October 2019

Trump’s Green Light to Turkey Raises Fears About ISIS Detainees

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s sudden blessing of a Turkish military operation in northern Syria and his announcement of an American troop withdrawal from that region raised questions about the fate of thousands of Islamic State detainees that the Turks’ targets, American-backed Syrian Kurds, have been holding in makeshift wartime prisons. Mr. Trump insisted that Turkey

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‘Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!’ Sees The Fab Five Going International

The Fab Five are going international.  Netflix has announced that a four-episode special season of “Queer Eye” will hit the streaming network on Nov. 1. The above trailer for “Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!” finds the Emmy-winning series’ five stars ― Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness ― bringing their “infectious brand

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IFS: No-deal Brexit would push UK debt to 50-year high

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGloomy post-Brexit forecasts ‘accurate’ Even a “relatively benign” no-deal Brexit would push UK debt to its highest since the 1960s, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said. The think tank said borrowing would likely climb to £100bn and total debt would soar to 90% of national income.

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Caught Between Trump, Turkey and Kurds, Pentagon Struggles to Piece Together Syria Strategy

WASHINGTON — For nine months, the Pentagon played down the presence of its 1,000 troops in Syria, hoping that President Trump would not focus on the extent to which the American military was continuing to fight the Islamic State despite his order in December to pull out. On Sunday, the president appeared to say he

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US seeks to blacklist Chinese artificial intelligence firms

The United States is blacklisting a group of Chinese tech companies that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology that the U.S. says is being used to repress China’s Muslim minority groups. A move Monday by the U.S. Commerce Department seeks to put the companies on a so-called Entity List for acting contrary to

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