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- Jake Tapper Shuts Down Susan Collins' Attempt To Spin Trump Hush Money Payments
- Florida tale of infidelity and homicide ends with conviction
- Student loans totaling $150M to be forgiven by US Department of Education
- Harvey Weinstein bragged about sleeping with Jennifer Lawrence after another actress rejected his advances, lawsuit claims
- Top Democrat Schiff Adds Call for Probe of Trump, Deutsche Bank Links
- Iraq lays cornerstone to rebuild iconic Mosul mosque
- Fierce clashes in Hodeidah lead to delay of ceasefire
- As sentencing looms, Flynn is upbeat, has adoring fans
- China's Xi declares an 'overwhelming victory' over graft: state media
- Photos: Snow, freezing rain from Storm Deirdre causes disruptions across UK
- This high school taught 'adulting' for a day: How to cook, do resumes, taxes and more
- Every Photo from Our Drive of the Audi e-tron GT Concept
- Introducing the Army's New Lethal Sniper Rifle
- May's Team Pushes Back at Second Vote Reports: Brexit Update
- Powerful blast at Japan restaurant injures 42
- Family complains that Catholic priest used teen's funeral to condemn suicide
- Warren seeks to solidify backing of African Americans
- Snow, rain and wind in late-week storm to impact holiday travel
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- At least 20 Afghan civilians killed in airstrike: officials
- South Africa's ANC Postpones Party Election List Conference
- Baylor ties pervade rape case that sparked uproar
- Rajapaksa set to quit as Sri Lanka's premier to end crisis
- Weekly Standard shuts down
- What the New Court Ruling Striking Down the ACA Means for Your Health Insurance
- Inside Polo Storico - where classic Lamborghinis are reborn
- Inside the threatened Kurdish proto-state that holds the keys to defeating Isil
- Israeli premier's son blocked on Facebook for anti-Muslim posts
- Qatar says Gulf Arab bloc needs reform to give it teeth
- For sale: Restored home of Salem witch trials refugee
- Man who demolished landmark house ordered to build replica
- Brexit, Huawei Arrests, Trump’s Legal Troubles: Weekend Reads
- Cash deposited in Robinhood's 3% checking and savings isn't insured, SIPC says
- Rocco The Cheeky Parrot Keeps Using Amazon's Alexa To Order Snacks
- Displaced huddle in a basement as winter grips Syria
- I became a Democrat a year ago and found my own voice. It changed everything.
- Netanyahu warns Hamas after deadly West Bank attacks
- Turkey would consider working with Assad if he won a democratic Syrian election
- This $815k Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing doesn't even run
- O'Rourke, other Dems don't want tent city's contract renewed
- $1 Billion a Month: The Cost of Trump's Tariffs on Technology
- Nice weather to pick out some Christmas trees
- Russia: Now Number 2 in Military Sales (Any Guess Who Is Number 1?)
Jake Tapper Shuts Down Susan Collins' Attempt To Spin Trump Hush Money Payments Posted: 16 Dec 2018 01:15 PM PST |
Florida tale of infidelity and homicide ends with conviction Posted: 14 Dec 2018 07:07 PM PST |
Student loans totaling $150M to be forgiven by US Department of Education Posted: 14 Dec 2018 08:25 PM PST |
Posted: 15 Dec 2018 01:36 AM PST Film producer Harvey Weinstein is alleged to have bragged about sleeping with Jennifer Lawrence when another actor rejected his advances. According to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, Weinstein pushed the unnamed actress to the ground during a meeting at his office in 2013 before sexually assaulting her. Lawrence issued a statement on Friday denying she had had a sexual relationship with Weinstein. |
Top Democrat Schiff Adds Call for Probe of Trump, Deutsche Bank Links Posted: 16 Dec 2018 12:25 PM PST Representative Adam Schiff of California said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that any type of compromise needs to be investigated. Schiff's comments came three days after Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and fellow Senate Democrat Chris Van Hollen called for a Banking Committee investigation of Deutsche Bank's compliance with U.S. money-laundering regulations. |
Iraq lays cornerstone to rebuild iconic Mosul mosque Posted: 16 Dec 2018 06:09 AM PST Iraqis on Sunday laid the cornerstone in rebuilding Mosul's Al-Nuri mosque and leaning minaret, national emblems destroyed last year in the ferocious battle against the Islamic State group. The famed 12th century mosque and minaret, dubbed Al-Hadba or "the hunchback," hosted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's only public appearance as IS chief, when he declared a self-styled "caliphate" after the jihadists swept into Mosul in 2014. The structures were ravaged three years later in the final, most brutal stages of the months-long fight to rid Iraq's second city of IS. |
Fierce clashes in Hodeidah lead to delay of ceasefire Posted: 16 Dec 2018 09:19 AM PST Fierce clashes broke out in Yemen's crucial port city of Hodeidah on Sunday, leading UN and Yemeni officials to delay the "official" start of the hard-fought ceasefire agreed last week. Residents reported skirmishes on the outskirts of town with missiles and automatic gunfire heard near the city's eastern 7th July suburb. Unconfirmed television reports said that the Saudi-led coalition had launched two airstrikes on Ras Isa, a port north of Hodeidah. On Thursday, the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels agreed to a UN-brokered truce in Hodeidah with the Saudi-led coalition that backs the official government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. UN officials said it was necessary to delay the implementation of the ceasefire until December 18th to convey orders to troops on the ground. On Sunday afternoon, UN Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths issued a plea to both to "respect their obligations as per the text and the spirit of the Stockholm Agreement" and "engage in the immediate representation of its provisions." "Without peace, we will be facing in 2019 a much worse situation than today" as a result of food shortages, warned UN chief Antonio Guterres on Sunday. Hodeidah is almost completely controlled by the Houthis, and their withdrawal from key positions like the port is one of the central components of the UN-brokered deal reached last week in Sweden. By moving units away from the Red Sea port, international officials hope to get desperately needed food and aid into the country to ease Yemen's festering humanitarian crisis. Under the deal, which could create the breathing space for meaningful peace talks, international monitors are to be deployed in Hodeidah to observe as all armed forces pull back completely within 21 days of the start of the ceasefire. Skirmishes and clashes like those seen in Hodeidah over the past two days are not in themselves a sign that the ceasefire is doomed, said independent Yemen analyst Hisham Al-Omeisy. "Even in previous ceasefires, there was a huge de-escalation infighting, but still sporadic fighting here and there, like we've seen over the past few days," he told the Telegraph. He cited recent conversations with Houthi contacts where the atmosphere in Hodeidah was cited as "toxic" and characterised by a deep mistrust of the Saudi-led coalition. A rise in looting by Houthi forces, he said, showed "bad faith" ahead of the agreed withdrawal. |
As sentencing looms, Flynn is upbeat, has adoring fans Posted: 14 Dec 2018 09:31 PM PST |
China's Xi declares an 'overwhelming victory' over graft: state media Posted: 14 Dec 2018 11:11 PM PST Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared an "overwhelming victory" in his fight against graft within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, while still vowing that the campaign to weed out deep-seated corruption will continue, state media reported. Xi has pledged to wage war on graft until corruption of all kinds has been expunged at all levels of the Communist Party, from high-level "tigers" to low-level "flies". |
Photos: Snow, freezing rain from Storm Deirdre causes disruptions across UK Posted: 15 Dec 2018 03:32 PM PST |
This high school taught 'adulting' for a day: How to cook, do resumes, taxes and more Posted: 15 Dec 2018 10:58 AM PST |
Every Photo from Our Drive of the Audi e-tron GT Concept Posted: 16 Dec 2018 02:50 PM PST |
Introducing the Army's New Lethal Sniper Rifle Posted: 16 Dec 2018 01:00 AM PST |
May's Team Pushes Back at Second Vote Reports: Brexit Update Posted: 16 Dec 2018 05:07 AM PST "Unreasonable people" in the U.K. are blocking the Brexit withdrawal agreement from passing, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said Sunday. "We have a deal that's been negotiated, unfortunately there are some very unreasonable people in Westminster that are trying to block that," Coveney said in an RTE Television interview. |
Powerful blast at Japan restaurant injures 42 Posted: 16 Dec 2018 03:24 PM PST A powerful blast ripped through a restaurant in northern Japan late Sunday, injuring 42 people, starting fires that took hours to bring under control and leading several neighbouring buildings to collapse, officials and reports said. A police official for the Hokkaido region told AFP "there are 42 injuries" but no one was killed. The Jiji Press agency said one of the injured was seriously hurt, suffering burns to his face, but none of the victims had life-threatening wounds. |
Family complains that Catholic priest used teen's funeral to condemn suicide Posted: 15 Dec 2018 06:26 PM PST The parents of a teenage boy who took his own life have condemned a Catholic priest who questioned whether their son would get to heaven while presiding over his funeral. The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit expressed regret for the comments and said the Rev Don LaCuesta would not preach at funerals "for the foreseeable future". But the parents of Maison Hullibarger said they wanted the priest removed from his post for the heartbreak caused. "We wanted him to celebrate how Maison lived, not how he died," his mother, Linda Hullibarger, told The Detroit Free Press. Jeff Hullibarger added: "It was his time to tell everybody what he thought of suicide, (and) we couldn't believe what he was saying. "He was up there condemning our son, pretty much calling him a sinner. He wondered if he had repented enough to make it to heaven. He said 'suicide' upwards of six times. They said they met the priest ahead of the service at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Temperance, Michigan, on December 8, setting out what they hoped to hear in a loving homily. However, the Catholic Church has traditionally taught that suicide was an unforgiveable sin. It has only been in recent years that the stance has softened to forgive suicide in situations of extreme stress. The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit apologised and said Mr LaCuesta would be removed from funeral duties and given extra assistance. "We share the family's grief at such a profound loss. Our hope is always to bring comfort into situations of great pain, through funeral services centered on the love and healing power of Christ," it said in a statement. "Unfortunately, that did not happen in this case. We understand that an unbearable situation was made even more difficult, and we are sorry." |
Warren seeks to solidify backing of African Americans Posted: 14 Dec 2018 09:44 PM PST |
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At least 20 Afghan civilians killed in airstrike: officials Posted: 15 Dec 2018 08:51 AM PST The strike, against local Taliban commander Sharif Mawiya, was the latest in a series targeting senior insurgents, including the shadow governor of the strategic southern province of Helmand, who was killed on Dec. 2. Several Taliban military commanders have been killed this month by Afghan forces, backed by U.S. advisers and air power. The tactic has raised the risk of civilian casualties and Abdul Latif Fazly, a member of the provincial council, said eight women and 12 children were killed and more than 15 others wounded in Friday's airstrike. |
South Africa's ANC Postpones Party Election List Conference Posted: 16 Dec 2018 02:44 AM PST The conference would be rescheduled to Jan. 4-5 from this weekend to accommodate the North West province, which hadn't submitted its nominations, ANC acting spokesman Dakota Legeote said by phone. The conference had been delayed because of deep divisions within the party and allegations by some members of manipulation of the lists, City Press reported on Sunday. South Africa is due to hold national and provincial elections in 2019, likely in May. The country has a proportional representation system in which lawmakers are chosen according to where they sit on nomination lists. |
Baylor ties pervade rape case that sparked uproar Posted: 15 Dec 2018 02:32 PM PST DALLAS (AP) — The Texas judge who approved a plea deal allowing a former Baylor University student accused of rape to avoid jail time holds three degrees from Baylor. The criminal district attorney overseeing the case holds two. The prosecutor who agreed to the plea agreement graduated from Baylor law school. |
Rajapaksa set to quit as Sri Lanka's premier to end crisis Posted: 14 Dec 2018 07:29 PM PST |
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What the New Court Ruling Striking Down the ACA Means for Your Health Insurance Posted: 15 Dec 2018 06:20 AM PST |
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Inside the threatened Kurdish proto-state that holds the keys to defeating Isil Posted: 15 Dec 2018 08:11 AM PST On one end of Qamishli's main street flies the two-starred Syrian national flag. On the other, that of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party. "One flag represents our past oppression, the other our freedom," says Mahmoud, who owns a clothing shop which sits between the two. Before the civil war, it would have been unthinkable for the Kurdish minority to openly pledge allegiance to anything other than the President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian Arab Republic. But seven years into Syria's interminable conflict the Kurds appear to have carved out something of a proto-state in this corner of northeastern Syria, thanks in part to their efforts to flush out Isil. While they have been crushing the Caliphate to a tiny sliver of territory - taking the last town held by the Islamist on Friday morning - their separatist ambitions have largely been overlooked. Until now. Kurdish-held northern Syria The city of Qamishli has become the centre of the Kurds' ambitious self-administration project. While a few government buildings and statues of President Assad remain, Qamishli and the surrounding areas are now firmly under the control of the Democratic Union Party (PYD). Mahmoud is a proud supporter of the PYD, but still he declines to give his full name to the Telegraph for fear of reprisal should the regime one day return. Assad has repeatedly promised to retake every inch of Syria, including the third currently in Kurdish hands. The prospect looked more likely than at any other time in the war this week after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered Turkish troops and Ankara-backed Syrian rebels to ready for an assault on Syria's Kurds. Turkey views the PYD's military arm, the Popular Protection Units (YPG), as a terrorist organisation because of its links to an insurgent group inside Turkey, and has watched with growing concern at Kurdish expansionism on the other side of its border. In recent years, Turkish forces have already swept into Syria pushing the YPG out of territory west of the Euphrates river. But past offensives have stopped at its banks, partly to avoid direct confrontation with US troops that back the Kurds. "Turkey has lost enough time in terms of intervening to clean the terror swamp east of the Euphrates. We don't have the patience to wait one more day," Mr Erdogan warned on Friday. Men queue up to buy bread outside a bakery on the outskirts of Qamishli Credit: Sam Tarling The Kurds, who have so far relied on the US for support in their battles against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), have threatened to abandon the fight if they are left to fend for themselves in the face of a Turkish onslaught. But Washington has sent mixed signals on whether it would be behind them in any fight against Nato ally Turkey. "We don't rely on any government, we just have strategic alliances," Salih Muslim, a prominent political player in Rojava who until recently co-chaired the PYD, told the Sunday Telegraph. "The Kurds have expected a move from Turkey for a while now and will not easily back down." Whatever they might say, it is clear is that the Kurds cannot stave off Turkish aggression alone. In the absence of a reliable ally in the US, they may soon be forced to decide whether to risk their chances, or eek out an unfavourable deal with Assad to secure long-term survival. "We have to take Assad at his word," Khalaf Dahowd, head of the foreign committee of the Democratic Change Movement, told the Sunday Telegraph from his office in Qamishli, refering to the president's pledge to take back all Syria's territory. "If he gets the chance to take Rojava he will," said Mr Dahowd, using the Kurdish name for the area of self-rule which covers some 15,000 square miles. A convoy of American Special Forces and Syrian Democratic Forces fighters makes a stop during a patrol near the Turkish border in northern Syria Credit: Sam Tarling "Even when he was at his weakest point, before Russia intervened and it looked like he was going to lose everything, Assad refused to work with the Kurds," he said. "Now he is winning, and as the saying goes - the winner takes all." Kurdish officials who were part of the first delegation to Damascus over the summer say the Syrian government was not prepared to make a single concession. Despite this, the Kurds - who are just about the only side in the multi-faceted war not to have had a full-scale military conflict with the regime - still hold out hope for a political solution. The Kurds, who number more than two million in Syria, have made great sacrifices for their "democratic experiment", as they call their pseudo-state in the north. Islamic State losing its grip on Syria The YPG has suffered considerable losses in the battles against Isil in Raqqa and Deir Ezzor in the east. Officials estimate up to 8,000 fighters have been killed and 5,000 injured. Fierce battles are still ongoing for the last sliver of jihadist territory in Deir Ezzor. At least 5,000 IS fighters remain holed up in the pocket of territory, including some 2,000 foreign fighters, mostly Arabs and Europeans along with their families. The YPG has also made significant gains, including control of the country's borders with Turkey and Iraq, its most lucrative oil fields and the freedom to once again speak their native language after decades of repression. "There are basic things we cannot give up; we need our democratic rights and our culture and language to be protected," said Fawza al-Youssef, the co-chair of the executive body of the North Syria Federation. "But there are other things that are negotiable." Mahmoud Mohammad Serhan, 59, a a retired trader who now keeps a farm, gets a cutthroat shave at a barber shop in Qamishli Credit: Sam Tarling Relinquishing control of the borders and folding the YPG, into the national army, would be among the demands she says the self-administration would consider in return for a decentralisation of government. It would also be willing to do a deal on the oil fields in eastern Deir Ezzor province, which account for more than 80 per cent of the country's pre-war production and currently lie within their control. "We aren't saying all of this is rightfully ours, but the people here should benefit," Ms Youssef said. The next few days will prove pivotal for the Kurds as they face the greatest existential threat to their autonomy project since the war began. "We can't go back to where were were before 2011, when we had nothing," said Ms Youssef. "We have not fought this hard for it all to be destroyed." |
Israeli premier's son blocked on Facebook for anti-Muslim posts Posted: 16 Dec 2018 01:14 PM PST Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest, Yair, tweeted on Sunday that Facebook blocked his page for 24 hours over apparent anti-Muslim posts and called the leading social network a "dictatorship". In a message posted Thursday on his Facebook page after deadly Palestinian attacks, Yair Netanyahu had called for "all Muslims (to) leave" Israel. Facebook deleted Yair Netanyahu's posts, prompting him to take to Twitter to criticise the social networking giant, calling it a "dictatorship of thought". |
Qatar says Gulf Arab bloc needs reform to give it teeth Posted: 15 Dec 2018 12:11 PM PST Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Qatar was still counting on Kuwait and other regional powers to help solve the row that has seen Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and non-GCC member Egypt impose a political and economic boycott on Doha since June 2017. "They have mechanisms in place and never trigger them (to hold people accountable) because some countries believe they are non-binding, so we need to make sure all the rules we are submitting to are binding to everyone in this region." The four states accuse Qatar of supporting terrorism and cosying up to regional foe Iran. Doha denies the charges and says the boycott aims to curtail its sovereignty. |
For sale: Restored home of Salem witch trials refugee Posted: 16 Dec 2018 08:26 AM PST |
Man who demolished landmark house ordered to build replica Posted: 15 Dec 2018 05:09 PM PST |
Brexit, Huawei Arrests, Trump’s Legal Troubles: Weekend Reads Posted: 15 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST |
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Displaced huddle in a basement as winter grips Syria Posted: 15 Dec 2018 08:02 PM PST Al-Bab (Syria) (AFP) - After washing up her family's dishes over a plastic basin, 11-year-old Cedra sits on the floor of the dank basement in Syria to tackle her day's studies. A dark staircase leads from a street in the town of Al-Bab to the gloomy space the young girl, her blind father and some 40 other families have the misfortune of calling home. "There's a single room which we use as a kitchen, a bathroom and a bedroom," said Cedra. |
I became a Democrat a year ago and found my own voice. It changed everything. Posted: 16 Dec 2018 01:00 AM PST |
Netanyahu warns Hamas after deadly West Bank attacks Posted: 16 Dec 2018 05:51 AM PST Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had issued a warning to Hamas after recent deadly attacks in the occupied West Bank, including two shootings claimed by the Islamist movement. Netanyahu referred to a controversial Gaza ceasefire in November that ended the worst escalation between Israel and Hamas since a 2014 war. "I conveyed a clear message to Hamas -- we won't accept a situation of a truce in Gaza and terror in Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting, using the biblical name for the West Bank, as is Israel's official policy. |
Turkey would consider working with Assad if he won a democratic Syrian election Posted: 16 Dec 2018 08:18 AM PST Turkey and other world powers would consider working with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he won a democratic election, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a conference in Qatar on Sunday. Turkey supported the opposition to Assad in the Syrian civil war that broke out in 2011 and continues to support rebel fighters who control part of northwest Syria. A year ago Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan described Assad as a terrorist and said it was impossible for Syrian peace efforts to continue with him. |
This $815k Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing doesn't even run Posted: 16 Dec 2018 02:35 PM PST |
O'Rourke, other Dems don't want tent city's contract renewed Posted: 15 Dec 2018 03:50 PM PST |
$1 Billion a Month: The Cost of Trump's Tariffs on Technology Posted: 14 Dec 2018 09:00 PM PST The tariff costs rose more than seven-fold to $1.3 billion, as the world's two biggest economies became embroiled in a trade war, according to data provided by the Consumer Technology Association and analyzed by consulting firm The Trade Partnership. President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese imports since early July. After Trump met President Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires on Dec. 1, the U.S. agreed to put off raising the tariff rate on the $200 billion of imports from 10 percent to 25 percent. |
Nice weather to pick out some Christmas trees Posted: 16 Dec 2018 09:52 AM PST |
Russia: Now Number 2 in Military Sales (Any Guess Who Is Number 1?) Posted: 16 Dec 2018 03:00 AM PST |
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