll climbs to 1,347
EUROPE
US could launch preemptive
military strike against Russia: NATO
envoy
‘We’d take out Russia’s nukes,’
US NATO envoy says, claiming ‘banned’
missiles are being developed
Diplomat chides
remarks by US NATO envoy on plans to
destroy Russian missiles as dangerous:
"It seems that people who make
such statements do not understand the
degree of their responsibility and the
danger of such aggressive rhetoric.
Down With
'Moscow-Lovers'! Tory Party Conference
Plumbs New Depths in Xenophobia:
Just when you thought the
Tories couldn't go any lower, or get any
nastier, they just did.
EU anger over May's post-Brexit
immigration plan
Boris Johnson humiliated Theresa
May – and Tory members cheered every
word
DUP threaten to torpedo Theresa
May's Brexit proposals and say they
could vote with Labour
We would work with Prime
Minister Boris Johnson, says DUP leader,
as she praises his 'positive' Brexit
vision
Ground transport
faster than air travel: World’s first
Hyperloop passenger pod unveiled:
The first full-size passenger
capsule designed to carry passengers at
over 1,100 kilometers per hour (700mph)
was unveiled on Tuesday in Cadiz, Spain.
In a world gone
crazy:
Student union
bans clapping to make events 'inclusive':
Clapping has been banned by a
student union in an move to be more
inclusive towards those with anxiety or
sensory issues.
AMERICAS
Facebook, Google,
and Amazon are big winners in the new
NAFTA deal:
The US, Canada, and Mexico tentatively
agreed to provides wide-reaching
protection to internet giants from
lawsuits and liabilities for what
appears on their services.
Chelsea Manning;
'Life in the United State is Like
Prison': Chelsea Manning:
“You think about the surveillance
systems, the cameras, or the police
presence and you think about the fact
that we have walls around our country,
and that is very much the same thing
that is inside a prison,” said Manning,
Amazon pledges minimum wage of
$15 an hour for all U.S. workers
At least two packages sent to
Pentagon suspected to contain ricin,
amid scare at Cruz office in Texas
Trump
Administration to Deny Visas to Same-Sex
Partners of Diplomats, U.N. Officials:
The new policy will insist they
be married—even if they're from
countries that criminalize gay marriage.
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes;
The president has long sold himself as a
self-made billionaire, but a Times
investigation found that he received at
least $413 million in today’s dollars
from his father’s real estate empire,
much of it through tax dodges in the
1990s.
The New York Times Proves
President Trump Is a Crook
Trump’s international image
remains poor: Especially Among Key
Allies
Kavanaugh Was Questioned by
Police After Bar Fight in 1985
Don't count on the FBI to clear
up the Kavanaugh-Ford mess. Its record
is flawed.
GoFundMe Accounts
For Kavanaugh And Ford Top $1 Million;
Ford, who lives in a $3.3
million Palo Alto home and has had free
legal representation by attorneys has a
combined GoFundMe "take" of more than
$700,000 between two campaigns.
Kavanaugh’s
Harvard Law Class Canceled:
“Today, Judge Kavanaugh
indicated that he can no longer commit
to teaching his course in January Term
2019, so the course will not be
offered,”
Comey rejects
request for closed-door interview with
House Republicans
: James Comey has rejected a
request from Republicans in Congress to
sit for a closed-door interview as part
of their efforts to probe allegations of
bias at the Justice Department and the
FBI.
FBI’s 37 secret pages of memos
about Russia, Clintons and Uranium One
New “Dark Money” Documentary
Shines Light Into the Shadows Cast by
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