US strike 'kills senior Syria militant'
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The US says it has a killed a senior member of a group of al-Qaeda veterans called the Khorasan Group in an airstrike in Syria.
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Jeb Bush told Jake Tapper that Hillary Clinton "did a good job in the debate," but "she looked beatable."
Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton spoke exclusively with Jake Tapper about the first Democratic debate, Bill Clinton, and much more.
Hillary Clinton spoke exclusively with Jake Tapper about her upcoming Benghazi Committee hearing, her emails, and more.
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Pope Francis canonises the first married couple in modern times, declaring the parents of the beloved St.Therese of Lisieux saints in their own right. Report by Jessica Wakefield.
Kerry to Visit Mideast Amid Violent Clashes by AssociatedPress
Secretary of State John Kerry says he'll be meeting this week with Israel's Prime Minister and the Palestinian President in a bid to ease tensions in the Middle East. Kerry also discussed the efforts in battling violent extremism (Oct. 18)
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Julie Davis of The New York Times takes a look at a presidential dilemma -- how much or how little should Obama weigh in on the 2016 race?
Press cools on Biden by FoxNewsChannel
Pundits say moment has passed
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After a week of searching, a San Bernardino disabled Army veteran was reunited with his beloved support dog, Twix, late Thursday night.
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Innovation in China: Promise or Pipedream?
Huffington Post If China fails to turbocharge its capacity to innovate, the country will experience a hard economic landing and social stability will be threatened. But can China evolve into an innovation powerhouse? The jury is out. Innovation elevates labor ... |
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A court-martial has dismissed from the army and jailed a Nigerian general who lost a battle to Boko Haram Islamic extremists who killed hundreds of civilians.
The military Saturday said Brig. Gen. Enitan Ransome Kuti - a nephew of music legend Fela Ransome-Kuti - was sentenced ...
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Veteran asks for military burial for combat dog that was shot and killed
USA TODAY POWELL, Wyo. — An Army veteran is asking for a burial with military honors for his dog that was shot and killed outside Powell. Matthew Bessler's 10-year-old Belgian Malinois named Mike was shot and killed last Saturday by a bicyclist who says the dog ... Army Vet Mourns the Loss of Service Dog and Retired Military K-9 After He Was ...People Magazine Military K9 who became veteran's service dog after combat shot, killed in WyomingNew York Daily News Retired military K9 who served in Iraq shot, killed in Powell | Local News ...The Billings Gazette all 18 news articles » |
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Tell us who not to pound and we won’t pound them, Russian president Vladimir Putin said. He was paraphrasing from a conversation he says his government had recently with Washington about Syria.
Russia is bombing Washington’s friends; an anti-Assad crowd that Putin believes is as bad news as ISIS. His view is not popular in the U.S..
The post On Syria, Putin Says Washington Is Unresponsive & Not Cooperating appeared first on In Homeland Security.
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Bush ridicules Trump's fitness to lead military in new video
CNN International The clip, set to the tune of circus music, is a collage of comments from Trump that have called into question his grasp of military matters. Many of Trump's most notable gaffes are highlighted: from his questioning of John McCain's status as a war hero ... and more » |
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Kowtowing to China's despots is morally wrong and makes no economic sense
The Guardian I know from my experience and from friends, whose judgment I trust completely, that China is a great and special country that we should be happy and proud to engage with. There's only one problem: it's run by a bunch of cruel, corrupt, communist dictators. |
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Kowtowing to China's despots is morally wrong and makes no economic sense
The Guardian I know from my experience and from friends, whose judgment I trust completely, that China is a great and special country that we should be happy and proud to engage with. There's only one problem: it's run by a bunch of cruel, corrupt, communist dictators. The European Union And China On The New Silk RoadsHuffington Post all 2 news articles » |
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Kowtowing to China's despots is morally wrong and makes no economic sense
The Guardian I know from my experience and from friends, whose judgment I trust completely, that China is a great and special country that we should be happy and proud to engage with. There's only one problem: it's run by a bunch of cruel, corrupt, communist dictators. The European Union And China On The New Silk RoadsHuffington Post all 3 news articles » |
FBI's top man in Louisiana says heroin on rise, corruption a constant
The New Orleans Advocate Advocate staff photo by PATRICK DENNIS -- Michael Anderson, the Special Agent in Charge in the New Orleans FBI bureau, speaks during the weekly Rotary Club luncheon Wednesday at Boudreaux's. and more » |
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October 18, 2015, 8:10 AM (IDT)
The bi-annual Blue Flag joint Air Force exercise begins Sunday morning at the Ovda Air Force base in southern Israel with the participation of the US, Israel and allied nations. The exercise lasting two weeks will simulate “a high-intensity confrontation against a political entity with a strong army.” US, Greek and Italian aircraft have arrived in Israel in the past weeks.
The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F Dunford began a visit to Israel on Saturday as part of his first official trip outside of the US since taking up the position on October 1. He will meet with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot and be received by an IDF honor guard. They will discuss cooperation between the two militaries and common security challenges, during the visit, according to an official statement.
The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F Dunford began a visit to Israel on Saturday as part of his first official trip outside of the US since taking up the position on October 1. He will meet with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot and be received by an IDF honor guard. They will discuss cooperation between the two militaries and common security challenges, during the visit, according to an official statement.
October 18, 2015, 8:41 AM (IDT)
Havana Sunday denied sending military forces to fight in Syria. These reports were termed “irresponsible,” by official spokesmen. US media are still reporting nonetheless that the Cuban army chief Gen. Leopoldo Cintra Friaso was in Damascus to coordinate the integration of Cuban units after a trip to Tehran.
October 18, 2015, 12:52 PM (IDT)
Turkish security forces arrested 50 foreign citizens in Istanbul who were planning to travel to Syria and Iraq in order to join ISIS, reports said Sunday.
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Man who bribed FBI agent behind push to keep tourists flying over NYC
New York Post He pleaded guilty to bribing an FBI agent in 1996 and was sentenced to house arrest. He also pleaded guilty to driving with a suspended or revoked license in 2011 in Arizona. His younger brother Steve, who is involved in another family business, was ... |
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How the FBI Handled One of Its Toughest Hostage Cases
Newser Thanks to access to audio and video recordings, drone images, private letters, and law enforcement documents, the Journal provides a detailed and at times graphic account of what it took the FBI to keep the boy alive in the bunker and ultimately swarm ... |
The US and Israel are marking a jam-packed week of military-to-military cooperation that cuts across all services and command echelon.
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October 18, 2015, 5:05 PM (IDT)
On Sunday, Oct. 18, Russian and Israeli air force headquarters near Latakia n Syria and Tel Aviv began practicing procedures for using the hot line they established last week to coordinate their operations in Syrian skies. debkafile: Arab-speaking flight controllers will no doubt man the Russian end of the hot line at Al-Hmeineem, while US and other Western air controllers will join Israeli officers at the Tel Aviv end to coordinate their own flights over Syria with the Russian command..
The Pentagon agency charged with shepherding US arms sales to foreign nations hit a high of $46.6 billion in sales in fiscal 2015.
What's Next for Russia and Ukraine? (Op-Ed)by By Jean-Marie Guehenno
The most acute phase of the 18-month-old Ukraine war is over, at least for now. But nothing is settled yet, writes columnist Jean-Marie Guehenno.
Voting in Egypt's parliamentary election will continue in phases until early December, when officials are expected to announce Egypt’s first parliament in three years.
Detention Of Former Moldovan PM Over $1 Billion Fraud Extended For 30 Daysby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL's Moldovan Service)
A court in Moldova has ruled that the country’s former prime minister will be held in pretrial detention for another 30 days.
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Ukrainian president warns Russia violence could spread
Washington Examiner Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned Sunday that, left unchecked, Russian aggression in his home country could spread to other areas of the world. Russian-backed fighters invaded two parts of Ukraine last year, annexing the Crimean peninsula ... Ukraine's Uneasy Blockade of Russian-Occupied CrimeaNewsweek 'Crimea's in Russia' textbook gets OUP into diplomatic rowThe Oxford Times Ukrainian embassy angered by textbook that says Crimea is in RussiaMetro all 14 news articles » |
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Russia retreats to autarky as poverty looms
Telegraph.co.uk He described the latest efforts to squeeze more money out of Russia's energy companies as the "end of the road". Mr Kudrin resigned in 2011 in protest over Russia's military build-up, fearing that it would test public finances to breaking point. Events ... |
Vladimir Yakunin pauses during a TV interview in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2011. (Andrey Rudakov/Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)
The World Public Forum’s “Dialogue of Civilizations” meets every year on the Greek island of Rhodes, under the patronage of its founder, Vladimir Yakunin. Until recently, Yakunin was the chairman of Russian state railways and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now he has been ejected from Putin’s inner circle, but he still opened the forum in Rhodes this month. When asked, he angrily denied rumors that a hushed-up corruption scandal had led to his fall from grace. Only an “idiot or a provocateur ” could possibly say such a thing, he told a reporter from Politico. A few minutes later, he showed the same reporter his 140,000-euro watch. “If you want to buy something, what’s wrong with that?”
The forum also continued, as in the past, to gather people willing to endorse Russian views of the world. There was Vaclav Klaus, the former Czech president, who called Putin’s Syrian adventure a “logical step.” There was John Laughland, political director of a Russian-backed think tank, theInstitute for Democracy and Cooperation, who argued that the European Union was conceived by the CIA, as part of a U.S. plot to subjugate Europe. Plus dozens of others, from all around the world.
Anne Applebaum writes a biweekly foreign affairs column for The Washington Post. She is also the Director of the Global Transitions Program at the Legatum Institute in London.
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Once upon a time, we had a vocabulary to describe organizations like the forum or the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation. During the Cold War, we spoke of “front organizations,” such as theWorld Federation of Trade Unions or even the American communist party, which were allegedly independent but secretly supported with Soviet money. Such groups were run by “agents of influence” — people who knowingly promoted the interests of the Soviet Union in the West — or “useful idiots,” people who did the same thing, unconsciously, usually out of ideological naiveté.
But times have changed, and direct parallels cannot be drawn. Klaus, who is not an idiot, doesn’t hide his financial links to Moscow. The forum does not hide its links to Russia, either. Instead, they both seek openly to legitimize the anti-NATO, anti-European, anti-Western views of the Russian elite. In a bid for respectability, the forum’s Web site even displays the many logos of its distinguished “partner” organizations from around the world. Not all of these partnerships are real: A spokesman for the Council on Foreign Relations, whose logo appears on the site, told me that it does not support the forum at all. But if you were just glancing, you’d never know it.
Even harder to categorize are the actions of some genuinely legitimate politicians. For example, Andrej Babis, the Czech finance minister, and Milos Zeman, the Czech president — once a regular at the forum — frequently echo or repeat Russian slogans, as occasionally does the Slovak prime minister, Robert Fico. In August and early September of 2014, all three argued against Western sanctions on Russia, using similar language. Zeman called them “ineffective,” Babis called them “nonsense” and Fico called them “pointless.” Later, they shifted their rhetoric, and began to point to the refugee crisis and radical Islam as the “real” threats to Europe. “The refugee crisis threatens the Czech republic more than Russia,” said Babis in September. “Islamist terrorism is a greater threat to Europe than Russia,” said Zeman in May.
Like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban , all of these men have domestic political reasons for offering verbal support to Putin: They want to ride the anti-European Union, anti-“establishment” wave that has washed across all of Europe, and to capitalize on economic discontent. Since the E.U. began, politicians have long found it useful to blame “Brussels” for problems that they cannot fix. But there may be other motives, too. Zeman’s close adviser ran the office of Lukoil, the Russian oil company. Babis, who is also one of the Czech Republic’s richest men, owns companies that consume a good deal of Russian gas.
But I shouldn’t unfairly single out Central Europeans, for there are many other Europeans who support Russian foreign policy with similarly mixed motives. Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi maintains both a political and a financial relationship with Putin. So does Gerhard Schroeder, the former chancellor of Germany. These men aren’t idiots either — but neither are they secret agents, spies or traitors. At the same time, they are working steadily, in their own ways, to undermine Western security and support the spread of Russian authoritarianism in Eastern Europe as well as the Middle East. So what do we call them? We need a new vocabulary for a new era.
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