2017-02-08

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Iran’s Khamenei and Trump spar, and sports and academic ties feel blowback

Christian Science Monitor

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke about Trump’s presidency for the first time, saying Trump had shown the ‘true face of America.

Appeals Court Panel Appears Skeptical of Trump’s Travel Ban

New York Times

Protesters gathered outside the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday in San Francisco. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times.

Yemen requests no US ground missions without approval after raid

CNN

Sanaa (CNN) Yemen’s government has “requested” the United States stop ground operations in the country unless they have the government’s full approval after an anti-terror raid authorized by US President Donald Trump killed civilians, two senior Yemeni …

Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader ‘found guilty’

BBC News

Russia’s main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of embezzlement, local media report. A judge was still reading the verdict in the city of Kirov, but news agencies said it was clear in his remarks that Mr Navalny had been convicted.

Obama makes rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing

Washington Post

Barack Obama seems to be living it up these days. Photos and videos emerged last week of the former president taking a stroll alongside Michelle Obama in the British Virgin Islands wearing what can only be described as a full-vacation mode outfit …

Afghan Official: Suicide Bomber Kills 2 in Eastern Province

New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says a suicide bomber attacked the gate of a district headquarters in the eastern Paktia province, killing two civilians.

Putin signs law reducing punishment for domestic battery

CNN

Moscow (CNN) Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that decriminalizes some forms of domestic violence, according to state-run news agency Tass.

Donald Trump Rattles the Asian Order

The National Interest Online

“To what extent does historical change depend on the actions of a handful of unusual individuals … as opposed to large-scale, long-term, impersonal forces?

‘My daughter’s death will not be used’: Parents furious over Trump’s false terrorism claims

Washington Post

Her daughter had not yet been buried, nor had the newspapers finished turning up bloody details of her death, before Rosie Ayliffe began to write about her child’s murderer.

Movement of MLAs crippled by party high command?

IndiaGlitz.com

After the sudden revolt by Chief Minister O.Panneer Selvam on Wednesday night the entire Tamil Nadu political scene has gone into disarray.

Brexit bill set for final vote in House of Commons

BBC News

The bill empowering the government to begin the formal process of leaving the European Union is due to reach its final stages in the Commons later.

Poll: Most Americans don’t want US embassy moved to Jerusalem

Bay Area Indymedia

An IRmep poll fielded by Google Consumer Surveys January 27-29 reveals 56.2 percent of the US adult Internet user population prefers the US keep its Israel embassy in Tel Aviv.

Trump stresses ‘close’ relationship with Turkey in first call with Erdogan

CNN

(CNN) President Donald Trump reiterated US support for Turkey as a “close, long-standing” partner, during a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday.

Syrian President: Trump’s pledge to fight terror ‘promising’

CNN

(CNN) Syria’s leader has praised Donald Trump’s rhetoric on terror, saying the new US President’s pledge to prioritize the fight against terrorism, including ISIS, was “promising.

Trump’s adviser grilled on White House’s ‘false statements’

Hindustan Times

Top White House adviser Kellyane Conway has apologised for citing a fake “massacre” in support of Donald Trump’s travel ban.

McCain rails against drawing equivalence between Putin, US

CNN

Washington (CNN) Sen. John McCain on Tuesday delivered a fiery, not-so-subtle rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s argument that the United States and Russia are morally equivalent, at one point slamming his hand on a lectern in condemning the …

My 22-year marriage didn’t survive Trump’s election

New York Post

A longtime Washington state couple took each other to have and to hold, for better or for worse – until Donald Trump forced them to part.

Trump gives America’s critics their dream opponent

Washington Post

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Weather Alert: More Than A Foot Of Snow In Forecast Thursday

CBS Loca

The trend over the last few winters has been for a quiet, relatively easy start to winter and then a short but intense period of snow and cold in February and early March.

Turkish army and Syrian rebels close in on Islamic State town

Reuters

Free Syrian Army fighters carry their weapons as they stand on the outskirts of the Islamic State-controlled northern Syrian town of al-Bab, Syria February 4, 2017.

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