Today's Headlines and Commentary by Rishabh Bhandari
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, are meeting in Geneva to hammer out final details of a cooperation agreement to partner against the Islamic State. Diplomats on both sides said they hoped a breakthrough would lead to a cessation of hostilities and restart talks on a political settlement in Syria. Talks of cooperation between Washington and Moscow began in July when Kerry proposed joint U.S.-Russian airstrikes against the Islamic State in return for the grounding of the Syrian air force. The Guardian has more.
Residents of Daraya, a rebel-held city in Syria, struck a deal to surrender to the Syrian governmentafter four years of siege and bombardment. In exchange for political control, the government will evacuate the remaining 8,000 residents of the city, which was one of the first areas to stage peaceful protests against Syrian President Bashar al Assad in 2011. According to one rebel, negotiators on behalf of Assad’s regime warned that all the civilians would be killed if they did not surrender now.
The Daily Beast informs us that the United States is leaking conclusions from a UN Security Council report that highlight Syria’s continued possession of chemical weapons. U.S. diplomats say they intend to use this information to pressure the regime’s primary backer, Russia, at the United Nations Security Council into action. UN officials said many believed chemical weapons remained in Syria after 2013, despite Assad’s claim to have sent his entire arsenal to Russia, but few were willing to state their suspicions publicly. But despite these revelations, any tangible action such as sanctions remain unlikely unless Russian President Vladimir Putin changes his calculus.
The Economist tells us that the Syrian conflict only grew more complicated this week after Turkey sent tanks, warplanes, and special operations forces across the border on Wednesday. Turkey’s deepening involvement comes as the Kurds, another U.S. ally, are clashing directly with the Syrian regime. Syrian rebels worry that Turkey, which has recently improved its relations with Russia, will begin cutting off critical support and supply lines for besieged cities such as Aleppo.
The New York Times reveals that Turkey’s recent entry into the Syrian conflict is a sign of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s growing dominance over the army. The top commanders behind the failed coup attempt in July had been among the most formidable critics of Erdogan’s plans to move into Syria. In the aftermath of the coup, Erdogan purged thousands of military officers and has assumed more operational control over the army. The Washington Post adds that Turkey’s Syria offensive was also facilitated by improved relations between Ankara and Moscow, along with American military support.
The Associated Press reports that a Kurdish suicide bomber killed at least 11 police officers and wounded 78 others in southeast Turkey when he rammed an explosives-laden truck into a checkpoint near a police station on Friday. Rebels linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for the attack. This strike marks the latest in a string of bombings conducted by the PKK, and the attacks could enrage Turkey into taking harsher action against the Syrian Kurds as its military continues to push into northern Syria.
The Financial Times writes that Erdogan may be fighting on too many fronts at once. In addition to Turkey’s deep-seated conflict with a separatist Kurdish insurgency in the southeast and its offensive against the Islamic State and the Syrian Kurds, Erdogan must also reckon with the internal threat posed by followers of Fethullah Gülen. To compound the challenge, Turkey is also growing further apart from its western allies, who worry that Erdogan is using the botched coup as a pretext to tighten his grip on power.
The Washington Post reports that Iraq’s parliament voted to sack its defense minister on Thursday.Khaled al-Obeidi’s departure over allegations of corruption marks the second major security post open after Iraq’s interior minister resigned in July following a devastating suicide attack in Baghdad. The turmoil comes as Iraqi security forces are closing in on recapturing Mosul, the Islamic State’s largest stronghold in the country, though Iraqi military planners said al Obeidi’s departure will not affect the impending fight.
After meeting with top Persian Gulf and UN officials in Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State John Kerryunveiled a new initiative aimed at ending Yemen’s bloody civil war and establishing a unity government. Kerry said political and security negotiations would be merged into a single comprehensive track and urged Iranian-backed Houthi rebels to withdraw from San’a and transfer their ballistic missiles and other heavy weapons to a third party. According to The Hill, Kerry reiterated U.S. support for Saudi Arabia, but also highlighted that the KSA recognizes it needs to do more to minimize civilian casualties during the war.
To help us make sense of the tangled network of alliances at work in Yemen, Al Jazeera offers a graphic breaking down which countries are involved in the civil war, which has often been viewed as a regional proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Iranian naval ships made dangerous maneuvers around United States warships in the Persian Gulf area on at least four occasions this week, Pentagon officials said Thursday, including one episode in which the Americans fired warning shots from a 50-caliber deck gun to prevent a collision. A U.S. spokesman for the Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain, accused the Iranians of violating international law and ignoring repeated warnings from the American vessels. The recent confrontations underscore the risk of an armed clash between Iran and the United States in an area that has been a perennial source of tension for the two countries. The New York Times has more.
The Wall Street Journal reveals that NSO, a little-known Israeli startup, exploited previously unknown bugs in Apple’s smartphone software to help foreign governments spy on their citizens. Researchers at Citizen Lab and the mobile-security firm Lookout said they discovered the software in a link sent earlier this month to the phone of Ahmed Mansoor, a human-rights activist in the United Arab Emirates. This revelation suggests that the iOS operating system behind Apple’s iPhones may not be as impregnable as it appeared earlier this year, when the FBI struggled for weeks to unlock a phone tied to the San Bernardino terror attack. The Associated Press notes that Apple boosted its iPhone security after the disclosure.
Visiting Sweden, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that he still expects the U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will close before President Barack Obama leaves office in January. As the administration has encountered congressional resistance to the president’s desire to close the prison, Obama has been steadily transferring detainees it concludes are not a threat to countries willing to take them. 61 prisoners remain at Guantanamo, including 20 that have been approved for transfer.
A U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan said U.S. troops are accompanying Afghan special forces on roughly 10 percent of their missions. Earlier this week, one US service member was killed and one wounded by a bomb attack in which six Afghan troops were killed, underscoring the risk that U.S. troops still face in Afghanistan almost two years after President Barack Obama declared the U.S. combat mission there over.
Islamic militants aligned with Al Shabab claimed responsibility for an attack on a seaside restaurant in Mogadishu that killed at least seven people and wounded two others. Gunmen raided the building after setting off a car bomb outside. Somali security officials said a suicide bomber had survived the blast and was taken into custody and that two militants had been killed. The terrorist organization has carried out a series of deadly attacks to try to replace the Western-backed government with a puritanical Islamic state. The New York Times has more.
ICYMI: Yesterday, on Lawfare
Ellen Scholl scanned the globe to spotlight cases where energy is impacting geopolitics.
Benjamin Wittes posted the latest episode of Rational Security, in which the gang talks about the alleged Russian hacks of the New York Times.
Amanda Tyler recounted the remarkable story of Mitsuye Endo, an unsung hero in the fight to close down the Japanese internment camps during World War II.
Orin Kerr teased out the contrast between two approaches to delineating between metadata and content.
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Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news.
IRAQ and SYRIA
Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov met today in Geneva to finalize a cooperation agreement on fighting the Islamic State in Syria. Diplomats are hopeful that the talks will lead to a cessation of hostilities and the restarting of discussions on political transition in Syria, reportsReuters.
Rebels in the besieged Syrian town of Daraya struck a deal with the Syrian government to surrender control of it in exchange for the evacuation of the town’s 8,000 residents. Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, was one of the first towns to stage peaceful protests against President Assad in 2011, and to face violence in response. Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad report for the New York Times.
The Obama administration is putting pressure on Assad and his Russian backers ahead of an Aug. 30 UN Security Council meeting to look at the issue of chemical weapons in Syria through a series of leaked reports from UN agencies, according to a US intelligence official. Why now, Christopher Dickey and Noah Shachtman ask at The Daily Beast? Because in 2014, the world was indifferent to reports that Assad was using chemical weapons, and so the US decided it was best to “work through the slow UN process, get the Russians to a place where they’re cornered diplomatically,” according to the same official.
Military talks due to take place today in Ankara between Russia and Turkey have been postponed to “a later date,” reports the Hürriyet Daily News. No reason for the delay has been reported.
The Turkish military incursion into Syria with US support illustrates the “complications” of American foreign affairs, says the New York Times editorial board. While the US shares Turkey’s goal of ousting the Islamic State, Turkey also wants to keep Syrian Kurds – the US’s most reliable allies in Syria – away from its borders. That said, Obama is right to focus on combating the Islamic State and on trying to improve relations with Turkey, says the board.
Turkey’s operation in Syria, so soon after its failed coup, highlights how President Erdoğan has secured more operational control of the military, and – contrary to Western fears that a post-coup Turkey would be unable or unwilling to be a partner in the fight against the Islamic State – has finally been able to realise his ambitions in Syria, including stopping Kurdish militias from seizing more territory there. [New York Times’ Time Arango]
Turkey’s intervention in Syria was opposed by military officers who later participated in the July 15 coup attempt, delaying it for more than a year, report Erin Cunningham and Liz Sly at the Washington Post.
“As if the war in Syria did not have enough combatants,” Turkey has “entered the fray.” The Economist unravels the chaos of shifting alliances in Syria, in the midst of which America risks being drawn away from its narrow mission of defeating the Islamic State and into the wider conflict.
Syria has been Obama’s worst mistake, Roger Cohen writes at the New York Times, and within that mistake the worst error was the last –minute “red line” wobble in 2013, when Obama resisted “immediate pressures” and decided not to react militarily to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, which has “undermined America’s word, emboldened Putin and empowered Assad.”
Iraq’s parliament sacked its defense minister yesterday, ahead of the biggest fight against the Islamic State so far, in Mosul, highlighting the country’s serious political instability as it tries to oust the terror group from its remaining strongholds. [Washington Post’s Loveday Morris]
The Islamic State’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was held in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the US military now says, a fact not previously known and which provides another potential key to the leader’s biography and the role US detention facilities played in the rise of the terrorist organization, reports Joshua Eaton at The Intercept.
TURKEY
A car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Cizre in the mainly Kurdish Sirnak province on Turkey’s border with Syria has left at least 11 police officers dead and 78 wounded this morning, reports theAP.
Turkey’s Prime Minister has declared “total war” against terrorism today following the attack, which has been attributed to the PKK. [Hürriyet Daily News]
Kurdish rebels opened fire on a convoy carrying Turkey’s main opposition party leader in Artvin province, yesterday, killing a soldier and wounding two others, according to officials. [AP’s Suzan Fraser]
Turkey is fighting on too many fronts at once, and it still on a collision course with the west, David Gardner writes at the Financial Times, the Gulenists, the Islamic State and the Kurds all its enemies. Meanwhile, President Erdoğan continues to demand the extradition of US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen, saying last week that the US must choose between Turkey and the cleric. At the same time, the EU’s outrage at the post-coup crackdown as opposed to the coup itself – in fact a “brutal assault on a democratic republic” – has caused indignation in Turkey. And in Syria, Turkey is joining with Assad patrons Russia and Iran.
YEMEN
Secretary of State John Kerry unveiled a new initiative aimed at ending Yemen’s current conflictyesterday after meeting with UN and Persian Gulf officials in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. “We agreed on a renewed approach to negotiate with both a security and political track simultaneously, working in order to provide a comprehensive settlement,” he said afterwards. Ahmed Al Omran and Asa Fitch report at the Wall Street Journal.
Kerry also called for a unity government in Yemen yesterday, and reported that the Saudis had agreed that there is “work to do” to avoid civilian casualties there. [The Hill’s Rebecca Kheel]
Houthi rebels were offered participation in the unity government in exchange for transfer of their heavy weapons to a third party, reports Al Jazeera. Following the meeting the UN envoy to Yemen is to begin a series of consultations with both sides in the fighting to push for renewed peace talks.
The talks between the “quad” of the US, UK, UAE and Saudi Arabia are “more likely to be an exercise in public hand-wringing than a serious effort to end the war and prevent further loss of life,” writesCNN’s Peter Salisbury, doubtful that official’s – from four of the foreign countries most deeply embroiled in the conflict – discussed, for example, the recent decision of Doctors without Borders to withdraw its staff from hospitals in northern Yemen.
CYBERSECURITY, PRIVACY and TECHNOLOGY
Little-known Israeli startup NSO Group Technologies Ltd exploited bugs in Apple’s smartphone software to provide surveillance technology to foreign governments wishing to spy on their citizens, according to security researchers. This sheds new light on the capabilities of private security companies to produce sophisticated software for state-sponsored spying, reports Robert McMillan at the Wall Street Journal. A botched attempt to use this technology to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist has prompted Apple to implement a global upgrade of its mobile operating system, researchers said yesterday. [AP’s Raphael Satter and Daniella Cheslow]
The leak of documents from French naval submarine builder Scorpene detailing designs for Indian naval submarines did not pose any security compromise as sensitive information had been redacted, India confirmed on Wednesday. [AP’s Ashok Sharma]
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
“My hope and expectation” is that Obama will close Guantánamo Bay, Vice President Joe Biden said at a press conference in Sweden yesterday, a comment which comes days following the revelation by his spokesperson that Obama still intends to close down the detention center before his last day in office, Jan. 20. [Miami Herald’s John T. Bennett]
A US coastal patrol ship fired warning shots at an Iranian ship in the Persian Gulf Wednesday when it approached within several hundred meters, the incident occurring the day after Iranian ships made provocative maneuvers close to a US destroyer in the Strait of Hormuz, Missy Ryan and Thomas Gibbons-Neff report at the Washington Post. It was unclear whether the confrontations were intended to send a hostile message about US naval activity, reports Rick Gladstone at the New York Times, though they underscored the risk of an armed clash between the US and Iran in a tense region.
US military forces are accompanying Afghan special operations forces “every night or every other night” and are involved in about 10-percent of their missions, spokesperson Army Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland said yesterday. [The Hill’s Kristina Wong]
Islamic militants attacked a restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late last night, leaving 10 dead, according to police. The attackers used a car bomb which was followed by a gun fight with security forces that lasted for several hours. [Reuters] Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack. [New York Times’ Hussein Mohamed]
President Obama should resist the temptation to cancel the Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) nuclear weapon as part of his sweeping changes to US nuclear policy, suggests Matthew R. Costlow at theWall Street Journal. The air-launched cruise missile is crucial to America’s nuclear deterrent and future negotiating leverage, and its removal would ultimately make Obama’s vision of a “nuclear free world” even less plausible.
The peace treaty between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels marks a milestone for peace in the Americas and the world: it was the last armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere, meaning that from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, war has disappeared, report Steven Pinker and Juan Manuel Santos at the New York Times.
The idea that Saudi Arabia’s export of the form of Islam known as Wahhabism has fueled global extremism and contributed to terrorism has become commonplace, but is the world today a more dangerous place because of Saudi Arabia? Or is Saudi Arabia a scapegoat for extremism, which has many complex causes, including the US’s own actions? Scott Shane discusses this issue at the New York Times.
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Hungary will build a second, massive fence along its border with Serbia to stop an influx of migrants in case an agreement with Turkey to contain them fails, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
Air pollution in Singapore reached very unhealthy levels as haze engulfed most parts of the city, an indication that renewed cross-border efforts to combat forest fires in Indonesia are showing scant signs of success.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are meeting Friday in a bid to complete a deal on increased cooperation in Syria.
Under the deal between the Syrian government and its opposition, the civilians of Daraya are being moved to nearby suburbs, while rebels are being transferred to a northern province.
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France’s highest administrative court suspended a local ban on wearing head-to-foot burkini swimsuits, setting a precedent in a highly charged national debate over Muslim clothing and French identity.
The continuous stream of charming, callous and menacing posts by President Ramzan Kadyrov and his supporters shows how social media can be as much a tool of repression as of liberation.
Brazil’s federal police recommended that prosecutors file charges against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his wife for money laundering and corruption.
Residents started to evacuate a Syrian town that endured a brutal four-year siege before surrendering to the regime, but not before making their way to cemeteries to bid farewell to the thousands of dead who will be left behind.
British police have arrested five men suspected of planning to carry out acts of terrorism, and have dispatched a bomb disposal unit to an address in Birmingham, England’s second-largest city.
Two ostensibly tongue-in-cheek challenges to the nation’s independence are causing trouble for the proponents, raising questions about freedom of speech
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Tensions are deepening between U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters and Syrian rebels.
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Washington Post |
The strange tale of Donald Trump's doctor letter just got stranger
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TIME |
TRUMP'S two camps -- NYT: WESTERN STATES turning red -- Cabinet wars beginning – WEEKEND READS
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's wealthy Gupta family, which has been accused of holding undue political sway over President Jacob Zuma, said on Saturday it planned to dispose of all the stakes it holds in South African businesses before the end of the year.
An Afghan Feud Reignites, Putting Police Families at Oddsby ROD NORDLAND and JAWAD SUKHANYAR
Prominent northern families are contesting a new killing, fueling a type of infighting that threatens government stability and the fight against the Taliban.
Fifteen people have been killed in a barrel bomb attack in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitor says, amid a continuing push for a nationwide ceasefire.
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Imposed in the name of secularism, the bans had prohibited Muslim women from wearing the “burkini”—a full-body bathing suit designed to respect traditional codes of modesty—on the beach.
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AP Explains: Behind the trial to remove Brazil’s presidentby Adriana Gomez Licon | AP
Brazil’s Senate on Friday began the second day of deliberations in a trial to decide whether to permanently remove President Dilma Rousseff from office. While the formal accusations against Rousseff are related to her management of the federal budget, the leadership fight involves much more. The Associated Press explains how we got to this point and how the trial is likely to play out.
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Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency says police have detained several suspects in anti-Islamic State raids across the capital Ankara and “liberated” over two dozen students in one of their schools.
Kerry says ‘clarity’ achieved with Russia on most steps to renew Syria truce; narrow issues still to be resolved.
Despite progress, US-Russia fall short on truce for Syriaby Matthew Lee and Jamey Keaten | AP
The United States and Russia say they have resolved a number of issues standing in the way of restoring a nationwide truce to Syria and opening up aid deliveries, but were unable once again to forge a comprehensive agreement on stepping up cooperation to end the brutal war that has killed hundreds of thousands.
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A former top civil servant says a British exit from the European Union is not inevitable, although voters backed that course in a June referendum.
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Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria say Turkish airstrikes have hit their bases near Jarablus, a town seized by Turkey-backed rebels earlier this week.
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Iranian state media says a fire in a mental hospital has killed one person and wounded 35.
Protests, tear gas at Moldova independence day paradeby Corneliu Rusnac | AP
Moldovan police on Saturday fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters during a parade to mark the former Soviet republic’s independence day.
Turkey’s state-run news agency says four soldiers have been wounded in the country’s southeast after an attack by Kurdish militants.
The Latest developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):
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Turkey’s state news agency says three former top Turkish diplomats have been jailed for their alleged involvement in the failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Richard Branson recently survived a bad bike accident in the British Virgin Islands, and on Friday he shared the story and photos online.
The billionaire Virgin Group founder was biking along a road several nights ago when he hit a bump that sent him flying face first off of his bike, he said. On Friday, Branson, 66, posted photos of himself after the crash, which left him with a bloodied face, cracked cheek, torn ligaments and severe cuts.
Forget my injuries (cracked cheek, torn ligaments) – I'm having to drink tea out of a straw! http://virg.in/JPxtm
“I really thought I was going to die,” Branson wrote. “I went flying head-first towards the concrete road, but fortunately my shoulder and cheek took the brunt of the impact, and I was wearing a helmet that saved my life.”
Branson was training for the Virgin Strive Challenge in September, where a group will make a month-long journey hiking, cycling, swimming and running through Italy for charity.
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Two boaters were rescued from an uninhabited Pacific island on Friday after being stranded there for a week.
They had written “SOS” in the sand and were spotted by a U.S. Navy air crew, NBC News reported. The two boaters began traveling to Tamatam Island in Micronesia on Aug. 17 and were expected to arrive the following day, but instead became stranded on Aug. 19.
They had limited supplies and no emergency equipment on board the 18-foot boat, NBC News reported, citing the U.S. Coast Guard.
Rescuers searched 16,571 square miles in total for the missing boaters and their vessel.
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Washington Post |
AP Explains: The trial to remove Brazil's president
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The Straits Times |
Kurdish-Led Syrian Forces Report Turkish Air Raids on Bases
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Huffington Post |
Maine Governor Uses Homophobic Slur While Challenging Lawmaker To Prove He's A Racist
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TIME |
FDA Says All Blood Donations Should Be Tested for Zika
TIME Health authorities are recommending that all donated blood for the United States and its territories be tested for the Zika virus. Previously, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had recommended that blood be tested for Zika in areas where ... and more » |
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CNN |
Children among dead in Syria barrel bomb attack
CNN (CNN) The video shows a devastating scene: Two boys covered in dust desperately cling to each other and cry. "My brother is gone," one sobs. It's one of several harrowing videos activists shared after a barrel bomb in the Syrian city of Aleppo killed ... The Night Omran Was SavedTIME Two Syrian boys sob for killed brother in heartbreaking footageNew York Daily News For Kids Trapped in Aleppo, Public's Crisis Fatigue Poses ObstacleNBCNews.com Huffington Post-BuzzFeed News-ITV News-BBC News all 98 news articles » |
Business Insider |
Donald Trump just threw a wrench into the debate about immigration
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CBS News |
How immigration hardliners are reacting to confusion over Trump's stance
CBS News After a week of muddled messages from Donald Trump and his campaign on his immigration proposals, some immigration hard-liners are wavering between supporting the Republican nominee or trashing his latest attempt to appeal to minority voters. and more » |
Business Insider |
Colombia's historic peace plan has a drug problem
Business Insider Colombia FARC peace deal Juan Manuel Santos Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, center, and Colombian first lady Maria Clemencia de Santos arrive at congress to present the FARC, in Bogota, August 25, 2016. REUTERS/John Vizcaino. Colombian soldiers destroying a coca field. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)VICE News A momentous peace deal with the FARC – so what next for Colombia?The Conversation UK After 52 Years, the War Between Colombia and the FARC Will EndSmithsonian Council On Hemispheric Affairs- CP24 Toronto's Breaking News- The Indian Express- Thomson Reuters Foundation all 117 euronews-Huffington Post all 108 news articles » |
NBCNews.com |
Presidential Campaign Brings the Alt-Right Out of the Shadows
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89.3 KPCC |
Everything you need to know about the Alt-Right movement
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The Atlantic |
The Bribery Accusations Against Brazil's Former President
The Atlantic NEWS BRIEF As suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff faces impeachment proceedings, her predecessor and mentor may soon face his own legal battle. Brazilian police on Friday recommended that prosecutors bring corruption charges against ... Brazil: Federal police recommend charges for LulaAnadolu Agency Brazil police seek graft charges against ex-president LulaFree Malaysia Today Federal Police indict Brazilian Ex-President Lula and spouse Marisa in Guarujá Triplex caseFolha de S.Paulo Global Times all 24 news articles » |
Reuters |
US, Russia fail to reach breakthrough deal on cooperation in Syria
Reuters U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov during a bilateral meeting at the sidelines of the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Vientiane, Laos July 26, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva. 2/2. left. right. U.S ... Kerry, Lavrov Say New Syria Agreement CloseVoice of America US, Russia Make Headway on Syria Cooperation PlanWall Street Journal Kerry: US, Russia 'Close' on Syria AgreementNBCNews.com The Boston Globe -Military Times -RT -BBC News all 201 news articles » |
Free Malaysia Today |
Brazil police seek graft charges against ex-president Lula
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Washington Post |
Trump and advisers remain split on how far to move toward the middle
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NBCNews.com |
Rodney Sanders Arrested, Charged With Capital Murder in Killing of Mississippi Nuns
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Reuters |
Bangladesh security forces kill 'mastermind' of Dhaka cafe attack
Reuters Policemen sneak a look inside the Holey Artisan Bakery and the O'Kitchen Restaurant as others inspect the site after gunmen attacked, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 3, 2016. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo. DHAKA Bangladesh security forces killed four ... Bangladesh 'cafe attack planner killed' in police raidBBC News Bangladesh cops storm militant hideout, kill 'mastermind' of Dhaka cafe attackTimes of India Bangladesh police 'kill main Dhaka cafe attack suspect'Aljazeera.com The Indian Express -The New Indian Express -Bangladesh News 24 hours -The Daily Star all 34 news articles » |
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The Express Tribune |
Fire kills 17 Kyrgyz nationals in Moscow printing plant
Reuters MOSCOW A fire in a Moscow printing plant killed 17 people on Saturday, officials said, and a representative of the Kyrgyz diaspora in Russia said all the dead were members of its community. "The incident happened when people were changing shifts at the ... Moscow Warehouse Fire: 17 Kyrgyz Workers Killed, Criminal Inquiry LaunchedInternational Business Times Fire Sweeps Through Russian Warehouse, Killing 17 WorkersABC News Kyrgyz migrant workers killed in Moscow warehouse fireThe Guardian RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty-euronews-RT- International Business Times UK all 51 RT-Daily Star-Mirror.co.uk all 37 news articles » |
Ukraine's interior minister has vowed there won't be any "whitewash" as authorities investigate the death this week of a 31-year-old man at the hands of a half-dozen policemen with the man's family looking on.
At least 16 people been killed after a fire broke out at a warehouse in Moscow.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged the European Union to make security a priority and build an army of its own.
