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Russian official: Jet broke apart 'at high altitude'
USA TODAY A Russian airliner that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula , killing all 224 people aboard, broke apart at high altitude and scattered mangled bodies and plane parts over a wide swath of Egyptian desert, Russia's air transport chief said Sunday. Alexander ... Russia Mourns as Officials Work to Determine Cause of Jet CrashNew York Times Russian jet Russia: Plane that crashed in Egypt broke up high in the airFox News Russian aviation official says plane broke up in mid air, too early for conclusions, official saysReuters Questions swirl over Russian plane crash in Sinai that killed all 224 aboardCNN The Guardian-CNBC all 4,679 news articles » |
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Magdy Samaan was one of the few journalists to reach the crash site. This is what he saw
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Why did Russian plane break up in the air over the Sinai desert? by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
Technical or mechanical failure, the firing of a missile or an onboard explosion are being investigated as possible causes of the Airbus A321 crash
The Airbus A321 was 18 years old, which is not regarded as a particularly old for an aircraft but it was damaged in an incident in 2001, suffering a tail strike on the runway at Cairo airport, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
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Al Qaeda chief urges militant unity against Russia in Syria
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Russian airline official rules out technical error as cause of crash
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Some Suggest Need to Change US 'Birthright Citizenship'by webdesk@voanews.com (Yang Chen)
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. That fact has led to a practice commonly known as “birth tourism,” in which pregnant women from many countries come to the United States to give birth, so their children will be U.S. citizens. The issue has come up in this year’s presidential campaign, and some are suggesting the U.S. needs to change the 14th Amendment. Yang Chen has more from Washington.
The Defense Department spent $43 million on a compressed natural gas fueling station in Afghanistan, while a similar project in Pakistan cost just $300,000 — and now the Pentagon can't even account for who made the decisions behind the waste, according to an inspector general's report being released Monday.
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Ten of the 23 health insurance co-ops created under Obamacare have gone out of business, and experts say more will follow.
Utah’s Arches is the latest co-op to fail, along with others in Kentucky, New York, Nevada, Louisiana, Oregon, Colorado, Tennessee, South Carolina and a co-op that served both Iowa and Nebraska.
Experts say that the co-ops are failing because of artificially low premiums, strict regulations, and too many people requiring payouts.
“In most cases, they priced too low relative to what their claims costs were going to be, that’s what the operating margins were all about,”said Thomas Miller, a fellow specializing in health care policy at the American Enterprise Institute.
“Now what made them attractive was they’re offering lower premiums so more people want to sign up for that, but that’s a dangerous proposition where you’re making up your losses on volume,” Miller explains. “You’re getting more people, but those extra enrollees you’re bringing in are being underwritten at a loss.”
“The co-ops are losing more than they’re bringing in because they’re paying out for older, sicker populations and don’t have enough younger, healthier people to help share the cost burden,” says Nathan Nascimento, a senior policy adviser at Freedom Partners. “This is in part because the monthly premiums set up by the co-ops were set artificially low compared to other plans.”
“Co-op insurers are heavily subsidized and operate under strict regulations,” he explains. “They’re more heavily regulated than other insurance plans offered in the health care exchange.”
“When you have artificially low premiums, a pool of people requiring more payouts, increased regulations, and reductions in risk corridor subsidies, it’s the perfect storm of insolvency,” he said. “They’re a public option comprise concept that clearly does not work – a thought experiment that is not practical in reality.”
Akash Chougule, deputy director of policy at Americans for Prosperity, says that as costs continue to rise, less people will enroll, causing more co-ops to go out of business.
“It doesn’t require an advanced degree in economics to see why this is unsustainable,” explains Chougule. “As costs and premiums continue to increase, people will increasingly avoid enrolling. And as co-ops succumb to the reality of higher rates, they’ll continue failing at their alarming pace.”
“More co-ops will likely fail – they were doomed from the start,” said Nascimento. “We’re already seeing another co-op collapse, this time in Utah, with 66,000 people losing their health care coverage and costing taxpayers more money – $89,650,303 to be exact.”
“With the now collapse of Utah’s Co-Op, Arches, well over $1.1 billion in taxpayer dollars has been lost to ten failed co-ops under the Affordable Care Act,” he said.
An official at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wouldn’t rule out that more co-ops may fail in the future. “If a co-op has solvency issues, and we cannot rule out that others may this year, we will work with the states so that consumers have affordable options on the marketplace,”said Aaron Albright, an HHS spokesman. “As a startup business, we recognize not all will succeed.”
With more co-ops closing their doors, consumers will have fewer choices and may have to pay more out of pocket or risk being penalized by the federal government.
“The closure of the co-ops will most certainly lead to higher costs for people,” says Nascimento. “People kicked off the co-ops will now be mandated to choose a new health care plan and potentially one they turned down previously due to higher costs.”
“People may also be forced to lose their current doctor because they are out-of-network, or they will have to pay even more out of their pockets to stay with their current doctor,” he said.
According to the Iowa Insurance Division, “Your coverage with CoOpportunity Health will stop, and claims will not be paid after cancellation. If you do not purchase replacement insurance, you may be penalized by the federal government.”
A proponent of the co-ops, the former North Dakota senator Kent Conrad, said they were “sabotaged.”
“Those who wanted to kill them—largely Republicans and competing insurance companies – just step by step took actions to subvert them and to assure they would have an extraordinarily difficult time surviving,” Conrad said.
Yet, Miller explains that the co-ops wouldn’t be able to go into the private market and get loans the same way they were able to with the federal government.
“One of the things that people sometimes don’t take into account – this is almost “free” money, the solvency loans that are $2.4 million, those were on extremely attractive terms, whereas the startup loans had to be paid back earlier—within five years,” said Miller.
“If you’re the federal government in a low interest rate environment you could say, well that’s how it is and that’s just how the market charges for slow growth and limited loan demand, but these co-ops are in effect not very credit-worthy organizations with a lot of risk behind them,” Miller said.
“If they had to go into the private market to get loans they’d be floating junk bonds in a sense,” he said.
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F.B.I. Tool to Identify Extremists Is Criticizedby By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
An interactive program, developed for teachers and students, is aimed at training them to prevent young people from being drawn into violent extremism. However some religious leaders say it only focuses on Islamic extremism.
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
An agreement was reached Friday to “explore the modalities of a nationwide cease-fire” in Syria by a group of nations and the UN has been asked to assist in rewriting the Syrian constitution and assisting in new elections. [New York Times’ David E. Sanger]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned foreign nations against dictating the future of Syria’s political system, rejecting direct talks with the US on regional issues. [Wall Street Journal’s Asa Fitch and Aresu Eqbali]
The US revealed plans to deploy its first ground troops to Syria to fight in the war against ISIS, announcing on Friday that fewer than 50 Special Forces would be sent to northern Syria in the coming weeks, though they will not be engaged in front-line combat. [Reuters’ Sabine Siebold et al]
The US will also commit nearly $100 million in military aid to Syrian opposition rebels fighting the Islamic State in that country.
Syrian Islamist opposition rebels plan to use caged Alawite prisoners as human shields against airstrikes by the Assad regime, report Robert Mackey and Maher Samaan. [New York Times]
“Like many consequential events, this one didn’t sneak up on policymakers; they simply didn’t see what was taking shape in front of them,” comments David Ignatius, writing on the rise of ISIS in the Middle East. [The Atlantic]
The Syria crisis has provoked the feeling among many that the US cannot simple “kill [its] way to a solution,” writes Mike Barnicle. [The Daily Beast]
Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has made one of his most direct interventions into Iraqi politics, move which while intended to counter Iran, “may end up emulating it,” reports Tim Arango. [New York Times]
RUSSIAN AIRLINER CRASH
A Russian Airbus A321-200 crashed over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board the St Petersburg-bound flight from Cairo. A Russian cargo plane today brought the first of the bodies back home. [AP; BBC]
An investigation into the incident revealed that the plane broke up in midair, officials asking whether the plane was downed by an act of terrorism or a tragic accident. [New York Times’ Andrew E. Kramer and Neil MacFarquhar; Wall Street Journal’s Andy Pasztor et al]
Metrojet airline has rejected the suggestion that a technical fault may have caused the crash, today blaming an “external factor.” [The Guardian’s Alec Luhn]
ISIS-affiliated group, Sinai Province does not have the military capabilities to down a plane, according to a regional expert. [The Guardian’s Emma Graham-Harrison]
Why did the airliner break up in the air? Gwyn Topham considers the possibilities at the Guardian.
The Egyptian response to the situation in Sinai has fueled “resentment – and militancy,” Naomi Conrad reports for Deutsche Welle.
ISRAEL and PALESTINE
A Palestinian has been shot and killed by IDF forces following an alleged stabbing attack on a solider at a West Bank checkpoint. Seventy-three Palestinians have died and 9 Israelis since the start of the current wave of violence in early October. [Al Jazeera]
There is little international consensus on the appropriate approach to reviving the political process between the two sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, despite a renewed impetus arising from the ongoing violence. [Wall Street Journal’s Rory Jones and Laurence Norman]
AFGHANISTAN
A Taliban splinter group has chosen its own new leader, in direct challenge to the new chief of the insurgent group, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, two commanders said today. [Reuters]
The Islamic State will continue to struggle to gain a foothold in Afghanistan, opines Barnett Rubin, suggesting that ideological and religious difference will hinder the group’s ability to recruit from the Taliban. [Al Jazeera]
GUANTÁNAMO BAY
Shaker Aamer “suffered profound disruption of his life” while held at Guantánamo Bay, according to a psychiatric report following a medical examination in 2013. Aamer was returned to the UK last week where he underwent a medical examination and was reunited with his family. [The Guardian’s Ian Cobain]
The delay in releasing Aamer may have been due to the fact that as an “English-speaking resident of a Western country, he would serve as an effective public witness against those responsible for human rights abuses in US detention facilities,” writes Murtaza Hussain. [The Intercept]
The New York Times editorial board comments on the expedited rate of releases from Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, adding that there is “no excuse” for how slowly the Pentagon has moved on freeing dozens of prisoners cleared for release.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
Tehran has started implementing the July nuclear accord with six world powers, decommissioning uranium enrichment centrifuges under the terms of the agreement, the country’s nuclear chief has said. [Reuters]
The Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu was bombed by Somali Islamist militants yesterday, leaving at least 14 people dead. Militant group al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack. [New York Times’ Mohammed Ibrahim and Jeffrey Gettleman] The UN Security Council has condemned “in the strongest terms” yesterday’s attack. [UN News Centre]
A draft surveillance bill will not succeed in Britain’s parliament if it does not contain a requirement for judicial authorization and oversight, elements lacking from the current investigatory powers regime, former shadow home secretary David Davis has said. [The Guardian’s Frances Perraudin] The bill, to be published Wednesday, is expected to contain a power for British intelligence agencies to access people’s entire web-browsing histories. [The Telegraph’s Nicola Harley]
NATO is taking a hard line against Russia, working to deter Russian aggression against the bloc’s eastern flank. Michael Crowley provides the details at Politico.
Hillary Clinton and State Department officials were warned not to suggest a link between an anti-Muslim video and the 2012 Benghazi attack, an email released on Friday reveals. [The Hill’s Bradford Richardson]
An interactive program designed by the FBI to help identify extremists is facing criticism from Muslim, Arab and other religious and civil rights leaders who claim the program is too focused on Islamic extremism. [New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein]
Britain’s EU membership is important as a matter of national security, opines Simon Nixon, arguing that the “strongest case” for British membership is the country’s security, not the economic arguments currently at the fore. [Wall Street Journal]
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According to the airline, only an external impact could have caused a Russian plane to dive into the Egyptian desert, killing all 224 people on board.
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Week ahead: Path clears for cyber talks
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November 2, 2015, 12:20 PM (IDT)
An official of Metrojet, the airline which owned the Airbus 321 which crashed in Sinai Saturday, said Monday at a news conference that it impossible for an Airbus plane to break up in the air because of a technical or pilot fault, Egyptian and Russian authorities have claimed. The only possible explanation is “physical or mechanical action,” said the official, indicating an explosion of some kind. Ahead of investigations, both authorities are still playing down the terrorism factor and the claim of responsibility by Ansar al-Bati Maqdis, the Sinai branch of ISIS. However, Alexander Neradko, head of Russia's federal aviation agency, similarly said investigators believe the plane disintegrated at a high altitude because the plane's fragments have been found scattered over a large area.
November 2, 2015, 1:50 PM (IDT)
Syrian media reported an Israeli air force attack Sunday, Nov. 1, after two sorties Friday night against Syrian army and Hizballah bases in the Qalamoun Mountains on the Lebanese border. The IDF declined to confirm or deny these reports. Syrian sources described a large number of Israeli airplanes as bombing a Hizballah unit in the village of El Ain in northern Lebanon and the arms depot of the Syrian army’s 155th Brigade at Al-Katifa. The two targets are 70 km apart, therefore two key points along the Iranian arms supply route to Hizballah.
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Many factors make it plausible for a terrorist act to have been undertaken against the Russian jet which crashed in the Sinai. First of all, the official claim of responsibility by the Islamic State group, which never claimed, up to now, an act that it did not commit or order. Second, many airline companies suspended their flights over the Sinai, meaning that they consider it seriously. Third, the latest declarations from Moscow, mentioning an external element who provoked the crash.
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As U.S. airstrikes on the ISIS stronghold in Sinjar, Iraq intensify, Yazidi men are joining the battle to drive the extremist group from the town, and from their homeland. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports.
Russian Sukhoi Su-24, SU-25 and Su-34 aircraft were seen taking off and landing at the Hmeymim Air Base in Latakia, Monday, as the Russian Air Force continues its operation against the so-called Islamic State and other militant organisations in Syria.
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Vatican Arrests 2 in Connection With Leaked Documentsby ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
The police arrested two members of a commission set up by Pope Francis to study financial overhauls at the Holy See on suspicion of sharing confidential documents with journalists.
(VATICAN CITY) — A monsignor and a woman who had served on a financial reform commission set up by Pope Francis have been arrested in the probe of yet another leak of confidential information and documents, the Vatican said Monday.
A statement from the Holy See’s press office said that Vatican prosecutors on Monday upheld the arrests of the two, who had been interrogated over the weekend. It identified the woman as Francesca Chaouqui and the monsignor as the Rev. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda. The monsignor is still a Vatican employee while Chaouqui had served on a commission that had been set up by Pope Francis in 2013 as part of his drive to reform the Holy See’s finances. Vallejo Balda had also served on the commission, now defunct.
A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini, said Vallejo Balda was being held in a jail cell in Vatican City. Chaouqui was allowed to go free because she cooperated in the probe, the Vatican said.
“In the context of judicial police investigations carried out by the Vatican gendarmerie, or police force, and begun several months ago because of the removal and lead of confidential information and documents, on Saturday and Sunday (the) two persons were summoned to be interrogated on the basis of elements and evidence that had been gathered,” the Vatican statement said.
While Francis is intent on modernizing the Vatican and making its finances more transparent, the arrests were the latest confirmation that scandal and intrigue still swirl, as they have for centuries, through the largely closed world of the tiny city-state’s administrative bureaucracy.
Current and past papacy efforts to clean house at the Vatican have sparked resentment and found resistance in the Holy See’s entrenched bureaucracy, a perfect combination of factors to foster leaks.
Leaks of confidential documents from retired Pope Benedict XVI’s papers in 2012 led to the arrest and trial of a papal butler and a Vatican computer technician.
“One must keep in mind that the leaking of confidential information and documents is a crime” under a law enacted in the first months of Francis’ papacy, the Vatican statement said.
Last week, Italian news reports said the Vatican police were investigating to see who had tampered with the computer of the top Holy See’s auditor, Libero Milone, who was appointed a few months ago by Pope Francis.
The Vatican confirmed that there was an investigation into the tampering, but declined to say if that incident was related to the two arrests.
Later this week, two expose books by Italian journalists about the Vatican’s long-murky world of finances are being published, and the Vatican contended that such publications only hamper Pope Francis’ clean-up drive.
“Publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions,” the Vatican said. “One must absolutely avoid the misunderstanding of thinking that’s a way to help the pope’s mission.”
The Vatican described the soon-to-be published books as “fruit of a grave betrayal of the trust given by the pope, and, as far as the authors go, of an operation to take advantage of a gravely illicit act of handing over confidential documentation,” the Vatican said.
Without specifying if the latest arrests were linked to those books, the Vatican said Holy See prosecutors are weighing “further measures, involving, if it is the case, international cooperation.”
Some Vatican-watchers have theorized that Benedict decided to be the first pope in hundreds of centuries to resign largely because he was morally dismayed by the leaks and intrigue behind the Vatican’s closed doors and felt that in his advancing years, he wouldn’t be up to the task of grabbling with the scandals.
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Germany’s domestic intelligence service says it has created a single list of its sources among extremist groups, fulfilling a key demand from lawmakers investigating the agency’s failure to crack down on a far-right terror group.
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