Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Six In The Morning Tuesday 3 December 2019


Trump impeachment evidence overwhelming - House report

Evidence for impeaching US President Donald Trump for misconduct in office is "overwhelming", according to the panel leading the impeachment inquiry.
The president placed personal political interests "above the national interests of the United States", it states in a key report to House lawmakers.
He tried over months to "solicit foreign interference" from Ukraine to help his 2020 re-election bid, it adds.
The report is designed to lay out the case to remove Mr Trump from office.


Turkey threatens to veto Nato plans unless the Syria Kurd militia is labelled ‘a threat’

Officials fear Nato summit will turn into another debacle like defence ministers’ gathering in October

Borzou DaragahiIstanbul @borzou


Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday threatened to scuttle Nato plans to bolster security along its eastern flank unless the military alliance endorses its description of a Syrian Kurdish armed group as a “threat”.
Speaking to reporters before heading to London for a summit of Nato leaders, Mr Erdogan warned his country would continue to veto plans to help Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to defend against Russian encroachments unless the alliance would endorse its stance that the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is a terrorist threat. 

Sikh woman from India tries to flee with Facebook friend from Pak via Kartarpur corridor: Report


Kaur, who was in touch with the man through Facebook, met him at the gurdwara and attempted to go along with him to Faisalabad by showing a Pakistani woman’s permit.

In a filmy-style act, an Indian Sikh woman visiting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur tried to go to Faisalabad city of Punjab province without a visa to meet a Pakistani man she befriended on Facebook, officials said on Tuesday. Manjit Kaur, in her early 20s, visited the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib via the Kartarpur corridor, some 125kms from Lahore, in last week of November, sources said.
Kaur, who was in touch with the man through Facebook, met him at the gurdwara and attempted to go along with him to Faisalabad by showing a Pakistani woman’s permit.

Natural gas drives record CO2 emissions in 2019

Global carbon emissions boosted by soaring natural gas use are set to hit record levels in 2019 despite a decline in coal consumption and a string of countries declaring a climate emergency, researchers said Wednesday.
In its annual analysis of fossil fuel trends, the Global Carbon Project said CO2 emissions were on course to rise 0.6 percent this year -- slower than previous years but still a world away from what is needed to keep global warming in check.
In three peer-reviewed studies, authors attributed the rise to "robust growth" in natural gas and oil, which offset significant falls in coal use in the United States and Europe.

Michael Bloomberg has only himself to blame for Trump's media ban


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It's never a good day when a US President bans reporters from one of the country's major media outlets from covering their campaign events, as Donald Trump did on Monday (Tuesday Australian time).
In a statement, Trump's campaign chief Brad Parscale announced that Bloomberg News journalists would not receive accreditation for Trump campaign rallies and other events. The Republican National Committee said it would do the same.

New details on covert Israeli operation in Gaza revealed

Failed Israeli undercover mission in Gaza Strip in November 2018 attempted to infiltrate Hamas's communications.

New details have emerged about a botched Israeli intelligence operation in the Gaza Strip in November 2018 that sparked deadly Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rocket fire.
Eight undercover Israeli agents - who were disguised as Palestinians and had taken the aliases of a real family in Gaza - entered the coastal enclave on November 11 last year with the objective of planting listening devices on Hamas's private communications system, an investigation by Al Jazeera Arabic's Ma Khafia Aaza


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