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12 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/us/un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-speech/index.html">UN chief cites new world dangers as he pushes for peace</a>
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19 The world's top diplomat was undiplomatic in warning United Nations countries they are failing to end conflicts, cooperate for peace, and generally acting badly. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in a rare news conference Tuesday, was blunt in his global perspective. Guterres said he is "sounding an alarm about protracted conflicts and the spread of terrorism." He told reporters, "We face a Gordian knot in the Middle East and potential nuclear catastrophe on the Korean Peninsula." The former Portugese Prime Minister had a long list of laments. He said, "Climate change is moving faster than we are. Inequality and nationalism are on the rise, while trust and solidarity are on the decline." Guterres said the world needs "bold leadership, less hatred and more dialogue and deeper international cooperation." Guterres had already issued what he called a "red alert" to the world at the start of the year. At the UN news conference, he added that, "We must recognize the many ways in which the international community is failing and falling short." Guterres revealed directly to UN countries his criticism before the news conference. At a briefing for the 193 UN member countries, Guterres noted he took office a year ago calling for 2017 to be a year of peace. "One year later, we must recognize that peace remains elusive. In fundamental ways the world has gone in reverse. Conflicts have deepened and new dangers have emerged." Guterres confirmed he will go to the Winter Olympics in South Korea, a sporting occasion that some still believe is an event that helps bring countries together. North Korea is planning to send a delegation. Guterres said, "I hope the Olympic spirit of friendship among nations will spread across the region and beyond." However, Guterres, while praising the renewed dialogue between North and South Korea, said it's a good symbol but the world should not forget the big problem is not resolved. "It is very important that we have these conversations between these two Koreas. It's very important that we have these Olympic Games, but let's not forget that the central problem is yet to be solved and let's make sure that the international community commits strongly to that." The UN leader expressed openness to personally getting involved in a Korean dialogue but would need to be asked to participate. He said, "I believe war is avoidable," but he worries that peace is not guaranteed. Guterres expressed concern about the US plan to withhold $65 million for the United Nations' Palestinian refugee assistance agency, which was announced an hour after Guterres' news conference. "In UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency) I am very concerned. And I strongly hope that in the end that it will be possible for the United States to maintain the funding of UNRWA, in which the US has a very important share," he said. Guterres has had to walk a tightrope in dealing with the Trump administration, which wants a leaner, more productive UN that also costs less for American taxpayers. The United States is by far the largest financial contributor to the UN budget and peacekeeping budget. Guterres declined to comment on President Trump's reported "s-hole" insult to describe countries in Africa and elsewhere and their potential immigrants to the United States. He noted Trump has denied making the remark. Guterres stressed the need to respect migrants around the world. Reflecting on what is facing the United Nations and himself, Guterres told the UN members Tuesday morning, "We need greater unity and courage, unity and courage to meet today's most urgent needs, to ease the fears of the people we serve and set the world on track towards a better future."
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42 Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon & Michael Peña star in '12 Strong,' based on the true story of the first U.S. attack on the Taliban after 9/11.
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58 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/europe/uae-seeks-probe-into-alleged-qatari-airspace-violations-intl/index.html">UAE seeks probe into alleged Qatari airspace violations</a>
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65 The United Arab Emirates has asked the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to investigate its claim that Qatari fighter jets intercepted two civilian aircraft on their way to Bahrain. The alleged interceptions were "a deliberate hostile act against civilian aircraft carriers," Ismaeil Mohammed Al Blooshi, assistant director general of the UAE's civil aviation authority, told CNN. As the planes were descending, Al Blooshi said they were told by Bahrain air traffic control an unknown aircraft was flying near them. They were then told to reverse course and to hold steady to avoid a collision, he said. One of the pilots of the Emirati carriers saw the Qatari fighter jet, Al Blooshi said. It had turned off its transponder, suggesting it wanted to remain unidentified, he claimed. The UAE would provide proof to the ICAO, the United Nations body responsible for civil aviation, Al Blooshi said. Qatar's Foreign Ministry on Monday denied that its jets had intercepted the planes. One plane belonged to Emirates airline and had taken off from Dubai, according to Bahrain authorities. It is unclear which airline the second aircraft belonged to or whether it landed in Bahrain as planned. The UAE's allegations follow last week's complaint by Qatar to the UN Security Council that a UAE fighter jet had entered its airspace on December 21. The tit-for-tat accusations over airspace violations represent an elevation of hostilities between Qatar and its neighbors that began last June when Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, cut diplomatic, trade and travel ties with Doha, accusing it of supporting terrorism. Qatar strongly denies the charge. The animosities between Qatar and the four Arab nations could affect international travel. The UAE's Dubai airport is the third busiest in the world, according to the Airports Council International.
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81 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/europe/kosovo-serb-politician-oliver-ivanovic-shot-dead-intl/index.html">Leading Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic shot dead outside office</a>
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88 A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, was shot dead outside his party offices Tuesday morning, halting talks between Kosovar and Serb delegates that had been set to resume that day. Ivanovic was shot at least five times outside his office in the Serb-run Kosovar city of Mitrovica, doctors told Serbian State TV RTS. Emergency services were notified of the attack at 8.17 a.m (2.17 a.m. ET). Ivanovic was transferred to hospital and resuscitated for 45 minutes before doctors confirmed him dead at 9.15 a.m (3.15 a.m. ET). Ivanovic, the 64-year-old head of the Kosovo Serb Freedom, Democracy, Justice party was due to attend EU-mediated talks between delegates from Kosovo and Serbia in Brussels. The talks are aimed at normalizing relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia 10 years after the bloody conflict between Serb forces and Kosovar-Albanian rebels. Serbia does not recognize Kosovo as an independent country. However after Ivanovic's death, the Belgrade delegation left Brussels to return to Serbia, the Serbian government said in a statement. Regional Chief of Police for Northern Kosovo, Zeljko Bojic, said in a statement that at 9:15 a.m. a burned out Opel Astra vehicle was found, with special units conducting an investigation of the site. Serb President: 'An act of terror' Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic described the murder as "an act of terror" and vowed to find those responsible. "Serbia will take all necessary measures, and I promised the same to Oliver Ivanovic's wife, and we will find the killer or killers," Vucic said in a statement following an emergency meeting of the National Security Council. Vucic said that Serbia had made a request to EU and UN missions in Kosovo to participate in the investigation. Major test for Kosovo's rule of law The Head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo, Jan Braathu, said the murder was "profoundly distressing" and a "major test for the rule of law in Kosovo." "He (Ivanovic) was among the most prominent Kosovo Serb representatives for almost two decades," Braathu said. "He demonstrated relentless engagement for the benefit of his community and has been a valued interlocutor in Kosovo." "I have had the privilege of knowing him personally over the years and have always admired his intellect, composure, and commitment. To see that a politician can be murdered in cold blood in 2018 in Kosovo is a devastating thought." Ivanovic was facing a retrial for alleged war crimes against ethnic Albanians during the Kosovo war. The war between 1998 and 1999 led to thousands of deaths and the displacement of nearly 90% of Kosovo's population. This story has been updated to clarify the details around Ivanovic's death.
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111 Oscar Perez, a Venezuelan police pilot accused of stealing a helicopter and using it to attack the country's Supreme Court in June, was killed Monday in Caracas, a government official told CNN. The high-ranking member of the Venezuelan government asked to remain anonymous. CNN has not been able to independently confirm Perez's death. But, in a Monday speech to lawmakers, President Nicolas Maduro described an operation to hunt down the "terrorist group that attacked the Supreme Court." Maduro said the targeted group was preparing a car bomb attack against the embassy of an unnamed country. As a result of the operation, part of the terrorist group "fell down" and five people were arrested, he said, without detailing how many died or who they were. Two officers were killed in the siege, he said. "Everyone who embarks on the path of terrorism and takes up arms against the republic -- against the people -- will get their response in due time from our armed forces and from our police forces. They should not doubt that," he said. According to a statement from the country's Interior Ministry, heavily armed men from a "terrorist cell" opened fire on police and attempted to detonate a vehicle full of explosives, state broadcaster VTV reported. The Interior Ministry said two officers were killed and five injured, and five people from the "terrorist cell" were arrested, VTV reported. Authorities have not released the names of those killed or captured. The encounter took place in the western Caracas neighborhood of El Junquito. Earlier Monday, Perez posted videos on social media saying his group was under attack. In the video, Perez holds a rifle and speaks to the camera with what appears to be blood on his face. "We are not shooting and they keep attacking us," Perez says. "We are trying to negotiate because there are innocent people here, there are civilians ... they literally want to kill us." Perez, an officer in the country's investigative police force, is known for leading a helicopter attack against the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court in June. The helicopter circled the city as Perez and his group, Equilibrio Nacional (National Balance), attacked the buildings with grenades and gunfire. No one was injured. Perez disappeared after the incident and was declared a fugitive by President Nicolas Maduro's government. "It is better to go out and fight for a new future than to die kneeling to this regime," Perez said in an interview with CNN en Español that aired Friday.
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134 Tensions between Gulf neighbors Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) now appear to be playing out in the skies. The UAE said Qatari fighter jets intercepted two Emirati commercial aircraft bound for Bahrain on Monday, an allegation Qatar denies. The claim comes days after Qatar also accused UAE military jets of breaching its airspace, an allegation the UAE in turn denied. Emirates plane allegedly involved The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority called Monday's alleged Qatari interception "a flagrant and serious threat to the safety of civil aviation and a clear violation of international laws and conventions." The civilian aircraft, which were en route to Bahrain International Airport, had all the necessary permits for their journeys, added the Emirati aviation authority in a report on state-run news agency WAM. One of the aircraft was an Emirates airline plane, according to a statement issued by the Bahraini Foreign Ministry. According to flight tracking websites Flight Radar 24 and Flight Aware, the flight, Emirates 837, landed in Bahrain Monday morning around an hour after its scheduled arrival time. The sites also show the flight took off an hour late. CNN has reached out to Emirates for comment. It is unclear which airline the second aircraft belonged to or whether it landed in Bahrain as planned. Bahrain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the "hostile behavior by Qatar against civil aircrafts has become frequent in recent times" and "poses a threat to the lives of civilians." Qatar accuses UAE The spokesperson for Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lolwah Alkhater, denied the claims on her official Twitter account, saying they were "completely false." The alleged incident flare-up comes days after Qatar filed a report to the UN Security Council about UAE military jets allegedly violating Qatari airspace, the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. Qatar's UN Ambassador Alya Al Thani described the incidents as a "flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar, as well as a flagrant violation of the provisions of international law, conventions, charters and international norms," according to the statement. The UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, responded by condemning Qatar's complaints on his official Twitter page, calling the allegations "incorrect" and "confused." What's behind Middle East diplomatic freeze? The latest allegation of flight interceptions comes after a member of Qatar's royal family said Sunday he is being held against his will in the UAE, a claim disputed by the UAE government, which said he is free to move as he pleases. Qatari Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al Thani, the brother of Qatar's former ruler, said in a video on Twitter that he is "in a state of captivity" in Abu Dhabi. Read more: Qatar sheikh says UAE holding him 'in captivity' The UAE, along with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, cut diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar last year. They accused Qatar of funding terrorism, a charge it denies. Gulf neighbors have also criticized Qatar for an increasingly close relationship with Iran.
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157 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the US Monday of "building an army of terror" on Turkey's border with Syria, state-run news agency Anadolu reported. His comments came a day after the US publicly admitted it is supplying weapons and training to the Syrian Democratic Forces which include militia from the Kurdish YPG. YPG fighters, many of them women, have played a major role in flushing out ISIS from northern Syria, including from Raqqa. Turkey considers the YPG to be the Syrian arm of the PKK, an outlawed Kurdish group responsible for major terror attacks in the Turkey as part of its bid for national ethnic autonomy. The European Union and the US have both named the PKK as a terrorist outfit. "The US has admitted to building an army of terror along our national borders," Erdogan reportedly told workers of a new sodium factory in Ankara. "It is our responsibility to suffocate this effort before it is born." In his address at the opening of the Kazan Soda Electric Company, Erdogan also warned that the PKK will turn on its US sponsors at the drop of a hat. "The name of this army should be the traitors' army," Erdogan was reported as saying. "As soon as this 30,000 strong terrorist army comes under threat, they will be the first to turn their guns on the American soldiers." Coalition assisting to build Border Security Force Sunday, US Army Col. Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the anti-ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a statement that coalition forces were working with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to establish and train the new Syrian Border Security Force (BSF). "Currently, there are approximately 230 individuals training in the BSF's inaugural class, with the goal of a final force size of approximately 30,000," Dillon said. He added that the idea was to train these defense forces in areas close to their homes. "More Kurds will serve in the areas in northern Syria. More Arabs will serve in areas along the Euphrates River Valley and along the border with Iraq to the south," he said. The US began arming Syrian Kurds seven and a half months ago. Dillon said half of the planned 30,000 troops it will train were SDF veterans. "These individuals will bring much-needed experience and discipline to the young force," Dillon said. "To fill the other 15,000 positions, recruiting and training is underway. As previously mentioned, recruiting is being done in such a manner as to build a force reflecting the populations they serve." 'Do not stand between us and terrorists' Erdogan added in his Ankara speech that Turkey has already raised its concerns about the new border force with Washington and its allies. "What we have told all our allies and friends is this: do not stand between us and terrorists, between us and murderers, otherwise it may give rise to situations that are unwanted and we will not be responsible," he was reported as saying. "Take down the flags you fly on terrorist bases so that we do not have to hand them back to you. Remove your signage from terrorist uniforms so we do not have to bury them on the ground with the terrorists," he said.
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180 At least 27 people were killed Monday in a double suicide bombing in central Baghdad, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Health. In addition to those killed, about 100 people were wounded when two bombers detonated suicide vests at a square in the Iraqi capital, officials said. A large crowd of laborers usually gather at the square each morning searching for day jobs -- and the number of casualties is expected to rise. Monday marked the second deadly attack to hit the city in just three days. On Saturday, a suicide bomber attacked Aden Square in northern Baghdad, killing and wounding several people, according to security officials. Baghdad became a key target for attacks by ISIS fighters as the terror group gained swathes of territory in Iraq in 2014. But the city has experienced a period of relative calm for months. There has been no claim of responsibility for either attack -- which come a month after a declaration of victory over ISIS by the Iraqi government.
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203 At least 77 people were injured in Jakarta Monday when an internal walkway inside the Indonesian Stock Exchange collapsed suddenly, causing widespread damage to the building's main lobby area. CCTV footage circulated online captures the precise moment the mezzanine walkway gives way, sending at least a dozen people crashing into the lobby area below. Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said 77 people were being treated at four local hospitals, most with minor injuries. No fatalities were reported. The 32-story twin tower complex, located on the busy Jalan Sudirman road of the Indonesian capital, is among the city's best known landmarks and houses the regional headquarters of numerous international organizations including the World Bank. It was previously targeted by Islamist militants in a car bomb attack in 2000. But in a statement provided to reporters, a police spokesman ruled out the possibility of terrorism as a cause of Monday's collapse. "This is purely an accident. This is what foreigners call a freak accident. It happened unexpectedly," said Police Inspector General Setyo Wasisto. Valentina Simon, head of Institutional Relations at the exchange, told CNN the collapse happened at around 12:30 p.m. local time. She described the lobby as an open space where people would gather, and buy drinks and snacks from a coffee shop on the ground floor. Many of those injured were accountancy students from the island of Sumatra who had been visiting the exchange, according to reports by CNN Indonesia. A spokesman from Siloam hospital, where many of the students were being treated, said several of those injured were suffering from head and neck injuries, and doctors suspected some had bone fractures. A CNN Indonesia correspondent said after the collapse the stock exchange director was shouting at people through a loudspeaker to evacuate the building. Images on CNN Indonesia showed police cordoning off the area, and directing traffic and crowds from the site. Officials have yet to identify the cause of the collapse. Indonesia has been known to have relatively poor construction standards, and corruption sometimes means safety checks are not always thoroughly carried out. In a tweet, the Indonesian Exchange said trading would continue as normal "without significant change to the trading schedule." The head of communication for the stock exchange, Oskar Herliansyah, confirmed to CNN that trading would resume as usual Tuesday. Trading continued later Monday, with the composite index closed at 6,382.19, or 0.10 up.
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226 A member of Qatar's royal family said Sunday he is being held against his will in the United Arab Emirates, a claim disputed by the UAE government, which said he is free to move as he pleases. Qatari Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al Thani, the brother of Qatar's former ruler, said in a video on Twitter that he is "in a state of captivity" in Abu Dhabi. "They told me do not leave. I am worried that I am to be accused of something. I just want to inform you that if anything happened to me, Qatar is innocent and I am under the hospitality of Sheikh Mohammed and if anything were to happen to me, then it's on him," Al Thani said, referring to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi. Al Thani did not say where in Abu Dhabi he is. The state-run UAE news agency WAM quoted a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying Al Thani has had "unrestrained mobility and freedom of movement" during his stay. "Subsequently Sheikh Abdullah had expressed his desire to leave the UAE, following which all measures were taken to honor his desire without any reservations," the news agency reported. Qatar's government is observing the situation closely, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lulwa al-Khater told the state-run Qatar News Agency. The UAE, along with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, cut diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar last year. They accused Qatar of funding terrorism, a charge it denies. Gulf neighbors have also criticized Qatar for an increasingly close relationship with Iran. The source who spoke to the WAM news agency called Al Thani's statement a "fabrication of facts, which is symptomatic of the general trend in which the state of Qatar continues to fabricate lies and half-truths." Al Thani is seen by Gulf countries as having supported the Saudi and UAE positions toward Qatar. In October, Al Thani tweeted that Qatari authorities had frozen his assets and funds. He also wrote that he hoped Qatar would "expel opportunists and friends of interests and return to the Gulf embrace." Also in October, Saudi state media reported Al Thani visited Saudi Arabia and met with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and that he called on Qatari officials to meet to discuss the rift.
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249 I could tell something was wrong the moment my wife stepped into our hotel room. She had just left to pick up some food on our last morning in Hawaii when she came back way too early and with a frantic look on her face. "Did you hear about the ballistic missile alert?" I had just rolled out of bed and was brushing my teeth. I just stared at her. Then she told me that she had gotten an emergency alert on her phone that told everyone to seek shelter and a missile was on its way to the islands. "EMERGENCY ALERT: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." (8:07 a.m. PST) I checked my phone. I had not gotten the alert, but I immediately took to Twitter because that's where information gets shared the fastest. Those were the longest few minutes I can remember. There was a brief period when we couldn't confirm whether the alert was real. I kept scrolling through my feed, but only everyday civilians in Hawaii seemed to be saying anything and everyone was asking this same thing. "What is happening? Is this real?" Lacking any other credible information, we started to act as if a nuclear missile was heading straight toward us. An emergency alert banner scrolled across the television screen and it said to seek shelter and stay away from windows and doors. As my wife and I scanned social media, we turned the television to a kids' show in the hopes of shielding my seven-year-old son from news that death might rain down from the skies in a few minutes. I had not seen the cartoon before, and I remember thinking, "Is this really the last thing I want to see on television before I die?" Finally, after a relatively brief but still seemingly interminable amount of time, some unconfirmed reports of a false alarm started popping up. But not before they evacuated our hotel. I threw on some shoes and I remember this frozen moment where I debated about what to bring in case everything got destroyed. The only thing I picked up was my wedding ring. In the hallway, we ran into a trickle of people coming out their rooms. Most folks were not frantic, just confused and concerned. I don't have any prior experience with a ballistic missile threat, but they seemed pretty calm given the circumstances. I actually didn't evacuate. I stayed in the elevator lobby. More and more unconfirmed reports of a false alarm had started appearing, so I was increasingly convinced that we were not in danger. Even if we were, I figured the best place was indoors, not outside. Finally, 38 minutes after the initial alert, we got another message. EMERGENCY ALERT: THERE IS NO MISSILE THREAT OR DANGER TO THE STATE OF HAWAII. REPEAT. FALSE ALARM (8:45 a.m. PST) Hotel officials instructed everyone to go back to their rooms and that regular operations would resume shortly. "Sorry about the nuclear missile alarm. Nothing to see here. Everybody get back to having fun!" Now I'm just trying to let it all sink in. My wife is still dazed. My son was confused but back to watching cartoons. It was our last day here, so we finished packing and checked out of the room. The event is now a memory, but the feelings persist. As I reflect on the ballistic missile threat, I am mindful of those around the world who live under the specter of death on a daily basis. From civil wars, to drone attacks, to terrorism, some people endure this kind of stress daily and in much more threatening circumstances. What made this experience even more surreal, though, was enduring what we thought was a life-threatening moment along with thousands of other people. When countless people face the same morbid situation in an instant, there's a collective sense of shock and even support. Of course, I hugged my wife and reminded my child that I loved him. I think that's a common experience for a lot of people who contemplate their mortality and the fragility of life itself. Afterwards, my wife went out and got breakfast as planned. When she got back she said everyone was joking about not dying. Even on social media, the memes and gifs have already started to appear. A psychologist friend of mine calls this "trauma laughter." It's a way of coping with an immensely stressful situation by making light of it. Through all of the misinformation, bewilderment and anxiety of a ballistic missile threat, I am thankful for my Christian faith. Not that Christians want to die, but there's a comfort in knowing that Heaven awaits if you do. As I write this, officials are saying it was "human error." Someone pressed the wrong button. I'm going to need a better explanation than that. It sounds like officials are eager to make sure this never happens again, too, so I look forward to learning what exactly happened. The worst part is that these threats have real validity because of the president we now have. I'm not trying to make a political point, necessarily, but leadership matters. The immature messages the current commander in chief has sent to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made a ballistic missile attack on an American territory seem extremely likely. I hope our nation's citizens and lawmakers realize how quickly and devastatingly things can go wrong on an international scale and work to reduce the threat. Life is not perfect, but it can be good, and we can spend our days making it better for our loved ones and others.
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265 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/13/opinions/norway-says-no-thanks-to-trump-aurdal-opinion/index.html">Norwegian: No thank you, President Trump</a>
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272 Donald Trump wants America to have more immigrants from Norway in contrast to what he reportedly called "shithole countries" in Africa. Although we love to visit America, Mr. Trump, it is highly unlikely that Norwegians are going to flow into the US to live. As a citizen of Norway, I can tell you we're not flattered, but offended by the President's eagerness to have us emigrate. Even though Trump has denied making the particular comment, members of Congress who attended the meeting say that the reports are true. The offer has left Norwegians offended, not flattered. President Trump is judging immigrants by where they come from, and it is hard not to see this as a question of ethnicity. Norwegians have had a history of being positively discriminated for our race and have resisted those ideas before -- we will do it again. We like where we live. In fact, Norway is the happiest country in the world. We are that way because we live in an egalitarian society where we strive to give everyone good and equal opportunities -- regardless of ethnic, gender and social background. A century ago it was different. About 800,000 Norwegians migrated to the US, including my great-grandfather. We were a poor country, and the migrants were searching for opportunities and fit the phrase on the Statue of Liberty: They were our tired, our poor. America welcomed them, and they found what they were looking for. Today, Norway is one of the richest countries in the world, and we will not give up on our cradle-to-grave welfare. Our parental leave is a generous year, kindergarten is cheap, and our higher education is free. Health care is also free for every Norwegian citizen. Our society strives to be tolerant. Every political party promotes liberal values, gender-equality and human rights. The plumber´s son goes to school with the CEO´s daughter, and social mobility is high. Hence, our leaders have diverse backgrounds and anyone could meet the NATO secretary general skiing in the woods or our Prime Minister at the supermarket doing her own grocery shopping. So instead of trying to import our whiteness, the US President should try letting some of our ideals in. Also, immigrants have been and are shaping Norway. Our history is formed by migration, from the Vikings traveling the world to the German Hanseaten coming to Bergen, a city on the southwestern coast. Nearly 17% of our population is made up of immigrants or have immigrant parents. This includes Somalis, Eritreans, Iraqis, Syrians, Filipinos, and Pakistanis. This is not to say that Norway is perfect -- and Trump needs to understand this part too. Radical ideologies are rising throughout the Western hemisphere and Norway has not been immune. We have experienced right-wing terrorism with devastating consequences. Neo-Nazis are increasing, and at least 100 Norwegian Muslims have been radicalized and joined the Islamic state since 2012. The white American supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, praised the Scandinavian neo-Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement. It is a small, but increasingly visual group in our society. They promote despicable ideas that we condemn as a society. Our Prime Minister, who met with Trump earlier this week, does not say that there are "some very fine people" among the marching Nazis. She warns that they could rip our society apart. The key to fighting against such tendencies is integration and equality. Encouraging a society where we judge people as individuals, not for belonging to an ethnic or religious group, is crucial. These are the same ideals that Martin Luther King Jr. promoted, and that Donald Trump, bizarrely enough, praised in his first meeting with the press after the comments on "shithole countries" and Norway. The UN has condemned the President´s comments as racist, pointing that the reference to Norway makes the context clear. Favoring Norwegian immigrants over to those from another continent cannot be read as anything but judging people by their race. We are proud of our country, but not because we are white. The historical connotations are unpleasant; Norwegians have been praised for our "ethnic purity" before. We resisted Nazi Germany, and the America that we love helped fight those ideas. So, thanks, but no thanks for the offer, Mr. President.
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295 The African Union, a group representing the continent's countries, and African ambassadors to the United Nations, sharply denounced US President Donald Trump's reference to African nations as "shitholes" and called on him to retract his statement and apologize. "The African Union Mission wishes to express its infuriation, disappointment and outrage over the unfortunate comment made by Mr. Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, which remarks dishonor the celebrated American creed and respect for diversity and human dignity," the African Union mission to the United States said in a blistering statement. Condemning the comments "in the strongest terms," the AU demanded "a retraction of the comment as well as an apology, not only to the Africans, but to all people of African descent around the globe." African UN envoys issued a statement saying their group is "extremely appalled at, and strongly condemns the outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks attributed to the President of the United States of America." The envoys released a joint statement Friday after an emergency meeting was held to address the issue. The group "is concerned at the continuing and growing trend from the US administration towards Africa and people of African descent to denigrate the continent and people of color," it said. Making reference to Trump's reported derogatory comments about Haiti, ambassadors expressed solidarity with the people of Haiti "and others that have been similarly denigrated." They thanked "the American people from all walks of life and backgrounds who have condemned the remarks" and reaffirmed their commitment "to the values and principles of multilateralism, diversity and equality of nations." African anger about Trump's comments, made during a White House meeting on immigration, could impact US companies doing business in one of the world's fastest growing regions and complicate the Pentagon's counterterrorism efforts and security cooperation on the continent, diplomats and analysts said. It will certainly sour relations with this administration. "I don't think this will just blow over," said Peter Lewis, director of African Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. "I think it fundamentally poisons the relationship with numerous countries." According sources in the Oval Office meeting between Trump and lawmakers, the President referred to Africa, saying, "why do we want all these people from 'shithole countries' coming here?" Lewis said that Trump had undermined 25 years of African goodwill towards the US. "To essentially give the back of his hand to 49 countries south of the Sahara creates real problems in many ways," Lewis said. "To squander that goodwill certainly means many difficulties in terms of pursuing trade, in terms of doing business comfortably, in terms of counter terrorism, security cooperation," Lewis said. The US has about a little over 6,000 forces in Africa in about 53 different countries, where they focus on countering extremist groups and illicit activity, as well as peacekeeping, humanitarian aid and disaster response. Many of those troops are stationed at a US base in the East African country of Djibouti. The US military also carries out training and advisory missions in other African countries, with hundreds of troops performing that mission in Niger and Somalia. While those missions won't stop, "if people fundamentally don't trust you and like you, it's going to change the tone of the relationship," Lewis said. The African Union emphasized its "shock, dismay and outrage," and said it strongly believes that the Trump administration has a "huge misunderstanding of the African continent." As a result, the Mission said, "there is a serious need for dialogue" between the Trump administration and African countries.
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318 President Donald Trump's decision not to visit London next month to open the new US Embassy may be a relief to beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May. Trump declared the closure of the old US Embassy in the heart of London's swanky Mayfair district a bad move by his predecessor: "the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for 'peanuts,' only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!" If you ignore the fact that the decision was actually made by Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, it's not hard to see why Trump the businessman would say this: For a man whose life has been dedicated to profiting on property deals, the idea that the old 1960s concrete embassy in Grosvenor Square will make way for an upscale hotel that he doesn't own might feel particularly galling. His logic, however, provides some convenient political cover for what was expected to be a particularly troublesome visit. Police working in diplomatic protection whom I have talked to recently were already bracing themselves for extra duty -- long days and more overtime. Since he came to office a year ago, Trump has been stirring anger in the UK. May made sure she was the first world leader to visit him in Washington days after he took over at the White House. But before she got back to London, her efforts to shore up the "special relationship" between the two countries had already begun to backfire. The political cost of her closeness to Trump started with his travel ban for Muslim-majority nations. May was lambasted for not criticizing him fast enough or loudly enough. More than 1.8 million people signed a petition to stop Trump from meeting Queen Elizabeth II during a state visit that May announced while in Washington. The ink was barely dry on the invitation, and thousands gathered in angry anti-Trump protests in London. The relationship has gone further downhill since then, and May has been under increasing pressure to make her differences with Trump clear. He has added to the animus many Britons feel toward him by criticizing the UK's response to terror attacks last year. Not only did he insult London's popular Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, he also questioned the UK's counterterrorism agencies -- suggesting they are not doing enough. Khan responded to Trump canceling his UK visit with this statement: "It appears that President Trump got the message from the many Londoners who love and admire America and Americans but find his policies and actions the polar opposite of our city's values of inclusion, diversity and tolerance." Then in November, Trump responded to May's criticism of him for retweeting anti-Muslim videos from Jayda Fransen of the far-right British political group Britain First, telling her: "(Don't) focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom." Trump's behavior toward Britain is without precedent for a modern American leader and has made him an unpopular figure for many UK citizens. Refusing to open his own embassy in the country that historically is America's closest ally will not help repair any of the damage he has already done. If his disgust at Obama's apparent profligacy (again, not Obama) has a silver lining for him, it will be that he does not have to risk facing angry crowds and negative headlines during a visit that no amount of extra police could protect him from outpourings of negative public opinion. In the United States, Trump has a reputation for seeking out favorable crowds and is known to bristle and fight back against negative publicity. May would have likely struggled to find such a crowd -- and any attempts to placate the US leader would have piled further pressure on her. A disastrous election last summer, coupled with tortuous Brexit negotiations, has left her vulnerable. Yet Trump's decision to skip the embassy ribbon cutting may also have a double silver lining for May. It not only saves her the troublesome currents that accompany Trump these days, but it also denies her biggest political rivals a chance to ingratiate themselves with the US leader. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Agriculture Minister Michael Gove have spoken positively about the US President, with both men having sought him out for meetings or handshakes over the past year. These two are widely estimated to be scheming for the day they might replace May. In short, Trump may have just done May a huge favor.
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341 President Donald Trump threw Twitter, and members of Congress, into a tizzy Thursday morning when he tweeted a back-and-forth with himself about Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The reauthorization for 702 was up for a vote in the House just hours later -- it passed, and now goes to the Senate for consideration -- but the President's tweets arguably brought a little understood surveillance tool to the forefront of public discourse. At 7:33 a.m., @realDonaldTrump tweeted this: "'House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.' This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?" That tweet seemed to cast doubt on whether the President believed the controversial program should be reauthorized, despite the fact that, hours earlier, it appeared to have the votes. GOP leaders had spent weeks rounding up support and combating demands for changes from conservatives and libertarian lawmakers. The President also seemed to ignore the fact that only Section 702 was up for a vote, not the entire Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Nearly two hours later he attempted to course-correct. At 9:14 a.m., @realDonaldTrump seemed to try to clarify his stance via Twitter, saying: "With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today's vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it! Get smart!" Trump targets FISA provision up for renewal The subsequent tweet seemed to show a better grasp of what Section 702 permits. According to the explanation on the House Intelligence Committee's official website, Section 702 "authorizes the Intelligence Community to target the communications of non-US persons located outside the United States for foreign intelligence purposes." What exactly does that mean, and does 702 allow the surveillance of American citizens, even incidentally? Here are some of the answers, including analysis from Joshua Geltzer, the former senior director for counter-terrorism at the National Security Council and current executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center. What is FISA Section 702? It's just one part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The section specifically "allows the government to obtain the communications of foreigners outside the United States, including foreign terrorist threats," as laid out in the House Intelligence Committee FAQ sheet. For example, the program allows the government to obtain the emails or phone calls, without a warrant, of a non-American ISIS member who is outside the United States and might be plotting an attack. The committee FAQ points out that Section 702 does not allow the government to target the communications of any American, even if that American is a terrorist. In a fact sheet, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says there are strict guidelines on the use of 702, which "cannot be used to intentionally target any US citizen, or any other US person, or to intentionally target any person known to be in the United States. Section 702 cannot be used to target a person outside the United States if the purpose is to acquire information" from a person inside the United States. As House Speaker Paul Ryan said on the floor Thursday morning: "This is about foreign terrorists on foreign soil. That's what this is about, so let's clear up some of the confusion here." Geltzer emphasizes that 702 is a generalized directive from the FISA court that allows for collection from a certain foreign intelligence asset for a certain period of time, which makes it broader than a warrant. "The people targeted by 702 collection don't have constitutional protections that require a warrant anyway," Geltzer explained. But since they are using internet or phone providers with connections to the United States, investigators need some sort of authority to surveil them, which is how 702 came into play. When has it been used? Section 702 is billed as one of the most important legal authorities to stop terrorist attacks. FBI Director Christopher Wray said this week that "it is unbelievably valuable to the FBI because it gives us the agility that we need to stay ahead of today's rapidly changing threats." The House Intelligence Committee credits the authority with allowing the government to track, find and eliminate a top ISIS leader, Haji Iman, a process that unfolded over a two-year span in which the communications of Iman's close associates were collected. A plot to attack the New York subway system was foiled, in large part, because of the information collected via Section 702. In 2009, federal officials arrested Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan national living in Colorado, as he was en route to New York to carry out the subway bomb plot. Zazi was discovered, according to the criminal complaint, after he corresponded with an email address used by an al Qaeda courier in Pakistan. The emails sought advice on how to build explosives and were collected under a Section 702 warrant. Zazi eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring to detonate explosives in the United States. "Without the initial tip-off about Zazi and his plans, which came about by monitoring an overseas foreigner under Section 702, the subway bombing plot might have succeeded," according to an ODNI document describing several examples of the value of 702 data. The ODNI also cites information gathered through 702 as helping to identify a perpetrator of a 2016 New Year's Eve attack on an Istanbul nightclub, as well as helping to expose an ISIS recruiter from Trinidad and Tobago, along with his network. "It is extremely important," Geltzer agreed. "702 collection is very important, not just for counter-terrorism, but also for foreign intelligence reasons." Does this target US citizens? The short answer is no. FISA Section 702 is not bulk collection, as stressed by the House Intelligence FAQ, and it cannot be used to target Americans, nor anyone of any nationality who is within the United States. Geltzer put it simply when asked if Section 702 targets US citizens in any way: "Not only are they not allowed to be targets, but the statute explicitly bars back-door targeting." However, Americans' data may get picked up as part of incidental collection. That means that if an American is communicating with a foreign target, those communications could be collected. In addition, if federal authorities are already investigating a US person, they may cross-check that person's information against the 702 database. But Geltzer pushed back against the idea that this cross-check amounts to warrantless surveillance of Americans. He argued that since the information already has been collected under 702, there is no reason for authorities to obtain a warrant to review it. "We don't generally go to courts to ask them to give authority to search that which has already been lawfully obtained," Geltzer explained. Why do privacy advocates want to scale it back? What's referenced above is exactly what privacy advocates are worried about. The American Civil Liberties Union, among others, has expressed great concern about some of what it sees as loopholes in the law. In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee in October, the ACLU argued that Section 702 "permits the government to unconstitutionally collect Americans' international communications without a warrant." The ACLU seems to be referring to the fact that Americans may get incidentally picked up if they are communicating with foreign targets, or that the National Security Agency may use information in US intelligence holdings to search the databases of communications already lawfully acquired through Section 702. Geltzer and the House Intelligence Committee fact sheet both note that 702 data is lawfully collected and "not the initiation of new surveillance. ... It is simply intelligence agencies reviewing the data they have already collected." Is 'unmasking' related to all of this? Geltzer said, "The short answer is no," and explained that unmasking occurs when intelligence analysts are looking at intelligence reporting from any number of foreign intelligence collection sources, including Section 702, and they see a US person whose name has been redacted and the standard is met to reveal the name. Section 702 does not address the standards for unmasking, and unmasking may be authorized from any number of foreign intelligence collection methods. If Section 702 doesn't get reauthorized, what's at stake? Former FBI Director James Comey weighed in on the importance of Section 702 on Thursday morning, tweeting, "Thoughtful leaders on both sides of the aisle know FISA section 702 is a vital and carefully overseen tool to protect this country. This isn't about politics. Congress must reauthorize it." Geltzer put it this way: "I think the stakes are pretty high." If the generalized 702 collection were to disappear, he said, some collection might be made up from individualized FISA application. However, "702 was passed by Congress because in the modern world," he stressed, "target-by-target collection was unwieldy and impractical given the immediate nature of threats." The heads of the CIA, the ODNI, the FBI, the Justice Department and the NSA called the program "vital" in a rare joint statement in December. "There is no substitute for Section 702. If Congress fails to reauthorize this authority, the intelligence community will lose valuable foreign intelligence information, and the resulting intelligence gaps will make it easier for terrorists, weapons proliferators, malicious cyber actors, and other foreign adversaries to plan attacks against our citizens and allies without detection," they warned. The Senate voted Thursday to proceed to the bill reauthorizing Section 702. It will move on final passage next week, but not without a fight.
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357 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/opinions/trump-shithole-immigration-remarks-reveal-instincts-ghitis-opinion/index.html">Trump's outrageous remark shows his affinity for the worst of America's past</a>
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364 President Trump's outrageous remark about immigration leaves us stunned -- embarrassed for him and for this country. During a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump complained, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" The Washington Post first reported on Trump's comment and CNN has confirmed it. The President was griping to members of Congress who were in his office to discuss a possible bipartisan immigration compromise. According to sources, he was referring to immigrants from Haiti and Africa. And just in case it escaped anyone what Haiti and Africa have in common, Trump reportedly suggested that America should bring more immigrants from countries like Norway -- one of the world's whitest, blondest, richest nations. Just 24 hours earlier, Trump was bragging about what a "phenomenal" job he did when he allowed television cameras into a negotiating meeting in the White House, a performance that drew generally, though hardly universally, positive reviews. In typical fashion, however, we are back to the Trump we've come to know, a man who simply cannot hide his baser instincts. After his remark Thursday, the White House issued a statement that said, "Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries," -- as if allowing people to come to a country built by immigrants amounts to disloyalty -- adding, "but President Trump will always fight for the American people," and claiming that the current programs, "allow terrorists into our country." Trump doesn't want immigrants from "shithole countries," to come to America. He wants to make America his kind of great again, by taking it back to a time when most immigrants were white, when all decisions were made by coteries of wealthy white men, men who didn't have to worry about pesky women demanding equal treatment, and other minorities demanding their voices be heard; a time when people from poor countries could only dream of coming to America. But even then, the President of the United States knew better than to call other nations -- including American allies -- shithole countries. This latest lament is in keeping with one of the most consistent aspects of Trump's campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, a call to return the country to its past. Judging by Trump's suggestion that a Scandinavian immigrant is more desirable than one from lower latitudes, it seems Trump's immigration vision, beyond his border wall, or whatever is left of that plan, is something resembling the old immigration system, from back in the '50s and earlier, from the days of "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best." Before 1965, when Americans woke up to the transparent racism of the law, immigration was governed by the Immigration Act of 1924, which tacitly ranked potential immigrants by the color of their skin, giving preference to Northern Europeans over Mediterranean Europeans; giving Mediterranean and Alpine Europeans preference over Jews and Asians, and so forth. President John F. Kennedy called the system "nearly intolerable," and after he was killed, President Lyndon Johnson spearheaded a reform that aimed to give an equal chance to people from all corners of the world. Immigration law is extraordinarily complicated. There are refugee conventions, asylum procedures and thousands of pages of rules and laws. The United States has created special categories, including temporary protected status for people from countries enduring natural disasters or grave unrest. Earlier this week, the Trump administration announced its decision to end temporary protected status for people from El Salvador, apparently another country in Trump's shithole category. The decision will prove calamitous not only for more than 200,000 people who have lived legally in the United States for much of their lives, but it could also have catastrophic consequences for El Salvador and end up being harmful for the United States, as well, by making conditions so much worse in a fragile country that it would spark a massive wave of illegal immigration and a worsening in criminal activity. Members of Congress had suggested a fix for that misguided idea, restoring protections for people from El Salvador, Haiti and African countries as part of the plan. That's apparently what prompted Trump's malodorous screed. Immigration is a topic that sets Trump's emotions and political instincts in a swirl. At times, he appears to have a soft spot for the so-called Dreamers, immigrants brought to the United States as children. But immigration also excites his nationalist side and his political gamesmanship. Nothing gets his base going like a speech attacking illegal immigrants who commit crimes or, better yet, have ties to terrorism. It is a favorite register for his dog whistle. But immigrants occasionally find a rare soft spot in him. That's why he keeps changing his mind. Apparently, Trump had seemed open to an emerging deal early in the morning, but changed his mind by the time lawmakers met him in the Oval Office in the afternoon Responding to outrage after the revelation of Trump's insulting vulgarity -- the kind that strengthens anti-American politicians around the world -- the White House did not deny the President's statements. That may come later. For now, the press office opted to make lemonade out of the bitter words, and use them to bolster support among Trumpians who might feel uneasy after Steve Bannon was pushed off the reservation.
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387 Mudslides wreak havoc in California, Congress advances a controversial intelligence-gathering law, and a Great Big Story details a type of human search engine. Please note that CNN 10 will not air on Monday, January 15 in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday
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403 <a href="//www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/01/11/trump-vulgar-comments-haiti-africa-mudd-ashamed-sot-tsr.cnn">Mudd: We should be ashamed</a>
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410 CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd blasts President Trump over his vulgar comments about immigrants from Haiti and countries in Africa.
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426 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/us/new-york-bombing-suspect-pleads-not-guilty/index.html">New York bombing suspect pleads not guilty</a>
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433 The man accused of detonating a homemade explosive device at a busy transit hub in New York City last month, injuring five people, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges from a six-count indictment. Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi man, faces a litany of charges in the December 11 bombing in an underground walkway connecting two subway lines beneath the Port Authority Bus terminal. Ullah was indicted Wednesday on six counts, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to bomb a place of public use and a public transportation system. The indictment was announced by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. The judge on Thursday asked Ullah if he had seen the indictment, had enough time to review it with his attorneys and discussed the charges with his counsel. Ullah said he had. Ullah faced five federal terrorism-related charges and three state terrorism-related charges last month, according to court documents. Authorities said Ullah detonated a device beneath the Port Authority Bus terminal, which accommodates 220,000 passenger trips a day. "Through incredibly good fortune, his bomb did not seriously injure anyone other than himself," acting US Attorney Joon Kim said. Ullah suffered lacerations and burns to his hand and stomach in the bombing, authorities said. Authorities said the explosion was an isolated attempted terrorist attack. Ullah posted on Facebook earlier in the day of the attack, "Trump you failed to protect your nation," according to a criminal complaint. Ullah is expected back in court on April 13 for a status conference.
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449 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/opinions/guantanamo-bay-detainees-anniversary-filing-vladeck-opinion/index.html">The souls left in Guantanamo Bay won't just disappear</a>
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456 Few things could more appropriately commemorate Thursday's 16th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility than a new lawsuit filed by 11 of the 41 detainees still in US custody there. Thursday's filing argues that, even if these men were once properly subject to military detention as part of the armed conflict between the United States and al Qaeda, neither US nor international law permits perpetual detention -- the fate to which it now appears these men are inexorably (and unlawfully) headed. As the attorneys responsible for this suit know all too well, these claims face an uphill battle in court. Although the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that noncitizens held at Guantanamo have a constitutional right to challenge the legality of their detention in court, the lower federal courts over the ensuing decade have broadly sustained the government's detention authority. Just as importantly, lower courts have also endorsed the view that, because we are at war with al Qaeda, anyone who was ever even partially affiliated with that group (or any of its affiliates) is subject to military detention until the "end of hostilities," whenever those may be. In 2004, the Supreme Court suggested that the end-of-hostilities model for detention "might unravel" in a war that truly went on forever. But the lower courts have repeatedly held in recent years that we aren't there yet, even though, 16 years in, these hostilities may not end in our (or, more importantly, the detainees') lifetimes. There's an important difference, though, between what the law allows and what makes good sense as a policy matter. The Bush and Obama administrations each understood this distinction, which is why more than 500 men were released or transferred from Guantanamo during President George W. Bush's tenure (none pursuant to a court order), and another 200 during President Barack Obama's (roughly 30 of whom were released after obtaining favorable judicial rulings). Indeed, Obama may have failed in his campaign pledge to "close" Guantanamo, but one of his quiet successes was the institution of a sophisticated periodic review system, which did not just ask whether detainees were legally subject to continuing military detention, but whether there was sufficient evidence that each detainee would pose a continuing threat to the United States if released. If the government's own review board concluded the answer was no, that detainee would then be released either to his home country or a third-party country willing to take him. And even among the detainees still at Guantanamo more than a decade after their capture -- the worst of the worst, as they were often caricatured -- the review boards have ruled for more detainees than they have ruled against. By the end of the Obama administration, the government had succeeded in transferring all but five of the detainees cleared by these periodic review boards. In contrast to the nuanced approach of the last two administrations, President Donald Trump's apparent plan to date has been to do ... nothing. No new detainees have been sent to Guantanamo (despite repeated pledges by Trump on the campaign trail that he would reinvigorate the detention program), and no detainees have been released, either. By all accounts, Guantanamo has become, to the Trump administration, a virtual irrelevancy -- useful for rhetorical flourishes whenever new terrorism suspects are arrested, but not worth any actual policy attention. Meanwhile, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, citing Defense Department sources, it costs about $445 million a year to keep the facility open, which works out to around $11 million per detainee. With its irrelevancy to the government, Guantanamo has also largely disappeared from the attention of the public and press. There's only one major media outlet -- The Miami Herald -- that still regularly sends a reporter to the military base. There's little discussion in the media of some of the recent controversies there, including the government's plan to destroy art created by the detainees; the concerns over government spying on conversations between some of the detainees and their attorneys; and, most recently, an apparent renewal of controversial genital searches of the detainees that provoked controversy (and major litigation) five years ago -- when the detention facility was under the command of then-Gen. John Kelly (the current White House chief of staff). Reasonable minds will continue to disagree about the virtues and vices of long-term military detention as a staple of contemporary US military policy. Reasonable minds will also surely disagree about what the government should do with the remaining detainees -- including whether the periodic review process should be reinvigorated, whether they should be moved into the United States and so on. But the critical point is that these are debates we ought to be having -- and policy solutions we ought to be discussing. As we enter the 17th year of military detention at Guantanamo, we can't just close our eyes and hope it -- and the 41 men still held there -- simply go away.
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472 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/asia/myanmar-mass-grave-intl/index.html">Myanmar military admits role in killing Rohingya found in mass grave</a>
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479 Myanmar has said members of its security forces were involved in the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslims found in a mass grave last month in Rakhine State, where the country's military has been accused of ethnic cleansing. "Action will be taken against the villagers who participated in the case and the members of security forces who broke the Rules of Engagement under the law," the Myanmar military said in a statement posted to Facebook. Before this admission, Myanmar's military had denied any wrongdoing in the violence that began in late August 2017 and has led to the exodus of more than 650,000 Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh. In a statement, the military said around 200 "Bengali terrorists" attacked security forces with sticks and near the village of Inn Din, north of the provincial capital Sittwe, on September 1, 2017. The military "shot into the sky to disperse them (and) during that incident they captured 10 Bengali terrorists." The 10 men were taken back to the village, where the "decision was made to kill them at the (Peyon) cemetery." The statement said the next day security forces escorted villagers as they marched the detained men to the Peyon cemetery in Inn Din village. There, the villagers dug a pit and told the men to enter it. Some villagers entered the pit and attempted to stab or slash the men with swords and knives, after which a scuffle broke out. "As some attacks coursed among them, four members of security forces near the pit shot them," the statement said. A few months earlier, the statement said a local man had been allegedly killed by "Bengali terrorists," and his sons were among the group who escorted the men to the mass grave. Both the UN and the United States say the violence that broke out last year and resulted in a massive refugee crisis on the Bangladesh border amounts to ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya from predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. The Myanmar government says the bloodshed resulted from a military crackdown on militants who carried out co-ordinated attacks on border posts. A recent Médecins Sans Frontières report said at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in attacks during the first month of the crackdown in Rakhine. In November, Myanmar's military said that 376 "ARSA Bengali terrorists" were killed in fighting between August 25 and September 5, referring to the Rohingya insurgent group. This week, prosecutors in Myanmar sought charges under the country's Official Secrets Act -- a colonial hangover -- against two Reuters reporters, who are now facing up to 14 years in prison. The reporters had been reporting in Inn Din village, where the mass grave was found, before their arrest, according to Myint Kyaw, a member of the Myanmar Press Council. 'Tip of the iceberg' The military's admission of its role in the mass grave "is a sharp departure from the army's policy of blanket denial of any wrongdoing," James Gomez, Amnesty International regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said in a statement. "However, it is only the tip of the iceberg and warrants serious independent investigation into what other atrocities were committed amid the ethnic cleansing campaign that has forced out more than 655,000 Rohingya from Rakhine State since last August," he added. The Myanmar statement said that security forces were unable to take the arrested men to the police station because of ongoing attacks and damaged vehicles so a "decision was made to kill them at the cemetery." Amnesty said the military "showed a contempt for human life which is simply beyond comprehension." Amnesty called on the UN to allow a fact-finding mission to uncover the "full extent of the violations." Last month, Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, was officially banned from the country, after the government complained she was "not impartial and objective." Media access to northern Rakhine State has also been tightly controlled, with most organizations denied access except on heavily supervised military tours.
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495 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/us/port-authority-bombing-suspect-indicted/index.html">New York bombing suspect indicted</a>
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502 The man accused of detonating a homemade device at a busy transit hub in New York City last month, injuring five people, was indicted Wednesday, federal officials said. Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi man, faces a six-count indictment in the December 11 bombing. The counts include attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, and attempting to bomb a place of public use and a public transportation system. The indictment was announced by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. CNN attempted to contact Ullah's attorney on Wednesday night but did not receive a response. The arraignment is scheduled for Thursday. Ullah faced five federal terrorism-related charges and three state terrorism-related charges last month, according to court documents. Authorities said Ullah detonated a device made of a battery, wires, metals screws and a Christmas tree light bulb in an underground walkway connecting two subway lines beneath the Port Authority Bus terminal, which accommodates 220,000 passenger trips a day. "Through incredibly good fortune, his bomb did not seriously injure anyone other than himself," acting US Attorney Joon Kim said. Ullah suffered lacerations and burns to his hand and stomach in the bombing, authorities said. Authorities said the explosion was an isolated attempted terrorist attack. Ullah posted on Facebook earlier in the day of the attack, "Trump you failed to protect your nation," according to a criminal complaint.
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518 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/asia/myanmar-rohingya-militants-arsa-intl/index.html">Rakhine ambush could mark new phase for Rohingya insurgency</a>
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525 Rohingya militants have claimed responsibility for an ambush on Myanmar security forces that injured five, a sign the group may be reasserting itself after a long silence. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) has been regrouping and recruiting and this attack could mark the beginning of an insurgency that could escalate tensions between Myanmar and Bangladesh and draw the attention of international jihadi groups, experts say. In a statement posted on Twitter Sunday, ARSA's leader Ata Ullah said the group had carried out an ambush against the Myanmar military at San Kar Pin Yin village in northern Maungdaw in Rakhine State on the morning of January 5. The attack is the first the group has publicly claimed since the end of a ceasefire in October, the aftermath of which resulted in a brutal crackdown by Myanmar's military, and the exodus of more than 650,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh. "Come February, March, if we saw the beginning of a hit-and-run, low- level insurgency, I wouldn't be surprised. It seems unlikely this ambush on January 5 was just a one-off," said Anthony Davis, a Bangkok-based security analyst who writes for Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Monitor. A military vehicle was attacked with an improvised explosive device by suspected terrorists, the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported Monday. It added that fighting between security forces and attackers took place at the scene. When contacted by CNN, Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay didn't provide any more information. Phill Hynes, head of Political Risk and Analysis at Hong Kong-based Intelligent Security Solutions, told CNN that the group would continue to escalate tensions. "This year, I would expect to see guerrilla-style tactics, lightning attacks, small-scale attacks, poking the nest. They want to keep the spotlight on their cause and turn it into a rallying point," he said. The US Embassy in Yangon condemned ARSA's attack, saying the "act of violence only serves to further undermine peace and security in northern Rakhine State and the region." Catastrophic crackdown Myanmar's military portrays ARSA as a potent force that can muster up to 10,000 fighters and poses a serious threat to the country's stability. Security analysts cast doubt on that assessment, suggesting the fighters are outgunned, under equipped and likely to only number in the hundreds, at least when the August attacks took place. The group itself is opaque, communicating mainly by infrequent posts on Twitter and YouTube. ARSA first publicly emerged in October 2016, when the group claimed responsibility for deadly attacks on police border posts in Rakhine State that killed nine officers. Then known as Harakat al-Yaqeen or "Faith Movement," they represented the first armed insurgency in decades to emerge from within the country's Muslim minority Rohingya, a group that has long been denied citizenship and discriminated against in Myanmar. However, it was last year the group really grabbed the world's attention when on August 25, ARSA launched spontaneous attacks on 30 border police posts and an army base in northern Rakhine State, killing 12 security officials. The catastrophic crackdown by Myanmar's military that followed the attack saw the Rohingya flee en masse, arriving in Bangladesh with chilling accounts of massacres, systematic rape and torching of villages. The US and UN have described what unfolded as "ethnic cleansing" of the mainly Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country where few seem to have much sympathy for the Rohingya. ARSA: 'Protecting the Rohingya community' In an interview obtained by CNN and published in February 2017, the group's leader, Ata Ullah, said they decided to fight back against the government after 70 years of repression. The group has declined subsequent interview requests. "We, the vulnerable and persecuted people, have asked the international community for protection against the atrocities by the government of Myanmar, but the international community turned its back on us," Ata Ullah said. Ata Ullah expressed a similar sentiment in the statement posted Sunday: "At this juncture, ARSA has left with no other option but to combat 'Burmese sate sponsored terrorism' against the Rohingya population for the purpose of defending, salvaging and protecting the Rohingya community with its best capacities," the statement apparently signed by him said. It's not clear whether or how the Tatmadaw, as the Myanmar military is known, will respond militarily after the January 5 attack. Davis said there's unlikely to be the same kind of "clearance operations" seen in 2016 and again, on a much greater scale, last year when Human Rights Watch said 354 Rohingya villages were burned down and 6,700 Rohingya were killed, according to figures provided by Doctors Without Borders. However, Davis said there would be local follow-up operations. "They need to establish whether the attack team came from across the border and returned to Bangladesh or is still hiding out inside Myanmar territory." Silence Analysts say ARSA has to adapt to radical new circumstances if it is seeking to maintain an insurgency. Prior to August 2017, according to a December report from the International Crisis Group, it was operating from cells within villages. Now, those villages are largely gone, burned down by the Tatmadaw. "I imagine inside Myanmar they would be trying to establish a network of camps in the hills. The word camps tends to conjure up visions of various semi-permanent facilities but what we are talking about here is more likely to involve logistical jumping off spots for attacks on the military in the lowlands," said Davis. "I would be surprised if at present they are able to sustain more than a couple of hundred combatants at most inside Myanmar." Another long-standing constraint has been a lack of access to firearms. According to the ICG report, many of the fighters in August 2017 were male villagers armed with sharp objects or IEDs. It added that they had been reassured that armed reinforcements had been dispatched but they never arrived. "My best guess is that they probably don't have more than a few hundred modern rifles, and certainly no support weapons like machine guns, or rocket propelled grenades, which would be essential to take on a modern military in any serious fashion," said Davis, from Jane's. Support? It's not easy to assess how much support ARSA has among the Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh. Bangladesh has made clear it won't harbor or support terrorists, with the emergence of any kind of cross-border insurgency likely to jeopardize its main priority -- the safe repatriation of the Rohingya. In media interviews, some Rohingya refugees have criticized ARSA for bringing more misery upon them, and say they are feared because they are reported to have killed Rohingya seen as informers or those with close ties to the Myanmar regime. Others fault them for recklessly provoking conflict without being properly armed. Other interviews, however, clearly suggest a wellspring of support for the group, with anger instead pointed firmly at Myanmar's military. Hamida Begum, a Rohingya refugee whom CNN spoke with in September, said she he had sent her son to fight -- though she didn't specify whether he fought for ARSA. "I'm leaving him at the hand of almighty Allah. We are ready to face any situation. I'm not feeling bad for him," she said. Transnational jihad? A 2016 report from the International Crisis Group said that Ata Ullah was born in Pakistan and has lived in Saudi Arabia, from where it said ARSA is run by a committee of Rohingya emigres. Ata Ullah, in the interview obtained by CNN, denied reports that he was born in Karachi, saying he was the "son of Arakan" -- an old name for Rakhine State and denied ties to groups in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. However, it's this background that has fueled speculation that he might have ties to international jihadi groups, not the least by the Myanmar government. The International Crisis Group said in its December 2017 report that a Pakistani instructor was killed on May 4, 2017 during an ARSA explosives training course. Myanmar media reported that two of the deceased were Pakistanis. Hynes said estimates suggested that up to 150 foreign fighters were involved in the ARSA movement. However, ARSA has repeatedly denied any ties to jihadi groups, and the ICG concluded that "there has been no operational sign of transnational jihadism in Myanmar yet." "But clearance operations in the name of addressing terrorist threats could prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy and inspire international jihadist groups to take action," the International Crisis Group concluded. Davis, of Jane's agrees with this assessment, characterizing the group as fighting on an "ethno-nationalist" basis like BRN, the Muslim separatist group in southern Thailand. However, with jihadi groups like ISIS suffering defeats in their traditional strongholds in the Middle East and North Africa, and Ata Ullah's reported ties to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Davis says the group is potentially vulnerable to inroads by international jihadi elements. "Given Ata Ullah's West Asian background, ARSA is less inoculated against jihadist influences. If things were to become more complicated, and elements in the group frustrated, it is not inconceivable that ARSA's current avowedly ethno-nationalist stance — 'all we want is Rohingya rights' — might shift. "
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541 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/politics/us-travel-guidance-threat-level/index.html">New State Dept travel guidance ranks countries by threat level</a>
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548 The State Department launched its new travel advisory system Wednesday in an effort to simplify the information it provides to American travelers about security threats abroad. The system, announced last month, ranks countries into four security tiers based on a number of factors, including the risk of crime, terrorism, natural disaster, and civil unrest. Those tiers are: Tier 1 - Exercise normal precautions
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551Tier 4 - Do not travel Based on CNN's review of the published information eleven countries landed in Tier 4: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, the Central African Republic, Yemen. "Basically, these are the countries where, under the previous travel warning, we already recommended people not to go to them," said Michelle Bernier-Toth, the acting deputy assistant secretary of state for overseas citizens services. While the State Department is warning all US citizens not to travel to those countries, it cannot prohibit them from doing so. North Korea is the exception to that rule, since the United States banned travel on American passports to that country over the summer. The State Department insists the rankings are based solely on security conditions in a country, but is aware of the possibility for pushback from governments that are unhappy with their ranking. "We gave our embassies authority to provide their host governments with an advance of the final travel advisory for their country if they thought that was important to the host government," said Bernier-Toth on a conference call with reporters Wednesday, adding that "by and large, I think there have been no surprises." "We do not give foreign governments the ability to change the language," she noted. "These are not political documents. These are simply based on our assessment of the security situation, and what we need to tell US citizens who might be traveling or living in that country." There were, however, some surprises in the new rankings. Cuba, for instance, where the State Department has previously advised against travel, was listed as a Tier 3, rather than Tier 4, country. In September, the agency stated in a travel warning that, "numerous U.S. Embassy Havana employees have been targeted in specific attacks," suffering "significant injuries as a consequence of these attacks." "Because our personnel's safety is at risk, and we are unable to identify the source of the attacks, we believe U.S. citizens may also be at risk and warn them not to travel to Cuba," the travel warning noted. "As we were putting all this together we did a very careful assessment," said Bernier-Toth, explaining the Tier 3 ranking, "we talked to all of our experts, and this is where we came out on Cuba." The new page for Cuba on the State Department's travel website states that Americans should, "Reconsider travel to Cuba due to health attacks directed at U.S. Embassy Havana employees." Several European countries that are popular with American tourists were put at the Tier 2 level due to risks related to terrorism. These include France and Belgium, where an ISIS cell conducted deadly attacks in 2015 and 2016, as well as Germany, where a truck plowed into a group of people at a Christmas market in December 2016. Perennial US adversary Russia was listed as a Tier 3 country, due to the risk of "terrorism and harassment." The Democratic Republic of Congo was ranked at Tier 2, despite what the State Department has flagged as "ongoing instability and sporadic violence in many parts of the country." An American UN monitor was found dead in the DRC's Central Kasai region last year along with a Swedish counterpart. At least 15 UN peacekeepers have also been killed in the country in recent weeks. US citizens are advised not to travel to the eastern DRC and Kasai provinces under the new system, which sometimes has separate, higher tier rankings for particular regions within a country. The changes are the result of a year-long review process, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Carl Risch told reporters last month. That process found that members of the public were confused by the current system and unsure how to respond to the various alerts and warnings issued by the State Department. "We wanted it to be an easier to understand system," Risch said. That was a message echoed by Bernier-Toth on Wednesday. She noted that even some of her colleagues had difficulty understanding the difference between "travel alerts" and "travel warnings" under the previous system. "We shouldn't need to spend more time explaining the difference between those two documents than we do explaining what the threat actually is," she said.
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567 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/opinions/conservative-civil-war-opinion-sheffield/index.html">Bannon and the never Trumpers should stop fighting -- and back the President</a>
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574 The ongoing conservative civil war came to a head Tuesday with the ouster of Steve Bannon at Breitbart News. This latest twist comes in the wake of a dispute between President Trump and Bannon, triggered by bombshell quotes in Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" book. It's disappointing that Wolff comingles fact and fiction, leaving the truth hanging. As anti-Trump conservative David Brooks says in The New York Times, "Wolff doesn't pretend to adhere to normal journalistic standards. He happily admits that he's just tossing out rumors that are too good to check." After some silence, Bannon rejected the quotes attributed to him calling Trump's son, Don, Jr., "treasonous" for meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. Trump has understandably distanced himself from his former adviser. One of Bannon's lead financial backers, Rebekah Mercer, has also distanced herself from Bannon, siding with the President. By separating himself from Bannon, Trump is continuing to govern more like a traditional conservative than many observers expected. Bannon embodied the ongoing strife surrounding the conservative movement, and he sought to circumvent the President and become a movement by himself, in spite of Trump. Yet Bannon's fortunes only rose because of Trump, and he joined the Trump campaign in the homestretch, more than a year after the candidate descended the Trump Tower escalator. Bannon's attempt at internal guerilla warfare is harmful for the future of the conservative movement. If Bannon helped sound the war cry that led to Trump's victory, he failed to understand that to everything there is a season, including peace. If conservatives are smart, Bannon's departure will be a turning point to move beyond the contentious climate of a conservative civil war launched amidst the 2016 election among the Never Trump "Establishment" types, the bomb-throwing, anti-establishment Bannonites and the growing body of conservative Trump supporters. Congress hangs in the balance with November's elections, and ongoing fracturing will be a stumbling block to advancing a conservative policy agenda. Trump was the most non-traditional candidate in modern history, with no elected public policy track record and an aggressive tone. But now a year later, he's delivered in big ways that even the most ardent Never Trump conservatives must acknowledge. Trump has succeeded in placing stalwart conservative judicial nominees at all levels, spearheaded the most robust tax reform in a generation, protected Internet freedom by rolling back flawed net neutrality, and let the world know American energy policy is made in Washington, not on foreign soil. Abroad, Trump continued the efforts that led to ISIS' defeat, stood up to Pakistan on terrorism, rightfully acknowledged Jerusalem as Israel's capital, successfully pressured China to support tougher North Korea sanctions, bolstered the Ukrainians against Russia, and more. It's time for the Never Trumpers (who are my former 2016 compatriots -- I wrote in Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) as a protest presidential vote) to stop living in a fantasy world: Trump isn't going anywhere. The criminal Russia collusion investigation against Trump has not yet turned up evidence of criminal collusion by the President. Any discussion of the 25th Amendment and Trump's fitness for office is detached from reality. There is currently no evidence that Trump is either physically unable to perform the duties of president or that the requisite number of leaders would coalesce to remove him. Even Brooks, still an anti-Trumper, acknowledges that most virulent anti-Trumpers don't know any Trump supporters, living in their own bubbles. Sadly, this perpetuates the very problems that lead to our fractions 2016 election. The way conservatives transcend the tumultuous political climate is to help Trump, and therefore America, succeed. That doesn't mean lawmakers should agree with the president on everything, but the continued Never Trumpers are rejecting William F. Buckley's mantra to back "the rightwardmost viable candidate." Turning your back on a Republican president in office undermines the spirit that Buckley supported. Conservatives can grow their governing base if they work together. As CNN's Chris Cillizza reports, Democrats must defend 26 Senate seats in November, compared to a mere eight for Republicans, and 10 of those Democratic seats are in states that Trump carried in 2016 -- including five where he dominated by double digits. However, conservatives also need to collaborate against the joint risk as an incumbent party in a non-presidential cycle, historically bad news for the party in power -- and especially this year, when polling suggests Republicans are in trouble. In the House, Larry Sabato reports 12 seats held by Democrats went for Trump compared to 23 seats held by Republicans in districts that voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. It appears that Trump will be focusing on infrastructure as an early 2018 priority, hoping for a bipartisan win. Immigration is another area where cross-aisle conversations are ongoing. And welfare reform is a topic in which the two parties could work on a repeat of the 1996 reforms that was arguably the catalyst that lifted millions of people out of poverty. Trump's victory blindsided many "Establishment" conservatives, but that doesn't mean they and MAGA foot soldiers can't and shouldn't work together. Rather than stubbornly clinging to preconceptions about each other, dialogue and respectful understanding of differences will move us forward. A reconciliation could take us a long way back toward Ronald Reagan's Shining City on a Hill.
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590 <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/10/technology/apple-china-icloud/index.html">Use iCloud in China? Prepare to share your data with a state-run firm</a>
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597 Users of Apple's iCloud services in China are being forced to share their data with a state-run Chinese company. Apple flagged the change to customers this week, advising them to read the terms and conditions of an agreement that hands operations of iCloud in mainland China to a company owned by the government of Guizhou province. The terms include a clause that Apple and the Chinese company "will have access to all data that you store on this service, including the right to share, exchange and disclose all user data, including content, to and between each other under applicable law." They apply to anyone with iCloud accounts registered in mainland China, according to Apple. Related: China's new cyber law just kicked in and nobody's sure how it works Apple made the move to comply with the country's latest regulations on cloud services. Beijing's controversial cybersecurity law, which went into effect last July, requires companies to keep all data in China. Critics have blasted the law, saying the regulations force tech companies to be complicit in censorship and violate people's privacy rights. Beijing has said the measures are necessary to help prevent crime and terrorism, and protect privacy. As it works to comply with the rules, Apple is reassuring users in mainland China that even though their data is being stored on Chinese servers, it will be protected. "Apple has strong data privacy and security protections in place and no backdoors will be created into any of our systems," the company said in a statement Wednesday. Related: The iPhone X won't solve Apple's China problems The company taking over the Chinese iCloud operations is Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD). Apple announced the deal with GCBD, which included building a $1 billion data center in the southwestern province, in July. Amazon has also struck partnerships with two Chinese companies to operate its cloud services in the country. For Apple users, iCloud is typically a place to store data such as music, photos and contacts. Apple said it will give users in China plenty of opportunities to consider whether they want their data to be stored on Chinese servers, where it will be accessible to GCBD. But its advice to customers on what they can do isn't straightforward. Chinese users will have to deactivate their iCloud accounts if they don't want GCBD to have access to them. Non-Chinese users whose iCloud accounts are registered in mainland China but who aren't living in the country have another option. They can change their Apple ID setting to the country or region where they currently live in order to keep their data away from GCBD, Apple said. But it didn't offer any advice on what the options are for non-Chinese citizens who still live in mainland China. "Because of our commitment to transparency, there will be a series of customer communications over the course of the next seven weeks to make sure customers are well informed of the coming changes," Apple said. GCBD takes over as the operator of iCloud in China next month. -- Serenitie Wang contributed to this report. Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated which iCloud users will be affected by the transfer of operations to the Chinese company.
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620 A white man who was involved with neo-Nazi groups and who attended a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville has been charged with terrorism for attempting to wreck an Amtrak train, according to a criminal complaint filed in US District Court. Taylor Michael Wilson, 26, of St. Charles, Missouri, was first arrested back in October on state charges after he entered a secure area of an Amtrak passenger train in rural Nebraska, the complaint states. He allegedly played with the controls and applied the emergency brakes, causing the train to stop with intent to harm those aboard, the complaint states. Wilson, who had a fully loaded weapon on him, was charged with use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony and felony criminal mischief, both state charges. He was released on a partially secured bond on December 11, court documents state. But a further search warrant and investigation from the FBI led to the discovery of a stash of firearms at his residence and several connections to what the complaint describes as white supremacist groups. He was arrested again on December 23 and he was ordered detained on January 2, according to the complaint. Investigators found an arsenal of weapons, ammunition and a hand-made shield at his residence and learned that he had told his roommate he was interested in killing black people, according to the criminal complaint. Investigators also learned that Wilson had been involved in neo-Nazi groups, and that he was once suspected of pointing a firearm at a black woman in a road rage incident, the complaint states. Jerry Sena, Wilson's attorney, said Wilson plans to plead not guilty to the charges. Sena added that Wilson does not have any history of mental illness, no history of drug abuse and little or no criminal history. Wilson faces up to life in prison if convicted on the terrorism charges. Attempted train takeover Wilson boarded the Amtrak train in Sacramento, California, and was traveling to Missouri when he entered a secure area and triggered an emergency stop on October 22, according to the complaint. Two Amtrak conductors told the FBI that Wilson continually egged them on as they attempted to detain him, saying "What are you going to do, shoot me?" Wilson also went through drastic mood swings and "would start saying crazy things about going to the moon," one conductor said. The train engineer and Amtrak personnel detained him, and he was arrested when police arrived, the complaint states. A deputy with the Furnas County Sheriff's Office found a fully loaded handgun in his waistband and a fully loaded speed-loader, the complaint states. In addition, a backpack belonging to Wilson contained three more loaded speed-loaders, a box of ammo, a fixed blade knife, a gas mask and other items. Connections to white supremacy When he was booked at the Furnas County Sheriff's Office, Wilson was in possession of a business card for the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi party, according to the complaint. He also had a card for the Alabama preacher William Davidson of The Covenant Nation Church, a church based on the belief that "White people are part of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel," according to the complaint. A search warrant for his cell phone showed that he had a banner with the annotation "'Hands up don't shoot' is Anti-white fake news -- Altright'" over an unknown highway, the complaint states. Later, the FBI interviewed Wilson's cousin and roommate, who said Wilson had joined an "alt-right" group that Wilson had found researching white supremacy forums online, the complaint states. Wilson also traveled with what the complaint describes as a neo-Nazi group to the "Unite the Right" protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, that became violent, according to his cousin. The cousin said he wasn't sure if Wilson brought anything other than a shield and a bulletproof vest, but he said that Wilson had about 20 to 25 firearms and normally carried a firearm on him. His cousin said Wilson expressed an interest in "killing black people" and others besides whites, especially during the protests in St. Louis this fall after the acquittal of a St. Louis police officer who fatally shot a black man, the complaint states. Wilson also made statements that the cousin interpreted to mean that Wilson and his group were behind "Whites Only" signs that were placed on businesses, the complaint states. In September, several bars and restaurants in The Grove neighborhood of St. Louis discovered the "Whites Only" stickers on their businesses, CNN affiliate KMOV reported. The "alt-right" generally refers to the right-wing movement that strictly opposes immigration and argues that white people are under attack in society. White supremacist groups believe that the white race is better than other races and should therefore dominate society, while the term neo-Nazis generally refers to white supremacists who support genocide or ethnic cleansing. The complaint states that investigators conducted a search warrant of his residence and located a hidden compartment behind his fridge that contained a large amount of weaponry: a tactical vest, scores of ammunition magazines and a handmade shield as well as white supremacy documents and paperwork. Wilson's father, Michael Wilson, provided investigators with his son's firearms, ammo and tactical body armor. One of the firearms was a fully automatic rifle, and another was converted to a short rifle, both possible federal crimes, the complaint states. Road rage Wilson had no evident criminal history, but investigators discovered that he was a suspect in a road rage incident in which he allegedly pointed a handgun at a black woman in St. Charles, the complaint states. The woman told police the license plate number of the man's vehicle, which was then traced to Wilson. But police were later unable to locate her, so the case was placed in inactive status, the complaint says. Wilson told his cousin about an incident in which he pointed a gun at somebody while driving, according to the complaint, a story that the complaint says fits the description of the road rage incident in St. Charles.
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636 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/09/politics/russia-us-attack-base-syria/index.html">Russia suggests US may have had role in attack on Russian bases in Syria</a>
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643 The Russian government appeared to suggest Tuesday that the US military had a role in a recent attack on two Russian military bases in Syria, an attack that Russia said involved 13 armed drones, a notion immediately rejected by the Pentagon. Russia claimed that a US Navy P-8 aircraft flew overhead during the attack, drawing a link between the US military and the militant drone attack, however multiple US defense officials told CNN that a P-8 was not operating in the area during the incident and has not flown in the area for some time. The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a statement Monday saying that 10 "assault drones" had attempted to attack Khmeimim Air Base, the Russian military's primary air base in Syria. The statement said three additional drones had tried to attack the Russian naval facility at Tartus. Russian troops were able to intercept the drones using electronic warfare jamming and Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missiles, according to the statement, which also said that no casualties or damage to Russian equipment resulted from the attack. The Russians said an analysis of the downed drones found they were using a "modern GPS guidance system," adding that the drones used technology that may have been supplied by "countries with high-technological capabilities of satellite navigation and remote dropping control of professionally assembled improvised explosive devices." The statement said the drones "carried explosive devices with foreign detonating fuses," adding that the "usage of strike aircraft-type drones by terrorists is the evidence that militants have received technologies to carry out terrorist attacks." The Pentagon declined to comment on the nature of the drones involved in the attack on the Russian facilities but did note that US and coalition troops fighting ISIS had faced "commercially available" drones used by the terror group which are "widely available, easy to control and certainly do not require significant technical expertise." The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a statement Tuesday slamming the Pentagon's comments. The Russians also implied that the US may have had a role in the recent attack, saying the technology used in the drone attack "draws attention to the fact that the US Navy Poseidon intelligence aircraft was patrolling between Tartus and Khmeimim over four hours at the altitude of 7,000 meters during terrorists' attack." The US military rejected the accusation, calling it "utterly irresponsible." "We do not discuss the disposition of intelligence platforms. Any suggestion that that US or coalition forces played a role in an attack on a Russian base is without any basis in fact and utterly irresponsible," Pentagon spokesman Maj. Adrian Rankine-Galloway said. The US Navy did not have P-8 surveillance aircraft operating in the area during the time that the Russians claimed it was there and a P-8 aircraft has not operated in the area for some time, three US defense officials told CNN Wednesday. The spat comes as Russian facilities in Syria have come under multiple attacks. Less than a week prior to the drone attack, unidentified militants launched a New Year's Eve mortar attack on Khmeimim Air Base that damaged several aircraft and inflicted casualties on military personnel, according to Russian media outlets. A US defense official confirmed the details of the damage to CNN. That attack came less than a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the base to mark the Russian military's success in backing the regime of Bashar al-Assad. While Putin had announced that a "significant part of the Russian military contingent" would withdraw from Syria, he said the Russians would continue to maintain the two bases. A spokesman for the Kremlin defended the Russian military's ability to guard against attacks during a Tuesday conference call with members of the press. "The military infrastructure that remains at the bases in Khmeimim and in Tartus have all the necessary capabilities to combat these occasional terrorist attacks, which unfortunately will continue," Dimitry Peskov told reporters.
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666 The new US ambassador to the Netherlands, who was confronted last month by a Dutch reporter with comments he made in 2015 about Islamic "no-go zones," repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about the nature of Muslim communities in Europe and pushed a hardline view of Islam, a KFile review of his public appearances and writings shows. Pete Hoekstra, a former 18-year Republican congressman from Michigan who served for several years as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, was nominated by President Donald Trump last July to serve as ambassador to the Netherlands and confirmed by the Senate in November. After leaving Congress in 2011, Hoekstra in 2014 joined the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a non-profit group that describes itself as the "world's most comprehensive data center on radical Islamic terrorist groups." A KFile review of Hoekstra's time with the group reveals he claimed on multiple occasions that there are "no-go zones" in European cities and speculated as much as 15% of Muslims are extremists, a number that totals 270 million. He also promoted conspiracy theories asserting longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and said he considered the possibility that then-President Barack Obama was allowing radical Islam to proliferate on purpose. Hoekstra was also a frequent guest on a radio program hosted by Frank Gaffney, an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist based in Washington who warns of the "creeping" influence of Sharia law worldwide. Hoekstra drew criticism last month for denying in an interview with the Dutch news program Nieuwsuur that he made comments in 2015 asserting that there are Muslim-controlled neighborhoods in Europe that are so dangerous that non-Muslims cannot enter. There is no evidence to support claims of so-called "no-go zones" in Europe. In 2015, Fox News had to issue an apology and a correction for comments made by a pundit on its air claiming the existence of such zones across Europe. That pundit was Steve Emerson, who runs the Investigative Project on Terrorism where Hoekstra served as a fellow. Hoekstra apologized for initially denying he made the remarks in the interview with Nieuwsuur, writing in a tweet that he looked "forward to the opportunity to learn, to listen and to move on in the spirit of peace and friendship with the people and the leaders of the Netherlands." Reached for comment, a spokesperson for the State Department pointed to Hoekstra's earlier statement on Twitter. A representative from the White House did not respond to a request for comment. No-go zones: Hoekstra has made false claims about "no-go zones" several times. In a 2016 radio interview, he told Gaffney, "You know there are no-go zones in Europe, areas that you know law enforcement and civil society by the government cannot be enforced, and you know they have become safe havens and sanctuary areas for the radical jihadist movement." "They are places that, you're right, these groups can find safe havens. But at the same time, they have allowed the mosques to preach radical jihadism, so the mosques are training centers." Hoekstra made similar claims in an Internet radio show, on DC local radio and in a NewsMax op-ed he co-authored. In a 2016 speech to activists in Colorado, Hoekstra said there are parts of Europe where Sharia law is allowed. "Look at what's going on in Europe in large parts of, you know, in many parts of Europe there are, there are, there are little enclaves or areas where they allow for Sharia law," Hoekstra said. On Islam: In a 2017 radio interview, Hoekstra speculated that as much as 15% of Muslims could be radical jihadists, a number that would total 270 million. It's unclear where he came up with this figure. "We should recognize that it is a radical jihadist, Islamic force that we face," Hoekstra said. "Whether it's 10% of the Islamic community or the Muslim community or whether it's 15% or whatever the percentage is, it's a significant number. We need to recognize that this is a threat from people who use religion to motivate their followers, to recruit their followers, and those types of things." Hoekstra has also derided past US presidents for calling Islam a "religion of peace." In one video with activist Ginni Thomas in 2016, he said it is "clearly not true" that Islam is a religion of peace. "I mean you hear former President Bush and President Obama now for what 15 years telling us, 'Islam is a religion of peace,'" Hoekstra said. "The average person on the streets says, 'whoa there.' See they're beheading Christians, there's you know, there are suicide bombers, they're taking gays and lesbians and throwing them off the top of buildings, and they're selling women into sex slavery. That doesn't kind of look like a religion of peace to me. Now that's not all Muslims, but that's that's what a lot of people are saying. So then they ask the question to say well why would our President be telling us this. It's clearly not the truth." Referred to Middle East refugees as "invaders:" Hoekstra twice-referred to refugees from the Middle East as "invaders" on a far-right radio show. "We took a stable part of the world and we turned it into an ungoverned region that is now exporting fighters and weapons and refugees or invaders into Syria, into Iraq, and into southern Europe," Hoekstra said during a discussion about US involvement in Libya.' "The Muslim population has been shown ineffective in terms of integrating them into our culture and to really becoming German. And the third thing is ISIS and other groups, and we know this very clearly, they know they have infiltrated the refugees or invaders, whatever you want to call them. They are part of the folks coming," he added later in the broadcast. Spread false claims about Huma Abedin: At a 2016 conference hosted by Brigitte Gabriel, an anti-Muslim activist whom he has praised and said he was working with, Hoekstra said that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, had "egregious" ties to the Muslim Brotherhood but added there were better examples that connected the US government to the group. Claims that Abedin has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood have been labeled as false and unfounded by fact-checkers from the Washington Post, PolitiFact, and Snopes. "We need to recognize that a lot more has come out about Huma and a lot of this stuff has been known by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and I've talked with Steve (Emerson) about this extensively. We don't believe, as egregious as what Huma Abedin and her connections and her family are, again it's why we're doing what we've done, the research, we think there are much better examples of making the connection between the US government and this administration and their connections with the Muslim Brotherhood," Hoekstra said. Hoekstra also shared an article on Twitter that made the unfounded claims, calling it "worth a read." Said he had considered President Obama might be aiding rise of radical Islam on purpose: In an appearance on a far-right radio show Tru News in 2015, a host asked Hoekstra if he had considered the possibility that Obama was intentionally trying to create safe havens for jihadists. "I've considered that possibility," Hoekstra answered. "That is a frightening thought that we would have leaders in our government who would actually want to create a safe haven for radical jihadists, but that is in effect, what they have done and it's the result of Hillary Clinton's policies that have created an arsenal of weapons and the training ground for jihadists." The host later added that he was "firmly convinced" that it was Obama's "desired strategy." "His policies have created an environment where radical jihadism has flourished, is worse on the Arabian peninsula," Hoekstra said. "It is flourishing in Syria and Iraq, Turkey, and it is flourishing in northern Africa. I was just in Europe a couple of months ago, still have a lot of contacts in Europe. You know the people of Europe are frightened about what to Europe with this mass infusion of people from the Middle East and this president is doing nothing to stabilize or control the events that are going on. Either he's facilitating, as you would argue, or he's standing on the sidelines as this is happening."
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689 Vice President Mike Pence will leave late next week for a Middle East trip that will take him to Egypt, Jordan and Israel, his office announced Monday. Pence's Middle East swing is taking place a month later than originally scheduled after Pence delayed the visit to remain in Washington for the tax vote. The postponement also came amid tensions in the region over President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "At President Trump's direction, the vice president is traveling to the Middle East to reaffirm our commitment to work with the US' allies in the region to defeat radicalism that threatens future generations. The vice president is looking forward to meeting with the leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Israel to discuss ways to work together to fight terrorism and improve our national security," the vice president's press secretary Alyssa Farah said in a statement. Pence is no longer scheduled to visit the West Bank or meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whom Pence was initially scheduled to meet with in December. Abbas canceled that meeting in protest over Trump's Jerusalem decision. Pence will leave on January 19 and arrive in Egypt on January 20 to meet with Egyptian President Abed Fattah el-Sisi before traveling to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah on January 21. Pence will cap off his trip with two days in Israel, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin. There, Pence will give a speech at the Knesset, visit the Western Wall and the Yad Vashem museum. Pence's visit now comes as protests have quelled in Jerusalem and the West Bank over the decision. Bu tensions in the region are still running high. Palestinian officials have refused to engage in a US-led peace process in the wake of Trump's Jerusalem decision and Trump last week threatened to withhold US aid to the Palestinian territories if the Palestinians don't return to the negotiating table.
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712 As world attention falters on the Syria crisis, and a climate of peace talks bizarrely instead leads to an escalation of the government's military offensives, there is a small pocket of civilians, some rebel fighters and some jihadists that is fast becoming the beleaguered country's latest version of hell. Idlib in the country's northwest is currently the focus of a new and sustained offensive by the Syrian regime. It has long been the region to which civilians and fighters are evacuated from rebel-friendly areas after lengthy and brutal regime sieges. The thousands who fled bombardment in eastern Aleppo mostly ended up there. The United Nations thinks half of the two million people in Idlib are internally displaced, and therefore crammed into its overstretched camps. Some other aid agencies put the total figure of people there at three million. Between the savage winter desert weather and Russian-backed bombardment, things are about to get worse. The regime seems keen to retake those areas that are strategically important to it, and also to forge a more direct route north toward Aleppo. The offensive is causing tens of thousands of civilians to be pushed north, according to UN officials, up toward a tightly policed border with Turkey -- effectively trapping increasingly more civilians in an increasingly deadly and small space. They must have hoped their torture and bombardment would have ended when they got to Idlib, but they have instead seen the attacks continue. The key complication for the West -- whose policy is already neutered after six years of hapless half-interventions in the war -- is that al Qaeda and remnants of ISIS also haunt Idlib. Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, now rebranded as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has a strong presence there, among other jihadists, as well as moderates. US airstrikes have gone for al Qaeda targets there. Western officials are worried about the concentration of extremists in this one pocket who have thus far escaped the deadly scrutiny of the campaign against ISIS. The landscape of Idlib is flat and often inhospitable. There are millions sheltering there, with perhaps as many as a hundred thousand looking for new homes in the crammed camps if the regime keeps up its assault. Turkey, where once they might have fled, has closed its border and is publicly closer to the Russian-backed Syrian regime than ever before. This is the final holdout, perhaps, of Syria's Sunni rebellion, and it is facing a ghastly yet hideously unnoticed onslaught.
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735 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke exclusively with CNN's Global Affairs Correspondent Elise Labott Friday. Here is a transcript: ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Secretary Tillerson thanks so much for joining us, and Happy New Year. SECRETARY REX TILLERSON: Happy New Year to you and to all the Americans out there as well. It's a pleasure. LABOTT: Let's start with North Korea. There was big news last night about the North and South arranging talks for next week. North Korea now, coming to the table. Is that an opening, maybe for talks with the US, or nuclear talks? TILLERSON: Well, I think it's too early to tell. We need to wait and see what the outcome of their talks are. The President had a -- President Trump had a good call with President Moon yesterday morning, which I participated in. And their intent is to talk about the Olympics. Obviously a very important upcoming event for South Korea and the potential participation of North Korea in those Olympics, so our understanding is that's the content of the meetings. So, I think it's a little early to draw any conclusions at this point. LABOTT: But it could be a positive sign, maybe, that North Korea wants to engage a little bit? TILLERSON: Well, we'll see. We'll see. Perhaps. I know some are speculating that this may be their first effort to open a channel, but as you know we've had channels open to North Korea for some time, and so they do know how to reach us if and when they're ready to engage with us as well. LABOTT: Well maybe you'll be next. TILLERSON: We'll see. LABOTT: If you can explain a little bit about what the US policy is on North Korea, because I think Americas are a little bit confused. Do the North Koreans have to give up their nuclear program before committing to talks? TILLERSON: Our policy is the complete, verifiable, irreversible, denuclearization... LABOTT: Right. TILLERSON: ...of the Korean peninsula. That is a policy that is commonly held by everyone in the region as well. LABOTT: Right. TILLERSON: The Chinese have that as a stated policy. Russia has it as a stated policy. So, regionally, all of the countries in the neighboring area, as well as the international community, are well aligned on the policy. How we achieve the ultimate endpoint -- the final fully -- full denuclearization, the verification of that, and the irreversibility of it, clearly that's going to take some time. So how we begin the talks is yet to be determined, but we clearly need a signal from North Korea that they understand these talks must lead to that conclusion. The pathway of how you get there, that is the nature of a negotiation. There'll be some give and take to achieve those objectives. So that objective has never changed. LABOTT: Because you said, it's unrealistic for them to kind of sit down and say, we're ready to do it. But it sounds like, you know, they have to show some willingness, but then the mechanics of that are able to be worked out. TILLERSON: We have to have a shared view that that is the reason we're talking. That's the purpose of these talks, and it is through those talks that North Korea actually can chart the way for themselves of a more secured future, a more prosperous future for their people as well. So there are very positive outcomes to these talks from North Korea as there will be positive outcomes for the security of the entire region. That is the nature of the negotiations. LABOTT: Do you think -- a lot's been made about the President's tweet on the nuclear button, but now North Korea's talking with South Korea. Do you think that tough rhetoric has worked here? TILLERSON: I think the rhetoric that North Korea understands is while it is our objective, and the President's been very clear, to achieve a denuclearization through diplomatic efforts, those diplomatic efforts are backed by a strong military option if necessary. That is not the first choice, and the President's been clear that's not his first choice. But, it is important that North Koreans as well as other regional players understand how high the stakes are in an effort to ensure our diplomatic efforts are fully supported, and I think to date, the diplomatic efforts have been supported very well in the international community. If you look at the three U.N. Security Council resolutions on sanctions, the participation in those sanctions and a number of countries going well beyond the Security Council resolutions and imposing unilateral actions on their own, both economic as well as diplomatic. I think it is a recognition that the President has demonstrated to the world how high the stakes are. That's why we must achieve a diplomatic outcome, but the North Koreans have to understand that, and they have to understand that the penalties to them will continue and will only grow more severe in terms of sanctions actions and other actions until they do get on a pathway to achieve that objective that the entire world hopes to achieve. LABOTT: So it sounds like this kind of good cop, bad cop if you will. Hold out the prospect of talk, but if talks don't work, military action. That might be the formula that you and the President will continue. TILLERSON: I'm going to let you characterize that way. I'm not going to necessarily show all of our cards. LABOTT: Let's go to Iran. You've said that you want to support "elements in the country that will lead to a peaceful transition of government." That sounds like regime change. TILLERSON: Well, I think the Iranian have suffered under this regime, the regime that is -- it is a revolutionary government. They've described themselves as a revolutionary government, and the Iranian people have suffered under this regime. Very little good has happened for the Iranian people. Ever since this regime has taken power, they have suffered under economic sanctions because of this regime's destabilizing activities in the region. At some point, people will decide this is not how they want to live any longer, but we always support a peaceful transition of power. We do not support violent transitions of power, but we do support peaceful transitions of power, and we've seen those expressions in years past with the large demonstrations at the elections in 2009, the demonstrations that we see in the streets today. We are supportive of the Iranian people achieving their aspirations for a better quality of life, for greater freedom. We believe they deserve that, but it will be up to the Iranian people to manage that peaceful transition. We support that. LABOTT: How do you help them facilitate that? TILLERSON: I think by amplifying their voices. When they go to the street, we listen to why they are there, what are their concerns. And where there are legitimate concerns, and we agree that their concerns are legitimate, we should support the expression of those. And that's what the President has done, the White House, the Vice President, myself here at the State Department, through statements we've made is to give their voice amplification. We know the regime listens to the world, and that's why we've been working diligently with others in the world, including our European partners, to also amplify these voices within the country to say to the regime "you must address these concerns of these people, and you should address it by beginning a process of reform. LABOTT: How does that factor into your decision on sanctions? Do you support waiving sanctions at this next certification? TILLERSON: Well, we've been very clear on our policy in Iran. The prior administration focused all of the Iranian policy around the nuclear deal, the JCPOA. Our policy is much broader. LABOTT: Right. TILLERSON: We look at the totality of Iran's actions and behaviors. So the decisions around waiving sanctions relative to the nuclear agreement and decisions to take in terms of imposing additional sanctions on Iran that are unrelated to the nuclear agreement are -- there's a broad array when you talk about sanctions, and I think -- LABOTT: So non-nuclear sanctions, you're talking about? TILLERSON: Well, I think some people get confused sometimes and it's understandable. But Iran's support for the Houthis in Yemen, their support for destabilization efforts in Syria, the funding of militias, the sending of foreign fighters, arming terrorist organizations in the region, Lebanese, Hezbollah, that has to be dealt with. And our sanctions are targeted at Iran's destabilizing activities within the region, while still maintaining all our efforts to ensure Iran never acquires nuclear weapons. So there are sanctions regimes built around both of those efforts, and what the President has done with his policies, is he's now looked at Iran in its totality and said Iran has to be held to account in both of these areas. LABOTT: So it sounds like maybe, even if you certify on the nuclear assure, more sanctions -- more non-nuclear sanctions could be coming. TILLERSON: They will be coming, there were non-nuclear sanctions announced yesterday by the Treasury Department in response to Iran's missile -- ballistic missile development programs, which are in violation of earlier agreements. LABOTT: And more to come? TILLERSON: In all likelihood, unless Iran alters its behavior. And again, this is the objective of the sanctions is to -- is to put enough pressure on these governments that they decide the price -- the cost of what they're doing is too high. LABOTT: Well, and also, the revolutionary guard's grip on the economy, right? That's really what you're trying to... TILLERSON: That's a lot of what the demonstrations in the streets were about, is young people and others saying, you know, there's too much of our economy and the wealth of our country going to support these destabilizing activities of the IRGC, as well as the IRGC's involvement in our economy. We're not seeing enough of the benefit, the elites are seeing the benefit. LABOTT: Let's talk about Russia. You came in, the President wanted a better relationship. It's been a tough year. What do you see as the flashpoints next year? TILLERSON: Well, it has been a difficult year with Russia. We clearly -- and I've said clearly, the President stated clearly -- our two nations should have a more productive relationship. Today it's very strained for all reasons that I think the American people well understand. Having said that, we have maintained a constant engagement with Russia, very active engagement. The President has had two face to face meetings with President Putin and he's had phone calls with him as well. I have a very active line of communication as does DOD with Russian counterparts. LABOTT: But I hear when you're with Foreign Minister Lavrov, you're -- yo
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758 Thinking about taking a big trip this year but stuck on where to go? How about, oh, you know, SPACE. We have your guide to commercial space travel in 2018, plus everything else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Trump book The fire and fury over "Fire and Fury," the book that allegedly contains bombshell information about Team Trump, is growing. After excerpts exposed some distressing claims from insiders, the President's lawyers fired off cease and desist letters to ex-aide Steve Bannon, who is widely quoted, and to author Michael Wolff's publisher. The publisher responded by moving up the book release date to today. In response, Trump tweeted his complaints, saying the author had no White House access, calling the book "full of lies" and coining a degrading nickname for Bannon: "Sloppy Steve." As for what's actually in the book? CNN obtained a copy, and among the serious claims is one about that 2016 campaign meeting in Trump Tower involving a Russian lawyer. Wolff says Trump insisted the meeting was about adoption policy -- after knowledge of the confab became public -- even though reporters likely already had evidence it was set to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton. And former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer noted this about Bannon's documented criticisms of Trump and his family: "While he may continue to say he's a supporter of the President and his agenda, what we didn't hear is a denial." 2. Cybersecurity Cybersecurity researchers this week revealed two serious processor flaws that could leave billions of devices around the world vulnerable to all kinds of breaches. Now, Apple has confirmed that all its iPhones, iPads and Mac computers are affected by the flaws, which are called Spectre and Meltdown. So, what should Apple users do? For starters, make sure your iPhone, iPads, computers and all apps you use are kept up to date to help protect against hackers exploiting the flaws. In fact, no matter what sort of device you have, experts say you should update your software -- like, NOW -- and brace yourself for slower device speeds for a while. 3. Marijuana The industry of green is seeing red after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a trio of memos from the Obama administration that had adopted a policy of non-interference with marijuana-friendly state laws. This means federal prosecutors can now have a serious hand in how possession and distribution is regulated in states where marijuana is legal. The news sent marijuana-related stocks tumbling and had some wondering what might happen to an industry that took in $8 billion in sales last year and is expected to grow to $23 billion nationally by 2020 and create more than 280,000 jobs. 4. North Korea It looks like there is a bit of optimism on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea has accepted South Korea's proposal for official talks in what will be the first high-level contact between the two countries in more than two years. The person-to-person talks will be held Tuesday at the Peace House in the Demilitarized Zone between the two nations, a South Korean spokesperson said. High among the immediate priorities is North Korea's involvement in the upcoming Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Both nations have seemed enthusiastic about this prospect. Other nations, however, are not as enthusiastic about the apparent thaw in diplomatic relations. Leaders from Japan and the US have expressed serious concern over the escalation of North Korea's nuclear program and have cast a wary eye at this latest detente. 5. Retail woes It is a dark era for some former retail giants. Sears Holdings announced it is closing 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears stores. While the rise of online shopping has spelled a precipitous decline for those brands, even stronger-looking stores are feeling the pinch. Macy's and JCPenney both saw growth at the end of the year, but the time ahead is expected to be bleak. Macy's has also said it plans to close 11 more stores in early 2018. It's even worse for L Brands, the owner of Victoria's Secret, Pink and Bath & Body Works, which slashed its fourth quarter profit outlook and saw share values plunge 15%. NUMBER OF THE DAY 36 The number of states facing widespread flu activity. Experts say it's not too late to get a shot. Plus, good news for people with egg allergies: New guidelines say the shots are safe for you, too. BREAKFAST BROWSE People are talking about these. Read up. Join in. Met Museum of Art in NYC will start charging $25 to out-of-staters THIS IS AN ARTRAGE! FDA issues new food safety guidance after criticism of slow recall responses But enjoy that breakfast sandwich, though. It's probably fine ... Here's how parents tackle bedtime around the world In a word? Carefully. World's longest glass bridge opens in China, and it's a narrow suspension bridge over a 715-foot gorge Haha, no, thank you! Absolutely not. QUIZ TIME What ceremony kicks off the entertainment awards season this weekend? 1. The SAG Awards 2. The Grammys 3. The Golden Globes 4. The Oscars Find out the answer in Total Recall, CNN's weekly news quiz! AND FINALLY ... Have you ever seen a robot dog slip on a banana peel? It's OK to laugh ... for now, at least. Eventually, the robots will know we are laughing, and they will silence us forever. (Click here to view.)
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781 The archaeological wonders of the world offer a rich window into the past. But many are crumbling, weed-laden and victim to vandalism and conflict. UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as those in Libya and Mali, have been caught in the crossfire of regional disputes. Concerned with the decay of African heritage sites, The Zamani Project, based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is seeking to immortalize historic spots in three-dimensional, virtual reality-ready models. Professor Heinz Ruther steers the project. He ventures up and down the continent -- visiting Ghana, Tanzania, Mali, Ethiopia, Kenya and elsewhere -- recording in remarkable detail the structure and condition of tombs, churches and other buildings. "I've seen how sites are deteriorating visibly," Ruther told CNN. The project's aim is to build a database of complex, lifelike 3-D models. Presently, they've mapped around 16 sites including Lalibela in Ethiopia, Timbuktu in Mali and Kilwa in Tanzania. Digital landscapes The project's been running for 10 years and the team have digitally archived locations in all corners of the continent. Its mission is a worthy one: to preserve sites for future generations. Each site can take the team months to document. They travel to unsafe, hostile regions with high-tech laser scanners and drones. "(People) are suspicious as they think it is for military use," Ruther says. To record the archaeological structures, they position the scanner at various angles around the building, sending a laser which records around 10,000 points per second. "We use GPS measurements and try to cover every single aspect of the sites, that is every single corner. We go to areas which are not very attractive -- we cover everything," Ruther explains. Back at the university they collate all the spatial data to create the finished product, which can be experienced in virtual reality. "If you put Oculus glasses on you can walk through the sites we generate," Ruther says. He claims The Zamani Project is the only African-based organization 3-D mapping cultural heritage sites. 3-D preservation of history World heritage sites have not only been mapped in 3-D, but also built using 3-D printers. Palmyra's Triumphal Arch, which was destroyed by ISIS in Syria to global condemnation, was reconstructed using 3-D printing technology based on images previously captured of the structure. The project was undertaken by Oxford's Institute of Digital Archaeology, created to express solidarity with Syrians and the effort to preserve archaeological sites under threat. The future of the past There is a perennial threat to heritage sites from human activity and nature. "A slow deterioration (can happen) as vegetation grows over the side (of buildings). People also use the stones of the buildings to build their houses. It's a wide range of things, including terrorism," Ruther tells CNN. As of 2017, Africa has 138 UNESCO World Heritage Sites -- a small number given the amount of important historical and cultural landmarks on the continent. While efforts increase to bring recognition to African heritage, safeguarding this past could depend on high-tech methods used by Ruther and his team.
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804 A former US Marine suspected of plotting a Christmas holiday terror attack on a popular San Francisco tourist destination was indicted Thursday by a grand jury. Everitt Aaron Jameson said he wanted to use pipe bombs to "funnel people into an area in order to shoot them," at Pier 39, according to the federal indictment. Jameson, 26 of Modesto, California, was indicted on one count each of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and distribution of information relating to destructive devices, according to court papers. He was arrested on December 22. In a statement to CNN on Thursday, Jameson's federally appointed public defender Charles Lee said his office "will investigate the possibility of an entrapment defense, as well as the government's inability to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any attempted criminal act given Mr. Jameson told the FBI undercover employee 'I also don't think I can do this after all. I've reconsidered.' " In court papers, Lee said Jameson is mentally ill and didn't have the means to carry out the attack, The Fresno Bee reported Thursday. The FBI had started watching Jameson in September after becoming aware of social media activity in which he "liked" or "loved" posts about terror attacks and ISIS, according to a federal affidavit written by an FBI agent. Undercover FBI agents posed as ISIS supporters and contacted Jameson. He met with an undercover FBI employee on December 16 and told them he wanted to conduct the attack using weapons and explosives, the complaint said. Jameson asked the agent for remote timing devices for the pipe bombs and described how to use the devices in the attack, the indictment said. According to the affidavit, Jameson said Christmas Day "was the perfect day to commit the attack," which would be styled after the October 31 attack in New York City in which a man killed eight people when he drove a truck down a bike lane, the affidavit said. Jameson had said he'd just started working as a tow truck driver, which could help in the attack, according to the affidavit. He expressed loyalty to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and offered to donate money and contribute his firearms skills, the affidavit said. Jameson asked the undercover agents to get him an assault rifle and explosives and sent them photos of what appeared to be Pier 39, the affidavit said. Jameson had served in the US Marines in 2009 and attained a sharpshooter rifle qualification. He was later discharged for fraudulent enlistment because he failed to disclose a latent asthma history, the affidavit said. After several communications on December 18, Jameson appeared to back out, telling an undercover agent, "I also don't think I can do this after all. I've reconsidered," the affidavit said. Authorities searched his Modesto home on December 20 and found firearms, empty magazines, ammunition and fireworks, the complaint said. They also found a will and a handwritten letter, which said "you've allowed Donald Trump to give Al Quds away to the Jews," in an apparent reference to the President's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to the complaint. "We have penetrated and infiltrated your disgusting country," the letter said, according to the complaint. Lee argued authorities didn't find any bomb-making materials in the home. He also said the guns authorities did find belonged to a relative who legally owned them and had locked them in a gun case Jameson couldn't access, The Fresno Bee reported. Jameson is being held in the Fresno County Jail without bail pending his trial and is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court on Friday, CNN affiliate KPIX reported.
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827 Tension is brewing between the US and Europe over how the international community should address the deadly protests in Iran, several diplomats and Trump administration officials told CNN. While the US and its European partners -- including the United Kingdom, France and Germany -- all fundamentally support the right of Iranian demonstrators to peacefully protest, they disagree in their analysis of where the situation on the ground is headed and over the strategic value of ramping up the rhetoric publicly, sources said. The Trump administration, meanwhile, has gone all in with its very vocal support of the demonstrators and harsh condemnation of the Iranian government. The differences may manifest themselves in public Friday afternoon, when the United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on the Iran protests. "The United States has spoken clearly and unequivocally," Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Wednesday. "Unfortunately, many of our European partners, as well as the United Nations, have thus far failed to forcefully speak out on the growing crisis in Iran. It's time for them to stand up." Senior administration officials told CNN that, on principle, the US thinks that supporting the protesters is morally the right thing to do because when people risk their lives for expanded freedoms they should never wonder where America stands. But officials also said it serves American interests because they are undermining a regime identified as a state sponsor of terrorism. "The protests are weakening the regime and we see more fissures in the foundation," one senior official told CNN. While the White House has not definitely said whether it supports regime change in Iran, some European allies have interpreted the administration's aggressive public response as calling for just that. European nations see US expectations as unrealistic, diplomats told CNN. "It is healthy for the West that the Iranian people are openly criticizing the regime policies we don't like ... but the Trump policy and tone seems very ideological," a Western diplomat said. "This is not regime collapse, so their hopes that they are are not grounded in reality." While they may not be "revolutionary," the protests are a "genuine problem for the (Iranian) government. People are protesting the economy, and the regime is not well placed to fix the economy," the Western diplomat said, adding that the situation "gives US and European policymakers something to work with." But uncertainty over how long the protests will continue has prompted European countries to collectively take a much more cautious approach to what it says publicly than the US. "The Europeans are trying to be much more measured and just defend the principles of freedom of assembly and emphasize the Iranians' right to demonstrate," the Western diplomat told CNN. "We don't want to be naive or get overexcited." While all sides seem to agree on what they would ultimately like to see happen in Iran, European diplomats have told CNN that there is a gap over how to accomplish those goals and what to say publicly. European diplomats have said US rhetoric is feeding the Iranian regime's narrative and that falling in line with the Trump administration's messaging would only compound the problem. "The worst thing is for everyone to be siding with Trump cheering them on," the Western diplomat told CNN, noting that the Iranian regime is already manipulating US and European comments to discredit the protests and claim they are the result of foreign interference. "The US can help keep social media open, help track spending of the regime. But the most useful thing we can do is shut up," the diplomat said. Getting Europe to talk France, Germany, the UK and the US State Department had planned on putting out a strongly worded condemnation of the Iranian government on Tuesday but that fell apart mainly because of some not wanting to be connected with US policy, diplomats told CNN. "On this issue, like on all the issues regarding democracy and human rights, France, who has expressed itself on a national basis, favors the EU framework for its statements," a French diplomat said when asked why his country did not want to sign a joint statement with the US. Senior administration officials said US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson early on saw a need for a statement supporting the protesters and tried to get a number of European countries to sign on. While no party disagreed on the substance of the statement, the Europeans preferred to have the European Union issue a statement for a variety of reasons, the administration officials said. The US says Europeans were pushing Italian politician Federica Mogherini -- the high representative for foreign affairs and security policy at the EU -- for days to make a statement -- and in the end tried to leverage US efforts to force her hand into finally issuing the statement. "Mogherini failed to see that violence against peaceful protesters required a clear statement of support. She was silent for six days while people died. We were frustrated, European governments were frustrated and we all were disappointed," one senior administration official told CNN. Tuesday, the EU said it was "closely following the ongoing demonstrations in Iran, the increase of violence and the unacceptable loss of human lives."
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850 The United States is suspending security assistance to Pakistan over what it sees as a failure by the Pakistani government to adequately clamp down on terror groups within its borders, the State Department announced Thursday. "We will not be delivering military equipment or transfer security related funds to Pakistan unless it is required by law," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters. The assistance being suspended is expected to top $1 billion. One administration official said the suspension includes around $1 billion in security assistance including foreign military financing (FMF) from prior years as well as $255 FMF financing from the 2016 fiscal year, which had not yet been disbursed and which the administration previously announced it would be withholding, as well as coalition support funds. Historically, the United States has provided Pakistan over $1 billion in security assistance annually. The Trump and Obama administrations had previously withheld $350 million in FY2016 coalition support funds due to similar concerns about Pakistan's failure to go after Taliban and Haqqani fighters. Cmdr. Patrick Evans, a spokesman for the Pentagon, told CNN the announced freeze also applied to coalition support funds for fiscal year 2017, which amount to $900 million. "Security assistance funding and pending deliveries will be frozen but not canceled, as we continue to hope Pakistan will take the decisive action against terrorist and militant groups that we seek," Evans told CNN. The US does not plan to suspend any civilian assistance to Pakistan, the State official said, and will make exemptions for some security funding "on a case-by-case basis." All of that money could be provided to the Pakistani government in the future if it takes certain "specific and concrete steps" relayed to it by the administration, the official noted, telling reporters the administration wants Pakistan to see the decision "as an incentive, not a punishment." "The United States stands ready to work with Pakistan in combating all terrorists without distinction," Nauert said at the agency's news briefing, "and we hope to be able to renew and deepen our bilateral security relationship when Pakistan demonstrates its willingness to aggressively confront the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network and other terrorist and militant groups that operate from within its country." The move should not come as a surprise to Pakistani leaders, Nauert said, adding that the assistance could be made available to Pakistan in the future if it takes certain steps to deny terrorists a haven and more aggressively confront groups "who threaten US interests." In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta questioned the decision, saying it risks pushing Pakistan toward a closer relationship with China and Russia -- US adversaries that have been strengthening their economic ties with the Pakistani government in recent years. The announcement is the latest in a string of actions and sharp statements by US officials targeting Pakistan. President Donald Trump rang in the new year on Monday morning with a pointed tweet, accusing the government of "lies & deceit." The next day, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley addressed reporters and accused Pakistan of playing "a double game for years" in its counterterrorism cooperation with the United States. "They work with us at times, and they also harbor the terrorists that attack our troops in Afghanistan," Haley said. "That game is not acceptable to this administration." In August, the Trump administration unveiled its South Asia strategy, aimed at turning the tide in Afghanistan, where the US has been engaged in a protracted 17-year war. Speaking at the time, Trump accused Pakistan of giving "safe haven to agents of chaos, violence, and terror," and said the time had come "for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilization, order, and to peace." "It's been more than four months since the President's speech," Nauert said at the State Department Tuesday. "And despite a sustained high-level engagement by this administration with the government of Pakistan, the Taliban and the Haqqani network continue to find sanctuary inside Pakistan as they plot to destabilize Afghanistan, and also attack US and allied personnel." Earlier Tuesday, the State Department announced that it had placed Pakistan on a special watch list "for severe violations of religious freedom," as part of its obligations under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 -- action that was unrelated to the decision on security assistance. This article has been updated.
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873 President Donald Trump's first tweet of 2018 has renewed tension between the United States and Pakistan. It read, "The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!" Aside from the fact that Trump's tweet is factually incorrect -- Pakistan has received less aid than stated -- his words also isolated a critical ally in the war on terror. Without Pakistan by its side, the United States will struggle to find a clear endgame in Afghanistan and a viable partner in South Asia. That said, Trump's tweets are just the latest installment in a series of diplomatic setbacks since last summer, when the White House unveiled its Afghanistan policy, which singled out Pakistan for providing "safe havens for terrorist organizations" and asked it to do more to target militants and demonstrate its commitment to peace and security. What followed were a series of canceled diplomatic visits, demands from the US secretary of defense that Pakistan "redouble" its efforts against Islamist militants, and, most recently, the Trump administration's first national security strategy, in which the President reminded Pakistan that it is obliged to help the United States because it receives "massive payments." In response to Trump's latest tweet, Pakistan Minister for Defense Khurram Dastgir Khan tweeted from his official account: "Pak as anti-terror ally has given free to US: land & air communication, military bases & intel cooperation that decimated Al Qaeda over last 16yrs, but they have given us nothing but invective & mistrust. They overlook cross-border safe havens of terrorists who murder Pakistanis." And the minister is not wrong. Pakistan has made huge sacrifices on behalf of the United States. Facts matter. As does math. Trump's claim of "33 billion dollars in aid" is based on a number provided by the Congressional Research Service, which documents allocated aid -- but not actual dispersed funds. This figure is a sum of $19 billion in security and economic aid and an additional $14.59 billion from the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), which reimburses US allies for logistical and military support. However, since 2001, according to USAID, the US has only given Pakistan $14.79 billion in civilian and military aid, and funds from the CSF have periodically been revised, delayed or blocked. Not all of the allocated funds have been disbursed, due to concerns regarding Pakistan's efforts to target Islamist militant groups, such as the Haqqani network, aligned with the Afghan Taliban and responsible for launching attacks in Afghanistan. As US officials question Pakistan's commitment, Pakistani officials claim that Pakistan has done more than enough in confronting terrorism within its borders. The Haqqanis, among other militant groups, have been targeted in military operations conducted in the tribal areas for Pakistan's own national security interest. A country susceptible to growing extremism, Pakistan's fight against terrorism has shown illustrative successes. In August 2017, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Qamar Javed Bajwa stated that due to various military operations, the most recent being Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad -- launched in February 2017 to eliminate residual terrorism and consolidate the gains made from previous operations -- there were no longer "safe havens for terrorists in Pakistan." And in October 2017, Pakistan's foreign minister, Khawaja Asif, invited American authorities to visit Pakistan and said, "If they find any activity [of Haqqanis] in the targeted areas, our troops along with the US would destroy them once and for all." Furthermore, in 2017, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations, Major Gen. Asif Ghafoor, released figures stating that intelligence agencies had foiled 477 terrorist plots within the country. And the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), which measures the impact of terrorism around the world, also shows a marked decline in terrorism-related violence in Pakistan since 2014, in part attributable to military operations targeting militants in tribal areas. While all terrorism has not been eliminated, Pakistan has made major strides for a country once considered a Taliban safe haven. But it's also worth noting that much of the US aid that has been received ignores the economic and human cost of war on Pakistan. Pakistan's Ministry of Finance estimates that since the country became a frontline ally to the United States, its economy has suffered close to a $123.1 billion loss. This number factors in loss of life, economic opportunity and damaged infrastructure. On civilian casualties alone, a 2015 report issued by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War places the number at 48,504 death between 2003-2015. Speaking with CNN in August 2017, one of Pakistan's most prominent political leaders, Imran Khan, places the number even higher at 70,000 casualties. And it is wrong to assume that Washington would disburse aid to nations of no strategic significance or political value if they don't further American strategic objectives. Any aid to Pakistan has helped fulfill American interests not only in its war in Afghanistan, but in South Asia at large. Pakistan is a key player in combating terrorism and establishing a democratic regime in Afghanistan. After all, it is in Pakistan's interest to have a western neighbor that is economically and politically stable. Which is to say neither Pakistan nor the United States can afford to act solely based on rhetoric. While Twitter makes for great political posturing, international politics is a game that requires realistic analysis of state capacity, calculated risk assessments and diplomatic overtures. In Pakistan, at least for now, it seems that cooler heads will prevail. While attempting to take the high road, on Tuesday, Pakistan's National Security Committee reached the consensus that the state "cannot act in haste" and would remain committed to playing a constructive role in the region. And the country's fiery foreign minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, has already publicly offered to hire a US-based audit firm "on our expenses" to verify the $33 billion aid figure and "let the world know who is lying & deceiving." That is not to say that Pakistan's political elite or the general population will remain silent and let the President belittle their nation indefinitely. With 2018 likely to usher in new elections, Pakistanis are deeply united on not tolerating further American pressure or rhetorical attack.
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896 On Tuesday, his first full day back in the White House after a holiday break spent in Florida, President Donald Trump sent 16 tweets. Sixteen! While that wasn't Trump's single day record for tweets, it was more than double the seven he averages per day, according to Twitter Counter. And those 16 tweets -- a mishmash of foreign policy, media grievances, cable TV recommendations and just plain old grievances -- make for a compelling pastiche. In fact, if an alien landed on Earth today -- now more possible than ever! -- you could show him/her/it Trump's Twitter timeline from Tuesday as a way to explain the entirety of the Trump phenomenon. Given that, I thought it might make sense to detail each of Trump's tweet on Tuesday -- in the order he tweeted them -- with an occasional bit of commentary and/or context. 1. "The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their "pockets." The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!" (7:09 a.m.) This was a continuation of a series of Trump tweets over the weekend in which he sided with the Iranian protesters and against the Iran government. He also throws in a shot at former President Barack Obama, a very Trumpian way of making clear he is not to blame for the past mistakes of the US leadership in the region. 2. "Crooked Hillary Clinton's top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others." (7:48 a.m.) I wrote about this tweet -- specifically how abnormal it was -- on Tuesday. 3. "Thank you to Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council for your kind words on how well we are doing at the Border. We will be bringing in more & more of your great folks and will build the desperately needed WALL! @foxandfriends" (8:44 a.m.) Trump live-tweets TV -- especially "Fox & Friends." It's kind of his thing. 4. "Companies are giving big bonuses to their workers because of the Tax Cut Bill. Really great!" (8:49 a.m.) He's right about this. Southwest Airlines and American became the latest companies to do so on Tuesday night. Also, Trump is patting himself on the back here -- in case you somehow missed that. 5. "Sanctions and 'other' pressures are beginning to have a big impact on North Korea. Soldiers are dangerously fleeing to South Korea. Rocket man now wants to talk to South Korea for first time. Perhaps that is good news, perhaps not - we will see!" (9:08 a.m.) This tweet -- if nothing else had come after it -- would look prescient given that North Korea opened a communications channel with South Korea for the first time in almost two years overnight. Of course, 11 tweets came after this one. 6. "Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news - it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!" (9:13 a.m.) The oddest of all of Trump's morning tweets. As lots (and lots) of people have noted, there hasn't been a fatality on a commercial US carrier since 2009. 7. "The Failing New York Times has a new publisher, A.G. Sulzberger. Congratulations! Here is a last chance for the Times to fulfill the vision of its Founder, Adolph Ochs, 'to give the news impartially, without fear or FAVOR, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved.' Get..." (9:39 am) No big surprise here. Trump is obsessed with the media and its coverage of him. And he cares deeply about how The New York Times, which he views as his hometown paper, covers him. Yes, it's a little shocking to go from North Korea to plane travel to The New York Times in the space of less than a half hour, but this is Trump being Trump. 8. "....impartial journalists of a much higher standard, lose all of your phony and non-existent 'sources,' and treat the President of the United States FAIRLY, so that the next time I (and the people) win, you won't have to write an apology to your readers for a job poorly done! GL" (9:53 a.m.) Halfway there! Remember this: Trump defines "fair" coverage as coverage that is favorable to him. Which is not what "fair" means. Sidebar: What is the "GL" at the end of this tweet? "Good Luck" to Sulzberger? 9. "Democrats are doing nothing for DACA - just interested in politics. DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start 'falling in love' with Republicans and their President! We are about RESULTS." (10:16 a.m.) Trump is the one who got rid of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program put in place by Obama. While anything is possible, that fact makes it unlikely that DACA recipients will be "falling in love" with Trump anytime soon. 10. "We will not rest until all of America's GREAT VETERANS can receive the care they so richly deserve. Tremendous progress has been made in a short period of time. Keep up the great work @SecShulkin @DeptVetAffairs! https://instagram.com/p/BddOPJfAngh/" (1:11 p.m.) The most "normal" and "presidential" tweet of the day for Trump. The video linked here touts all that Trump has done for veterans. 11. "Congratulations to Senator Orrin Hatch on an absolutely incredible career. He has been a tremendous supporter, and I will never forget the (beyond kind) statements he has made about me as President. He is my friend and he will be greatly missed in the U.S. Senate!" (5:23 p.m.) A tweet in response to the news that Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch was retiring. Worth noting: Trump had all-but-begged Hatch to run for an eighth term so as to keep Mitt Romney from coming to the Senate. 12. "It's not only Pakistan that we pay billions of dollars to for nothing, but also many other countries, and others. As an example, we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect. They don't even want to negotiate a long overdue..." (5:37 p.m.) Threatening the Palestinians via Twitter? Why not! 13." ...peace treaty with Israel. We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest part of the negotiation, off the table, but Israel, for that, would have had to pay more. But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?" (5:37 p.m.) Twitter diplomacy at its finest. 14. "North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the "Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times." Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!" (7:49 p.m.) His nuclear button is way bigger than yours. 15. "I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o'clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!" (8:05 p.m.) From a nuclear measuring contest with North Korea to awards for bad media -- all in the space of 16 minutes! 16. "'President Trump has something now he didn't have a year ago, that is a set of accomplishments that nobody can deny. The accomplishments are there, look at his record, he has had a very significant first year.' @LouDobbs Show,David Asman & Ed Rollins" (11:03 p.m.) We (he?) did it! And, because we all go back to what we know, Trump ends the day live-tweeting more television -- and more flattering comments about himself. What a day! Who's ready for the rest of the week?!
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919 US forces conducted an airstrike on Tuesday targeting Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, US Africa Command said, the latest military action against the terror group in the country. The strike killed two terrorists and destroyed "one vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, preventing it from being used against the people in Mogadishu," the statement said. The early morning strike occurred approximately 50 kilometers west of Mogadishu, the Somalian capital. US Africa Command assesses that no civilians were killed in the strike. "US forces will continue to use all authorized and appropriate measures to protect the United States, its partners and interests, and deny safe haven to terrorist groups," the statement continued. There have been over 30 strikes in Somalia since President Donald Trump took office. A Christmas Eve airstrike against Al-Shabaab killed 13 terrorists, US Africa Command said. In December, a State Department official told CNN the US is cutting some military aid to Somalia due to allegations of misuse, a move that comes even though the US has become more involved in Somalia, fighting Al-Shabaab and ISIS with airstrikes and having some 500 US troops in the country to advise local forces.
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935 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/donald-trump-iran-deal-deadlines/index.html">Iran deal deadlines loom as Trump weighs sanctions</a>
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942 President Donald Trump has used Iranian anti-government protests as an opportunity to slam the Iran nuclear deal ahead of key legal deadlines looming this month, actions that may foreshadow how he plans to proceed. In mid-January, Trump will once again have to decide whether to certify Iran's compliance with the deal -- a process that must occur every 90 days according to the terms of the agreement. The President also faces what is perhaps an even more significant deadline beginning on January 12, over whether to renew temporary waivers for US sanctions against Iran. The renewal of those waivers -- which provide relief for US sanctions not set to expire for several years -- must occur every 120 days to keep the US a party to the deal and thus not violate the accord. Trump waived the sanctions at the last deadline but has since decertified Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement, raising questions about whether the US will continue to extend sanctions relief stemming from the deal with Iran. Precedent suggests that Trump will renew the waivers this month, but nothing is certain, according to Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior Iran analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who noted that failing to do so could "send a message that the US is not keeping its terms of the deal." White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that Trump has not yet made a decision on whether to sign a sanctions waiver later this month, but that the administration is keeping "our options open" as far as sanctions against Iran are concerned. "We certainly keep our options open in terms of sanctions. In terms of signing a waiver later in January, the President hasn't made a final decision on that," Sanders said. "He's going to keep every option on the table." A decision not to renew the waivers could be viewed by Iran and European allies of the US as a violation of the agreement and further derail any hopes of salvaging the deal. Will Trump decertify Iran's compliance again? Trump did not kill the nuclear deal in 2017, but he did choose to decertify Iran's compliance with the agreement in October -- declaring that the Obama-era pact was not in US interests as he unveiled a tough new policy toward the Islamic Republic. He accused Iran of committing "multiple violations of the agreement," despite the fact that the International Atomic Energy Agency, America's European allies and even his own government said Tehran is complying with the 2015 deal. At the time, Trump warned that he would unilaterally kill the deal if Congress and US allies failed to take steps toward strengthening it: "In the event we are not able to reach a solution working with Congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated. It is under continuous review and our participation can be canceled by me as President at any time." The administration has also said it is seeking new legislation through Congress to end the perpetual certification process every 90 days, but nothing has yet to come out of Capitol Hill on that front. When Trump decided to decertify Iran's compliance he warned that the deal was plagued by "insufficient enforcement" and near total silence on the missile program. "As I have said many times, the Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into," Trump said in a major speech at the White House last year. The Obama administration deliberately excluded other deep disagreements with Iran from the deal, reasoning that its threat would be much worse if it were able to race to a nuclear weapon in a matter of months. Capitol Hill's role Lawmakers continue to discuss measures to address the concerns Trump outlined in October, according to a statement from the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Sen. Bob Corker. "Senator Corker remains engaged in productive discussions with the White House and a number of his colleagues in the Senate about the appropriate path forward, and our allies continue to be updated on relevant developments," Micah Johnson, a Corker spokesman, told CNN on Tuesday. But Congress has failed to produce a solution despite ongoing discussions for nearly three months -- a factor that is raising questions about whether Trump might be inclined to follow through on his threat to scrap the deal as tensions continue to escalate between the US and Iran ahead of the two major deadlines related to the agreement. Given Trump's decision on certification in October, Taleblu said he expects the President to once again decertify Iran's compliance with the agreement this month. The recent protests in Iran have further complicated matters for Trump and his top advisers as the administration weighs options for increasing pressure on the regime. "Even before protests, waiving and certifying were complex policy issues, but they have been compounded by events on the ground in Iran," Taleblu told CNN, adding that the administration will likely begin to incorporate such events as part of its equation on how to deal with the nuclear deal.
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958 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/us/new-york-security-barriers/index.html">1,500 more security barriers are going up in busy parts of New York City</a>
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965 New York City plans to install more than 1,500 protective barriers in high-profile locations to guard against vehicle attacks and other terror-related incidents. The effort, unveiled Tuesday by Mayor Bill de Blasio, is part of a $50 million investment in security infrastructure after vehicles were used to mow down pedestrians in 2017. Known as bollards, the cylindrical metal posts will replace concrete barriers that went up on sidewalks after vehicle-related attacks in Times Square and Lower Manhattan. "In 2017, New Yorkers witnessed the horrible capacity of people willing to do us harm, whether it was in our subways, on our bike paths or in Times Square," de Blasio said. "But we will not be cowed, and our expanded investment today in barriers and bollards in our public spaces underscores our resolve in keeping New York City safe from future attacks." The increased security measures come as the trend of cars as lethal weapons grows ever more common. On December 21, the driver of an SUV plowed into Christmas shoppers in Melbourne, Australia, injuring 18. In New York, eight people were killed and almost a dozen injured in October when a man drove a rented pickup truck down a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center. Five months earlier, a man drove his car through crowded sidewalks in Times Square, leaving one person dead and 20 injured. In between those incidents, a motorist in Barcelona killed 13 people in August as he drove a van down Las Ramblas, a popular tourist walkway. "We have witnessed an increase in pedestrian injuries and fatalities as vehicles are increasingly being used as weapons to carry out attacks," Rep. Adriano Espaillat said in a statement. "Safety bollards saves lives and help in our efforts to strengthen safety measures along sidewalks, popular tourist destinations, and high pedestrian traffic areas." Bollards already dot pedestrian plazas around Times Square thanks to a $50 million capital project completed in late 2016. The latest injection of funds will add more bollards to the iconic New Years Eve destination and expand their presence throughout the city. The City conducted a review of locations, including business corridors, tourist attractions and iconic sites, to identify and prioritize locations for the protective barriers. Starting this month, the temporary concrete barriers will be replaced by what the city described as "more attractive temporary blocks" before installation of the permanent metal bollards begins in March. The installation is expected to last over the next few years.
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981 <a href="//www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/01/02/the-radical-story-of-patty-hearst.cnn">The Radical Story of Patty Hearst</a>
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988 From Heiress to Terrorist. Premieres Sunday, February 11 at 9pm ET.
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1011 YouTube is once again facing backlash for a gruesome video on its platform. Last week, social media star Logan Paul posted a YouTube video, which appears to show a body hanging from a tree in a Japanese forest known for suicides. The video was widely seen before he removed it. Paul has since apologized, noting he "intended to raise awareness for suicide and suicide prevention." YouTube confirmed to CNN Tech that the video violated its policies, but declined to comment on why it was not taken down sooner. "Our hearts go out to the family of the person featured in the video. YouTube prohibits violent or gory content posted in a shocking, sensational or disrespectful manner," a YouTube spokeswoman told CNN Tech. "If a video is graphic, it can only remain on the site when supported by appropriate educational or documentary information and in some cases it will be age-gated." But the incident raises questions about why Google-owned YouTube didn't react sooner. The platform relies on people and technology like machine learning and algorithms to monitor for violent and graphic content. "It's not okay to post violent or gory content that's primarily intended to be shocking, sensational, or gratuitous. If a video is particularly graphic or disturbing, it should be balanced with additional context and information," according to the company's policies. Other violent content may be age restricted. In addition, YouTube bans videos related to terrorism. Related: Google cracks down on disturbing cartoons on YouTube Kids YouTube is no stranger to questions about how it cracks down on content. Late last year, Google was criticized for inappropriate videos on YouTube Kids, the site's child-friendly platform. The videos included profanity and violence. Videos for YouTube Kids are pulled from the main platform through machine learning and algorithms. However, some videos, such as cartoons that appear age appropriate, can fall through the cracks. Google recently rolled out new policies to address the issue. For example, videos flagged as inappropriate for kids will have an age-restriction warning on the main YouTube app. Only users logged into the site who are over the age of 18 can see that content. According to Erna Alfred Liousas, an analyst at research firm Forrester, YouTube continues to face these challenges in part because of its "vague" policies. Paul's video "underscores the ambiguity that faces all of these platforms when it comes to how to appropriately moderate content," she said. "The issue isn't going away. It's not getting better. It's time to do more digging and investing in people and in the way the technology is surfacing this information." Liousas said tech companies should be more transparent about their process for handling disturbing content, such as revealing the steps that happen after content is flagged and how they decide what gets taken down. Related: YouTube and Syria: Tech's role as archivist However, YouTube has also faced backlash for removing certain content, including its removal of videos from war-torn Syria. The move concerned advocates who were trying to maintain digital records of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Paul, who posted the YouTube video in the Japanese forest, became famous from his viral micro-videos on Vine, a Twitter-owned video service that was phased out last year. Now, he creates video blogs on YouTube daily. He has over 15 million subscribers on the platform. CNNTech's Sara Ashley O'Brien contributed to this report.
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1027 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/trump-2018-first-tweets-back-in-washington/index.html">Here's what Trump has been tweeting about on his first work day of 2018</a>
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1034 President Donald Trump spent much of his first morning back at the White House Tuesday sending out a flurry of tweets that took aim at Democrats, Iran, Huma Abedin and the new publisher of The New York Times. Taken together, Trump's tweets set the stage for 2018 and resume the combativeness that helped define his presidency in 2017. Foreign policy Trump first tweeted his continuing support for anti-government demonstrations in Iran, saying that "the people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime." "All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their 'pockets,'" the tweet continued, appearing to reference the Iran nuclear deal. "The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!" Trump also zeroed in on North Korea. "Sanctions and 'other' pressures are beginning to have a big impact on North Korea," Trump tweeted. "Soldiers are dangerously fleeing to South Korea. Rocket man now wants to talk to South Korea for first time. Perhaps that is good news, perhaps not - we will see!" Huma Abedin and the Justice Department Trump's latest barb targeting the Justice Department came in a tweet suggesting that Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, should face jail time for reportedly including confidential government information in nongovernment personal emails. "Crooked Hillary Clinton's top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents," Trump tweeted, apparently referencing a Daily Caller report. "Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others," the tweet continued. Some of Abedin's emails released Friday by the State Department were marked "confidential" and were heavily redacted by the State Department. One email Abedin forwarded to her personal email account from her State Department account included passwords for a two-step laptop login process, though that email was not marked classified as Trump claimed. Asked about Trump's tweet, the Justice Department declined to confirm or deny the existence of an ongoing investigation. The President's criticism is the latest he has lobbed against the department that oversees the top federal law enforcement agencies, following verbal attacks in recent months against key Justice Department officials and the FBI, whose reputation he alleged last month is in "tatters." Immigration and border security On Twitter, Trump also thanked National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd for praising him on "Fox & Friends" for his immigration efforts. In another tweet, the President said Democrats "are doing nothing" for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and predicted that Hispanic voters would lean toward Republicans over the issue. "DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start 'falling in love' with Republicans and their President! We are about RESULTS," the tweet continued. The New York Times Trump congratulated the new publisher of the "Failing New York Times," A.G. Sulzberger, in a series of tweets. "Get ... impartial journalists of a much higher standard, lose all of your phony and non-existent 'sources,' and treat the President of the United States FAIRLY, so that the next time I (and the people) win, you won't have to write an apology to your readers for a job poorly done," Trump tweeted. Taxes The President also celebrated the passage of the GOP tax bill saying that companies are now "giving big bonuses to their workers." AT&T and Boeing are among the companies that have announced tax bill-related employee bonuses. Commercial aviation Trump also appeared to claim credit to recent reports saying that 2017 was the safest year in global commercial air travel's recorded history, suggesting it was a result of being "very strict" with the industry. "Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation," Trump tweeted. "Good news - it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!" It's been nearly a decade, however, since there was a fatal US commercial passenger airline crash in the United States, long predating Trump's presidency. White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah said in a statement that Trump "has raised the bar for our nation's aviation safety and security." "Last year, the President announced his initiative to modernize Air Traffic Control and under his leadership, the Department of Homeland Security released enhanced security measures to ensure safer commercial air travel," he continued.
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1050 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/asia/pakistan-trump/index.html">Rhetoric rises as US vows to withhold aid to Pakistan</a>
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1057 In a sign of escalating tensions between the United States and Pakistan, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Pakistan of playing "a double game for years" and confirmed the administration will withhold $255 million in aid to the country. "They work with us at times, and they also harbor the terrorists that attack our troops in Afghanistan," Haley said Tuesday at a news conference. "That game is not acceptable to this administration." Her remarks came a day after President Donald Trump accused Pakistan of lying to and deceiving the US despite receiving billions in foreign aid. The Pakistani government said earlier Tuesday that recent comments from US leaders were "completely incomprehensible" and could damage the trust between the countries. Haley said the White House expects far more cooperation from the Pakistani government in the fight against terrorism. Trump is willing "to go to great lengths to stop all funding from Pakistan as they continue to harbor and support terrorism," Haley said. Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations responded to Haley's comments by saying Pakistan had made the biggest contribution to fighting international terrorism, and that it had been unfairly blamed for US failures. "US spokespersons should not shift the blame for their own mistakes and failures onto others," said Maleeha Lodhi. "We can review our cooperation if it is not appreciated. Pakistan's cooperation is not based on any consideration of aid but on our national interests and principles." Earlier Tuesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired a National Security Committee (NSC) meeting, attended by the country's Foreign, Interior and Defense Ministers, along with chiefs of staff of the army, navy and air force. In a statement following the meeting, the NSC expressed "deep disappointment" at recent US leadership comments, which it said were "completely incomprehensible as they contradicted facts manifestly, struck with great insensitivity at the trust between two nations built over generations, and negated the decades of sacrifices made by the Pakistani nation." It said there had been close interaction with the US following Trump's initial policy statements regarding South Asia, and that recent visits to Pakistan by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis were "robust and forward-looking." The NSC claimed that Pakistan's counterterrorism campaign had, at great financial cost, "served as a bulwark against the possible expansion of scores of terrorist organizations currently present in Afghanistan -- a fact acknowledged by US authorities at the highest levels." "Even more importantly the huge sacrifices made by Pakistan, including the loss of tens of thousands of lives of Pakistani civilians and security personnel, and the pain of their families, could not be trivialized so heartlessly by pushing all of it behind a monetary value -- and that too an imagined one," the statement said. Opinion: For Trump, backing Pakistan tweet could get results Claiming the roots of terrorism in Afghanistan were due to corruption, drug production and ungoverned terrorist havens, "the Committee observed that Pakistan cannot be held responsible for the collective failure in Afghanistan and that blaming allies certainly does not serve the shared objective of achieving lasting peace in Afghanistan and the region," the NSC statement said. The statement said that "despite all unwarranted allegations, Pakistan cannot act in haste and will remain committed to playing a constructive role towards an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process, not just for the sake of its own people, but also for the peace and security of the region and international community". Following the NSC meeting, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif offered to pay for Trump to carry out an audit on his claim that Pakistan had received $33 billion in US aid over the past 15 years. "He can hire a US based Audit firm on our expense to verify this figure & let the world know who is lying & deceiving," Asif wrote in a tweet. A separate tweet from the Government of Pakistan contained a graph showing a drastic decline number of its civilians killed by Islamist militants. It claimed the number of Pakistanis killed in terror attacks had dropped significantly over the past five years, and that the number of people killed in the country since 2003 had cost the state $123 billion. Meanwhile, around 200 members of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council, a coalition of Islamist parties, demonstrated against the US in Karachi, holding "Dump Trump" placards and burning the American flag. A similar protest was held in Lahore, according to AFP. On Monday, US Ambassador David Hale was summoned to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry ministry to meet with senior officials, a US Embassy spokesman confirmed. The White House said that it would continue to withhold $255 million in military aid to Pakistan out of frustration over what it has characterized as Islamabad's obstinacy in confronting terrorist networks.
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1080 President Donald Trump said Tuesday the US is watching the "brutal and corrupt Iranian regime" amid deadly protests in the country, continuing his public support for anti-government demonstrations. "The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime," Trump tweeted. "All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their 'pockets.' The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!" Trump was apparently referring to the Obama administration's unfreezing of certain Iranian assets and payment of a cash settlement related to a legal claim on those assets that was negotiated in the wake of the Iran nuclear deal. The money was Iranian money that had been frozen by the US following the revolution. While there's no evidence to suggest Iran used that money directly to fund terrorism, the US State Department lists Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. There is no evidence the money was used to enrich government officials. Trump has voiced criticism of the Iranian regime since protests broke out in the country several days ago, earning a rebuke from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who said Monday the US President has no right to sympathize with Iran because he has called the Iranian people "terrorists," according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency. On Sunday, state television broadcast Rouhani saying that Trump is "constantly creating problems" for Iranians, including with regard to visas and financial issues. And on Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed Iran's "enemies" for stirring up unrest in the country, though he didn't mention Trump by name. The leaders' tit-for-tat follows a weekend of escalating rhetoric in response to the protests and violence in Iran, with Trump warning Sunday that the United States is watching Tehran's treatment of protesters for human rights violations after anti-government protests turned deadly. Iran's government on Saturday warned its citizens against holding "illegal" public gatherings, following rare anti-government protests that spread to a number of cities. The protests -- described as the largest public display of discontent since the 2009 Green Movement in Iran -- have emerged against a backdrop of rising food and gasoline prices.
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1103 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday blamed Iran's "enemies" for stirring up unrest in the country, as the death toll from days of anti-government protests climbed to 21. In his first remarks since the demonstrations erupted last Thursday, Khamenei accused the nation's enemies of "joining forces" and blamed them for the protests that have turned violent. "The enemy is waiting for an opportunity, for a flaw, through which they can enter. Look at these events over the last few days. All those who are against the Islamic Republic -- those who have money, those who have the politics, those who have the weapons, those who have the intelligence -- they have all joined forces in order to create problems for the Islamic Republic and the Islamic Revolution," he said, without naming any particular country. The US ambassador to the United Nations said any assertions that the protests are designed by Iran's enemies are "complete nonsense," and that the US would ask Security Council members for an emergency session in New York and the Human Rights Council in Geneva to discuss the protests "in the days ahead." "The people of Iran are crying out for freedom. All freedom-loving people must stand with their cause," Ambassador Nikki Haley said. Key developments Protesters took to the streets for the sixth straight day.
1104Nine people were killed on Monday, including seven protesters, state media reports, taking the toll to 21.
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1106President Hassan Rouhani slammed US President Donald Trump for tweeting his support for protesters.
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1109An Iranian reformist group led by ex-President Mohammad Khatami accused the US of encouraging violence. Days of violence The protests have become the biggest challenge to the Iranian government's authority since mass demonstrations in 2009. About 450 people have been arrested over the past three days, according to state media. The rallies began Thursday over the country's stagnant economy and rising living costs, but they developed into a broader outcry against the government and intensified over the weekend. Many of the protesters are young Iranians tired of the lack of economic opportunity in the country. MORE: The economic forces driving protests in Iran Protesters hit the streets for a sixth straight day Tuesday. Small protests -- not as large as previous days -- appeared in pockets of the capital, Tehran, a CNN producer there reported. Video on social media appeared to show police officers and demonstrators clashing Tuesday evening in the south-central city of Shiraz. In the video, people scatter through streets amid the sounds of yelling and honking car horns. CNN couldn't immediately independently verify the video's authenticity. Of the nine people killed Monday, seven were protesters. Six of them died in the central city of Qahdarijan when demonstrators stormed a police station and attempted to take guns from authorities, state media reported. The seventh protester was killed in nearby Khomaini Shahr. A police officer died in Najafabad after a protester shot at officers with a hunting rifle, according to state media. Three other officers were wounded. A member of the Basij, a pro-government militia, was also killed, in south Tehran. Video images shared on social media from the central city of Tuyserkan on Sunday showed protesters throwing chairs, tables and other objects at riot police, forcing the outnumbered officers to retreat. Six protesters were shot dead in the unrest there, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. A man and his young son also died on Sunday when a fire truck hijacked by protesters ran them down on a street in western Iran's Dorud, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. Twelve people were killed over the weekend. Social media crackdown Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday tried to downplay the significance of the protests, which have spread beyond the capital of Tehran to at least 18 cities, claiming that "This is nothing" compared to other outbreaks of unrest. But authorities have nonetheless responded with mass arrests and by restricting the use of the social media apps Instagram and Telegram, used to organize the rallies. The US State Department said it is encouraging tech companies to try to keep such sites accessible in Iran. "The message: We want to encourage the protesters to continue to fight for what's right and to open up Iran," Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy Steve Goldstein said. There also are now concerns that some protesters could face the death penalty. Musa Ghazanfarabadi, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Court, said that some protest ringleaders could be charged with "muharabeh" -- taking up arms against the state -- and accused them of being connected with foreign intelligence agencies, the semi-official Tasnim news reports. The crime carries a maximum sentence of death. US accused of encouraging violence The Association of Combatant Clerics -- an Iranian reformist group led b Khatami -- acknowledged that Iranians face "livelihood, economic, political, and social problems and difficulties" and said they have the right "to express and even shout their demands legally and through civil protests." It also called on the government "to listen to the voice of the nation and pave the way for resolving the problems and meeting their rightful demands." But it also accused the United States of encouraging the violence. "The grudge-holding and sworn enemies of the nation of Iran, with the US at the top... came to support the rioters and their violent actions," a statement by the group read. "The bitter events of recent days showed that opportunistic and trouble making elements pursue the dirty agenda of the enemies, by abusing the quiet gatherings and protests of the people, creating riots and insecurity, damaging public property, insulting religious and national values, and even killing innocent people." The association, with Khatami at the helm, led protests in Iran after disputed election results in 2009. Foreign Minister Zarif tweeted that Iran would not allow "infiltrators" to sabotage protests. "Iran's security and stability depend on its own people, who -- unlike the peoples of of Trumps regional 'bffs' -- have the right to vote and to protest," Zarif tweeted. "These hard-earned rights will be protected, and infiltrators will not be allowed to sabotage them through violence and destruction." Rouhani discussed the protests and terrorism in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron. In a statement on the President's website, Rouhani told Macron that a terrorist group based in Paris is "provoking and persuading people to take violent actions in Iran." "We expect the French government to take its legal responsibility to combat terrorism and violence," the website statement said. Trump: 'Time for change!' Trump has repeatedly tweeted his support for the protesters in the past week, criticizing the Iranian government as repressive, "brutal and corrupt." "The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their 'pockets.' The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The US is watching!" he wrote. Rouhani slammed Trump for a similar tweet Monday in which the US leader said the Iranian people were "repressed" and that it was "TIME FOR CHANGE!" Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani accused the US, UK and Saudi Arabia of using hashtags and social media campaigns inside Iran to incite riots. "Based on our analyses, around 27% of the new hashtags against Iran are generated by the Saudi government," Shamkhani said, according to state-run Press TV. The UK has called on Iran to engage in a "meaningful debate" on the issues raised by protesters, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said. Trump has not yet made a decision on whether to sign an Iran sanctions waiver, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. But she said the administration is keeping "our options open" as far as sanctions against Iran are concerned. Trump faces a mid-January deadline when he must decide about renewing temporary waivers for US sanctions against Iran.
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1132 If you're already planning that first getaway of the new year, check out the 18 best places to visit in 2018. Now here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. North and South Korea The new year has brought new hope for better relations on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea proposes high-level talks with North Korea as early as January 9 to let the North participate in the Winter Olympics next month in Pyeongchang, South Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has long lobbied for closer relations with the North, also sees the talks as a chance to ease tensions between the two nations. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought up the idea of the North going to the Olympics during his (unusually civil) New Year's Day address, where he also declared his hope "for (a) peaceful resolution with our southern border." 2. Iran protests More than 20 people have been killed in protests raging across Iran. The demonstrations, the largest in the country since 2009's so-called Green Movement, started with concerns over a stagnant economy and the rising cost of living, but they have morphed into an outcry against the regime. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani downplayed the protests, saying, "This is nothing." Some social media sites, which have been used to galvanize the protests, were restricted, but otherwise Iran officials haven't launched a big crackdown -- yet. 3. Sexual harassment The national reckoning over sexual harassment and assault has mostly focused on the entertainment, media and political worlds. But women in all fields are battling against sex harassment in the workplace. Now big names in the entertainment world are teaming up to do something about it. Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep are just some of the donors behind Time's Up, a comprehensive plan to fight sex harassment in all industries. Time's Up has already put together a $13 million legal defense fund. The group also encourages women to wear black at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards as a sign of solidarity. 4. Weather Baby, it's cold outside, and it'll stay that way for a good portion of the country all week. The National Weather Service says parts of the United States will be in a "prolonged period" of below average temperatures through the weekend. More than 100 million people from Montana to Maine will be under wind-chill advisories or warnings today. Temperatures will barely be in the teens in the Northeast and near zero in the Great Lakes by the end of the week. And don't even think about heading down South for relief. Freeze warnings stretch from Texas to Florida, and temps in the Southeast will stay 10 to 15 degrees below average. 5. Travel Holiday travelers headed home hit a serious speed bump on New Year's Day. An outage of the Customs and Border Protection's computer systems caused huge lines at airports across the country Monday night for passengers trying to get through passport control. Customs and Border Protection said that "there is no indication the service disruption was malicious in nature," and the systems were back online after a couple of hours. At least flying in 2017 was safer than ever. There were no crashes of commercial passenger jets last year, according to a report from the Aviation Safety Network. The 44 people killed in crashes last year died in either cargo planes or small commercial aircraft. Airliner accidents have been on a steady decline for about 25 years, mainly because of advances in technology and changes to pilot training. BREAKFAST BROWSE People are talking about these. Read up. Join in. SEC still rules College football's national championship will look a lot like an old-fashioned Southern brawl when Alabama and Georgia meet up next week. Moonstruck
1133The first day of 2018 ended beautifully, with a supermoon nicknamed the "wolf moon." But just when did the moon get so many names? Who gets the dog?
1134A new year means a slew of new laws go into effect, such as one in Illinois where pets will be treated more like children than property in divorce cases. Hot stuff Mariah Carey not only redeemed herself with her New Year's Eve Times Square performance, she also created the year's first meme, just by asking for tea. NUMBERS OF THE DAY $255 million That's the amount of military aid the Trump administration is withholding from Pakistan. The President doesn't think Pakistan is doing enough in the fight against terrorism. $783 million
1135That's the combined jackpots this week for Powerball and Mega Millions. AND FINALLY ... World class
1136Wondered what Guinness World Records were set last year? Of course you did. Well wonder no more. (Click to view)
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1159 The White House said Monday that it will continue to withhold $255 million in military aid to Pakistan out of frustration over what it has characterized as Islamabad's obstinance in confronting terrorist networks. "The United States does not plan to spend the $255 million in FY 2016 foreign military financing for Pakistan at this time," a National Security Council spokesman said. "The President has made clear that the United States expects Pakistan to take decisive action against terrorists and militants on its soil, and that Pakistan's actions in support of the South Asia strategy will ultimately determine the trajectory of our relationship, including future security assistance." The administration first said in August it was temporarily withholding the $255 million, which was part of a $1.1 billion aid package authorized in 2016 by Congress. The money was put on hold until Pakistan agreed to do more to combat terrorist networks. The National Security Council official said the administration would continue to review Pakistan's level of cooperation in security areas. President Donald Trump signaled Monday that he was prepared to cut off aid to Pakistan if the country failed to cooperate with the US. "The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools," he wrote. "They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!" Trump announced his administration's plans for the continuing US military engagement in Afghanistan in August, which specifically called on Pakistan to do more to fight terrorism.
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1182 In his first tweet of the new year President Donald Trump slammed Pakistan, saying the country has given the US nothing but "lies and deceit." "The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools," Trump tweeted Monday morning. "They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!" Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, speaking to CNN affiliate Geo TV Monday, said his country was "ready to publicly provide every detail of the US aid that it has received." "We have already told the US that we will not do more, so Trump's 'no more' does not hold any importance," added Asif. The Pakistan government has yet to issue a formal response, though on Monday, US Ambassador David Hale was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to meet with senior foreign office officials, a US Embassy spokesman confirmed. The New York Times reported last week that the US might withhold $255 million in aid to Pakistan because of Trump's frustration over its handling of terrorists in the country. White House officials met to decide whether to cancel the aid, the Times reported. The commander of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan, US Army Gen. John Nicholson, said in November that Pakistan had not changed its behavior since Trump announced his new policy for Afghanistan and the wider region, which specifically calls on Pakistan to do more. "No, I haven't seen any change yet in their behavior," Nicholson told reporters after a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels when asked whether Pakistan was cooperating more in eliminating Taliban sanctuaries. "You've heard the public statements from President Trump, from (Defense Secretary James) Mattis, from (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford) from (Secretary of State Rex) Tillerson, so we are engaging at the very highest levels with the Pakistanis to work together with them against these terrorists that are undermining the stability of the entire region," Nicholson added. "Pakistan has fought hard and suffered heavily against those terrorists focused on its government, and now we are asking them to focus on the terrorists that are attacking Afghanistan and attacking the coalition," he continued. "The United States has been very clear about the direction we want to go, and we hope to see some change in the coming weeks and months." In contrast to his tweet Monday, Trump in October was talking about how much Pakistan now respected the US. After American Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, were freed as Taliban prisoners, the President praised Pakistan's cooperation with the US. "This is a very positive moment for our country's relationship with Pakistan," Trump said, adding that the Pakistani government's cooperation "is a sign that is honoring America wishes for it to do more to provide security in the region." Trump said Pakistan is "starting to respect the United States again." Later that month US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Pakistan and urged its leaders to step up efforts "to eradicate militants and terrorists operating within the country."
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1205 When protests erupted in Iran in 2009, then-President Barack Obama reacted cautiously, concerned that a forceful intervention could make America -- reviled as the "Great Satan" by Iranian revolutionaries -- a rallying cause for the clerical regime. Eight years on, with demonstrations and violence breaking out again in Iranian cities, the US position is reversed, with President Donald Trump and his team almost gleefully leaping at the chance to line up alongside Iranian protesters. In one of his first tweets of the new year, Trump was openly rooting for regime change. "Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration. The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FOR CHANGE!" The sharp change of tack reflects the gulf in the intellectual and temperamental approach of the last two presidents and illuminates a dispute between rival schools of foreign policy thought about how the US should act and wield power in the world. It is consistent with the hard line Trump has taken toward Iran, muscling up alongside US allies Israel and Saudi Arabia to try to check the country's regional influence while continually casting doubt on the Obama-era nuclear deal with Tehran. Trump's position also represents a return to an elusive hope that has often characterized Washington's approach to Tehran since the revolution in 1979 -- that a political awakening will sweep the revolutionary regime away -- combined with a belief that tough US talk can be a catalyst for change. And it is in tune with Trump's habit of repudiating the approaches of his predecessor. Republicans now argue that latest repression exposes Obama's deal to freeze and reverse Iran's nuclear program as a failure, even though its proponents insist it was always meant to deal with only the most dangerous aspect of the toxic US-Iran relationship: the concern over the possibility the country could develop nuclear weapons. Still, four days into the Iranian protests, there is no sign yet that Trump will do much more than cheer the protests from the sidelines. There is also no indication that the demonstrators would actually welcome a US role, raising doubts over the influence Washington actually has in shaping an uprising being driven by internal political dynamics in Iran, especially economic discontent. The death toll in the protests had climbed to 12 by Monday, according to reports in the state-run Iran newspaper, which cited the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting network, and in the Islamic Students News Agency, citing the governor of Dorud, Mashallah Nemati. Trump has been closely watching the protests build, tweeting on Friday that Iranians were showing they were "fed up with regime's corruption & its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad." The next day he tweeted out highlights of his UN General Assembly speech in which he warned that "oppressive" regimes like the one in Iran could not last. "The USA is watching very closely for human rights violations!" he tweeted on Sunday, before accusing the government of cutting off the Internet to stop word of protests spreading -- an apparent reference to Tehran's efforts to limit access to social media. Trump's approach is rooted in the belief of many Republicans that Obama's strategy did not do enough to fan protests against an enemy government and allowed Iran to invest the proceeds of sanctions relief under the nuclear deal to bolster its influence throughout the Middle East. But it assumes the protests in Iran represent a direct uprising against the government and the radical clerical regime, a reading of the situation countered by many analysts, who see domestic and economic, rather than ideological motivations, driving the demonstrations. And the President's concern for human rights seems selective, since he made no such demands of autocratic leaders he has cozied up to, including Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir Putin of Russia and Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Still, the instinctive, forceful and less-nuanced approach of Trump contrasts with the more circumspect strategy pursued by Obama after Green Revolution protests broke out in response to a disputed election win by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Obama's response reflected his tendency to plot how splashy presidential gestures would play out several moves in advance — and how they would be received elsewhere in the world, outside Washington's political echo chamber. Critics say Obama's method led to hesitancy and underestimated US influence. But it contrasted with Trump's visceral reactions, which his detractors see as a symptom of rashness and a lack of depth but his supporters view as a refreshing willingness to wield American power more forcefully. When protests took place in Iran in 2009, Obama did raise concerns about violence and called for the right of protesters to be respected, but he also argued that by getting involved in the situation, the United States, given the historical baggage of its past interference in Iranian politics, would only make matters worse. "It is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be. ..." Obama told reporters in June 2009. "We respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes the United States can be a handy political football." A couple of days later, Obama said Washington could not be "seen as meddling" in Iran, given its tortured history with the country, in what aides said was an attempt to avoid being seen as calling for regime change in a way that could give Ahmadinejad an excuse for a crackdown. At the time, Obama's caution was seen as a sign of foreign policy realism following the Bush administration's idealist approach to the Middle East, which sparked chaos after the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Dennis Ross, who was a National Security Council official under Obama and veteran Middle East peace negotiator, told CNN on Monday that, in retrospect, the initial caution shown by the last White House was a "mistake," even though it was based on requests from Green Revolution leaders to "keep it cool" in order to deprive Tehran of the opportunity to claim the protests were foreign-inspired. "I think we should have made it clear that, in fact, the world was watching," Ross said, adding that Trump was striking the "right tone." Among critics of Obama at the time was Mike Pence, then a Republican congressman and now the vice president, who said he appreciated that Obama was troubled by the violence but called for a much tougher line. "I respectfully disagree with the administration's decision to essentially draw the line at not meddling and not interfering," Pence told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" in June 2009. A few days later, Obama did adopt a harsher stance, after heartbreaking video of the shooting death of a 26-year-old Iranian woman named Neda Agha-Soltan, went viral. He said he was "appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings and imprisonments of the past few days." But Obama's new tone came too late to defuse a new Republican critique that lingers to this day: that he stayed quiet in the face of tyranny just to appease Iranian leaders. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took up the cry in the 2012 campaign. "When millions of Iranians took to the streets in June of 2009, when they demanded freedom from a cruel regime that threatens the world, when they cried out, 'Are you with us, or are you with them?' the American president was silent," Romney said. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, made a similar argument Sunday. "If I were Trump, I'd do the exact opposite of Obama," Graham said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "Obama said, 'I don't want to get involved, I don't want to mess up the chance of getting that deal with Iran.'" Such Republican assessments not only ignore Obama's progression toward a tougher line on the protests, but also fail to take into account that less than two months after they erupted, he led the leaders of France and Britain in exposing a secret Iranian nuclear fuel plant when they met at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. The Obama administration subsequently worked to impose the most punitive global sanctions ever imposed on Iran, a step his supporters say so damaged the Iranian economy that its leaders were forced back to the negotiating table. In many ways, the different approaches of the two administrations reflect contrasting conclusions about what the protests in Iran actually mean and how US policy can best be shaped to weaken the potency of a longtime enemy. Reza Marashi served in the Office of Iranian Affairs at the State Department in 2009 and says the Obama administration concluded after a wide-ranging assessment that the protests did not threaten the regime. "There are a variety of factors that would have to align in order for protests to become a revolutionary type situation instead of a continuation of the longstanding civil rights movement in Iran," he said. Factors the Obama team took into account included the legitimacy and efficiency of the government, the unity of elites and the regime's lopsided ability to use force to end the protests. It also looked at the capacity of protesters to unite behind common leaders and ideology at a time of mass disconnect with the government. And despite Trump's tough tone, the picture inside Iran appears little changed now, meaning that despite the new American approach, Washington's capacity to influence how the protests play out remains limited. "When I look at the situation as it exists right now, there are a variety of factors on both sides that currently are not there in order to facilitate a revolutionary situation," Marashi said.
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1228 Throngs of revelers packed cities around the globe to usher in 2018 with public celebrations and fireworks, despite fears of terrorism and frigid weather in some places. In New York, hundreds of thousands of people packed Times Square in the 9-degree Fahrenheit weather, with a wind chill of 4 degrees below zero, to watch the 2018 ball drop and confetti rain down on the street. The frigid temperature made it the second coldest New Year's Eve ball drop on record in New York. The coldest ball drop still holds at 1-degree Fahrenheit in 1917. Law enforcement agencies had added additional security measures, including extra checkpoints, police dogs, street closures and undercover officers. "You will see a stronger police presence out there than we've seen, even than what we've seen in recent years. And that's prudent, given the terror events we have seen and studied around the world as well as the three incidents here in New York over the past 15 months," said NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill before the East Coast clock struck midnight. And in Las Vegas, where a gunman killed 58 people at a music festival in October, officials installed extra security -- including National Guard officers and snipers on rooftops -- along the famed Las Vegas Strip. Fireworks lit the sky in a synchronized spectacle over the city as the new year began. In San Francisco, fireworks burst over the waterfront amid a heavier-than-usual police presence. Security was intensified after a man had been arrested in December for allegedly seeking to attack a popular San Francisco tourist site on Christmas Day. Around the world, cities celebrated the New Year with spectacles of fireworks. More than a million people lined the harbor in Sydney, Australia, to watch a 12-minute fireworks show over the iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Across Asia, people crowded into waterside viewing areas to see fireworks burst over Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong and other cities. In Moscow, revelers filled special New Year's subway trains decorated with winter scenes. And Pope Francis led his annual Te Deum prayer at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. After a year marred by mass shootings and deadly terror attacks, many celebrations unfolded amid heightened security. In London, officials deployed armed officers as part of a security plan they "developed and reviewed following the tragic incidents that have occurred throughout the year," Metropolitan Police Superintendent Nick Aldworth said. After a spate of sexual assaults marred New Year's Eve events in several German cities in 2015, officials in Berlin this year set up a special "safe zone" for women who feel harassed. Berlin, Cologne and other German cities also added hundreds of extra police. In Paris, 1,850 police officers were assigned to the Champs-Elysées amid a "double perimeter of security," Interior Minister Gérard Collomb told BFMTV. And almost a year after a gunman opened fire on 2017 New Year's revelers in an Istanbul nightclub, Turkish police raided a suspected ISIS cell last week to help thwart potential attacks during the holidays. Across North America, New Year's celebrators grappled with record low temperatures, as the holiday was expected to be 20 to 40 degrees colder than usual in many places. Of the lower 48 US states, only 10 aren't under a wind-chill alert.
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1251 The largest public display of discontent in Iran since the 2009 Green Movement has resulted in 21 deaths and 450 arrests, restricted access to social media apps and brought pushback from the Iranian government. Such scenes might have been unfathomable a decade ago -- but these new protests, challenging the rule of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, represent discontent rarely seen in Iran. CNN spoke with experts about the ongoing unrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Why is this happening? The protests, which began Thursday night, are a reaction to Iran's sputtering economy, rampant corruption and rising fuel and food prices. But something larger seems to be at play. Iranians are angry, experts say, because they expected life to get better when severe sanctions were lifted after the deal in 2015 between the P5+1 and Iran over its nuclear program. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the United States, the UK, Russia, China and France -- and Germany make up the P5+1. While restrictions on financial, energy and transportation sectors were removed, hundreds of Iranian entities were not taken off the blacklists. And the United States has moved to create new sanctions over other violations, including a rocket launch this past summer. Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, and other experts say endemic economic mismanagement and corruption have left Iranians disenchanted. Government policies have brought about higher unemployment and inflation. And there's a lack of sturdy international investment, Parsi added. "The nuclear deal is overwhelmingly supported by the Iranian public, but there was an expectation that much more economic development would come out of it," Parsi said. Related: Iran deal deadlines loom as Trump weighs sanctions Is this just about bread and gas prices? No. Years of political, economic and social grievances have driven some Iranians into the streets in the largest protests since 2009, said Reza Marashi, research director for the National Iranian American Council. "Economic sanctions have exacerbated all of those Iranian-origin economic problems," he said. "I don't think you can separate the economic from the political," he told CNN. "The government has an opportunity and a responsibility to address legitimate grievances that are being expressed." Alireza Nader, a senior international analyst and Iran researcher at the Rand Corp. in Washington, said people have also lost trust in Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. "The government is viewed as highly corrupt, increasing inequality is seen by the population as really a form of injustice," he said, adding "this was supposed to be a system that delivered justice to the people after the revolution of 1979 and it has failed." Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said there's also a push to secure equal rights for women. Nader said women in Iran have been fighting for decades for equal rights, but especially in the last few years, such efforts have become stronger. "Women in Iran are highly educated. They are involved in the workforce, arguably more so than any other country in the Middle East, and they are continually suppressed. This is part of their fight to gain their freedom and their rights," he said. An Iranian vice president said Saturday the government would work harder to resolve economic hardships. Are these protests similar to those in 2009? The new protests are intense, but so far they are nowhere as big as those in the Green Movement in which millions took part after accusations of widespread election fraud in 2009. The National Iranian American Council's Marashi said today's demonstrations may be more of a civil rights movement than a revolutionary one. There are other important distinctions. While the earlier protests primarily were in Tehran, had specific goals and an organized hierarchy of leadership, the current ones seem to challenge the rule of the Supreme Leader directly and have been seen across the country. The exact origins of the protests are hard to pinpoint, but religious hardliners opposed to what they see as Rouhani's moderation are thought to have started them in Qom and Mashhad. They quickly spread to a wider section of the population focused on airing their economic grievances -- and more notably -- their dissatisfaction against Khamenei's rule. "This is something that didn't happen in 2009. This is a huge thing to happen in Iran," said Nic Robertson, CNN's international diplomatic editor. "People don't say that publicly on the streets." One resident told CNN of witnessing a protester tearing down a poster of Khamenei near Tehran University. In his first remarks since the protests began, Khamenei on Tuesday accused Iran's enemies of "joining forces" and blamed them for inciting the protests. Who are the protesters? Many of the demonstrators are young Iranians fed up with the lack of economic opportunity. Iran's unemployment rate among those 15 to 29 is well over 24%, according to official statistics -- and even higher among urban youth and women. The International Monetary Fund has called Iranian women an "untapped source of growth and productivity." The protestors likely include some disillusioned Rouhani supporters, but they probably don't make up the bulk of the demonstrators, according to Parsi. Seven months ago, Rouhani won re-election with 57% of the vote (and 70% voter participation). It's likely these protesters are people that typically stay away from traditional politics. Uncompromisingly anti-regime slogans suggest these demonstrators may belong to those who tend not to vote, don't believe the system can be reformed and either never subscribed to or have lost hope in gradual change, Parsi adds. Other protesters are thought to include those who feel sidelined by economic desperation and humiliation. How have global leaders responded? President Donald Trump has been fiercely critical of the Iranian regime, prompting a tit for tat between him and Iranian leaders. On Friday, Trump first tweeted, "The world is watching!" and that "oppressive regimes cannot endure forever." Trump said that Iran's leadership is squandering wealth to fund terrorism elsewhere. On Monday, Rouhani said Trump has no right to sympathize with Iran because he has called the Iranian people "terrorists," according to Iran's semiofficial Tasnim News Agency. And on Sunday, state television broadcast Rouhani saying that Trump is "constantly creating problems" for Iranians, including with regard to visas and financial issues. On Tuesday, the US leader continued his support for anti-government protests while lambasting deals negotiated in the wake of the Iran nuclear agreement under President Barack Obama. Khamenei blamed Iran's "enemies" for stirring up unrest in the country, though he didn't mention Trump by name, while the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, accused the United States, UK and Saudi Arabia of using hashtags and social media campaigns inside Iran to incite riots. British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said Tuesday that the UK has called on Iran to engage in a "meaningful debate" on the issues the demonstrators have raised. So what's the most helpful reaction? Iranian-American analyst Holly Dagres said the best thing for the rest of the world to do is wait and see what happens next in Iran, where protesters have been heard on videos on social media chanting "Death to Rouhani." "The fact that we are actually making statements that we think are in favor of the Iranian people, they are hurting them more than anything," she said. Experts say that Trump's tweets are not helpful and that the world should show solidarity with the Iranian people by supporting freedom of expression. Marashi said the protest movement "is of an Iranian origin and it will be of an Iranian ending." Parsi said the protests are not a US issue. "This is not about Trump, and Trump stepping into this is not necessarily helpful, because he doesn't carry any credibility in Iran." Comments against the Iranian regime may not only be unhelpful -- they may bring about a pretext for crackdowns, said Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the Iranian people gave no credence to "opportunistic" remarks by Trump or his administration. How is the story getting out? As was the case in 2009, images and messages from citizen journalists are coming out via social media. Iranian authorities have restricted Instagram and Telegram, but users are accessing them with virtual private networks, or VPNs. The government controls the media and does not allow freedom of speech. Without press access, the world is seeing what may be a skewed version of what's happening. "Independent verification of facts (is) hard to come by," CNN's Robertson said. But images often are powerful. In 2009, a video showing the last moments of protester Neda Agha-Soltan catapulted her into a symbol of the burgeoning reform movement in Iran. "That had a chilling impact on the protests in Iran, and it had a chilling impact around the world," Robertson said. What's coming next? The Green Movement lasted for months; this round of protests is less than a week old. It's unclear just how much dissent the government will allow. Iran's Intelligence Ministry says so-called provocateurs will be targeted if anti-government protesters return to the streets. "In 1979, Iranians experienced a revolution without democracy; today they aspire for democracy without a revolution," Sadjadpour said. He said he believes a young Iranian society is seeking a more liberal, progressive nation but is unlikely to take up arms. Iranians are up against a government they know is willing to use force to keep power, he said. "Despite the fact that many Iranians would have revolutionary ends, I don't think they are willing to pursue revolutionary means en masse the same way, for example, Syrians or Egyptians or others have over the last past five years in the Middle East." But Sadjadpour also said that even if the protests are squashed -- as he expects -- it's not the end of dissatisfaction. "The resentment toward the regime will remain and will eventually resurface in the future."
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1274 President Donald Trump on Monday morning continued his daily tweets on the deadly protests in Iran, calling for change to an autocratic system there that he says is rife with repression and corruption. "Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration," Trump wrote. "The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FOR CHANGE!" Vice President Mike Pence tweeted support for Trump's message later Monday morning. "As long as @RealDonaldTrump is POTUS and I am VP, the United States of America will not repeat the shameful mistake of our past when others stood by and ignored the heroic resistance of the Iranian people as they fought against their brutal regime ... (1/2)" Pence wrote. "(2/2) ... The bold and growing resistance of the Iranian people today gives hope and faith to all who struggle for freedom and against tyranny. We must not and we will not let them down. #IranProtests" Iranian President Hassan Rouhani responded Monday, saying Trump has no right to sympathize with Iran because he has called the Iranian people "terrorists," according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency. Rouhani made the comments in a meeting with lawmakers. On Sunday, state television broadcast Rouhani saying that Trump is "constantly creating problems" for Iranians, including with regard to visas and financial issues. The leaders' tit-for-tat follows a weekend of escalating rhetoric in response to the protests and violence in Iran, with Trump warning Sunday that the United States is watching Tehran's treatment of protesters for human rights violations after anti-government protests turned deadly. "Big protests in Iran," Trump tweeted. "The people are finally getting wise as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism. Looks like they will not take it any longer. The USA is watching very closely for human rights violations!" Trump also took to Twitter later Sunday to criticize the Iranian government's efforts to limit access to social media. "Iran, the Number One State of Sponsored Terror with numerous violations of Human Rights occurring on an hourly basis, has now closed down the Internet so that peaceful demonstrators cannot communicate. Not good!" Trump tweeted. The White House press office followed this with a statement saying the administration supports the right of the Iranian people to peaceful expression. "Their voices deserve to be heard," the statement read. "We encourage all parties to protect this fundamental right to peaceful expression and to avoid any actions that contribute to censorship." Earlier in the day, the Iranian government issued a stern warning that protesters will "pay the price" for their actions, with Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli saying that what he categorized as the misuse of social networks by some individuals "are causing violence and fear" and that "such behavior will be smashed," according to IRNA. Iran's official news agency. Iran's government on Saturday warned its citizens against holding "illegal" public gatherings, following two days of rare anti-government protests that spread to a number of cities. The protests -- described as the largest public display of discontent since the 2009 Green Movement in Iran -- have emerged against a backdrop of rising food and gasoline prices. The unrest has prompted verbal sparring between Iran and the United States, with the White House and Trump on Friday urging Tehran to respect protesters' rights. "There are many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with the regime's corruption and its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad," said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. "The Iranian government should respect their people's rights, including their right to express themselves. The world is watching." Trump subsequently tweeted the same message. In a pair of tweets on Saturday, Trump again addressed the protests, writing: "The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran's people are what their leaders fear the most...." Trump continued: "Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice. The world is watching!" In the Saturday tweets, Trump posted videos of a speech he gave to the United Nations in September, in which he said, "The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change." Trump campaigned for president with a hard-line stance on Iran, calling the country the "No. 1 terror state" during a debate with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As President, he has tried to keep that hard-line stance and announced earlier this year that he plans to decertify the Iran nuclear agreement and push Congress to a new plan to deal with Iran's nuclear program. By weighing in on the protests, though, Trump is wading into a tricky issue that has befuddled presidents ever since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ended relations between Washington and Tehran. Former President Barack Obama's response to protests in Iran in 2009 was timid initially, but grew more forceful. Although those protests eventually fizzled, Obama looked to deal with Iran by minting the nuclear agreement that Trump has tried to scrap. Obama also looked to rekindle direct talks between Iran and the United States, including in 2013, when he became the first US president to speak with an Iranian president -- Hassan Rouhani in this case -- since 1979. Former President George W. Bush dealt with Iran more forcefully, but to mixed results, labeling the country in 2002 as part of an "axis of evil" that included Iraq and North Korea. Bush's stance was the result of a softer approach taken by former President Bill Clinton, who worked at length to foster relations with former President Mohammad Khatami. The difficult issue that American presidents have had to confront is how to support anti-government protests in Iran without dooming those same demonstrations by allowing Tehran to paint them as closely aligned with the United States, an allegation seen in Iran as a slight. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, said the protests show that Obama's policies failed the region. "The people are not getting the benefit of sanctions relief," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "They are more upset with their oppressors than ever. The money from sanctions relief is going to rebuilding the Iranian military and is destabilizing the Middle East." Graham also said Trump needs to do more to help the region. "It's not enough to watch," Graham said. "President Trump is tweeting very sympathetically to the Iranian people. But you just can't tweet here. You have to lay out a plan." Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney praised the protests in Iran, calling the protesters "heroes" in a tweet Sunday. "Profoundly moving to watch those seeking freedom in Iran," Romney tweeted. "Patriots afar remind us of the patriots who won our own freedom and also those who preserve it. Heroes all." Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a statement that her hopes and prayers are with "the long-repressed Iranian people," who "are now finding their voice." "The Iranian government is being tested by its own citizens," she said in the statement. "We pray that freedom and human rights will carry the day." Longtime diplomat and Obama National Security Council official Dennis Ross told CNN's Boris Sanchez on Monday that he thinks the Trump approach, speaking out in support of Iranian protesters, strikes the right tone. Ross said the Obama administration initially received messages from those in the Green Movement in Iran to "keep it cool" in order to prevent Tehran from claiming the unrest was foreign-inspired. "And I think in retrospect, we made a mistake," he said. "I think we should have made it clear that, in fact, the world was watching."
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1297 Russian authorities say they have detained a suspect believed to be responsible for this week's supermarket blast in St. Petersburg. The suspect, whose identity has not been released, was detained Saturday, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement. The suspect was under interrogation, the Russian state news agency TASS reported. The explosion took place Wednesday at a Perekrestok supermarket in St. Petersburg. At least 18 people were injured, state-run media reported. Preliminary information suggests an explosive device containing 200 grams (7 ounces) of TNT was inside a locker at the supermarket, state-run media said. Shortly after the explosion, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the incident a terror attack. ISIS claimed responsibility for the blast, saying it was carried out by an ISIS "security detachment." But so far, ISIS has not given any evidence supporting its claim. St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, has been a target for at least one other explosion this year. Fourteen people were killed and dozens more were injured on April 3 when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the city's metro system. The April explosion, which has been linked to terrorism, occurred on a passenger train traveling through a tunnel in the city's center.
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1320 Several Iranians were shot during protests late Saturday, a source tells CNN, after Iran's government warned citizens against holding "illegal" public gatherings, following two days of rare anti-government protests that spread to a number of cities. One local source told CNN that during protests in Dorud, in the Lorestan province of western Iran, his family witnessed a mob storming the governor's office and setting it on fire. Protesters were fired upon and five people were shot, the source said. The protests -- described as the largest public display of discontent since the 2009 Green Movement in Iran -- have emerged against a backdrop of rising food and gasoline prices. In a rare display of public dissent, some protesters directed their ire at Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, according to some videos on social media. CNN has not independently verified the authenticity of the footage. "We've seen pictures of (Khamenei) ripped from the billboards at the sides of streets. We've heard protesters call for his overthrow," said Nic Robertson, CNN's international diplomatic editor. "This is something different. This is something the regime is going to take very seriously." One resident told CNN of witnessing a protester tearing down a poster of Khamenei near Tehran University on Saturday. Protests in third day The demonstrations began Thursday in the northeastern city of Mashhad before spreading to other cities. They included Tehran, Kermanshah, Arak, Qazvin, Khorramabad, Karaj and Sabzevar, according to First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri, cited by official news agency IRNA. Iranian media outlets reported a number of arrests. The unrest has prompted verbal sparring between Iran and the United States, which on Friday urged Tehran to respect protesters' rights and warned that the "world is watching." An Iranian vice president said on Saturday the government would work harder to resolve economic hardships, according to semi-official news agency FARS. First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri made the remarks without acknowledging the protests, adding that some have used economic issues as a "pretext" to hurt the government, FARS reported. Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli warned that any groups wishing to congregate must file an official request and be granted permission. "The police and security forces have tried to manage conditions. We have received reports of calls to gather, cyber and social media based, and such calls and any gatherings resulting therefrom, are certainly illegal," he said. Meanwhile, crowds of government supporters joined official demonstrations held across the country, state media reported. Angry chants Protesters have been heard on videos distributed on social media as chanting "Death to Rouhani," a reference to President Hassan Rouhani, who was re-elected earlier this year. CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the footage. In one video circulating on Twitter, throngs of people could be seen gathering close to the university, chanting, "Dishonest! Dishonest!" as a substance that appears to be tear gas is launched through metal gates toward several protesters. Three students were arrested outside Tehran University on Saturday, an official with the Ministry of Science told semi-official Iran Labor News Agency, ILNA. Two have since been released, it said. Poorer Iranians have been involved in the new round of protests in a way that wasn't seen in the 2009 Green Movement, an eyewitness in Tehran noted. Iran currently sits 120th on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index, demonstrating the difficult economic situation in the country. The high youth unemployment rate is of particular concern for Iranians. The pro-government rallies held Saturday were organized in advance to commemorate mass demonstrations held in 2009 to challenge the pro-reform protests. An eyewitness in Tehran said nearly 2,000 people had gathered peacefully for a pro-government rally. State-run Iranian broadcasters showed demonstrators waving the Iranian flag. Meanwhile, coverage of the anti-government protests was very limited on state-run media, which referenced them only in passing. US: 'The world is watching' The White House voiced its support for anti-government protesters in a statement Friday. "There are many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with the regime's corruption and its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad," said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. "The Iranian government should respect their people's rights, including their right to express themselves. The world is watching." President Donald Trump subsequently tweeted the same message. The US State Department urged the international community to support the Iranian people's "demands for basic rights and an end to corruption." "Iran's leaders have turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos," said spokeswoman Heather Nauert. "As President Trump has said, the longest-suffering victims of Iran's leaders are Iran's own people. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi pushed back against the US comments a day later, saying the Iranian people gave no credence to such "opportunistic" remarks by Trump or his administration. His statement on the Foreign Ministry website also described "Mr Trump's government" as the main source of ill will toward Iran. Trump tweeted about the situation again on Saturday, sharing footage of a speech he gave at the United Nations in September. "Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever," Trump wrote, quoting his speech. "And the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice." "The world is watching!" he added. US Vice President Mike Pence also took to Twitter Saturday evening to reiterate the Trump administration's support for "peaceful protesters in Iran who are speaking out for freedom." Pence added, "... the time has come for the regime in Tehran end terrorist activities, corruption, & their disregard for human rights." In the same tweet, Pence condemned the "arrests of innocents." Relations between Washington and Tehran are tense, with the Trump administration critical of what it sees as Iran's growing regional influence and alleged involvement in conflicts including Yemen and Syria. Rouhani won a landslide re-election in May after campaigning largely on social reform. His campaign touted the merits of the 2015 nuclear deal with the United States, the European Union and other partners which has been rejected by Trump. Foreign intervention claim Iranian officials have pointed to foreign intervention as being behind the anti-government protests. "Unfortunately, most of the people who participate in these gatherings are unsophisticated individuals who are not aware that these calls for protest are made by anti-revolution elements," Mohsen Hamadani, Tehran deputy governor in charge of security affairs, was quoted as saying by the semi-official news agency ILNA. "Most participants are not aware that anti-revolution elements are calling people to demonstrate against social issues such as inflation but chant untrue slogans." Protests stem from 'economic difficulties' The protests "show that frustration in the Iranian society right now is very extensive, particularly when it comes to the economic difficulties they have been facing," according to Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council and author of the book "Losing an Enemy." While the economic situation is due in part to "mismanagement and corruption," Parsi said, it's also a result of the Rouhani government's policies and the process of getting sanctions on the country lifted. "The nuclear deal is overwhelmingly supported by the Iranian public, but there was an expectation that much more economic development would come out of it," Parsi said. Iranians have not seen that turnaround. Ultimately, the protests represent an internal dispute within Iran, but international policy is also playing a role, he said. And Trump's involvement is not necessarily beneficial to anti-government protesters. "This is not about the United States, this is not about Trump," Parsi said. "And Trump stepping into this is not necessarily helpful because he doesn't carry any credibility in Iran." Parsi pointed to several policy positions taken by the Trump administration this year, such as the administration's opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, his travel ban -- which targeted, in part, Iran -- and his "hugging Saudi Arabia." "I think he's unaware of how illegitimate broad parts of the Iranian society view him," Parsi said. While sanctions against Iran were eased under the 2015 deal in exchange for curbs on Tehran's nuclear program, US sanctions imposed over non-nuclear activities continue to have an impact.
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1336 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/29/europe/ringo-starr-barry-gibb-new-year-honors-intl/index.html">Ringo Starr and Barry Gibb knighted in Queen's New Year honors list</a>
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1343 The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and BeeGees co-founder Barry Gibb have been awarded knighthoods by Britain's Queen Elizabeth in her 2018 New Year honors list. 77-year-old Starr, whose real name is Richard Starkey, is the second Beatle to be knighted, 21 years after Paul McCartney. Gibb, the 70s disco pioneer who co-founded the BeeGees with his late brothers Robin and Maurice, said he was "deeply honored, humbled, and very proud" to be recognized. "This is a moment in life to be treasured and never forgotten. I want to acknowledge how responsible my brothers are for this honor. It is as much theirs as it is mine," Gibb, 71, told the UK's Press Association. Darcey Bussell, the former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet and current judge on hit British television show "Strictly Come Dancing," was awarded a damehood for services to dance. More than 1,100 people were honored this year, including 551 women. The list, which is drawn up by the government and approved by the Queen, recognizes the achievements and service of "extraordinary" people and includes politicians, academics, journalists, authors and athletes. The list includes five categories and is released twice a year -- once at New Year's and the other during the Queen's publicly celebrated birthday in June. A knighthood or damehood is the highest honor. Men recognized as such are given the title "Sir," while women are given the title "Dame." Below that is a CBE, which stands for Commander of the Order of the British Empire; an OBE, or Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; followed by an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British Empire. Starr, McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison were recognized with MBEs in 1965. Actor Hugh Laurie, known for his roles in American shows such as the medical drama "House" and political satire "Veep," was recognized for services to drama, while former British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman was recognized for her contribution to fashion journalism. British author and journalist Jilly Cooper, who penned the racy romantic series "The Ruthshire Chronical," was honored for services to literature and charity. Laurie, Shulman and Cooper were all awarded OBEs. They were previously honored with CBEs. Singer-songwriter Marc Almond from the 80s synthpop duo Soft Cell, best known for their hit cover of "Tainted Love," received an OBE for his services to arts and culture. He told the Press Association he was "totally excited" to be honored, saying, "I can't really be a rebel anymore. I think it's time to leave it to younger people." Grime music artist Wiley, whose real name is Richard Cowie, was recognized with an MBE for services to music. "I'm honored to be receiving an MBE. It feels like the school grade I wanted and didn't get but now I'm finally there," Wiley told the Press Association. Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was honored with a knighthood. The Press Association reported that future honors lists will recognize people involved in anti-terrorism efforts and those who responded to the fire at Grenfell Tower in London earlier this year which killed 71 people. Recipients will be celebrated at a ceremony headed by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
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1359 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/29/opinions/why-doesnt-trump-have-a-pet-kaye/index.html">Why doesn't Trump have a pet?</a>
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1366 As a reporter for "Anderson Cooper 360," I live my life on a deadline. Plane to catch. Story to write. Live report to deliver. It's always exciting, but also can be so stressful! But in the scheme of things, my job as a reporter for CNN is a lot less stressful than, say, the job of President. These days, the leader of the free world has a lot to worry about. North Korea. Middle East Peace. Terrorism. The Russia Investigation. I can't imagine the stress of that job! Luckily, after a long and stressful day I have my golden retriever, Gatsby, to come home to. He always greets me with tail wags and wet kisses. Then he curls up at my feet with his head resting on my toes. If I didn't need both hands to type this article, I would surely have one of them on him. Petting him from head to toe is the best stress reliever! Which is why that I think you, Mr. President, would be wise to get a dog and start 2018 off on the right foot (or paw, if you will). You would benefit from owning a dog in so many ways. It's scientifically proven! Studies show that playing with or petting an animal can increase levels of the stress-reducing hormone oxytocin and decrease production of the stress hormone cortisol. Don't you want more of those feel-good chemicals in your brain? All those nights you reportedly spend alone, pacing around the White House in that bathrobe would be in the past. A loyal companion would be at your side, and with just a few pats on the head your stress from the day would slip away. And no need to worry, a dog can't wear a wire or be subpoenaed to testify (or bark, in this case) at special prosecutor Robert Mueller. No matter what decisions you made by the end of a hard day or how some might've criticized them, your dog won't judge you. If only, Mr. President, you had a dog to turn to before one of your Twitter tirades. It could make all the difference. Dogs don't sleep through the night, so perhaps you could even try reading some of your more questionable tweets to your dog before posting them for real. Maybe that would be enough to get it out of your system? Or as psychologist Chris Blazina, who has written three books about men and their relationship with dogs, suggests, try petting your dog before posting. Chances are that anger will go away and so will your tweeting. And if you're hungry late at night and craving one of those Big Macs or KFC meals you love so much, a dog makes a great kitchen companion. But remember, no human food for your pup unless you want a late-night clean-up in the Lincoln Bedroom! Oh, and don't worry about germs from all this interaction with your dog. Experts say a dog's germs can actually strengthen your immune system. Bonus! Now, before I go any further, you may be wondering why I'm suggesting you get a dog over another kind of pet. Yes, I know that President John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator, and President William Howard Taft had a pet cow. Abraham Lincoln had a pig and Theodore Roosevelt had a bear. Fascinating, all of it. But for you Mr. Trump, I've settled on a dog. Any dog. Cats aren't your style, they're typically more withdrawn. You need the steadiness of a dog. As Brian Hare, the director of the Canine Cognition Center at Duke University warned, "I just envision the cat hiding under a bed somewhere in the White House for four years." Maybe you should rescue a golden retriever -- America's favorite breed -- like my Gatsby to match your golden locks? Trust me, if you asked a golden retriever to take a loyalty pledge, he'd do it. Or maybe you prefer a smaller dog, like a Chihuahua? Just make sure his papers (or documents?) are in order. And despite the fact that you reportedly thought it was "low class" for your VP to move his family pets to DC, including their two cats, snake and rabbit, that menagerie may be just what Mike Pence needs after a long day. Mr. Trump, did you know a dog may actually help you become a better leader? Dogs are direct and transparent. They bite their enemies and love their friends. And experts say they never flip-flop on loyalty. Also, dogs bring people together. They don't see color or party. I think we all agree that's a good thing. People love dogs, which means dogs have great approval ratings. Every little bit counts! "Kind of unwittingly ... a softer side ...starts to come out when you pet your dog and other people see you do that, and some of the pretense ... starts to melt away," says psychologist Blazina. "People see ... a more vulnerable, but certainly a more authentic part, kind of coming through that's warm and caring. So I think if you're a PR person you should be looking for a dog for Trump right now." Look, bottom line is we all know how much you thrived on the adoring attention of your fans and supporters during the campaign, so why not get a dog to fill that void? In a dog's eyes, you're the most important person to them. The only thing that matters. Isn't it time to trade your Twitter feed for some tail wags?
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1382 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/29/africa/egypt-church-attack/index.html">9 dead after gunmen open fire at Coptic church near Cairo</a>
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1389 Nine people were killed Friday after gunmen opened fire at a church near Cairo, officials said, the latest in a string of attacks on minority Coptic Christians in the country this year. The Ministry of the Interior said on its Facebook page that the suspected attacker was 33-year-old Ibrahim Ismail Ismail Moustafa, and he was known to have participated in five different attacks between 2016 and 2017. The ministry's statement called the suspect "a well-known terrorist who participated before in attacks on police men and civilians." ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack late Friday in a statement from the ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq. The group and its affiliates have previously claimed responsibility in several attacks on the minority Christians in other parts of the country. Witnesses told CNN that people were gunned down outside the church on their way out after a service. A CNN reporter at the scene saw bullet holes and broken glass in the church's facade, and pools of blood on the ground. The assault was carried out at the St. Mina Coptic Church in Helwan, a district on the southern outskirts of the Egyptian capital. A witness told CNN that he saw two attackers, but officials have given conflicting accounts of how many people were involved. Father Aghathon Riad told CNN that about 10 minutes after Mass ended, the sound of shots rang out. "I went downstairs to check what was happening," he said. "I instructed the people in the ground floor to go upstairs. I took some of them to my office." One of the church's servants, Riad said, managed to close the door of the church before the attacker entered. "This saved a lot of lives," he said, though it didn't stop the attacker from shooting at the church's doors. Police guards exchanged fire with the attackers, delaying their approach to the door, he said. Bullets shattered glass, but no one inside the church was hurt, Riad said. One suspected assailant was arrested with a machine gun, ammunition and a bomb that he had planned to use in the church, the Interior Ministry told state media. Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed said that a second attacker was shot dead by Egyptian security forces. Among the nine killed were eight Christians and a police officer, who was Muslim. Five others were wounded, including two in critical condition, the Health Ministry said. Father Ebram Mikhail, the archbishop of the Helwan district, told CNN that worshipers still inside the church could hear the machine gun firing rounds for about 15 minutes. Badr Mohamed Badr, a fruit seller, witnessed the attack from his stall and said he saw a shooter on a motorcycle fire a gun at a police officer. He said he saw two attackers, one watching the road and the other firing a machine gun. A security cordon was put up at the scene and officials were inspecting the site. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi gave his condolences to the relatives of victims in a statement released by his office. "The Presidency of the Republic reiterates that these desperate terrorist attempts will not undermine the resolve and the entrenched national unity of the Egyptian people, but will only increase their determination to continue on the path to eliminate terrorism and extremism from their country," the statement read. Friday evening, crowds of Coptic Christians packed the Helwan district's archbishopric to attend a funeral service for victims of the attack. According to state-run media outlet Ahram Online, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, expressed his sympathy to the victims. "All condolences to their families and to the police, the church and to Egypt, which will still be strong and capable of defeating insensitive and dark and violence forces which have no conscience," Tawadros said. Coptic Christians make up the majority of Egypt's roughly 9 million Christians and are the largest Christian community in the Middle East. In May, gunmen killed at least 28 Coptic Christians aboard a bus traveling along a desert road on the way to a monastery. On Palm Sunday, 49 people were killed in bombings at two churches in Tanta and Alexandria. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks, though it offered no proof of its connections to it.
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1405 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/opinions/trump-politifact-lie-of-year-obeidallah-opinion/index.html">Trump finally gets the honor he deserves</a>
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1412 Donald Trump is right -- he doesn't always get the credit he deserves. And Trump isn't bashful about making that point. In November while on Fox News -- his seemingly go-to network for daily "intelligence briefings" -- he complained to host Laura Ingraham that despite leading "one of the greatest" economic revivals in "the history of our country," he was "not getting enough credit for it." And Trump made that very point yet again a few days ago with his tweet: "... So many things accomplished by the Trump Administration, perhaps more than any other President in first year. Sadly, will never be reported correctly by the Fake News. Media!" Finally, it looks like things are changing. The non-partisan PolitiFact.com -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking media outlet -- recently announced its signature annual award. After reviewing scores of statements made by politicians this year, it has declared that the big winner of "Lie of the Year" for 2017 goes to one told by (cue the drum roll and prepare the confetti) Donald J. Trump! That has to bring some joy for Trump as he spends time this week at his exclusive, for-profit country club Mar-a-Largo -- or as he has nicknamed it the "Winter White House." You might be asking which Trump lie did PolitiFact choose, considering Trump has served up more "whoppers" than Burger King. Well, it goes back to May 2017 when Trump told NBC's Lester Holt that, "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story." As PolitiFact notes, Trump told different versions of that lie several times in 2017, such as in September when he tweeted, "The Russia hoax continues." But it was his comment in May that earned Trump this "honor." Although there hasn't been any evidence that points to direct collusion between Trump and Russians, there is no denying that the Russians interfered in the presidential election. Still, the President continues to do just that -- despite evidence of Russian meddling. As PolitiFact pointed out, "Trump could acknowledge the interference happened while still standing by the legitimacy of his election and his presidency -- but he declines to do so. Sometimes he'll state firmly there was "no collusion" between his campaign and Russia, an implicit admission that Russia did act in some capacity. Then he reverts back to denying the interference even happened." I wish Trump would give a speech accepting this award. I could see him thanking himself for being one the greatest fabricators ever. Trump would then slam the "haters and losers" and of course those in the "fake news" who doubted he would ever win such an honor. But simply recognizing Trump for this one lie is unfair to all the others he told in 2017. So let's take a quick stroll down Trump "Pants on Fire" lane, courtesy of PolitiFact, to look back at some of the other tall tales he gave us. There were Trump's lies about policy. For example, in September while stumping to build support for tax cuts, Trump declared that ending the estate tax would "protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer." In reality, this tax at the time only applied to estates worth over $5.49 million for individuals or $10.98 million dollars if a married couple. Add to that, this tax was paid by a total of 5,460 estates in 2017. Thus, Trump's claim that millions of small businesses and farmers would benefit was a big, fat lie. Trump also lied when attacking his political opponents. In July, Trump took to Twitter to go after Amazon because its founder, Jeff Bezos, is also the owner of The Washington Post which has dared to criticize the President. In a possible effort to spark a congressional inquiry into the company, Trump tweeted, "Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?" In reality, Amazon is neither a monopoly nor a company that doesn't pay taxes. Amazon actually paid $412 million in taxes in 2016, according to regulatory findings. Who knows what Trump paid? The American people don't, because Trump has refused to release his tax returns. Trump even lied while attacking people who were standing up to white supremacy. In August, Trump stated that white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit." This was the same press conference where Trump infamously stated that there were "very fine people on both sides." In reality, those protesting the vile white supremacists actually had a permit despite Trump's attempt to smear them. And there were just so many other "Pants on Fire" lies by Trump in 2017 from his February statement that terrorism attacks in Europe are so frequent it has "gotten to a point where it's not even being reported," to his lie last week that the federal government's diversity visa program gives us "the worst of the worst" of people from other countries. Although Trump's "Lie of the Year" award may be a bit tarnished in his eyes because he isn't the first president to receive it -- one of his arch-nemeses, President Barack Obama, beat him to it when he received this honor back in 2013 -- at the rate Trump is going, I bet he will win this award many, many more times before he finally leaves the White House.
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1435 A suicide bomb attack on a Shia cultural center in Afghanistan left 41 people dead and dozens injured. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
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1451 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/us/five-things-december-28-trnd/index.html">5 things for December 28: Afghanistan attack, weather, Vladimir Putin</a>
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1458 Fancy yourself a fixer-upper type? There's a half-built skyscraper with your name on it. (It'll only set you back $85 million.) Now, here's what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Afghanistan attack Once again, a terror attack has rocked Kabul. This time, it was a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives in the meeting room of a Shiite cultural center. The blast killed at least 40 people. Attacks such as these are becoming depressingly regular in the Afghan capital. Terrorists have attacked mosques, military bases, even sport stadiums. They've targeted civilians, police and the military in equal measure. 2. Weather If you live in the Midwest or Northeast, the end of 2017 is going to straight up chill you to the bone. The blast of Arctic air that's frozen the Midwest spreads to the Northeast, just in time for New Year's Eve. So, when you're out and about celebrating the holiday, keep your skin covered as much as possible to protect from frostbite. International Falls, Minnesota -- a place that knows a little something about cold temps -- had a record-breaking low temperature of -36 degrees F yesterday. And Erie, Pennsylvania, sits under 65 inches (!!!) of snow. 3. Sexual harassment Women combat sexual harassment and assault at work and on the streets. They're fighting the same battles in the air, too: unwanted groping and worse on planes. Airlines say they have zero tolerance for this type of misbehavior, but often flight attendants come across like they don't really know how to handle such situations. And it's difficult to determine just how widespread the problem is because the federal government doesn't track numbers. 4. Taxes The GOP tax plan has been the law of the land for less than a week but already it's spurred a change -- people paying their property taxes early. Residents in high-tax states like California and New York are rushing to pay up because the new tax plan limits the amount of money you can deduct for state income, sales and property taxes to $10,000. Right now those deductions are unlimited. 5. Vladimir Putin If there were any doubts that Vladimir Putin excercises nearly total control in Russia, the past couple of days should erase them. The Russian President is officially running for re-election for a fourth term, in a race that he'll most certainly win. It helps that his only serious opponent, Alexey Navalny, has been conveniently barred from running. Putin has also pretty much given his security forces a license to kill, saying they should "terminate" criminals if they feel their lives are in danger: "Act decisively, take no hostages and terminate the bandits on the spot." BREAKFAST BROWSE Take the Trump train Israel's naming a high-speed rail station in Jerusalem after President Trump, as the whole country experiences a Trump-naming frenzy. Twitter trim Twitter is too much for even the Library of Congress now. No longer will it save every single public tweet. Alas, your rants are now lost to history. They have so much in common For over 60 years these friends were bros for life. Then a DNA test revealed they were bros for real. Time's (almost) up If you know something about the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, you better speak up. The $10 million reward ends soon. Not all fun and games Play video games -- a lot? Next year, the World Health Organization will list it as a mental disorder. WHAT'S FOR LUNCH But wait, there's Moore! Alabama is supposed to certify Doug Jones' Senate election win today. But Roy Moore isn't going down easy. The Republican, who lost by more than 20,000 votes, has filed a complaint claiming voter fraud and wants a new special election. NUMBER OF THE DAY 16 The number of years in a row that Hillary Clinton has been named America's most-admired woman in an annual Gallup poll. Among men, Barack Obama is the most admired, followed by President Trump. AND FINALLY ... 'What's up dude?' It's 70 people from 70 countries doing their best imitations of American accents. Note to the rest of the world: we don't all sound like California valley girls. (Click to view)
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1474 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/middleeast/assad-erdogan-terrorist-intl/index.html">Syria hits back after Turkey's Erdogan calls Assad a 'terrorist'</a>
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1481 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reignited a war of words with the president of neighboring Syria, calling him a "terrorist" who has no place in negotiations over the country's future. The insults directed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came as aid workers evacuated the first of 29 people who had been trapped in the besieged Syrian region of Eastern Ghouta. Previously, Erdogan had said that around 500 people -- including 170 women and children -- required "urgent humanitarian aid," according to Turkey's TRT and Russia's Sputnik news agencies. Assad had repeatedly refused aid into the enclave and evacuations out of Eastern Ghouta. It's one of Syria's last rebel strongholds, but it has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years. On Wednesday, Erdogan said it was "absolutely impossible" to move ahead on Syrian peace talks while Assad remains in power, according to Turkey's state-run news agency Anadolu. Erdogan made the comments after a closed-door meeting with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in Tunis where he's on an official visit. Trading barbs Erdogan called Assad, who has grimly clung to power during the protracted conflict that has wracked his nation for the past seven years, "a terrorist involved in state terrorism." He asked how anyone could "embrace the future with the president of a Syria who killed close to one million of its citizens." Syria's Foreign Ministry shot back at the remarks, accusing Erdogan of being "responsible" for spilling the blood of the Syrian people, according to a statement released by Syrian state-run news agency SANA. "The entry of the Turkish forces to the Syrian territory reveals one image of the Turkey's support to takfiri terrorism," SANA said. The statement slammed what it characterized as Erdogan's "paranoia and illusions of the past," which "made him forget that his old empire has vanished and that the free people of the world have the choice to make their national decisions and defend their sovereignty and they will not allow Erdogan to interfere in their affairs." The US has also said a peaceful solution in Syria is not possible while Assad remains in power. In an opinion piece for the New York Times, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, while the US was "on guard against Russian aggression," the US was willing to work with Russia where "mutual interests intersect." "Nowhere is that more evident than in Syria," he said. "Now that President Vladimir Putin has committed to the United Nations-backed Geneva political process for providing a new future for Syria, we expect Russia to follow through. We are confident that the fulfillment of these talks will produce a Syria that is free of Bashar al-Assad and his family," he said. Uncertain future Russia, Iran and Turkey have been working to bring together warring factions in Syria and end hostilities that have dragged on for seven years. At the end of January, Moscow will host talks involving "all segments of Syrian society" -- including Kurdish representatives, which Turkey opposes -- at an international meeting at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Assad for the first since 2015 in the same Russian city to discuss the future of Syria. At the time, Putin said Assad had expressed his commitment to finding a peaceful solution and new elections. Putin and his government have been one of the chief supporters of the Assad regime, both militarily and in helping to negotiate ceasefires in the country's long-running civil war. Opinion: 10 questions that could keep you up at night in 2018 Evacuations from Eastern Ghouta On Wednesday, aid agencies began evacuating the first patients who've been trapped in Eastern Ghouta, part of four de-escalation zones negotiated by the Russian, Iranian and Turkish governments in May. Assad's government has accused rebel groups there of using civilians as human shields, and has refused to allow access to the embattled suburb. Earlier this week, Erdogan was quoted by Turkish and Russian state media as Turkish and Russian chiefs of staff would work together to carry out the evacuation of hundreds of people who in need of urgent aid, TRT reported. Since the war began in 2011, an estimated 400,000 Syrians have been killed, according to the United Nations. Assad has ruled Syria as President since July 2000. The ongoing violence against civilians has been condemned by the Arab League, the European Union, the United States and other countries. As of March 2017, more than 5 million Syrians have fled the country and 6.3 million people are displaced internally.
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1504 ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Shia cultural center in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, that left 41 people dead and dozens injured. Two children were among the dead and 84 people were injured in the blast, according to a Health Ministry spokesman. The attack rocked the center in the basement of a building in the west of the city at around 10:30 a.m. (12.30 a.m ET) Thursday morning. It also hit the Afghan News Agency, which has an office on the floor above, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said. Two more blasts followed at the same building, but caused no injuries. The ISIS-affiliated Amaq News Agency said the terror group carried out the attack. A crowd of just under 100 people were meeting at the cultural center to mark the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when a bomber infiltrated the crowd and detonated the device, according to journalist Ehsanullah Amiri, who was at the scene. Ambulances and police vehicles ferried the dead and wounded to nearby hospitals, Amiri said, as security forces cordoned off the site and blocked the main road approaching the scene. Authorities also warned onlookers to stay away from the site of the explosion, where there is also a Shia mosque. Both the Afghan capital and the wider country are beset with attacks on its military, police and civilian populations. ISIS and the Taliban have both carried out several attacks in the country this year, and they have also been fighting each other over territory, particularly in the east of the country. The Taliban earlier denied responsibility for the blasts. Earlier this week at least 10 people were killed after a suicide attacker detonated a bomb in an attack claimed by ISIS. That attack targeted an office of the National Directorate of Security, Rahimi said, near the US Embassy and other diplomatic missions. Deadly attacks Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack, saying that the government was determined to eliminate terrorist groups. "Terrorists always hide their defeat against our security forces by attacking mosques, religious places, and educational institutions, and killing our people, including women and children," Ghani wrote on Facebook. "Terrorist groups and their supporters should understand that by doing such crimes they cannot gain success. Day by day, our peoples' hate increases as everyone recognizes them." US Ambassador to Afghanistan John R. Bass said: "The United States continues to stand with all Afghans in their pursuit of peace, security, and prosperity." "This incident once again demonstrates the depravity of those who seek to undermine peace and stability in Afghanistan," he said. "We remain confident the Afghan government and people, supported by their friends and partners, will defeat those behind these terrible acts." The United States has supported the Afghan government in its fight against ISIS, but has dramatically decreased the number of its troops this year. Human rights organization Amnesty International said the attack underscored the dangers faced by Afghan civilians and blasted European leaders for forcibly returning Afghan asylum-seekers to the country. "With the Afghan capital hit once again, no one can credibly claim that Kabul safe. The European governments who insist on this dangerous fiction by forcibly returning Afghans are putting their lives in danger," Amnesty International South Asia Director Biraj Patnaik said. Patnaik added that it was one of the deadliest years on record in the country. Attacks rock Kabul A number of other attacks have targeted the city in recent months: October 20: Dozens of Afghans were killed in two mosque attacks, claimed by ISIS. October 21: A suicide bombing near a military academy took another 15 lives, claimed by the Taliban. October 17: At least 41 soldiers were killed in an attack on their base in eastern Afghanistan, claimed by the Taliban. September 13: A suicide bomber killed three people in a blast outside a cricket stadium in Kabul. August 25: 20 people killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque, for which ISIS claims responsibility.
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1527 More than a dozen people were injured in an explosion at a St. Petersburg supermarket Wednesday, according to Russian state media. President Vladimir Putin called the blast a "terror attack" during an address to military officers Thursday in Moscow, calling for a full investigation. Preliminary data shows that an explosive device found at the scene contained 200 grams (7 ounces) of TNT, state-run RIA news agency reported. The device was inside a locker at a chain supermarket called Perekrestok, located in an entertainment complex. Tass reported that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal investigation into the explosion, citing Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative for the committee. The city has been a target for at least one other explosion this year. Fourteen people were killed and dozens more were injured on April 3 when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the city's metro system. The April explosion, which has been linked to terrorism, occurred on a passenger train traveling through a tunnel in the center of the city.
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1543 <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/27/investing/best-stock-markets-2017-world/index.html">U.S. stocks had a banner year in 2017. These markets did even better</a>
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1550 U.S. stocks were on a first-class ride into record territory in 2017. But they weren't alone. The value of public companies on global stock markets grew by $12.4 trillion in 2017, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices, which included dividends in its calculation. A number of markets even outperformed the U.S. Here's a look at the biggest stock market winners of 2017: The United States U.S. stocks were front and center as investors bet on strong economic growth, solid corporate earnings and hopes that President Trump would roll back regulations. Trump also boosted markets with a big corporate tax cut. The Dow Jones industrial average shot up by 25%, the S&P 500 surged by 19% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq index outshined them with all with a stunning 28% gain. Argentina Argentina's Merval index surged 77% this year and hit a record high in the final week of 2017. The election of President Mauricio Macri in late 2015 proved to be a turning point: The economy is growing and stocks have rallied strongly. The Merval gained 45% in 2016. Macri pursued a number of economic reforms this year, helping to further boost business confidence. "President Macri navigated political risks well in 2017, and with no elections scheduled in 2018, Argentina actually stands out as a political safe haven in Latin America for the year ahead," said asset management firm Algebris Investments. Still, there's more to be done: Inflation is above 20% and the currency continues to weaken. Nigeria The Nigerian All-Share index is still miles below record highs set in early 2008, but a 42% rally in 2017 has helped to close the gap. The index suffered mightily in 2015 and 2016 as low oil prices, militant attacks, currency troubles, elections and Ebola hit investor sentiment. But oil prices have moved higher, the central bank has made it easier to swap currencies and the economy has snapped out of recession, explained Zin Bekkali, founder and CEO of Silk Invest. Many analysts are optimistic that stocks could keep rising in 2018. "If you look at where we stand today, the [Nigerian] market is still one of the cheapest markets on the planet," said Bekkali. Turkey An attempted coup in 2016 and a series of terror attacks sent chills through the Turkish economy. Yet the country's benchmark index rallied by 48% this year as the government implemented temporary tax cuts and a loan guarantee program that encouraged banks to lend to small businesses. GDP growth soared, reaching 11.1% in the third quarter. The stock market performance was also helped by the falling Turkish lira, said Neil Shearing, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics. Now experts are warning that the good times can't last forever. "From here on we think the economy is getting close to overheating," said Daniel Salter, global head of equities at Renaissance Capital. Hong Kong The Hang Seng charged ahead by 36%, but China's major mainland indexes in Shanghai and Shenzhen floundered. Why the disparity? It's all about Tencent, said Dickie Wong, the head of research at Kingston Financial Group. Shares in the Hong Kong-listed tech giant more than doubled over the past year and the company's valuation briefly eclipsed that of Facebook. WeChat, the company's popular mobile messenger, has close to 1 billion users, and investors have cheered forays into mobile gaming and video streaming. Meanwhile, the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets have languished after state media convinced local investors to be cautious, said Wong. The biggest loser: Qatar While most major stock markets posted sizable gains, the rising tide didn't lift all boats. Gulf nation Qatar's stock market tumbled by 18% amid a spat with its neighbors: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Their decision to cut diplomatic ties and transport links with Qatar in June took the region by surprise. The nations accused Qatar of funding terrorism, a charge it denies. Efforts to restore ties have so far failed. Qatar has found workaround strategies and different trade routes to get by, said Shearing. "A lot of the initial economic disruption has faded," he said. "It doesn't look like [this] will be resolved quickly, but it doesn't look like it's doing vast damage to Qatar's economy." Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly spelled the name Zin Bekkali.
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1573 Thousands of people turned out Tuesday for the funeral of a militant separatist leader killed in a shoot-out with security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir. Noor Mohammad Tantray, a commander in the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) group, was shot dead by Indian security forces during a fierce gunfight in Pulwama district, located 14.2 miles (23 kms) from the Himalayan state's summer capital of Srinagar, on Monday night. Tantray, 47, was the operational chief of the Pakistan-based group for south Kashmir, according to Mohammad Zahid, the Pulwama district police superintendent. Tantray was arrested in Delhi on charges in 2003 of conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released on parole in 2015, according to CNN affiliate CNN News 18. "Noor went underground and soon became the key man of JeM in coordinating and organizing attacks at different places ... He was wanted in (relation to) a number of terror offenses in south and central Kashmir," police spokesman Manoj Pundita told CNN. Tantray was also believed to have been the mastermind behind an attack on a Border Security Force camp near Srinagar airport that left one soldier dead in October. At just 4 feet 3 inches (1.29m) Tantray was an instantly recognizable figure, something that police say could have attributed to his eventual death. "He could easily get mixed up in a crowd without being noticed because of his shorter height. But at the same time, since his profile was very well known to the security agencies, his less than average height was also a disadvantage as he was easily identifiable," said a senior police officer who wished to remain anonymous in Tantray's hometown of Tral. Who are Jaish-e-Mohammad Jaish-e-Mohammed, which translates to the Army of the Prophet Mohammed, is a Pakistan-based militant separatist organization that operates on both sides of the border of the disputed state. The group, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the US State Department since 2001, seeks to unite the Indian controlled area of Kashmir with Pakistan. Along with a series of attacks in Kashmir, the group was blamed for a 2001 attack on the central parliament building in New Delhi, which left 13 people dead. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the terror group behind the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 164 people, was also blamed for the attack. In July 2004, Pakistani authorities arrested a JeM member wanted in connection with the 2002 abduction and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The death of Tantray is regarded as a major success for Indian security forces in their ongoing battle with Kashmir's multiple separatist groups. Violence in Kashmir has continued to flare up throughout 2017, following the death of Burhan Wani, a young militant leader in 2016. Wani, a member of the Hizbul Mujahideen militant group, was known for using social media to reach out to Kashmiri youth. His death sparked a new wave of unrest that claimed more than 90 civilian lives and left thousands wounded. Scores were also partially or fully blinded by pellet guns, a controversial move adopted by Indian security forces to quell protests.
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1596 The Trump administration pressed ahead with yet another round of sanctions on two key North Korea leaders, as it moves to cripple any financial ties that might aid the rogue nation's nuclear weapons program. The Treasury Department's latest step follows a decision by the United Nations Security Council last Friday to impose new stronger sanctions on North Korea to halt its ability to raise illicit funds.
1597"Treasury is targeting leaders of North Korea's ballistic missile programs, as part of our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the DPRK and achieve a fully denuclearized Korean Peninsula," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement Tuesday. The measure targets two senior officials involved with the development of North Korea's ballistic missile program: Kim Jong Sik and Ri Pyong Chol. As a result of the order, those individuals will now be blocked from making any transactions with U.S. individuals and businesses. Related: Will sanctions kill North Korea's quiet consumer revolution? The latest move comes weeks after Pyongyang conducted an intercontinental ballistic missile test. Following the launch, the nation's leader, Kim Jong Un, said the country could now strike the United States with a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The missile test prompted Trump to warn in a tweet that 'major' new sanctions were coming soon. Trump has promised to rain "fire and fury" on North Korea if it continues to threaten the United States or its allies. In November, the president telegraphed plans by the administration to roll out a series of actions. Related: Russia just gave North Korea's internet a big boost Already, the Treasury Department has added eight North Korean banks and more than two dozen North Korean nationals working in countries like China, Russia and Libya to its sanctions list. Treasury has also slapped sanctions on a Chinese businessman and several North Korean shipping and trading companies and vessels. The North Korean regime is believed to use a complex network of front companies to do business in China and other countries to dodge the economic restrictions. North Korea is also known to employ deceptive shipping practices, including ship-to-ship transfers. The White House also recently added the rogue nation back to the list of state of sponsors of terrorism. President George W. Bush removed North Korea from the list in 2008. It is now one of only four countries in the world with that label. The others are Iran, Sudan and Syria. The announcement was seen by analysts as a way for the administration to heighten pressure on other countries to stop doing business with North Korea. Despite the growing list of sanctions, Pyongyang has continued to test missiles.
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1620 Some of the most ferocious critics of President Trump's foreign policy are leading Republican thinkers and writers such as military historians Max Boot and Eliot Cohen, along with Michael Gerson, who was President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter. In venues such as Foreign Policy, The Atlantic and The Washington Post they have described Trump as "utterly incompetent" (Boot) and as running a foreign policy defined by "blunder, inattention, miscomprehension or willfulness" (Cohen). They've also pointed to his "fundamental unfitness for high office" (Gerson). And those are reviews of Trump's foreign policy record by some of his fellow Republicans. But what the critics don't acknowledge is that Trump and his national security team have actually scored some real foreign policy wins in the past year that have been sometimes obscured by Trump's penchant for bloviation, bluster and belligerence. (And I don't mean self-described Trump wins, such as the "travel ban" whose effects on containing terrorism in the States will likely be negligible, as lethal terrorist attacks on American soil since 9/11 have invariably been the work of self-radicalized US citizens and legal residents.) Red line The first win is that Trump enforced a real "red line" against the use of nerve gas in Syria by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, something that Obama had failed to do. On April 4, 2017, the Syrian regime used sarin, a nerve gas, against civilian targets in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, killing more than 80 people. Trump called the attack an "affront to humanity" and said that it "crossed a lot of lines for me. When you kill innocent children, innocent babies ... that crosses many, many lines -- beyond a red line." Two days after the sarin attack, American warships launched 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield, the first direct military action that the United States has taken against Assad's regime. Assad hasn't used chemical weapons against his own people since Trump ordered those cruise missile strikes in April. The enforcement of the important international prohibition against the use of nerve gas is certainly an achievement for the Trump administration. A flurry of cruise missile strikes, of course, doesn't make a Syria strategy, and the precise contours of Trump's game plan for Syria going forward are not clear — at least not publicly. What is clear is that ISIS is almost completely defeated in Syria and is largely eliminated from all of its havens in Iraq. The defeat of ISIS has been a long time coming, and most of the anti-ISIS campaign took place under the Obama administration. But the Trump national security team helped to hasten the defeat of ISIS in two ways. First, Trump decided to equip the anti-ISIS Syrian Democratic Forces -- a largely Kurdish militia -- with mortars, anti-tank weapons, armored cars and machine guns. Those forces captured ISIS's de facto Syrian capital, Raqqa, in October. Second, Trump allowed American ground commanders greater latitude to carry out operations in war zones such as Iraq and Syria without consulting higher up the chain of command. Pentagon brass had long chafed at what they considered to be the micromanagement of military operations by the Obama White House. Greater stability in Iraq and Afghanistan As a result of ISIS's defeat in Iraq, the country is more stable than it has been for more than three years. I traveled to Iraq earlier this month and the Iraqis I spoke with were cautiously optimistic that the recent gains against ISIS might help to produce some kind of lasting peace. In late August Trump announced a plan to bring some modicum of stability to Afghanistan, where the Taliban have asserted more control in the past year or so. In addition to sending a mini-surge of several thousand more troops to the country, Trump made it clear that the US commitment to Afghanistan is long term and "conditions-based." Trump did not impose any timetable for withdrawing US forces from the country, which was the counterproductive approach that the Obama administration had taken. The Afghan government has welcomed this long-term American commitment to Afghanistan. The big bet As important as they are, these successes don't amount to a vindication of Trump's overall foreign policy and there are still a great many open questions about his approach to the world. In the Middle East, Trump has placed a big bet on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the 32-year-old future king of Saudi Arabia, whom the Trump administration has eagerly embraced. MBS, as he is widely known, has launched "Vision 2030," a wildly ambitious plan to wean the Saudi economy from its total dependence on oil and end the quasi-socialist Saudi state in which most Saudis work for the government and pay no taxes while getting free health care and education as well as subsidies for electricity and gas. MBS is also liberalizing Saudi society. He has curbed the powers of the feared religious police, and has plans to allow women to drive and to open up once-banned movie theaters. At the same time MBS has abandoned Saudi Arabia's traditionally conservative foreign policy by launching a war in Yemen, which has turned into a fiasco, and blockading neighboring Qatar, which has devolved into a standoff with no end in sight. MBS also deposed the previous Crown Prince, Mohamed bin Nayef, and has arrested hundreds of businessmen and royal family members who represent alternative power centers to his increasingly dictatorial rule, charging them with corruption. It's not clear how Trump's big bet on MBS will ultimately play out, but the fact is that Trump embraced the young prince early in his administration. And over the past year MBS has amassed enormous amounts of power in a country that is a key American ally. Similarities with Obama Trump often underlines his many differences with Obama but in the realm of national security there are, in fact, some important continuities between the two administrations. The Trump administration has continued the Obama doctrine of avoiding big, conventional wars in the Middle East. Instead, the Trump team has kept in place much of the counter-terrorism architecture that Obama developed, including his overall approach to the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and his reliance on Special Operations Forces and drones rather than on large-scale conventional forces to achieve American military goals. In Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, Trump continues the drone campaigns that were a signature of Obama's administration. Despite Trump's sometimes-inflammatory rhetoric about NATO, Trump's team has remained strong supporters of the alliance, which continues to play an important role in Afghanistan. The Trump team has also called for NATO members to spend more on defense — the goal is 2% of each country's GDP -- which is exactly what the Obama administration also called for, albeit somewhat more diplomatically. Trump himself may make nice with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but his national security team takes many of the same positions on Russia that Obama did. Trump's National Security Strategy, published on December 18, states that Russia is "using information tools in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of democracies" and criticizes Russian aggression against its neighbors by saying, "With its invasions of Georgia and Ukraine, Russia demonstrated its willingness to violate the sovereignty of states in the region." And this strategy document reflects real policies. On Friday the Trump administration announced its plans to arm the government of Ukraine with anti-tank weapons to help it fight Russian-backed separatists. North Korea, China and terrorism Despite Trump's bellicose rhetoric, the North Koreans are continuing their nuclear weapons program. The Trump administration, like the Obama administration, hopes that China will influence Kim Jong Un to behave responsibly while simultaneously ratcheting up sanctions on his regime. Also, as the Obama administration before it, Trump's National Security Strategy worries that China "is building the most capable and well-funded military in the world, after our own," and warns that Chinese "land reclamation projects and militarization of the South China Seas flouts international law, threatens the free flow of trade, and undermines stability. China has mounted a rapid military modernization campaign designed to limit U.S. access to the region." Obama's response to Chinese expansionism in Asia was the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade pact between a dozen nations that excluded China. Despite his national security team's concerns about Chinese ambitions, Trump withdrew from the TPP, seeming to misunderstand it as simply a trade deal rather than also an effort to contain China. Trump, like Obama, has not sent any additional prisoners to Guantanamo, instead relying on federal courts to try terrorists. Like Obama, he also has not pushed for coercive interrogations to resume. The hyper-nationalists who once ran the show at the Trump White House -- including Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka -- are largely gone. As a result, the White House is no longer pushing the cartoonish view that Islam is the cause of terrorism. Wins and losses To be sure, the Trump administration has scored some self-inflicted foreign policy losses such as the withdrawal from the TPP and, most recently, the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel instead of Tel Aviv. The Trump administration didn't secure any kind of concession from the Israelis, such as obtaining a commitment to freeze the building of settlements in Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem, in exchange for this gift. The Jerusalem decision has also ensured that any efforts by the Trump administration to revive the moribund peace process will likely be ignored by the Palestinians going forward. But the fact remains that the Trump administration has helped to speed the demise of ISIS, bringing a measure of stability to Iraq and also reducing the scope of the terrorist threat that the group poses. At the same time, Trump has initiated a plan in Afghanistan that reduces the possibility that the country could slip back into an anarchic state conducive to groups such as ISIS securing a large presence in the country. And Trump's national security team largely continues many of the policies they inherited from Obama, whether on Russia, the "war on terror" or North Korea. Correction: An earlier version gave the wrong date for the chemical weapons attack against a rebel-held town in Syria.
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1636 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/25/europe/queen-speech-manchester-grenfell-intl/index.html">Queen pays tribute to terror and fire victims in Christmas speech</a>
1637 </h3>
1638 <div class="cnn-search__result-publish-date">
1639 <span class="icon icon--timestamp"></span>
1640 <span>Dec 25, 2017</span>
1641 </div>
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1643 Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute to the victims of the Manchester terror attack and the Grenfell Tower fire in London during her annual Christmas Day message Monday. Speaking from Buckingham Palace in a recorded address, she told of the "privilege" of meeting those injured in the Manchester attack that killed 22 people attending an Ariana Grande concert. She also commended the country's emergency services, which have endured a difficult year with a series of terror attacks in London. The Queen also spoke about those who lost family members in the Grenfell Tower fire in which 71 people perished. "For many, the idea of 'home' reaches beyond a physical building -- to a hometown or city," she said in her televised address. "This Christmas, I think of London and Manchester, whose powerful identities shone through over the past 12 months in the face of appalling attacks. In Manchester, those targeted included children who had gone to see their favorite singer. A few days after the bombing, I had the privilege of meeting some of the young survivors and their parents. "I describe that hospital visit as a privilege because the patients I met were an example to us all, showing extraordinary bravery and resilience. Indeed, many of those who survived the attack came together just days later for a benefit concert. It was a powerful reclaiming of the ground, and of the city those young people call home." Difficult year The UK has been hit by a number of terror attacks over the past year with three of those targeting London. In March, a terrorist plowed his vehicle into pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge, killing four people, before stabbing a police officer to death outside Parliament. In June, a vehicle and knife attack left eight people dead in the London Bridge area of the capital. Later that month, one man died and nine people were hospitalized after a terrorist attack targeting London's Muslim community. In Manchester, 22 were killed and 60 injured during May's suicide bomb attack on the city's concert hall. The Queen also spoke of her pain of the tragedy of Grenfell Tower, as well as those who lost their homes and loved ones in Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Read: After the horror, anger flares in west London "We expect our homes to be a place of safety -- sanctuary even -- which makes it all the more shocking when the comfort they provide is shattered," she said. "A few weeks ago, the Prince of Wales visited the Caribbean in the aftermath of hurricanes that destroyed entire communities. And here in London, who can forget the sheer awfulness of the Grenfell Tower fire? "Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who died and those who lost so much; and we are indebted to members of the emergency services who risked their own lives, this past year, saving others. Many of them, of course, will not be at home today because they are working, to protect us." 70th anniversary The Queen also took the opportunity to speak of her 70 years of marriage to Prince Philip, and his decision to retire from public engagements. She said that events of the past year made her "grateful for the blessings of home and family, and in particular for 70 years of marriage." And she hinted at the arrival of new family members, with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry planning to marry in May, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge expecting their third child in April. "I don't know that anyone had invented the term 'platinum' for a 70th wedding anniversary when I was born," she said. "You weren't expected to be around that long. Even Prince Philip has decided it's time to slow down a little -- having, as he economically put it, 'done his bit.' "But I know his support and unique sense of humor will remain as strong as ever, as we enjoy spending time this Christmas with our family and look forward to welcoming new members into it next year."
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1651 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/25/asia/suicide-explosion-kabul/index.html">
1652 <img src="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/171225085339-01-kabul-attack-1225-story-body.jpg">
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1659 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/25/asia/suicide-explosion-kabul/index.html">Suicide blast in Kabul kills at least 10</a>
1660 </h3>
1661 <div class="cnn-search__result-publish-date">
1662 <span class="icon icon--timestamp"></span>
1663 <span>Dec 25, 2017</span>
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1666 At least 10 people are dead after a suicide attacker detonated a bomb Monday in the Afghan capital of Kabul, officials told CNN. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack took place near an office of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) close to Abdulhaq Square, said Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry. He said the attacker was targeting the NDS office. The NDS office is near the US Embassy, along with several other diplomatic missions. At least five people were injured, according to Saleem Rasooli, director of Kabul hospitals. Attacks on both official and unofficial targets are commonplace in Kabul and throughout Afghanistan. Last month, gunmen stormed a television station in the capital, killing a security guard and injuring five others, including four firefighters. The siege ended after a three-hour standoff with police that left all the attackers dead, Kabul police said. In October, dozens of Afghans were killed in two mosque attacks, claimed by ISIS, only to be followed the next day by a suicide bombing near a military academy which took another 15 lives. Also in October, at least 41 soldiers were killed in an attack on their base in eastern Afghanistan. In September, a suicide bomber killed three people in a blast outside a cricket stadium in Kabul, and the month before ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital, which left 20 people dead.
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1682 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/24/us/ahmad-rahimi-hunger-strike/index.html">Chelsea bomber tried to radicalize inmates, prosecutors say</a>
1683 </h3>
1684 <div class="cnn-search__result-publish-date">
1685 <span class="icon icon--timestamp"></span>
1686 <span>Dec 24, 2017</span>
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1689 The man convicted in the 2016 bombing in New York's Chelsea neighborhood that injured 30 people has been trying to radicalize other inmates, federal prosecutors say. Ahmad Khan Rahimi also told a judge he is on a hunger strike. Rahimi provided inmates with copies of terrorist propaganda and jihadist materials, including speeches by Osama Bin Laden and the late militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, bomb making instructions, books on jihad and issues of the al Qaeda-backed magazine Inspire, prosecutors said. Rahimi "has been attempting to radicalize fellow inmates in the Metropolitan Correction Center by, among other things, distributing propaganda and publications issued by terrorist organizations," according to a letter from Acting US Attorney Joon H. Kim to US District Judge Richard Berman. Rahimi let other inmates view the items on his laptop and gave them electronic copies, Kim's letter said. Discs of the materials were found in two inmates' possession. Defense attorneys for Rahimi have yet to respond to the allegations. Prosecutors said Rahimi began distributing these materials in October if not earlier. Rahimi was convicted October 16 on eight federal charges in connection with the Chelsea bombing. Among the inmates Rahimi gave the materials to, prosecutors say, is Sajmir Alimehmeti, who is scheduled to go on trial next month on terrorism-related charges. Alimehmeti is represented by attorney Sabrina Shroff, who is also on Rahimi's defense team. Kim wrote to Berman asking for a hearing to make sure Rahimi "has knowingly waived the potential conflict of interest that exists between [Rahimi] and his attorneys." Hunger strike Rahimi also says he's on a hunger strike. In an undated handwritten letter to Berman, Rahimi states that he began a hunger strike on December 8 out of protest because he says his wife and children have not been able to visit him since the end of his trial. "I am on a short time because my sentencing date is on January 18, 2018. Because of this short time and the frustration I have decided to go on a hunger strike," Rahimi wrote. Berman received the letter December 21 and has ordered attorneys for both the government and defense to respond, according to court documents. Rahimi was arrested and charged after a pressure cooker bomb went off in New York's Chelsea neighborhood on September 17, 2016. A second pressure cooker bomb was found a few blocks away, on 27th Street, but didn't detonate. Earlier the same day, a bomb went off near the start of a Marine Corps charity run in Seaside Park, New Jersey. After a two-week trial and roughly four hours of jury deliberation, Rahimi was convicted of charges including the use and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destroying property by means of fire or explosives, and using a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence. During the trial, the prosecution presented evidence -- including DNA and fingerprints -- linking Rahimi to the bombs that were placed in New Jersey and New York. Rahimi faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison, according to an earlier statement from Kim. Rahimi faces separate charges in other jurisdictions in connection with the bomb that went off in Seaside Park, a backpack containing improvised explosive devices found the following day at a transit station in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and a shootout he had with police before being taken into custody.
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1697 <a href="//www.cnn.com/videos/justice/2017/12/24/pennsylvania-shootings-whitfield-lieberman-nr.cnn">
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1705 <a href="//www.cnn.com/videos/justice/2017/12/24/pennsylvania-shootings-whitfield-lieberman-nr.cnn">Homeland Security: Shootings a terror attack</a>
1706 </h3>
1707 <div class="cnn-search__result-publish-date">
1708 <span class="icon icon--timestamp"></span>
1709 <span>Dec 24, 2017</span>
1710 </div>
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1712 The Department of Homeland Security says a string of shootings in Pennsylvania is a terror attack. CNN's Fredricka Whitfield and Dan Lieberman report.
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1728 <a href="//www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/12/24/pennsylvania-police-shootings-dhs-nd.cnn">DHS: Shootings targeted law enforcement</a>
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1732 <span>Dec 24, 2017</span>
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1735 The Department of Homeland Security is calling a series of shootings targeting law enforcement a "terror attack." Authorities said Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty was shot and killed by police in Pennsylvania, after he fired several times at officers.
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1751 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/24/us/pennsylvania-police-shootings/index.html">Pennsylvania police shootings were 'terror attack,' DHS says</a>
1752 </h3>
1753 <div class="cnn-search__result-publish-date">
1754 <span class="icon icon--timestamp"></span>
1755 <span>Dec 24, 2017</span>
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1758 The Department of Homeland Security is calling a series of shootings targeting law enforcement in Pennsylvania a "terror attack." Authorities said Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51, was shot and killed by police Friday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after he fired several times at law enforcement officers throughout the city. The string of shootings began just steps from the state's Capitol building when El-Mofty fired several times at a Capitol Police officer and then, shot and injured at a state trooper. Later, he used two handguns to open fire at several officers who then returned fire and killed him, according to a statement from the Dauphin County district attorney's office. Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico said there was "no doubt that he was directly targeting police officers," CNN affiliate WGAL reported. Tyler Houlton, acting DHS press secretary, referred to the incident as a terror attack in a statement released Saturday. He said the incident highlights the "Trump administration's concerns with extended family chain migration." El-Mofty was a naturalized US citizen who came to the country on a "family-based immigrant visa," Houlton said. "Both chain migration and the diversity visa lottery program have been exploited by terrorists to attack our country," Houlton said, adding that "the programs make it more difficult to keep dangerous people out of the United States and to protect the safety of every American." Local authorities have not confirmed whether they consider the incident as a terror attack. Earlier on Saturday, Republican Rep. Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania, a member of the House homeland security committee, said only that he was going to monitor the incident "for potential links to terrorism." District Attorney Marsico's office issued a statement saying authorities were seeking any information on El-Mofty, who, according to the statement , "has spent time in both Dauphin and Cumberland counties and recently was in the Middle East."
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1774 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/23/politics/pete-hoekstra-apology/index.html">US ambassador apologizes for 2015 remarks he had called 'fake news'</a>
1775 </h3>
1776 <div class="cnn-search__result-publish-date">
1777 <span class="icon icon--timestamp"></span>
1778 <span>Dec 23, 2017</span>
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1781 The new US Ambassador to the Netherlands is apologizing for "certain remarks" he made in 2015 suggesting that the Netherlands was in chaos because of Muslims. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra lied twice to a Dutch news crew about his 2015 comments, calling it "fake news." But on Saturday, he admitted that he "made certain remarks in 2015 and regret the exchange during the Nieuwsuur interview," and apologized. "For the last 17 years I've been passionate about confronting the global threat of terrorism," Hoekstra said in a statement on Twitter. "This has been a long struggle. We still have much to learn." The apology comes after Hoekstra denied comments he made at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's 2015 Restoration Weekend, blaming what he broadly described as the "Islamist movement" for the chaos, referencing a "stealth jihad." "Chaos in the Netherlands. There are cars being burned. There are politicians that are being burned ... and yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands," Hoekstra said then. When Wouter Zwart of CNN affiliate and Dutch broadcaster NOS asked about those comments in an interview in the US Capitol, Ambassador Hoekstra said he never said them. "That is actually an incorrect statement; we would call it fake news," the Ambassador responded. "I never said that." Zwart's report on NOS' Nieuwsuur program then plays the specific portion of Ambassador Hoekstra's 2015 comments. Zwart told CNN he did not play video of the remarks for Hoekstra, saying he "can't imagine he did not know of its existence," because it was widely available online. "People including Intercept have written about it," Zwart said. "Can't imagine he did not know of its existence." Zwart told CNN the Ambassador said, "he had always meant the [no go-zones] comments in a broader context of European problems with 'those areas,'" and that "he reiterated to me that he's never associated that with what's going on in the Netherlands." After an additional discussion on terrorism with the Ambassador, Zwart says he discussed the comments again. His report picks back up with the exchange, with Zwart saying, "You call it fake news. Obviously." "I didn't call that fake news," the Ambassador interjects. "I didn't use the words today. I didn't think I did." In the video, Zwart then looks back at the camera, and says he's surprised and confused by those remarks, he confirmed to CNN. The State Department told CNN they had no comment to make on whether Ambassador Hoekstra stands by his 2015 comments in addition to the exchange with Zwart.
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1789 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/23/opinions/christmas-easter-meaning-christianity-jay-parini-opinion/index.html">
1790 <img src="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151224183251-bethlehem-nativity-scene-00000000-story-body.png">
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1797 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/23/opinions/christmas-easter-meaning-christianity-jay-parini-opinion/index.html">Christmas is about finding what's holy in all of us</a>
1798 </h3>
1799 <div class="cnn-search__result-publish-date">
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1801 <span>Dec 23, 2017</span>
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1804 Billions of people around the world are heading into Christmas, a key celebration for Christianity in all its many variations. But what does this holiday really mean? For a great many Americans, it means commercial excess and big flashy gifts. Donald J. Trump, for instance, has said he has just given the country "a big, beautiful present" in the form of a tax cut, which -- as nearly every analyst suggests -- will deliver a hefty gift to the wealthy. But he's not alone in missing the point of Christmas. It's true that not many of us can say we're having a 350-pound gingerbread replica of our house on display this year, but lots of us run ourselves ragged (or have done so already) doing last-minute shopping, racing around to office parties, or trying to achieve that perfect level of holiday sparkle for our kids. Needless to say, Christmas is not simply about giving presents. It's not about miles of twinkling lights and gigantic cakes or lavish displays of worldly goods. Indeed, the imagery and songs that adorn Christmas in our secular age -- these days, starting even before Halloween -- are sadly a distraction from this holiday's deep meaning. In the secular world, this season is about family, for sure, and valuing the things we love. But for Christians, it's far more interesting and important than this. Lately, in fact, I've begun to think that Christmas rivals, even surpasses, Easter as the major event on the Christian calendar. Let me explain why that's so important. Christians look to Christmas as a time to remember the coming into this world of the Messiah, which in Greek is translated as "the Christ." The season itself is called Advent, which goes back to another Greek word, parousia, which means "miraculous appearance" or "manifestation." Christ was not the last name of Jesus of Nazareth. It was his identity as the voice of God in the human world. Christians believe that Jesus offered that voice to the world, becoming the human face of God. In doing so, he could show humans what God wished for us, how he wanted us to talk, to behave, to live -- as well as to die. Christmas is not just about a sweet child being born in a manger in Bethlehem under difficult circumstances. It's about Incarnation itself. Incarnation is everything in the Christian life. The word means "putting into flesh." God, the spiritual presence, entered the human world in the person of Jesus, Christians believe. Richard Rohr, the great Franciscan priest and theologian, puts it well: "For Franciscans, Christmas is more significant than Easter. Christmas is already Easter!" Jesus was a child born under suspicion (because his parents were not yet married). And it's meaningful that he arrived as a small, insignificant child, one born not from a wealthy or powerful family but, indeed, a refugee family. With the Christmas story as it is presented in Matthew's gospel, the mere existence of Jesus threatened the authority of King Herod, who ruled over ancient Judea. To eradicate this threat, he had all children under the age of two slain, and to escape this act of state terrorism, Jesus and his family fled to Egypt, where they hid until it was safe for the family to return to their home. And so Jesus speaks to everyone who is on the run, to all refugees, to the poor, for those who are excluded because there is "no room at the inn." (And it's not for nothing that he devoted his ministry to those without money or influence, warning the wealthy that it was easier for "a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.") Which brings us back to my argument that Christmas is as important as Easter, the holiday considered the most crucial in the Christian calendar because it commemorates the resurrection of the crucified Jesus. Think about it this way: Christmas is about revealing the divinity in each of us. We have a piece of God in us, and Jesus reveals how to access that holy part of ourselves. Jesus was not God's Plan B. He was Plan A. As Rohr explains, and I've gradually come to believe: "Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity." Rather, Jesus came into this world "to change the mind of humanity about God." Wow. Let's take on Christmas as God intended: as a sacred time to celebrate that instant when the timelessness of God intersected with human time.
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1820 <a href="//www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/12/23/san-francisco-thwarted-attack-schneider-lklv.cnn">FBI: Ex-Marine plotted San Francisco attack (2017)</a>
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1823 <span class="icon icon--timestamp"></span>
1824 <span>Dec 23, 2017</span>
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1827 A former US Marine talked with an undercover FBI employee about carrying out a terror attack over the holidays at Pier 39, a busy shopping and tourist area in San Francisco, according to an affidavit filed in US District Court in California.
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1843 <a href="//www.cnn.com/2017/12/23/asia/melbourne-car-attack-suspect-charged/index.html">Melbourne car attack suspect charged with 18 counts of attempted murder</a>
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1845 <div class="cnn-search__result-publish-date">
1846 <span class="icon icon--timestamp"></span>
1847 <span>Dec 23, 2017</span>
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1850 A driver who plowed into pedestrians on a busy street in Melbourne this week was charged with 18 counts of attempted murder and one count of endangering life, Australian police said Saturday. The crash injured 18 people, including one young child, outside Melbourne's Flinders Street station during rush hour Thursday evening. While the crash was deliberate, there was no evidence of a terror link, said Shane Patton, chief commissioner of Victoria Police. The suspect, a 32-year-old Australian citizen of Afghan descent, was known to police for minor offenses, and had a history of drug use and mental health issues, authorities said. He appeared before the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Saturday. What happened The streets outside Flinders Street Station were busy with commuters and holiday shoppers when the SUV rammed into pedestrians. Witnesses told CNN affiliate Seven Network the car was barreling down the road at about 60 miles per hour (100 kph). "We heard this noise and we looked up, then we just heard, 'bang, bang, bang,' and people flying everywhere," said Jim Stoupas, who owns a doughnut shop nearby. "We had a lot of customers in our shop and they were traumatized." The man was taken into custody by an off-duty police officer after resisting arrest, Patton said. Both the man and the police officer were injured in the scuffle. Another man detained Police detained a 24-year-old man who was filming the incident on his phone, and found three knives in his bag. "We don't yet have any relationship established between the 24-year-old man and the driver. In fact, there may be no relationship between them," Patton said. Flinders Street is one of Melbourne's busiest pedestrian roads, running between a major train station and the bustling city center. This week, it's crowded with commuters and shoppers making last-minute holiday purchases. Police said several of those injured were in critical condition, and a pre-school age child who was hospitalized with a head injury is in serious condition, Ambulance Victoria said. Concrete barriers Australian authorities set up concrete bollards along some Melbourne city roads in June after a series of vehicle-related terror attacks worldwide. The streets and landmarks around Melbourne's Flinders Street station have been the target of multiple attempted terrorist plots, all foiled by police within the past year. Less than a month ago, a man was charged with terrorism offenses over a plan to shoot "as many people as he could" on New Year's Eve at a large public space beside the station. In December last year, Australian police foiled a plot to blow up improvised explosive devices around Melbourne's city center on Christmas Day, including Flinders Street Station. Australian authorities described it as "one of the most substantial terrorist plots disrupted" in several years.
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