Rouhani warns foreign forces in Middle East 'may be in danger'
Iranian president's remarks come after UK, France and Germany challenged Tehran over breaking limits of nuclear deal.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has told foreign powers to withdraw their forces from the Middle East, warning that they "may be in danger" if they remain in the region.
"Today, the American soldier is in danger, tomorrow the European soldier could be in danger," Hassan Rouhani said in televised remarks on Wednesday, without elaborating.
Internet to be partially restored in Kashmir but social media ban stays
Hospitals, banks and travel companies to get broadband after five-month shutdown
Internet is to be partially restored in Kashmir after an unprecedented five-month blackout, but only for institutions providing “essential services”, while social media sites will still be banned.
The decision to gradually reintroduce broadband internet to the disputed Himalayan region, after the longest shutdown ever imposed in a democracy, followed a supreme court ruling last week that the indefinite suspension was illegal and amounted to an abuse of power. The judges ordered a review to be carried out within a week.
On Tuesday night, the Kashmir administration declared that institutions such as hospitals, banks, government offices, hotels and tour and travel companies would have their broadband restored, to be provided by 400 new internet kiosks. It will first be rolled out in the region’s capital, Srinagar, and gradually to other areas.Journey to the TruthThe Concentration Camp Victim Who Never Was
A supposed former prisoner at Stutthof concentration camp attracted attention around the world when he hugged a man accused of being a former guard during his criminal trial and offered his forgiveness. The story seemed too good to be true -- and it was.
By Moritz GerlachOn Nov. 12, a scene inside the packed Courtroom 300 at the Hamburg District Court in Germany made headlines around the world. It was the seventh day of the criminal trial against former concentration camp guard Bruno D., who is now 93 years old. He stands accused of having aided and abetted in the murder of 5,230 people in 1944 and 1945, while stationed at the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig, as Gdansk was then called.
That November day, Moshe Peter Loth took the stand as a witness in the case. The 76-year-old of Port Charlotte, Florida, had joined the case as a co-plaintiff to testify as a Stutthof survivor. At the end of his testimony, according to several people who were present at the proceedings, Loth turned and told the courtroom spectators: "Watch out everyone, I will forgive him now." He asked the presiding judge if he could come forward and then bent down to the defendant, who was sitting in a wheelchair.
Mexico’s difficult ‘fourth transformation’
by Luis Alberto Reygada
When Andrés Manuel López Obrador (or AMLO) took office in December 2018, The Economist called him ‘the most powerful Mexican president in decades’. After unsuccessful presidential bids in 2006 and 2012, his victory in 2018 was decisive: as well as crushing his opponents by taking 53% of the vote in the July election, the coalition led by his party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), won an absolute majority in both chambers of the Congress of the Union as well as in 19 of 27 local legislatures.
Such a strong result gave him scope to revise the constitution and make major reforms, a prospect that alarmed the Financial Times Latin American editor, John Paul Rathbone, who wrote on 27 November 2018 that AMLO, an opponent of the neoliberal model, ‘is a bigger threat to liberal democracy than [Jair] Bolsonaro’, Brazil’s far-right president. Bolsonaro had at least appointed an orthodox economist as his economics minister.
AT THE IOWA DEBATE, BERNIE SANDERS’S MOST VOCIFEROUS OPPONENT WAS CNN
Ryan Grim, Aída Chávez, Akela Lacy
AHEAD OF THE August 2015 Fox News debate, the company’s chair, Rupert Murdoch, issued a directive to debate moderator Megyn Kelly: The Donald Trump thing has gone on long enough, it’s time to take him down. Kelly took a bat to candidate Trump, listing off his most misogynistic remarks, asking how he could explain them to voters. But Trump ended up winning that war.
Democrats assembled in Iowa Tuesday night for the opportunity to take him on in the upcoming general election. This time, though, it was CNN moderators who brought out the bat and swung it hard at Sen. Bernie Sanders. The Vermont independent had topped the important Iowa poll last week, compounding fears that have only recently emerged among the party establishment that he may be on course for the nomination.
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New York Times Editorial Board Debunks Donald Trump’s ‘Transparent President’ Boast
The New York Times editorial board tore apart Donald Trump’s baseless old boast about being one of the most transparent U.S. presidents of all time in an editorial published Monday.
The newspaper’s board wrote in the editorial ― titled “You Call That Transparency, Mr. President?” — that “this is true only if you measure transparency by the president’s tweets, which are too often characterized by incoherence and dishonesty.”
“By every other metric, Mr. Trump is a master of muddiness,” the paper said in the article centered on the costs Trump’s family has landed on the U.S. taxpayer.
The editorial noted Trump’s ongoing battles to keep his personal finances out of public view and his orders that his administration stonewall the impeachment inquiry into his Ukraine misconduct.
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