Risk of war with North Korea grows every day, says Trump's security adviser
HR McMaster tells defence forum that Kim Jong-un’s regime is the ‘greatest immediate threat to US’
Al-Waleed, a billionaire investor and hotel owner, is a nephew of the Saudi king and he was my boss when I was head of the Al-Arab news channel, which he funded. After three years of development, we launched from Manama, Bahrain in February 2015 - but we were only on air for 11 hours before the Bahraini government shut us down. Why? Likely because we gave just as much airtime to a Shiite activist and politician as we did to the Sunni government.
Zaid Jilani
WASHINGTON STATE HAS a reputation for being progressive, but the southeastern portion of the state is known to be quite conservative.
Japan was under fire for its "research" whaling in the Northwest Pacific as a possible violation of an international treaty on endangered species, while Tokyo's ivory trading practice was also questioned.
HR McMaster tells defence forum that Kim Jong-un’s regime is the ‘greatest immediate threat to US’
The potential of a US war with North Korea is growing each day, Donald Trump’s national security adviser said on Saturday.
Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, HR McMaster said North Korea is “the greatest immediate threat to the United States”.
“I think it’s increasing every day, which means that we are in a race, really, we are in a race to be able to solve this problem,” he said.
Asked about North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test this week, McMaster said US president Donald Trump is committed to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
The New Saudi ArabiaAbsolute Power in the Hands of a Crown Prince
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has embarked on a path to reform his country. But to achieve his goals, he is quashing all forms of critique. That is the wrong way to go.
Two days prior to his arrest in early November, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal sent me a long text message reprimanding me for op-eds I'd written for the Washington Post and the Financial Times. In those pieces, I had dared to criticize Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman for, well, making arrests!Al-Waleed, a billionaire investor and hotel owner, is a nephew of the Saudi king and he was my boss when I was head of the Al-Arab news channel, which he funded. After three years of development, we launched from Manama, Bahrain in February 2015 - but we were only on air for 11 hours before the Bahraini government shut us down. Why? Likely because we gave just as much airtime to a Shiite activist and politician as we did to the Sunni government.
Reporters' Notebook: Can selfies solve Guinea's trash problem?
For the latest edition of "Observers Direct," the Observers team travelled to Guinea to meet Fatoumata Chérif, an activist who uses selfie videos to draw attention to one of the country's chronic problems: trash.
Derek Thomson and Alexandre Capron spent a week with Fatoumata in Conakry, the Guinean capital, filming huge piles of trash across the city, and following some of the thousands of Guineans who make their living from it. Read their reporters' notebook below.
When Guineans asked us what we were filming and we answered "trash," they had two reactions. First they said, "Oh no, I hope you're not going to make us look bad - we're not the only country that has a problem dealing with our trash." But they also thanked us for focusing on a problem that complicates their daily lives.Pope explains why he didn't use the word 'Rohingyas' in Myanmar
Updated 0428 GMT (1228 HKT) December 3, 2017
After a week of taking some heat for not calling the Rohingya refugees by name in Myanmar, Pope Francis explained his controversial decision on Saturday, saying that he did not want to risk shutting down dialogue with the country's leaders.
"Had I said that word, I would have been slamming the door," the Pope told journalists on the flight back from Bangladesh.
"What I thought about it was already well known," Francis said, adding that he mentioned their plight on various occasions from the Vatican.THE OWNER OF TWO POT SHOPS WON A CITY COUNCIL SEAT IN A CONSERVATIVE, RURAL TOWN
Zaid Jilani
WASHINGTON STATE HAS a reputation for being progressive, but the southeastern portion of the state is known to be quite conservative.
It’s there that you will find the small town of Kennewick. The county where Kennewick resides — Benton — was swept by President Donald Trump, with nearly 60 percent of voters backing his bid. And while the state legalized marijuana after a voter referendum, Benton County has been skeptical. They also recently voted for a six-month moratorium on new cannabis production and processing within the county. Many neighboring cities have barred marijuana businesses indefinitely.
But all this didn’t stop 33-year-old Steve Lee, the co-owner of two local marijuana shops, from running for city council and defeating an incumbent in early November. He received 7,138 votes to incumbent Gregory Jones’s 5,351.
Japan's whaling draws fire for possible violation of int'l treaty
Japan was under fire for its "research" whaling in the Northwest Pacific as a possible violation of an international treaty on endangered species, while Tokyo's ivory trading practice was also questioned.
During a five-day meeting of a standing committee on monitoring wildlife trade in Geneva through Friday, Japan drew criticism over its hunting of sei whales in the sea from anti-whaling countries, with Australia pointing out that the research whaling could be for commercial purposes.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES and also known as the Washington Convention, prohibits international trade of sei whales and effectively bans the catching of them in the open sea.
But Japan has continued the research whaling as the convention rules out scientific research from the restrictions.
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