| Bill Clinton Remembers George H.W. Bush As A Rival Who Became A Friend Posted: 30 Nov 2018 11:21 PM PST  Former President Bill Clinton former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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| PHOTOS: Aftershocks shake Alaska after back-to-back earthquakes Posted: 01 Dec 2018 01:55 PM PST  Aftershocks on Saturday continued to fray nerves in Alaska. There have been 545 aftershocks, including the 5.7 magnitude shaker that came almost immediately after Friday's big quake measuring 7.0. Eleven have had magnitudes of 4.5 or greater.
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| Donald Trump, Xi Jinping Agree To Trade Truce At G-20 Summit Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:49 AM PST  U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have pressed pause
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| Explosives attack at US consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:21 PM PST  The US consulate in Mexico's second city, Guadalajara, was attacked with explosives hours before a visit to the country by Vice President Mike Pence and first daughter Ivanka Trump, authorities said Saturday. "The investigation has been handed over to federal authorities, who will give information on developments in due time," the prosecutor's office for the western state of Jalisco, where Guadalajara is located, said on Twitter. The attack ocurred just before Pence and President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka flew into Mexico City on Saturday morning at the head of a high-level US delegation attending the inauguration of Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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| Number of missing in California's deadliest wildfire drops to 25 Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:31 PM PST  The death toll from the Camp Fire that all but obliterated the mountain town community of Paradise in northern California stood unchanged at 88, the Butte County Sheriff Department said late on Saturday in a statement. The roster of those unaccounted for has fluctuated widely since the fire erupted on Nov. 8 and swept through Paradise, a town once home to almost 27,000 people about 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco. On Wednesday, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said search and recovery teams had finished going through the ruins of some 18,000 homes and other buildings that were incinerated.
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| Mattis reveals Russian government attempted to interfere in U.S. midterm elections Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:12 PM PST  Defense Secretary James Mattis revealed that the Russian government attempted to interfere in the U.S. midterm elections last month during remarks at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, CA.
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| Researchers say ancient ring may bear Pontius Pilate name Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:12 AM PST  Israeli researchers say an inscription on an ancient ring discovered near Jerusalem may include the name of Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who Biblical accounts say sentenced Jesus to death. It would be a rare example still in existence of an inscription with the name of the man believed to have sent Jesus to his crucifixion. The researchers recently announced their analysis of the inscription on the ring -- which was actually found some 50 years ago -- in Israel Exploration Journal.
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| PHOTOS: Violent riots in Paris after 2 weeks of nationwide protests over rising taxes Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:32 PM PST  Rioters ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, clashing with police in the worst unrest in more than a decade, posing a dire challenge to Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
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| 15 Items To Shop Now During Lord & Taylor’s Friends & Family Sale Posted: 01 Dec 2018 09:05 PM PST  To keep the shopping momentum going strong Lord & Taylor is having one of its
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| George H.W. Bush on Death, the After Life and Almost Dying in World War II Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:21 PM PST  He said he'd see his wife, Barbara, in heaven
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| Man drops engagement ring down drain moments after proposing in New York's Times Square Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:15 AM PST  Police in New York City are searching for a man and woman who lost an engagement ring down a drain during a proposal that took a disastrous turn. The couple's engagement was caught on camera after the man got down on one knee in Times Square on Friday evening. According to the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the woman said yes.
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| Israel police recommend indicting Netanyahu in third graft probe Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:56 AM PST  Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara for bribery and other offences, the third such move against the premier in recent months. Netanyahu immediately rejected the accusations, but the cases against him have led to speculation that they could eventually force the long-serving prime minister to step down. The head of the opposition Labour party, Avi Gabbay, renewed his call for Netanyahu to resign.
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| Saudi Crown Prince to visit Algeria after G20 summit Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:02 PM PST  Before the G20 summit the heir to the throne of the world's top oil exporter visited the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Tunisia. It is his first trip abroad since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has strained Saudi Arabia's ties with the West and battered the prince's image abroad. Saudi Arabia has said the prince had no prior knowledge ofthe murder.
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| Big Brussels climate march marks COP24 start Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:44 AM PST  Tens of thousands of marchers took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to mark the start of the UN climate summit in Poland. Speaking through a blow-horn, activist Evert Nicolai of Oxfam Action urged leaders to do what was needed towards fighting climate change. The march, dubbed Claim The Climate, ended with speeches and performances at the Parc Cinquantenaire that overlooks the European Union institutions.
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| Dozens arrested after 'yellow vests' clash with police in Paris Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:39 AM PST  More than 65 people were injured and almost 170 people arrested in central Paris on Saturday after violent clashes between police and "yellow vest" protesters, in a third weekend of nationwide demonstrations against high living costs. Police fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon in battles with protesters around the Arc de Triomphe near the Champs-Elysees avenue and clashes were reported elsewhere across the city centre as well as in other towns across the country. Police said they had arrested 169 people and some are concerned that violent far-right and far-left groups were infiltrating the "gilets jaunes" (yellow vests) movement, a spontaneous grassroots rebellion against the struggle many French face to make ends meet. For three weeks, protesters have blocked roads across France, posing one of the largest and most sustained challenges Emmanuel Macron has faced in his 18-month-old presidency. Thousands of anti-government protesters are expected today on the Champs-Elysees in Paris Credit: AFP Sixty-five people, including 11 members of the security forces, have been injured in the capital, Paris police said. "We are attached to dialogue, but also respect for the law," Edouard Philippe told reporters. "I am shocked by the attacks on the symbols of France." The skirmishes in Paris broke out early on Saturday, with rioters and peaceful protesters mixed together after authorities cordoned off the Champs-Elysees, forcing them into adjacent streets. Demonstrators put up barricades in the surrounding areas, smashed some car windows and set alight dozens of vehicles, including a police car. A restaurant in the vicinity was also set ablaze. Several hundred yellow vests, who have no leader and have largely organised themselves online, sat down around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, singing La Marseillaise, France's national anthem, and chanting, "Macron Resign!" A demonstrator waves a French national flag during a protest of Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and living costs in front of the Arc of Triomphe Credit: AFP On the facade of the towering 19th-century arch, protesters scrawled in big black letters: "The yellow vests will triumph." Some protesters were later seen on top of the arch. Clashes also took place in other cities and towns including Nantes in the west, Toulouse and Tarbes in the southwest, Puy-en-Velay in the centre of the country, Charleville Mezieres in the northeast and Avignon in the southeast. Along the Champs-Elysees, which was cordoned off, peaceful protesters held up a slogan reading, "Macron, stop treating us like idiots!" The president, who is at the G20 leaders summit in Argentina, said on Tuesday he understood the anger felt by voters outside France's big cities over the squeeze that fuel prices have put on households, but insisted he would not be bounced into changing policy by "thugs". The slogan "The yellow vests will triumph" is seen on the Arc de Triomphe as protesters demonstrate at the Place de l'Etoile in Paris Credit: Reuters Philippe said there were 5,500 protesters in Paris and a combined 36,000 elsewhere in France. Police unions reported 582 road blockages. Some of the protesters expressed concern over the clashes. "What message do the yellow vests want to pass today? That we set France on fire, or find solutions? I find this (violence) absurd," Jacline Mouraud, a prominent activist within the yellow vests movement, told BFM television. But assistant teacher Sandrine Lemoussu, 45, who came from Burgundy to protest, told Reuters that people had had enough. "The people are in revolt," she said. "The anger is rising more and more, and the president despises the French. We aren't here to smash things, but the people have had enough." France's prime minister said 36,000 people were protesting across the country, including 5,500 in the capital for this third nationwide day of demonstration Credit: AFP One retiree protester said: "The government is not listening. Revolution cannot happen without violence." Many on the outskirts of smaller provincial towns and villages have expressed anger, underlining the gap between metropolitan elites and working class voters that has boosted anti-establishment politics across the Western world. "Mr Macron wrote a book called Revolution. He was prophetic because it is what he has managed to launch, but not the revolution he sought," Far-left La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Melenchon told reporters ahead of a protest in Marseille. The yellow vests, who enjoy widespread public support, get their name from the high-visibility jackets all motorists in France must carry in their vehicles. The protests have caught Macron off-guard just as he was trying to counter a fall in his popularity rating to 30 percent. His unyielding response has exposed him to charges of being out of touch with ordinary people.
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| En el G20 de Buenos Aires comparan al Primer Ministro de India con Apu Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:13 PM PST  Una televisora de noticias en Argentina enfrento una reaccion violenta despues
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| Bill Clinton Remembers His Unlikely Friendship With George H.W. Bush in an Emotional Op-Ed Posted: 01 Dec 2018 09:53 AM PST  "I cherished every opportunity I had to learn and laugh with him. I just loved him"
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| Michelle Obama Shades Donald Trump While Talking About White House Morals Posted: 30 Nov 2018 11:32 PM PST  Former first lady Michelle Obama noted the important role that morals played
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| Murdered British radio host laid to rest in Lebanon Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:27 AM PST  British radio presenter Gavin Ford was laid to rest Sunday near Beirut in a ceremony that brought together dozens of fans, friends and family members days after his murder. Ford's lifeless body was discovered Tuesday at his home in Beit Meri, a mountain town east of the capital where his employer Radio One is also based. Ford had worked since the 1990s at the station, where hosted one of Lebanon's most popular shows.
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| Caravan migrants in Mexico fill new border shelter after rains force exodus Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:00 PM PST  Earlier in the day, streams of migrants laden with heavy backpacks, tents and blankets, much of it soaking wet, loaded buses leaving their original migrants shelter within sight of the border. For those among the at least 6,000 migrants who have descended upon the Mexican border city of Tijuana, just south of San Diego on the U.S. side, the move to a former outdoor concert venue after torrential rains a day earlier reduced the old shelter to a muddy, smelly mess was a welcome relief. "Here it's better," said Victor Manuel Argeta.
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| Is America's Harpoon Missile Hopelessly Obsolete? Posted: 02 Dec 2018 02:00 AM PST  Washington should fight smarter not harder.
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| Viral Tide: How Russia became the new frontline in the war on HIV/AIDS Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:00 PM PST  In February this year, Oksana Bobok woke up in a Yekaterinburg hospital to be told her unborn child had been aborted. "I'd been in a coma for a month and a half. It was save me, or save the child. They chose to save me," she said. It was the bitter culmination of an advanced HIV-related infection the 34-year-old former heroin addict had unwittingly been living with for most of adult life. Now wheelchair bound and partially paralysed, Ms Bobok's calamitous fall from health is made all the more tragic by the fact it could have been prevented. It is more than 30 years since HIV/Aids was recognised as a global crisis and, despite a total total death toll of 35.5 million, the response has in many ways been a triumph. Across the world, advances in testing, treatment and, perhaps most important of all, understanding have made HIV a wholly manageable condition. Sex education and safe sex have slashed infection rates, while rapid testing and new antiretrovirals mean those living with HIV can lead full and healthy lives. According to the United Nations, Aids related deaths have fallen 51 percent since their peak in 2004, new HIV infections per year are down 16 percent since 2010, and a record 75 percent of infected people now know their status, with and an estimated 59 percent receiving life saving antiretrovirals. But there is one anomaly - Russia and its former Eastern bloc satellites. Aids deaths in the region have climbed by 38 percent in the past ten years - almost as much as they have fallen elsewhere - and more than half of those with HIV only discover the infection once they develop Aids, according to the latest WHO report. Russia, by far the largest country in the region, now has around a million people thought to be living with HIV. "It's the one region in the world where the rate of new infections is still growing," said Vinay Saldanha, the Moscow-based head of UNAIDS for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. "This is the frontline... What happens here and what governments do in the next two years will determine whether we can actually get the global HIV epidemic [back] on track." Ms Bobok and her husband Piotr, who is also HIV positive Like so many of the problems facing modern Russia, Ms Bobok's tragedy and the HIV crisis are enmeshed with the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet collapse. The first HIV case in Russia was only reported in 1987 - well into the Aids scare sweeping the West, and a year after Margaret Thatcher's government had authorised a hard-hitting publicity campaign to tackle what was already an epidemic in Britain. Russian infection rates grew slowly - until a flood of heroin hit the country following the Soviet collapse as drug traffickers entered a previously untapped market. In around 1996, doctors began to see HIV cases among drug users. And the subsequent needle-borne epidemic ripped through Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet states with frightening speed. Today, experts say 80 percent of infections can be found in just 20 of Russia's 85 regions - the same relatively rich, industrially developed areas that were hit hardest by the heroin glut two decades ago. But it is not just needle sharing that is spreading HIV in Russia today, with most infections now caused by heterosexual sex, and affecting everyone from urban youth to rural pensioners. In terms of sheer numbers, Russia's epidemic is minuscule compared to the catastrophe in southern and eastern Africa. Denying the virus | Who are Russia's 'HIV Dissidents'? But combined with a conservative government reluctant to embrace basic preventative measures such as sex education in schools, and a subculture of so called "HIV dissidents" who variously hold that HIV is a US plot, a conspiracy by big pharma, or nothing to worry about, it has become one of the fastest growing epidemics in the world. "So HIV came on the back of the heroin epidemic. And then from the vulnerable groups the virus spread into the general population, first via needles, then via sex", says Aleksandar Chebin, a project manager at New Life, a charity in Yekaterinburg founded and run by HIV positive volunteers. "Now it is well adjusted, ordinary people who have a family and a job - they are now the main group where infection is detected. "Go and have a look at yourself in the mirror - that's what the risk group looks like." Nika Ivanova's daughter - Nika contracted HIV at a young age from a boyfriend Nika Ivanova was an early casualty. Then 17 years old, she had been dating an older boyfriend for six months when a routine visit to the gynaecologist resulted in an HIV diagnosis in the early 2000s. Her boyfriend, it turned out, had once been an intravenous drugs user. "I don't blame him, because he didn't know," she says. "He was a just a young man who had experimented with things. "If only I knew about contraception… I was 17 at the time. No one talked to me at home. No one talked about sex, full stop, and especially not about HIV." Now 34, Ms Ivanova is a professional psychologist living a typical Moscow middle class life - she is proof that with modern retroviral treatment, HIV need not be a death sentence. Nika Ivanova and her daughter - Nika contracted HIV at a young age from a boyfriend Unfortunately, many in Russia are not so lucky. Although the state officially distributes anti-retroviral drugs to HIV positive patients for free, in practice only about 380,000 of the roughly one million infected Russians are receiving therapy, according to statistics compiled by the country's Federal HIV centre. "About 60 per cent of people are not getting therapy, and that's why people are still getting Aids," said Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of the centre. The problem, he says, is money. He estimates it would take a tripling of annual HIV spending to about $1.3 billion (£1 billion) in order to make up the difference. Ms Bobok, now a wheelchair user, is one of those for whom anti-retroviral treatment is far from secure. Born in eastern Ukraine and raised in a downtrodden part of Russia's Urals, she got into drugs at an early age, contracted HIV via needle sharing, and only found out months later when she landed in prison, age 19. In prison she received antiretrovirals to suppress the virus. But because she only ever held an old Soviet passport, when she was released in 2015 she was classed as a stateless person and struggled to access the state-supplied medication available to Russian citizens. In less than three years, she developed Aids. "She was pregnant for the second time, and they had stopped issuing pills for her as soon as she gave birth last time, " said her husband Pytor, who is also HIV positive. "Her immune system became really weak, and when she was put on life support, the doctor said that her HIV had progressed into Aids because she had not been getting treatment," he added. The couple's first child died after being born prematurely. Russia's ministry of health says a major "test and treat" campaign has seen Aids deaths begin to stabilise and the rate of new infections begin to slow in the past two years. About 30 million Russians, or 30 percent of the population, were tested last year. It has also unveiled a new national strategy for fighting the spread of the disease. Drafted by the country's top HIV doctors, it includes provision for harm reduction measures such as needle exchange programs, and has been welcomed by the UN as a major step forward. But the most fundamental challenge remains political. Ideas such as needle exchange programs, methadone substitution, and sex education in schools have set alarm bells ringing among the Kremlin's conservative base. "We're not prudes - we're opposed to this because there is a big question mark about whether it really works," said Zhanna Tachmamedova, a spokeswoman for the All Russian Parents Resistance, a pressure group that has successfully lobbied for the closure of HIV education programmes in schools in several parts of the country. Oksana Babok and senior foreign correspondent Roland Oliphant in Russia Russian school children have not had any sex education since 1997. Ms Tachmamedova, a St Petersburg-based child psychologist, argues introducing it would be counterproductive. Teach teenagers about sex, she worries, and the rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancies will increase. Such attitudes dismay educators worried about about the risks teenagers face. "Statistics show that you have less infections, less premature pregnancies, fewer underage abortions, where there is sex education," said Daria Rakhmaninova, a Moscow high school teacher who has launched voluntary seminars for parents and families interested in sex education outside school. There is one part of the country where progressive policies have been tried - with startling success. St Petersburg is the first major Russian city to see a consistent decline in rates of new infections. In 2017, there were about 1750 new diagnoses in the city, down from nearly 2200 in 2015 - a fall of 20 percent in two years. It is a remarkable achievement, which experts put down to the way the city government has harnessed the help of NGOs, businesses and HIV-positive citizens to deliver the WHO's recommended 'test and treat' strategy as well as other harm reduction initiatives like condom and syringe distribution. This month, the Federal Ministry of Health gave the St Petersburg HIV Centre a prize for the best public awareness campaign. And there are signs that other regions may follow suit. Alexander Vysokinsky, the mayor of Yekaterinburg, this month announced the industrial megapolis would be the first Russian city to sign up the UN's Paris declaration - a pledge to get the HIV crisis under control by 2020. It is a hopeful sign, says Ms Ivanova, as she watches her daughter on the playground outside her Moscow apartment block. "The worst thing about this epidemic is that it is not just an HIV epidemic. It is an epidemic of stigma," she said. 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| Arc de Triomphe: site of joy, pride and tear gas Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:26 AM PST  The image of the Arc de Triomphe, which pays homage to France's war dead, has appeared on television screens across the world through a cloud of tear gas, as violent protests erupted in Paris. The Arc is located in the 8th arrondissement in Paris on the Place de l'Etoile, at the top end of the famed Champs-Elysees avenue, lined today with high-end shops and restaurants. The final design is attributed to Jean Chalgrin.
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| Comey makes deal over House subpoena, backs off legal fight Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:12 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey has reached a deal to testify privately to the House Judiciary Committee, backing off his legal fight for an open hearing, his attorney said Sunday.
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| Angry Democrats look to settle score in Georgia after 'voter suppression denied Stacey Abrams victory' Posted: 02 Dec 2018 11:15 AM PST  On a day when it felt the rain would never stop, John Barrow was rallying his team for the final days of battle. In a campaign office 20 miles north-east of Atlanta, he was talking like a high school American football coach in the movies, urging his team to believe in themselves. Mr Barrow, a Democrat running to be Georgia's secretary of state, is desperate to win.
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| Trump Refuses To Say Whether He Regrets Attacking The Bush Family Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:31 PM PST  President Donald Trump refused to say whether he regretted any of his previous
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| Here's What's New on Amazon Prime in December 2018 Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:00 AM PST  Here are the TV shows and movies coming to Amazon Prime in December 2018, including The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 2 and Iron Man 2.
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| Planet Earth working on 3 Mars landers to follow InSight Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:38 AM PST  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As Mars' newest resident settles in, Planet Earth is working on three more landers and at least two orbiters to join the scientific Martian brigade.
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| Lopez Obrador: Mexico's new president is 'stubborn' leftist Posted: 01 Dec 2018 11:37 AM PST  Mexico City (AFP) - "Stubborn" is among the many insults that have been hurled at Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the anti-establishment leftist who became Mexico's new president on Saturday. It is the start of a political regime change," Lopez Obrador, 65, said in his inaugural address. The man widely known by his initials AMLO is one of the most divisive figures in Mexican politics: his critics hate him as fervently as his fans love him.
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| Fix Facebook, whether it wants to or not: whistleblower Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:06 PM PST  Eight months after revealing the links between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (CA), whistleblower Christopher Wylie is pushing for the internet giant to be regulated -- whether it wants to or not. "Facebook knew about what happened with Cambridge Analytica, well before the Trump election, well before Brexit, it did nothing about it," Wylie told AFP. Last March, Wylie revealed that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica took millions of Facebook users' data to build psychological profiles of users.
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| Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan Posted: 02 Dec 2018 06:26 AM PST ![Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan]( "Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan") KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least ten civilians were killed following an airstrike in the eastern Paktia province bordering Pakistan, Afghan officials said Sunday.
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| U.S. House race in limbo after North Carolina voter fraud claims Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:27 PM PST  North Carolina's board of elections declined to certify Republican Mark Harris' apparent victory in a U.S. House of Representatives race.
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| US and China agree to pause trade war after G20 meeting between Trump and Xi Jinping Posted: 02 Dec 2018 02:28 AM PST  Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed to pause a long-running trade war between the US and China, in a deal that will provide relief to global markets. As part of the deal, Mr Trump agreed to pause plans to raise tariffs on $200bn-worth of Chinese goods. China, in response, will buy a "not yet agreed upon, but very substantial amount" of agricultural, energy and industrial goods from the US, according to the White House.
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| What To Watch On Netflix That’s New This Week Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:39 AM PST  Streamline recommends "F is for Family" as the thing to watch on Netflix this
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| George HW Bush dead at 94: Funeral plans, legacy and a look back at President George H.W. Bush's life Posted: 02 Dec 2018 03:08 PM PST  George H.W. Bush has died at the age of 94. He is remembered as a World War II hero whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait.
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| Royal Mail delivers: Postman, can you take this to heaven? Posted: 01 Dec 2018 06:18 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — A 7-year-old Scottish boy who sent a birthday card to his father in heaven has received a heart-warming reply.
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| Friend or foe? Russians divided over Bush legacy Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:55 AM PST  Many Russians praised the late US president George H.W. Bush on Saturday for helping end the Cold War but some argued he helped trigger the collapse of the USSR and misled Moscow on NATO's expansion plans. The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was among those saluting the 41st US president for ending the arms race but Moscow's simultaneous fall from superpower status remains a source of festering resentment in Russia. Bush and Gorbachev declared the end of the Cold War at a historic summit in December, 1989, only weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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| Migrants at Mexico border face an uncertain future on their own Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  Migrants wait for a chance to request US asylum, alongside the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico. Authorities in Tijuana have started to relocate more than 6,000 Central Americans to a new shelter, after the rundown sports centre where they have been camped out for more than two weeks descended into squalor. Torrential rains this week have compounded the migrants' misery, flooding the crowded sports complex where they sleep shoulder-to-shoulder in tents and shelters made from cardboard, garbage bags and blankets.
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| Alarm sounded, nations urged to act at UN climate talks Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:36 PM PST  With the direst warnings yet of impending environmental disaster still ringing in their ears, representatives from nearly 200 nations gather Sunday in Poland to firm up their plan to prevent catastrophic climate change. The UN climate summit comes at a crucial juncture in mankind's response to planetary warming. The smaller, poorer nations that will bare its devastating brunt are pushing for richer states to make good on the promises they made in the 2015 Paris agreement.
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| UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria Posted: 01 Dec 2018 06:01 AM PST ![UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria]( "UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria") BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen opened fire at the convoy of a joint humanitarian assessment mission in eastern Syria, the United Nations said Saturday, wounding a local driver in one of the country's most remote areas where fighting against Islamic State militants has displaced thousands.
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| Why the Marine Corps and Navy Will Miss the EA-6B Prowler Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST  The end of an era.
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| Trump wants Kim to know he likes him and will fulfill his wishes, South Korean leader says Posted: 02 Dec 2018 02:39 PM PST  Moon, who is hoping to host Kim soon on the first ever trip to Seoul by a North Korean leader as agreed earlier this year, said Trump had asked him to pass on a message. "The message is that President Trump has very favorable views toward Chairman Kim and he likes him," Moon told reporters aboard a flight from Argentina to New Zealand, where he started a three-day state visit on Sunday. "As such, he asked me to tell Chairman Kim that he wants to implement the rest of their agreement together and he will fulfill Chairman Kim's wishes." Trump, who met Kim in Singapore in June, said on Saturday that he is likely to meet the North Korean leader for a second time in January or February, with three sites for their meeting under consideration.
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| Michelle Obama tells Meghan Markle: 'Don't be in a hurry' to launch ambitious projects Posted: 02 Dec 2018 04:01 PM PST  It is surprisingly prescient advice given the slew of recent allegations made about the Duchess of Sussex's forthright demeanor and demands. And if there is any truth in the anecdotes that have been tumbling forth from behind palace walls detailing "ghastly" rows with her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge, temper tantrums over tiara choices and staff reduced to tears, she may well take note. Michelle Obama, the former American First Lady and a long-term friend of her husband, the Duke of Sussex, has suggested that the Duchess take her foot off the gas, slow down and remember she is in it for the long haul. Asked if she had any advice for the newlywed royal, Mrs Obama drew on her own experience of having every move subjected to public scrutiny. "Like me, Meghan probably never dreamt that she'd have a life like this, and the pressure you feel – from yourself and from others – can sometimes feel like a lot," she told Good Housekeeping magazine. "So my biggest pieces of advice would be to take some time and don't be in a hurry to do anything. I spent the first few months in the White House mainly worrying about my daughters, making sure they were off to a good start at school and making new friends before I launched into any more ambitious work. Michelle Obama Credit: Good Housekeeping "I think it's okay – it's good, even – to do that…. What I'd say is that there's so much opportunity to do good with a platform like that – and I think Meghan can maximise her impact for others, as well her own happiness, if she's doing something that resonates with her personally." Mrs Obama is in the UK today on a whistlestop tour to promote her new memoir, Becoming, and will meet children at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington before speaking at the Royal Festival Hall, London. She and her husband enjoy such a close relationship with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that they were rumoured to be joining the royal couple for a dinner hosted by George and Amal Clooney at their riverside mansion in Berkshire on Tuesday night. But Palace sources suggested that tales of the star-studded dinner party were wide of the mark. And Mrs Obama announced on Sunday that she was cutting short her European tour in order to return to the US for the funeral of former President George HW Bush on Wednesday. Michelle Obama chats to Prince Harry at a Wounded Warriors wheelchair basketball game in 2015 Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Mrs Obama admits in the interview how she struggled to keep up with life in the White House. "Thankfully I get more (and more regular) sleep these days," she said. "But it probably won't come as a surprise to anyone that sometimes it was a real challenge to keep up with the pace." She said she, her husband and daughters, Sasha, 17, and Malia, 20, had a wonderful life in the White House but added that she was grateful they all "came out of those eight years in one piece". Mrs Obama ruffled feathers at an event on Saturday in Brooklyn when she claimed that a prominent piece of feminist self-help championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, was "s---" that "doesn't work." She told the sold-out crowd that women cannot experience equality in both their professional and personal lives "at the same time," calling the idea a "lie" and arguing that "marriage still ain't equal, y'all." She added: "And it's not always enough to 'lean in', because that s--- doesn't work all the time" before quickly adding: "I forgot where I was for a moment." Sandberg promoted the "lean in" concept in her 2013 book, "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead," which urges women to be more proactive at seizing career opportunities. Mrs Obama admitted that she thought in many ways, things were harder for young women today but said that they were not held back by "societal belief that girls and boys can't do the same thing" as her generation was. "They're charging forwards in sports and maths and science and technology," she told Good Housekeeping. "They're speaking up and speaking out, not just in classrooms but in the public arena at a young age. I find great hope in this generation of young women." The full interview appears in the January issue of Good Housekeeping, on sale December 3
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| 'I will never accept violence,' Macron says after Paris protests Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:02 PM PST  French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday denounced protesters against him as chaos-seekers, as the growing demonstrations first triggered by planned fuel price hikes turned violent. "I will never accept violence," Macron told a news conference at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires amid the massive "yellow vest" demonstrations. Macron has tried to focus in Buenos Aires on global affairs, seeking to lead like-minded countries in taking action on challenges such as climate change in the face of resistance from US President Donald Trump.
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