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Thursday, October 31, 2019
Apple TV+ is coming for your iPhone today
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Apple warns some iPhone users: Update your phone or lose internet
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Government Officials Worldwide Targeted For Hacking Via WhatsApp: Report
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North Korea says it test-fired new multiple rocket launcher
North Korea confirmed Friday it conducted its third test-firing of a new "super-large" multiple rocket launcher that it says expands its ability to destroy enemy targets in surprise attacks, as it continues to expand its military capabilities while pressuring Washington over a standstill in nuclear negotiations. Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency described the tests a day after the South Korean and Japanese militaries said they detected two projectiles launched from an area near the North Korean capital traveling more than 200 miles cross-country before landing in waters off the North's eastern coast.
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Canada denies sharing Huawei CFO Meng's devices details with FBI-court documents
The Canadian attorney general has filed affidavits asserting that information identifying Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's electronic devices was not shared with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during her December 2018 arrest in Vancouver, court documents showed on Thursday. Meng, 47, is charged in the United States with bank fraud and she is accused of misleading HSBC Holdings PLC about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's business in Iran, which is under U.S. sanctions.
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UPDATE 2-U.S. imposes new Iran sanctions, but waives others
The United States said on Thursday it had imposed sanctions on the Iranian construction sector and trade in four materials used in its military or nuclear programs, even as it waived sanctions to let foreign firms continue non-proliferation work in Iran. The decisions announced by the U.S. State Department reflect an effort to increase pressure on Iran by putting wider swaths of its economy under sanctions, while leaving a door open to diplomacy by allowing work to proceed at Iranian nuclear facilities that makes it harder for Iran to develop a nuclear bomb.
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While MPs feud over Brexit, food banks wonder how to feed the hungry
High Protein Diet: This 4-Ingredient Smoothie May Help Knock Off Those Extra Kilos
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'End human rights abuse' in mental-health hospitals
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Climate change 'making mountaineering riskier'
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Whirlpool 'silenced customers' amid tumble dryer fire scare
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US targets Iran construction sector with new sanctions
The United States on Thursday extended its sanctions on Iran by taking aim at its construction sector, which Washington linked to the country's Revolutionary Guards. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposed the sanctions after the construction sector was identified as "being controlled directly or indirectly by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)," spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.
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Brazil wildfires: Blaze advances across Pantanal wetlands
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While MPs feud over Brexit, food banks wonder how to feed the hungry
Maids for sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets
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The Papers: Trump's 'derailing' words and voters' sign-up rush
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Maha CM row: Sena ‘in touch’ with Congress, NCP
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Govt asks WhatsApp to explain breach amid phone snoop row
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Draft education policy bats for boards twice a yr
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'Pak violated obligation under Vienna convention'
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India hits out at China on J&K, Ladakh
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Hundreds of migrants in Libya flee detention, cite hunger
Hundreds of migrants have fled a detention center in coastal Libya and crowded overnight around a U.N. facility, saying they were denied food for weeks. Around 450 people left Abu Salim detention center late Tuesday. Two of the migrants, as well as activists, said they were forced to beg for money from families to pay police to buy them food.
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Hotline for prisoners' families 'not being answered' - report
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Shuri Castle: Fire engulfs world heritage site in Japan
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Fire breaks out in Japan's Shuri Castle
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Chile won't host key summits after unrest
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WhatsApp sues Israeli company
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Asia's biggest Halloween party is in Hong Kong, where people are being arrested for wearing masks
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Draft bill: Upto Rs 1cr fine for unsafe med devices
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Fadnavis may offer Sena deputy CM’s post
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Hindi most popular Indian language in US
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Essex lorry deaths: The deadly people smuggling trail leading to France
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Chile's APEC cancellation raises new hurdle for U.S.-China trade deal
Leaders from the United States and China encountered a new obstacle in their struggle to end a damaging trade war on Wednesday, when the summit where they were supposed to meet was cancelled because of violent protests. U.S. President Donald Trump said this week he hoped to sign an interim trade deal with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the Nov. 16-17 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Chile. The White House said afterwards the United States still expects to sign an initial trade agreement with China next month, but no alternate location had yet been set for Xi and Trump to meet.
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Heavy Rain Alert In Tamil Nadu Today; All Schools Closed In 7 Districts
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Bronze Age monument discovered in Forest of Dean
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US-Bound Passenger Arrested With 8 Bullets At Delhi Airport
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Chile's APEC cancellation raises new hurdle for U.S.-China trade deal
Leaders from the United States and China encountered a new obstacle in their struggle to end a damaging trade war on Wednesday, when the summit where they were supposed to meet was cancelled because of violent protests. U.S. President Donald Trump said this week he hoped to sign an interim trade deal with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the Nov. 16-17 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Chile. The White House said afterwards the United States still expects to sign an initial trade agreement with China next month, but no alternate location had yet been set for Xi and Trump to meet.
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Sudan drawing down troops in Yemen in recent months
Sudan has recently drawn down its forces taking part in a Saudi-led coalition at war with Iran-aligned rebels in Yemen, two senior Sudanese officials said Wednesday. The UAE's military, meanwhile, said it pulled its troops from the southern port city of Aden and handed over the interim capital to Saudi and Yemeni forces. The Sudanese officials declined to disclose how many troops have left Yemen, but said "several thousand troops," mainly from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, returned home over the past two months.
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Banksy: Behind-the-scenes photos 'show artist at work'
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Fundraiser posts $3 million bond on campaign finance charges
A prolific fundraiser charged with funneling illegal foreign campaign contributions to American political candidates surrendered to authorities in Los Angeles on Wednesday and was released on $3 million bond. The court appearance came about a week after prosecutors announced charges against Imaad Zuberi, a venture capitalist who raised millions of dollars for both Democratic and Republican political candidates and committees, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump. Zuberi has agreed to plead guilty to tax evasion, violating campaign finance laws and concealing his work as a foreign agent as he lobbied high-level U.S. government officials.
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John Bolton summoned to Trump impeachment inquiry
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Canadian province to introduce 'values test' for immigrants
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Video, Photos of ISIS Chief Baghdadi Raid Released By Pentagon
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
U.K. on course for December 12 election
Peugeot owner 'in merger talks with Fiat Chrysler'
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Muslim speed dating: Three minutes to find a soulmate who shares your faith
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Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon ordered by HBO
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India to play first day-night Test with B’desh
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Fadnavis may take oath by Friday despite Shiva Sena spat
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'Too much freedom of speech for some, too little...'
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Netflix founder: 'Learn when to get out of the way'
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This woman faked a pregnancy to try to avoid excess baggage fees
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The man behind the Inktober viral drawing challenge
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China warns U.S. criticism at U.N. over Xinjiang not 'helpful' for trade talks
China's U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun warned on Tuesday that U.S. criticism at the world body of Beijing's policy in remote Xinjiang was not "helpful" for negotiations between the two countries on a trade deal. The United States, Britain and 21 other states pushed China on Tuesday at the U.N. to stop detaining ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, a move that was countered by Beijing and some 53 countries jointly defending its "remarkable" rights record.
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Student housing told to fix 'awful' problems
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Brexit deal means ‘£70bn hit a year to UK by 2029'
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Missing woman search end a 'relief and curse'
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Ganguly Thanks Kohli After Confirmation Of Day-Night Test In Kolkata
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Asthma carbon footprint 'as big as eating meat'
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Gatwick trial cuts plane boarding time by 10%
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UK's new Brexit deal worse than continued uncertainty - NIESR
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal would hurt Britain's economy more than further delays and continued uncertainty about leaving the European Union, a think tank said on Wednesday. Johnson has said his deal is the only solution to the uncertainty that has weighed on the economy since the 2016 referendum. By contrast, the opposition Labour Party wants to negotiate a new deal and put it to a second referendum, which could overturn 2016's result.
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Rugby World Cup: England fined for crossing halfway line before New Zealand match
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Missing sharks mystery stuns scientist
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UPDATE 1-China warns U.S. that criticism over Uighurs not 'helpful' for trade talks
The United States and 22 other countries at the United Nations pushed China on Tuesday to stop detaining ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, prompting China's U.N. envoy to warn it was not "helpful" for trade talks between Beijing and Washington. China has been widely condemned for setting up complexes in remote Xinjiang that it describes as "vocational training centers" to stamp out extremism and give people new skills.
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Monday, October 28, 2019
Pressure on Ibiza's sustainability: Is the party over?
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Ethiopia's 900-year-old Shonke village on a mountain
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Internet 'father' Vint Cerf on future challenges ahead for the web
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How to be disabled and eco-friendly
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'We're not moving' - when reserving a train seat goes wrong
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"Landed In Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia," Tweets PM As He Begins 2-Day Visit
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Picture power: Masked protest in Hong Kong
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Black History Month: 'I had to defend myself against racists'
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Grenfell Tower inquiry: ‘The boxing gym was our home’
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Brexit: What happened on Monday?
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Over A Lakh To Protest Against Imran Khan Government On Thursday
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Trevor Noah Disses Trump: Baghdadi Not a Bigger ‘Get’ Than Bin Laden
Comedy CentralOn Sunday night, John Oliver poured cold water all over Trump’s victory lap following the death of monstrous ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, noting how Trump’s abandonment of the Kurds in Northern Syria has not only led to his authoritarian pals Erdogan and Putin carving up the region, but the escape of over a hundred ISIS prisoners. This evening, Trevor Noah got in on the “Now, whether you like Trump or not, you have to admit this is a big win in the fight against ISIS. But Trump is the only person who can turn a unifying occasion into a dick-measuring contest,” offered Noah. John Oliver Pours Cold Water on Trump’s Baghdadi Victory LapLouis C.K. Is Going on a Big ‘Comeback’ Tour. He Hasn’t Earned His Forgiveness.The Daily Show host then threw to Trump’s Baghdadi presser, wherein the president bragged, “This is the biggest there is. This is the worst ever. Osama bin Laden was very big, but Osama bin Laden became very big with the World Trade Center. This is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it a country—a caliphate—and was trying to do it again.” “What are you doing?!” exclaimed Noah. “You don’t have to pretend this guy is a bigger get than bin Laden. First of all, it’s childish. Secondly, he’s not. Bin Laden changed the entire world forever. It’s 18 years after 9/11 and I still can’t take four ounces of lotion on an airplane. I go on vacation, and my skin is dry as fuck. That’s how bad of a terrorist bin Laden was! We all ashy in these streets because of bin Laden!” “The whole thing is ridiculous,” Noah added, “because we all know who really made this thing happen. It was that K-9,” referring to the hero dog who aided (and was subsequently injured in) the Baghdadi raid. “Or as I call it, a dog. That dog deserves the highest honor America has to offer, which is its own movie.” Noah then aired a trailer for a saccharine comedy film starring the heroic K-9, giving him the fake-Hollywood love he so richly deserves.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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Trump impeachment: Democrats plan first formal vote
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Boston College student's girlfriend charged over his suicide
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PM arrives in Saudi Arabia, to deliver keynote address at economic forum
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Brain illness spread by ticks has reached UK
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Pupil background 'should be part of league tables'
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Narcissists 'horrible people but happy'
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The Papers: Election row and daily pills 'tackle depression'
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Girl, 11, charged after elementary school teacher stabbed in Australia
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Sunday, October 27, 2019
Singapore: The artist cutting off the head of a British colonialist
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Avatars: Are we ready for our digital twins?
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Meet the people of Tamba
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Moneta Sleet: The great black photographer you've never heard of
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How Elite US Forces Launched "Dangerous Nighttime Raid" To Kill Baghdadi
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Delhi, Noida Air Quality Deteriorates To "Very Poor" Level After Diwali
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US Pilots Allegedly Hid Camera In Toilet, Then Streamed Video To Cockpit
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DK Shivakumar Hits Out At Tax Department Over Gifting Phones To MPs
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Frozen eggs storage 10-year limit 'should be changed'
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EY: Gold, drug money and a major auditor's 'cover-up'
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MPs demand action over rise in online bank crashes
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Iraq Says It Provided Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's Location To US For Raid
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PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - Oct 28
The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. The European Union is close to agreeing a Brexit delay until the end of January, while leaving open the possibility for UK to leave the bloc on Dec. 1 or on New Year's Day if its withdrawal treaty has been ratified, according to the proposal circulated to EU27 governments on Sunday, and seen by the Financial Times. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson could support proposals from opposition parties to hold an election on Dec. 9, if MPs vote against his call for a pre-Christmas election on Dec. 12, according to a Downing Street official.
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"World's No. 1 Terrorist Brought To Justice": Trump On Baghdadi Killing
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The Papers: IS chief dead and winter UK election likely
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Baghdadi Is Dead. The War on Terror Will Create Another.
GettyAfter U.S. special operations forces dealt a violent end to the leader of the premier jihadist group in Iraq, the president hailed the importance of the moment. The man was a monster, the president declared, responsible for a regional campaign of devastation, even the beheadings of American hostages. True, the killing would not mean the end of the broader war, the president noted, but the U.S. had dealt “a severe blow” to the jihadists. George W. Bush said this in 2006, following the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. After U.S. special operations forces dealt a violent end to the leader of the global jihadist movement, the president hailed the importance of the moment. The man was a monster, the president declared, responsible for a global campaign of devastation, and particularly the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. True, the killing would not mean the end of the broader war, the president noted, but the U.S. had reaped “the most significant achievement to date” against the jihadists. Barack Obama said this in 2011, following the killing of Osama bin Laden. After U.S. special operations forces ensured a violent end for the leader of a new global jihadist movement, the president hailed the importance of the moment. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a monster, the president declared, responsible for a global campaign of devastation, even the beheadings of American hostages. True, the killing would not mean the end of the broader war, the president noted, but it showed that “these savage monsters will never escape their fate.” Donald Trump said this on Sunday, following the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.Trump Turns Baghdadi’s Killing Into a Reality ShowThese three fatal milestones all point to the strategic incoherence within a global war that has now lasted an entire generation. No one, neither the Trump administration nor its critics, believes that the so-called Islamic State is finished because al-Baghdadi is dead. As proficient as U.S. special operators have become at manhunting these past 18 years, and as central as manhunting has been during that time, there is no campaign plan, not even a theory, by which the killings of jihadist leaders knit up into a lasting victory. Asking for one would require reckoning with the catastrophic failure represented by a war that only perpetuates itself. There would be no Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had Bush not invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003. That war created an opportunity for a mass murderer, Zarqawi, to construct an al-Qaeda franchise more bloodthirsty than even the one bin Laden created. Even after Zarqawi’s 2006 death, Bin Laden could never rein in al-Qaeda in Iraq, documents recovered after the 2011 raid on his Abbottabad compound showed, and he grew particularly dyspeptic over the offshoot’s clear desire to declare a caliphate. Some believe bin Laden is the real victor of the war on terrorism, since he succeeded at provoking the U.S. into endless war in unfamiliar terrain. But the rise of ISIS showed bin Laden lost control of the movement he started. Bin Laden did not believe the time was right for a caliphate. Baghdadi took advantage of both the Syrian civil war and Obama’s 2011 withdrawal from Iraq to make the caliphate a brutal fascist reality, complete with misogynist enslavement and opportunities for men to find meaning through sanctified violence. When al-Qaeda and the elder generation of jihadist theorists opposed ISIS, Baghdadi’s organization—now an actual state, complete with an army, and a flag—had no problem attacking them. Baghdadi was less visible than bin Laden, rebuking the leadership style of a previous generation and signaling that the caliphate was more important than he was. The caliphate was ISIS’ triumph over bin Laden, whose children ate his revolution. This history matters because it shows that the expansive war the U.S. launched does not fight against a static enemy. It generates enemies – the slain al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki is another example – and provides opportunities for new ones to arise. Baghdadi himself experienced four years of captivity in the U.S. detention facility at Camp Bucca in Iraq before his 2009 release. Trump on Sunday recalled the horror of seeing American detainees dressed in orange jumpsuits without recalling that ISIS chose the orange jumpsuits to evoke the ones worn by detainees at Guantanamo Bay.No one should think the fall of the caliphate, let alone Baghdadi’s death, means that U.S.’ jihadist adversaries have achieved their final form. Whatever else the war on terrorism is, its history shows it yielding further generations of jihadists as long as there are American forces hunting, surveilling, and killing Muslims worldwide. Part of that dynamic involves those newer generations emerging when U.S. forces pull back but leave intact the apparatus of the war on terrorism—the drone strikes, the surveillance dragnets, the lethal raids—as happened in Iraq in 2011 and, very likely, now in Syria in 2019. Maintaining that apparatus is supposed to hedge against withdrawals from agonizing ground conflicts. Yet at each turn of the war’s ratchet, the jihadists have only come back in more violent form and greater mass, the exact opposite of what any war is supposed to achieve. Trump Says U.S. Troops Have Quit Syria. It’s Not True.Trump’s pullback from northeastern Syria, like from the Forever War more broadly, was never total. Like Obama before him, Trump’s rhetoric about wishing to be done with endless wars obscures the reality of how he prosecutes them. Trump escalated drone strikes in the undeclared regions of the war on terrorism and, in Afghanistan, escalated air strikes, with a commensurate rise in civilian deaths. Syria has long displayed the decadence of a strategically exhausted war on terrorism: Obama invaded without congressional approval—to no real congressional outrage—and Trump has made the residual mission one of plundering oil and, in the background, threatening Iran. Trump made clear last week that he expects “Turkey, Syria and others in the region” to do the work of preventing an ISIS return. All that means ISIS, in whatever future form, has a new lease on life. A series of ISIS jailbreaks occurred after Trump’s green light for the Turkish invasion led the United States’ Syrian Kurdish partners to prioritize their own survival. Like Baghdadi out of Camp Bucca, new generations of ISIS leadership may have made their way out of the Syrian prisons. The U.S. is hardly the only actor that matters here: the unconcluded Syrian civil war helps set the context for whatever comes next, and the U.S. has never been able to shape events within that war. Nicholas Rasmussen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center from the dawn of the anti-ISIS war until 2017, tweeted that Baghdadi’s death was a “big blow” to ISIS but “may not leave us safer from ISIS attack.” Trump’s pullback from northeastern Syria has troubled American strategists. The persistence of the war on terrorism, which set the context for that pullback, troubles them less. At a Reuters forum in September, I asked former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis why military officers never put forward a theory of victory in the war on terrorism. He responded that terrorism was a persistent reality, “an ambient threat,” and so was an American response. “This desire to have the war over, I understand it, but this is a war that springs from root causes that will have to be addressed at the same time we’re fighting,” Mattis said. “It will be there throughout our lifetimes.”Terrorism, as old as human history, will indeed be present throughout our lifetimes. But that elides the choice America makes to wage a war against it that only makes jihadism worse. While the bombs drop, American officials never get around to addressing Mattis’ undefined “root causes,” because some of those root causes are the bombs themselves. And all that means Baghdadi’s death gains the U.S. as much as the broader war on terrorism does: ultimately nothing, only a fleeting feeling of national pride briefly concealing the worsening wreckage of a generation. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? 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Video shows wreckage left in wake of al-Baghdadi raid
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US President Donald Trump Extends Diwali Wishes From White House
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UPI hits 1 billion transactions in October
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Pakistan denies use of airspace to PM Modi
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What Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death means for IS
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Saturday, October 26, 2019
Kali Puja 2019: Date, Puja Time, Significance, Foods To Celebrate
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US Man Dropped His Gun, Put His Hands Up. Then A Cop Shot Him 5 Times
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N. Korea warns US not to exploit 'close' Trump-Kim ties
North Korea said Sunday the United States must not exploit the "close personal relations" between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump as negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal remain deadlocked. Talks between Pyongyang and Washington have stalled since a second summit between Trump and Kim in Hanoi in February broke down without an agreement.
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Dushyant Chautala "Is Like A Child," Says Grand Uncle Ranjit Chautala
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Jane Fonda 'inspired by Greta Thunberg'
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Infosys Incentivises 7,000 Employees By Granting Shares
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Blaenavon: 'I hallucinated a Christmas number one with Kanye'
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Why some some job interviews are downright weird
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Syrian Kurds: 'The world has closed its eyes on us'
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Libya in chaos as endless war rumbles on
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Juliet Club: 'I help answer the world's love letters'
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Seven Worlds, One Planet: Meet the stars of the new David Attenborough series
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How 'horror smells' and 'care smells' are being used to manipulate emotions
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Your pictures on the theme of 'after dark'
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Why life on Scotland's islands makes us happy
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'The selfie that revealed I was a stolen baby'
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Sinéad Burke: Clothes are my armour
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Naga pact even without NSCN(I-M)?
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Stage set for Maha showdown as both Sena, BJP harden stand
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Some Plants May Do More Harm Than Good In Your Plant-Based Diet: Study
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Prakash Ambedkar's Party Prevented Us From Winning, Says Congress
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Petrol, Diesel Prices Cut Across Metros, Check Rates Here
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Friday, October 25, 2019
California wildfires: Millions warned of possible power cut
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US Woman In 1994 Said Black Man Kidnapped Her Sons. She Had Killed Them
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Dushyant Chautala's Party "Were, Will Always Be BJP's B-Team": Congress
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Milton Keynes house party stabbings: Second man charged with murder
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"Diwali In America An Important Reminder Of Religious," Says Donald Trump
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Google Play Removes 42 Malicious Apps With 8 Million Collective Downloads
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Islamic State group: Will chaos in Syria allow IS to re-emerge?
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Viewpoint: What the ancient Greeks can teach us about Greta Thunberg trolls
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Depop: Can pre-loved clothes make fast fashion sustainable?
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James Arthur: Foals are right, I'm a pesky X Factor type
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Week in Pictures: 19 - 25 October 2019
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The fighter who was knocked out in five seconds: What happened next?
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The make-up artist who's gone on the school run as Freddy Krueger
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Lyubov Sobol: Meet Russia's invisible influencer
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How coastal erosion destroyed a Ghanaian village
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Dementia: New Alzheimer's drug 'could slow rate at which disease progresses'
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Essex lorry deaths: The Vietnamese risking it all to get to the UK
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Iraq protests: 40 dead as mass unrest descends into violence
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Choti Diwali Or Naraka Chaturdashi: Date, Shubh Muhurat, Significance
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Some Plants May Do More Harm Than Good In Your Plant-Based Diet: Study
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RBI General Manager Allegedly Commits Suicide In Odisha Hotel: Police
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Treasury Promises "Transparency" For Humanitarian Aid To Iran
The U.S. Treasury Department on Oct. 25 said it has established a new "mechanism" to ensure that financial transactions and commercial exports to Iran involving humanitarian aid are not siphoned off to support Iranian weapons programs or terrorist groups. The mechanism, which promises "transparency" for continued humanitarian trade with Iran, will be developed by Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Stalkerware: The software that spies on your partner
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The basketball champions' rings with 640 diamonds
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'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse'
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A champion and a statesman - 20 years on, the tragic loss of Payne Stewart
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Wheels of fortune? A new age for electric motors
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Why Terminator: Dark Fate is sending a shudder through AI labs
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Redmi Note 8 Review
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Brexit: EU to consider extension as MPs mull election
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Universal credit: MPs call for action on women driven to 'survival sex'
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Turkish and Syrian ambassadors clash at UN Security Council
The Turkish and Syrian ambassadors clashed Thursday at their first U.N. Security Council encounter since Turkey launched a cross-border offensive earlier this month following the withdrawal of U.S. forces. The council met on Syria's humanitarian situation, but the members' top concerns were the state of a Russian-Turkish cease-fire agreement that divides up the border region and prospects for next week's first meeting of a committee that is supposed to draft a new Syrian constitution.
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Invasive species: MPs call for a million people's help
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Transgender people treated ‘inhumanely’ online
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare arrives amid China controversy
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US Hearing On Kashmir Shows "Lack Of Understanding", Says India
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Dynasts have a field day in Haryana polls
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SC says telecos have to pay Centre Rs 92,000 crore
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BJP focus on national issues affects state result
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BJP dips 17 in Maha, alliance falls short of target
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Regional roadbump slows BJP juggernaut; Haryana assembly hung
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Congress's Victory In Madhya Pradesh Bypoll A Boost For Kamal Nath
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Overhaul exclusions to beat knife crime, say MPs
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Vaccine reminder system 'inconsistent', report concludes
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Eating this can raise Alzhemier's risk by 75%
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Gruesome videos emerge from Syria
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Counting For Maharashtra, Haryana Soon As BJP Hopes For Encore: 10 Facts
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Andhra Boat Found With "Highly-Decomposed" Bodies After 37 Days
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North Korea urges US to act wisely through year-end deadline
North Korea has accused U.S. officials of maintaining hostility against Pyongyang despite a "special" relationship between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump and urged Washington to act "wisely" through the end of the year. The statement issued by Foreign Ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan on Thursday was clearly referring to an end-of-year deadline set by Kim Jong Un for the Trump administration to offer mutually acceptable terms for a deal to salvage their diplomacy.
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Inside Bosnia’s 'nightmare' camp for migrants trying to enter the EU
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Leonardo da Vinci five centuries on: Louvre in Paris opens long-awaited exhibition
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Turkey Syria offensive: Kurdish girl loses her leg to Turkish bomb
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Raja Meziane: Algerian unsigned singer becomes sound of revolution
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Art starts conversations about being a black, Muslim woman
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From the Olympics to a climate change activist
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How many migrants die entering the UK?
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The 'peasant' binge drinker who went viral - and what it says about modern China
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The Lost Boys: How two towns cope with the impact of suicide
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Butt lift surgery: 'Why I'm getting rid of my implants'
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Uluru ban: What do locals think of the final rush to climb?
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Tensions highlight the importance of global trade
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Rick Astley: Inside the home studio where he masterminded his comeback
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Zoe Ball's Radio 2 show loses 364,000 listeners
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"Have Right To Resign": Disqualified Karnataka MLAs To Top Court
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High Street woes mount as '85,000 jobs lost'
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People 'more likely to feel pain on humid days'
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Long-term prisoners 'should be allowed student loans'
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
High Street: How many UK shops have closed?
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Letter from Africa: How not to mangle African sports stars' names
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Sourav Ganguly: Can former India captain score big as cricket chief?
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Turkey: Which countries export arms to Turkey?
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Anti-Harry and Meghan hysteria driven by tabloids and palace leaks
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Kim orders South's buildings at resort in North be destroyed
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the destruction of South Korean-made hotels, and other tourist facilities at the North's Diamond Mountain resort, apparently because Seoul won't defy international sanctions and resume South Korean tours at the site. Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday that Kim had visited the resort and described its facilities as "hotchpotch with no national character at all." The report said Kim criticized North Korea's policies pushed under his late father as too dependent on the South.
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'Sex work paid my student bills. Now I regret it'
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Katie Price, Lauren Goodger and Georgia Harrison Instagram posts banned
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PM Narendra Modi Meets Tony Blair, John Howard, Henry Kissinger In Delhi
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Universities 'oblivious' to campus racial abuse
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Babies born at 22 weeks 'can now survive'
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Britons killed abroad: UK support 'patchy' for grieving families
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UN investigator: 11 million North Koreans are undernourished
The U.N. independent investigator on human rights in North Korea says food insecurity in the country "is at an alarming level," with nearly half the population — 11 million people — undernourished. In addition, he says, "climate conditions, infertile land, natural disasters and the negative impact of sanctions have contributed" to food insecurity.
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EXPLAINER-EU set to approve Brexit extension, but what will it look like?
Will the other members of the European Union grant Britain an extension to leave the bloc beyond its Oct. 31 deadline and if they do, what will the delay look like? European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday he would recommend granting the delay requested by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson following a defeat in parliament that made ratification of his exit deal by Oct. 31 almost impossible. British lawmakers on Tuesday voted narrowly in favour of legislation for a Brexit deal that Johnson clinched with the EU last week, but minutes later voted against his tight timetable for parliamentary approval.
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Michael Cohen-Linked Fundraiser Made Illegal Campaign Contributions
(Bloomberg) -- A Southern California venture capitalist who contributed $900,000 to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee agreed to plead guilty to making almost $1 million in illegal campaign contributions from 2012 to 2016.Imaad Shah Zuberi, 49, also admitted he hid his work for foreign nationals while he lobbied U.S. government officials and evaded paying taxes, according to the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.The charges don’t appear linked to contributions made to the Trump campaign, but Zuberi has been linked to numerous people in Trump’s orbit who have come under the scrutiny of federal prosecutors, including the president’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, and Republican fundraiser Elliot Broidy.Zuberi, who ran the venture capital firm Avenue Ventures, solicited foreign nationals and representatives of foreign governments for money, which he used to hire lobbyists and public relations people and to make campaign contributions to both Republicans and Democrats, according to prosecutors. He also pocketed money from foreign sources for his personal use, prosecutors said.“Mr. Zuberi’s multi-faceted scheme allowed him to line his pockets by concealing the fact that he was representing foreign clients, obtaining access for clients by making a long series of illegal contributions, and skimming money paid by his clients,” U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said in the statement. “Mr. Zuberi circumvented laws designed to insulate U.S. policy and our election process from foreign intervention.”Zuberi’s plea agreement with prosecutors doesn’t include a cooperation clause. Zuberi’s lawyer, Thomas O’Brien, declined to comment.Read more on Trump inaugural committee hereZuberi made campaign contributions that gave him access to high-level U.S. officials, some of whom took action to help his clients, according to prosecutors.The $900,000 to the Trump inaugural committee came through Avenue Ventures, according to a person familiar with the case. For that, Zuberi got a table at the president’s candlelit dinner, next to a table where Broidy and Vice President Mike Pence were seated.In February, prosecutors in New York served a subpoena on the inaugural committee, demanding records of its finances, according to a person familiar with the matter. Zuberi and Avenue Ventures were the only donors named in the subpoena, the New York Times reported at the time.Prosecutors asked Cohen about his dealings with Zuberi after the president’s former lawyer pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other crimes, the newspaper reported.Zuberi took about $6.5 million from the government of Sri Lanka as part of a 2014 contract to help to rehabilitate that country’s image in the U.S., prosecutors said. Of that money, less than $850,000 went to lobbyists and public relations firms, while more than $5.65 million went to Zuberi and his wife, they said.He also pocketed the bulk of the money investors put in U.S. Cares, a company created to export humanitarian goods to Iran, according to the Justice Department. Of the $7 million invested in 2013 and 2014, Zuberi allegedly used more than 90% to buy real estate, pay down credit cards, remodel properties and make charitable donations.He faces as long as 15 years in prison.(Adds response from Zuberi’s attorney in fourth paragraph.)\--With assistance from Caleb Melby.To contact the reporter on this story: Edvard Pettersson in Los Angeles at epettersson@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: David Glovin at dglovin@bloomberg.net, Joe Schneider, Peter BlumbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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Turkey and Russia agree on deal over buffer zone in northern Syria
Erdoğan hails agreement with Putin in which Kurdish fighters will be moved from border areaTurkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin agreed the deal after meeting in Sochi. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/TASSThe Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have agreed on the parameters of a proposed Turkish “safe zone” in Syria, a development that could bring an end to Ankara’s offensive against Kurdish forces over the border by severely curtailing their control of the area.The two leaders were locked in marathon talks for more than six hours in the Russian Black Sea city of Sochi, emerging just two hours before a five-day ceasefire brokered by the US expired at 10pm local time.Erdoğan hailed the deal as “a historic agreement” while addressing reporters alongside Putin.“According to this agreement, Turkey and Russia will not allow any separatist agenda on Syrian territory,” he said.Tuesday’s developments more concretely define the size and scope of the area that Turkish soldiers will occupy, adding to pockets of northern Syria that Turkey seized from Islamic State and Kurdish fighters in operations in 2016 and 2018.The deal was widely perceived as good news for Ankara and a poor result for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), building as it does on the US’ agreement last week that Turkey has a right to a buffer zone on its border at their expense. Most of all, it cements Moscow’s new role as prime powerbroker in the Middle East as US influence in the region wanes.Turkish troops in areas of north-east Syria seized since the start of the 9 October offensive will remain in situ, and Russian troops and the Syrian army will control the rest of the frontier, effectively fulfilling the goal of Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring at Russia’s discretion: the dilution of Kurdish control over the 270-mile (440km) border corridor.Russian military police and Syrian border guards controlled by the president, Bashar al-Assad, will from Wednesday at noon facilitate the removal of Kurdish fighters and weaponry to the depth of 18 miles from their positions on the border, the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, said after their respective presidents announced the agreement to reporters.The Kurdish YPG element of the multi-ethnic SDF has 150 hours to withdraw, a joint statement said, and then Turkish and Russian soldiers will begin joint patrols of the entire border area to a depth of 10km with the exception of the de-facto Kurdish capital, Qamishli. The deal appears to also include the contested strategically key town of Manbij as well as the important Kurdish town Kobane. It made no mention of the long-term presence of troops loyal to Assad, now also present in the proposed border zone.The deal also left unclear the fate of the military councils the SDF have set up in towns that were under its control, and what happens to the YPG’s partners inside the SDF including local self-defence forces.No comment on the deal from the SDF or Kurdish political leaders was immediately forthcoming. The umbrella force’s commander-in-chief, Mazloum Kobane, confirmed earlier on Tuesday that his fighters had withdrawn from the border strip between Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn, the two towns bearing the brunt of the Turkish attack, hours before the poorly observed US-brokered ceasefire ended.The chain of events triggered by Donald Trump’s 6 October announcement that US troops would leave Kurdish-controlled north-east Syria has left Moscow the most powerful player in Syria’s complex war, now in its ninth year.Turkish troops, allied Syrian rebel proxies, the SDF, and soldiers belonging to Assad are now all present in the border zone, with Russia the only negotiating force between them.Trump has been widely criticised for his decision to pull back the remaining 1,000 US special forces from the region, which in effect greenlit the Turkish attack on the SDF, the US’s ground partner in the five-year-campaign to defeat Isis. Ankara, however, has long maintained the main Kurdish unit in the SDF is indistinguishable from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK).As a result of the Turkish offensive, Syria’s Kurdish officials struck a deal with Assad, their former enemy, for military reinforcements in the border area.The US defense secretary, Mark Esper, said that the US troops withdrawn from northern Syria will “temporarily” go to Iraq before returning to the US. Earlier in the day the Iraqi joint operations command said that the retreating US troops did not have permission to remain in the country.Esper told CNN that Trump had yet to approve a plan to keep some troops in eastern Syria to protect oil fields from Isis. He also downplayed the extent to which the retreat had led to Isis jail-breaks from SDF-run detention facilities.Esper said: “Of the 11,000 or so detainees that were in prisons in north-east Syria, we’ve only had reports of a little bit more than a hundred that have escaped... So right now we have not seen this big prison break that we all expected.”Ankara will be pleased that Moscow has persuaded Damascus to cede it control over more territory in the north-east, breaking up Kurdish control. In return, Moscow appears to have extracted commitments from the Turkish delegation that Turkey will respect Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, raising questions over the future of nearby rebel-held Idlib province, where Turkey maintains observation posts.Assad himself has repeatedly vowed to reunite his entire country under Damascus’s rule. In a symbolic visit to southern Idlib on Tuesday – territory the regime now occupies for the first time in years – he called Erdoğan “a thief” and said he was ready to support any popular resistance against Turkey’s invasion.“We are in the middle of a battle and the right thing to do is to rally efforts to lessen the damages from the invasion and to expel the invader sooner or later,” he told troops, adding that Kurdish fighters would be granted an amnesty if they returned to the fold of the Syrian government.At least 120 civilians in Syria and 20 in Turkey have died as a result of the almost two-week old assault, with 176,000 Syrians displaced by the violence, the UN said on Tuesday. Intermittent fighting has continued despite a US-brokered ceasefire announced by Mike Pence, the American vice-president, on a visit to Ankara last Thursday.Last week’s US-Turkish agreement did not specify the zone’s size, where Turkey also plans to repatriate up to 2 million of its 3.6 million Syrian refugee population - a policy dubbed demographic engineering by critics.Previous agreements between Washington and Ankara over a safe zone along the Syria-Turkish border floundered time and again over diverging definitions of the area.
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Drugs: UK should consider legalising possession, MPs say
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Turkey Syria offensive: Erdogan and Putin strike deal over Kurds
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Monday, October 21, 2019
65.6% turnout in Haryana, 60.5% in Maharashtra
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Bring $500m FDI, get relationship manager: Govt
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Trump viewed Ukraine as adversary, not ally, witnesses say
The president, according to people familiar with testimony in the House impeachment investigation, sees the Eastern European ally, not Russia, as responsible for the interference in the 2016 election that was investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller. It's a view denied by the intelligence community, at odds with U.S. foreign policy and dismissed by many of Trump's fellow Republicans, but part of a broader skepticism of Ukraine being shared with Trump by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his key regional ally Viktor Orban of Hungary. Trump's embrace of an alternative view of Ukraine suggests the extent to which his approach to Kyiv — including his request, now central to the impeachment inquiry, that the Ukraine president do him a "favor" and investigate Democrats — was colored by a long-running, unproven conspiracy theory that has circulated online and in some corners of conservative media.
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Harry Dunn crash: Police to fly to US to interview suspect
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Huawei Lobbying Spend Hits Record With Hire of Trump Fundraiser
(Bloomberg) -- Huawei Technologies Co.’s lobbying spending spiked in the third quarter as the Chinese telecom giant hired a fundraiser for President Donald Trump with deep ties to Republican leadership to help it fight back against the administration’s blacklisting of the company from the U.S. market.Huawei spent a company record of $1.8 million on federal lobbying in the three months ending in September, up from $30,000 in the same period last year, when it had largely shut down its lobbying presence in Washington and whittled its office down to a skeleton staff.Of the total, Huawei spent an eye-popping $1.7 million to pay lobbyist Michael Esposito, according to federal disclosures. Esposito, whose hiring was disclosed in August, describes himself a member of Trump Victory, the joint fundraising committee that includes the president’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to a biography on the website of his firm, Federal Advocates Inc.Even by K Street standards, the sum is extraordinary, and it exceeded the third-quarter spending of many trade groups considered among Washington’s most powerful players, such as the Consumer Technology Association, the American Petroleum Institute, and the National Federation of Independent Business, each of which spent more than $1 million.Huawei hired Esposito to help with its fight over a five-month-old ban by the Commerce Department, which blocks U.S. companies from selling components to China’s largest technology company in the name of national security. Huawei denies that it’s a threat.Crab Cakes and ShrimpEsposito lobbied at the White House, the Commerce Department and its Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees the so-called entity list that bans Huawei, according to a federal disclosure that he filed.Huawei and Esposito didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.Huawei is also pursuing a legal and public-relations campaign against the ban, which requires American firms to obtain a government license in order to sell to it. The company has been increasing its outreach to the press. Last week, Huawei hosted a reception for journalists during the International Monetary Fund meetings at the rooftop bar of a swank Washington hotel blocks from the White House.Journalists nibbled on shrimp tempura, crab cakes and pork belly with views of the Washington Monument and Commerce Department in the background as they mingled with company executives, including Andy Purdy, a former security official for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush. Guests received tote bags containing a collection of interviews with the company’s founder and chief executive officer, Ren Zhengfei.In March, Huawei registered lobbyists for the first time since 2012, including Samir Jain, a Jones Day partner who was a cybersecurity official under President Barack Obama. The company also hired Boston-based Racepoint Global Inc., a communications firm specialized in technology matters, and BCW LLC, a communications firm owned by global advertising and marketing group WPP Plc.Huawei also has engaged law firms Sidley Austin LLP, Steptoe & Johnson LLP and Squire Patton Boggs. The company is fighting a U.S. criminal case for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran. Sidley Austin is defending Huawei and a U.S. affiliate against charges that they defrauded at least four banks by concealing business dealings in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer and the daughter of Zhengfei, was also charged in the case. She remains on bail with conditions in Vancouver while she fights extradition to the U.S.The ban hasn’t crimped Huawei’s revenues, which grew 24% in the first ninth months of 2019, boosted by a 26% jump in global smartphone shipments.\--With assistance from Shawn Donnan.To contact the reporter on this story: Ben Brody in Washington, D.C. at btenerellabr@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Sara Forden at sforden@bloomberg.net, Mark NiquetteFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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As Boris tries to cinch Brexit, two Brits try to make sense of it all
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