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Ecuador Searches for Victims After Powerful Quake
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:57 AM

Ecuador was reeling Sunday after its strongest earthquake in decades killed hundreds and destroyed buildings, bridges and roads. At least 246 people died in the magnitude-7.8 quake, the strongest in Ecuador since 1979.

No Oil-Freeze Deal at Doha Meeting
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:57 AM

Top oil producers Sunday failed to reach a deal to freeze crude output at meetings in Qatar. The development threatens to undercut a recent rally in oil markets.

2 Turks detained after sack incident at air baseby Associated Press
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:56 AM

One man reportedly filmed the other as he chased and taunted a U.S. soldier.

Police officer wounded in West Philadelphia - Philly.com
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Police investigators were dispatched to 59th and Market Streets in Southwest Philadelphia on Sunday night after an officer was shot in the left leg. The shooting was reported just after 9 p.m.. A detective in the Southwest Division said, "We're still ...
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Philadelphia Police Officer Shot and Wounded by Suspect - ABC News
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:55 AM

Philadelphia Police Officer Shot and Wounded by Suspect
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A Philadelphia police officer was shot and wounded while trying to stop two men from stealing a car, officials said. Officer James McCullough was shot once in the left leg Sunday night. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney visited him in the hospital. "He ...

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A neighbor on South Salford Street watches as investigators gather at the crime scene on Salford Street and Market Street, Sunday April 17, 2016, in West Philadelphia, after a police officer was wounded by gunfire. by Suzette Parmley, Staff Writer ...

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The Latest: Russian currency plunges amid oil price dropby Associated Press
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:49 AM

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The Latest news on global financial markets (all times local):

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Apple Recovers Ton Of Gold From Old Devices
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:47 AM

The company also recovered 10.4 million kilos of steel, two million kilos of aluminium and 1.4m kilos of copper.

The Daily Vertical: Watch What He Does, Not What He Saysby support@pangea-cms.com (Brian Whitmore)
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:47 AM

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The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday.

Fraudsters 'scamming' German healthcare
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:44 AM

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Care staff from the former Soviet Union may be defrauding German healthcare providers of €1bn a year, according to reports.

Nearly Six Hundred Migrants Arrive in Italy - Wall Street Journal
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Nearly Six Hundred Migrants Arrive in Italy
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Nearly 600 migrants were rescued and brought to Italy between Sunday and Monday, the International Organization for Migration said Monday, in a further sign that the Italian migration route is surging after a lull this winter. About 460 of them were ...
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UK could deploy up to 1000 troops to Libya in bid to fight growing ISIS threatDaily Mail
EU to Discuss Libya Intervention as UK Urged to Reveal Military PlansSputnik International
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Obama courts Gulf kings keen just to see him go - Ahram Online
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:43 AM

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Obama courts Gulf kings keen just to see him go
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President Barack Obama will make another trip to Riyadh to consult Washington's Gulf allies on the crises in Yemen and Syria this week, but may not receive a royal welcome. The king of Saudi Arabia and his regional allies have long been offended by the ...
Saudi Arabia May Sell $750 Billion US Assets If US Approves JASTALawyer Herald
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Oil prices slide after freeze deal failure - Reuters
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:42 AM

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Oil prices slide after freeze deal failure
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LONDON Oil prices slid on Monday after a meeting between major producing nations on a proposed output freeze fell apart, leaving the world grappling with an excess of unwanted crude. The some 18 oil exporting nations, including non-OPEC Russia, had ...
Oil's Anti-Freeze: The Saving Grace of a StalemateWall Street Journal
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Egypt, France sign $2.4B in deals as Cairo protests continue - Al-Bawaba
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:42 AM

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Op-Ed Columnist: Bernie’s Israel Heresy by ROGER COHEN
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:41 AM

Sanders sets down an important marker for more open American debate of Israeli policies by expressing the consensus view in much of the world.

Indonesia Rules Out Criminal Inquiry of Anti-Communist Purges by JOE COCHRANE
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:40 AM

An official said that the government would, over time, try to answer how hundreds of thousands were killed in state-sponsored violence from 1965 to 1966.

Brazil's Senate to Determine Whether Rousseff Goes on Trialby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:39 AM

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is expected to give her reaction Monday to the launching of impeachment proceedings against her. Lawmakers in the lower house of Congress voted late Sunday to send the matter to the Senate, which will consider whether to put Rousseff on trial on charges of manipulating budget accounts. One by one, the chamber's 513 deputies rose to announce their vote at a microphone, greeted by cheers and sometimes jeers from the rest of the members. It...

The Latest: Russia calls for direct Syria peace talksby Associated Press
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:38 AM

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The Latest on the Syrian civil war (all times local):

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Russian Security Chief Calls For Counterattack Against U.S. Influence
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:36 AM

The head of Russia's Investigative Committee has called for sweeping new rights restrictions, citing the need to counteract the "destructive" influence of the United States.

Ecuadoran security minister says earthquake death count has risen to 350 by Associated Press
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:36 AM

Ecuadoran security minister says earthquake death count has risen to 350.

India to Britain: Guess you didn't steal our diamond after allby Annie Gowen
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 9:21 AM

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The Indian government said that the controversial Koh-i-Noor diamond had not been stolen by Britain years ago, but was a gift.

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Here's the latest for Monday, April 18th: Brazil's lower house votes for impeachment; Aid effort after Ecuador earthquake; Warm weather follows Denver snow; Boston Marathon Monday.

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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is greeted by U.S. General McFarland upon arriving in Baghdad, April 18, 2016. (C. Babb/VOA)

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The saddest piece of Barack Obama’s legacy - The Washington Post
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 8:15 AM

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By Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor April 17 at 8:00 PM

Shortly after the fall of Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, to the Islamic State in June 2014, a delegation of senior officials from Iraqi Kurdistan visited Washington with a troubling question: From where, they asked, would the force come to retake the city? The Iraqi army was too shattered, and the Kurds were too weak, and outside powers such as Turkey and the United States were unwilling to commit ground forces.

A lot has happened in the nearly two years since then. Among other things, the Obama administration has retrained nearly 20,000 Iraqi troops, dispatched some 5,000 U.S. trainers, Marines and special operations forces to the area, and launched more than 11,000 combat air sorties against Islamic State targets. Yet when another senior Kurdish delegation circulated through Washington last week, their question about Mosul was unchanged: Who is going to do this?

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“We heard a plan is close to being drawn up” for retaking the city, said Qubad Talabani, deputy prime minister of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq, who recently met in Baghdad with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the senior U.S. commander in the theater, Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland. “But we got a sense there are gaping holes in that plan.”

U.S. officials have lately been talking up what they say has been the growing momentum of the war against the Islamic State. They say President Obama, who has repeatedly called it his top priority, has asked for an “acceleration” of the campaign.

To listen to the Kurds, however, is to appreciate the towering obstacles that still must be overcome before the two most important cities held by the jihadists, Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria, can be retaken. Missing is not just adequate numbers of forces, but also funding, political leadership and that most elusive of goods in the Middle East: a workable vision of what happens the day after the bad guys are dispatched.

President Obama said on Wednesday that the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq had put the militant group on the defensive, shrinking its territory and striking key leaders. Obama made brief remarks after a meeting at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. (Reuters)

It doesn’t help that Iraq is suffering through an economic and fiscal crisis caused by the drop in oil prices and yet another political emergency in Baghdad, where a besieged Abadi has been tryingwithout success to introduce a new cabinet. Those upheavals have left Kurdistan, an autonomous region, broke: Its fighters, the peshmerga, have not been paid in three months. Talabani was in Washington in part to appeal for U.S. financial aid, without which the Kurdish forces probably could not be mobilized for a Mosul offensive. The Kurds asked for $200 million a month; the Pentagon suggested $50 million.

No White House decision on funding the Kurds has been made. Even if the money is forthcoming, the question remains: Who will conduct the street-by-street combat Mosul will require? The terrorists have built defensive berms across the city, seeded mines and IEDs and, the Kurds say, loaded mustard gas into artillery shells. An assaulting force might confront the chemical attacks that U.S. troops expected but never faced in 2003.

Iraqi army forces quickly faltered last month when they tried to begin clearing operations near the city of Makhmour, about 70 miles south of Mosul. That’s when 200 U.S. Marines were secretly sent to the area to establish a “fire base” with artillery. Even with that support, the Iraqis have managed to take only a handful of villages. “We all know the Iraqi army is not ready yet,” Falah Bakir, Kurdistan’s chief of foreign relations, told a group of Post journalists.

The Pentagon is now talking about establishing more fire bases on the way to Mosul, and sources say hundreds more special operations forces and other troops may be deployed as the campaign unfolds. Commanders hope that thousands of Sunni tribesmen being trained as security forces can be used to secure the liberated city. But that still raises the question of whether Iraqi Shiite militias backed by Iran will be allowed to join the assault, as they are pressing to do. If so, they may plunge into sectarian bloodletting with the Sunni population.

Such complexities probably explain why Abadi and MacFarland have yet to show a completed campaign plan to the Kurds. Even more remote is a strategy for postwar governance in Mosul and other Sunni-populated areas that would supplant the Islamic State with something the local population would support. Talabani reckons a Sunni jurisdiction inside a federal Iraq might be an answer, but there’s no sign that the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad, its allies in Iran or even the Sunnis themselves would agree to it.

All this points to a stark bottom line: There will be no liberation of Mosul in 2016. The Islamic State will outlive the U.S. administration whose lapses in Syria and Iraq helped to create it. It will be the ugliest piece of Barack Obama’s legacy.

A Challenge to Poland’s Anti-Democratic Drift
Monday April 18th, 2016 at 8:11 AM

The conflict between the European Union and Poland’s right-wing government went up a notch on Wednesday when the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on Poland’s rulers to stop defying the country’s top court.

Unfortunately, the resolution is not likely to sway Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his fellow nationalists in the ruling Law and Justice Party, who believe that it is their mission to zealously defend socially conservative Catholic values and Polish sovereignty against a secular E.U. and a multiethnic Europe — even if that means trampling on the rule of law.

Poland’s government and its top court, called the Constitutional Tribunal, locked horns after Law and Justice came to power in national elections in October and, to ensure that the court could not block the government’s right-wing agenda, began trying to reduce the court’s powers by naming several new judges and then passing a law that would change the way the court functioned.

The court ruled that only three of the proposed judges could be legitimately seated and that the legislation was unconstitutional. The government refused to recognize the ruling, setting off a constitutional crisis. Since then, the European Commission and the Council of Europe, the continent’s human rights organization, have assailed the government’s actions and have demanded that Poland abide by the court’s ruling.

The dispute between Warsaw and Brussels is an illustration of the culture gap within the E.U. Many of the union’s new Eastern and Central European members chafe at the sense that they are being treated as second-class members. Reacting to the European Parliament’s scolding, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo charged that Western European politicians feel superior to new members and “like to instruct others.”

In fact, there is little the union can do to compel Poland or any other member to alter its conduct, even though the resolution passed by a vote of 513 to 142. The resolution is nonbinding, and any punitive measures would require unanimous support in the European Commission, the union’s executive arm. Hungary’s similarly nationalist government, for one, would not support any such measures. Too much overt pressure, moreover, would only harden Mr. Kaczynski’s resentment of the union.

Yet it is incumbent on the European Union — and on the United States, which the Poles rightly see as their close ally and protector against Russia — to make clear to the Polish government that the rule of law is not a take-it-or-leave-it imposition by the “old E.U.,” but a central tenet of the democracy Poland signed on to.

As Poland prepares to host a NATO summit meeting in July in the hope of landing large contingents of allied forces on its soil, Washington should remind Mr. Kaczynski that the alliance is, above all, one of shared values.

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