2016年11月10日星期四

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Trump could easily erase much of Obama's foreign policy legacy

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 05:22 PM PST

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gives a thumbs up sign as he walks with Senate Majority Leader McConnell on Capitol Hill in WashingtonBy Yeganeh Torbati and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy rests in part on a foundation of unilateral actions that his successor Donald Trump could reverse with the stroke of a pen. Due to take office on Jan. 20, Trump, the winner in Tuesday's election, campaigned at times to dismantle Obama's nuclear deal with Iran and to reimpose sanctions Obama eased on Cuba. Trump also disagreed with foreign policy decisions that included the way Obama has deployed troops abroad to combat Islamist militant groups.


Top Asian News 12:58 a.m. GMT

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 04:58 PM PST

NEW DELHI (AP) — Throughout his campaign, Asian nations were a regular target of President-elect Donald Trump's speeches: China is a trade manipulator; Japan and Korea don't contribute enough for U.S. forces; the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal forged with 11 Pacific Rim nations, in part to isolate China, should never be ratified. His anger could be palpable. "We can't continue to allow China to rape our country." Trump said in a campaign rally, talking about Washington's trade deficit with Beijing. But he could also shift quickly, noting: "I'm not angry with China ... China's great!" So across Asia, politicians and analysts are wondering what role the Trump White House will play across the continent.

Obama asks for $11.6 billion more in supplemental defense budget

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 03:44 PM PST

U.S. President Obama delivers statement on U.S. presidential election results in WashingtonU.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday sent a request to Congress for an additional $11.6 billion in supplemental war-related funding, which would include money to fight Islamic State militants and sustain high overseas troop levels. The request, detailed in a letter released by the White House, seeks an additional $5.8 billion for the Pentagon for military operations in Afghanistan and fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and an $5.8 billion for the State Department and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for fiscal 2017. Obama made the request just before Congress returns to Washington for its "lame duck" session before the new Congress starts in January.


Obama sends $11.6B anti-terror request to lame-duck Congress

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 03:12 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The president has asked Congress for $11.6 billion in additional war-related funding, including money to fight Islamic militants, sustain higher overseas troop levels, and modernize the Afghan military's helicopter fleet. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday asked Congress for $11.6 billion in additional war-related funding, including money to fight Islamic State militants, sustain higher overseas troop levels, and modernize the Afghan military's helicopter fleet.


California revives talk of secession with #Calexit, but it’s not the only one

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 02:18 PM PST

Once again, the idea of a California secession emerged on Wednesday as the hashtag #Calexit trended on social media. While some users may have merely used it as a medium to express their frustrations at the election results on Tuesday, the fringe movement calling for independence of California has actually existed for years, drawing support from some Californians who feel that their ideologies have diverged from the rest of the country so much that it has stalled their progress. "In our view, the United States of America represents so many things that  conflict with Californian values, and our continued statehood means California will continue subsidizing the other states to our own detriment," wrote Yes California, a grass-roots organization that is hoping to put the issue on the 2019 ballot, in a statement.

World Chaos and World Order: Conversations With Henry Kissinger

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 01:07 PM PST

World Chaos and World Order: Conversations With Henry KissingerWhat follows is an extended transcript of several conversations on foreign policy I had with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which formed the basis of a story in the December issue of The Atlantic. That story, along with an interview on Kissinger's reaction to the surprise electoral victory of Donald Trump, can be found here. The transcript below has been condensed and edited.


Why the Trump White House may not change much in Syria

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 11:53 AM PST

Most of the world is nervously mulling the implications of Donald Trump's against-the-odds presidential win on Tuesday. No one really knows what Mr. Trump's Syrian policy is going to be. Trump has been vague about his priorities there, both in terms of the survival of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his approach to fighting the extremist Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS).

Syria Kurd women fighters out for revenge against jihadists

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 11:39 AM PST

Shirin (L) and Kazîwar (R), members of the Kurdish female Women's Protection Units rest some 40 kms away from Raqa on November 9, 2016Headed for the front line near Syria's Raqa, 23-year-old Kurdish fighter Kaziwar has just one thought on her mind: to make her jihadist foes pay for their treatment of women. "Our taking part in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) is revenge for the women who were kidnapped in Sinjar (in Iraq) and sold (as sex slaves) in markets," said the brown-haired woman riding a four-wheel-drive. The YPJ has been fighting alongside male comrades in an offensive launched last Saturday to recapture the city of Raqa which the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has made its de facto capital.


Kurdish-led fighters marching against IS near Syria's Raqqa

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 11:21 AM PST

This frame grab from video provided on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, by the Hawar News Agency, shows U.S.-backed fighters take position during fighting with the Islamic State group in the village of Laqtah, north of Raqqa, Syria. Turkey said Tuesday that Washington has promised that U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces will only be involved in encircling the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa and will not enter the city itself. (Hawar News Agency, via AP)BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group north of the country is on the verge of surrounding a wide area north of the IS stronghold of Raqqa, a spokeswoman for the group said Thursday.


Iraq troops slow Mosul advance as they clear neighborhoods

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 11:05 AM PST

Iraqi boys who were displaced by fighting in Mosul, carry food supplies distributed at a camp for internally displaced people in Hassan Sham, east of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. The United Nations says over 34,000 people have been displaced from Mosul, with about three quarters settled in camps and the rest in host communities. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi troops fired at positions held by the Islamic State group in and around the northern city of Mosul on Thursday but did not advance as they regrouped and cleared neighborhoods once occupied by the extremists, military officials said.


Macedonian police say Islamist attacks foiled

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 10:32 AM PST

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov, seen in September 2016, has previously said that an estimated 150 Macedonian citizens had left to fight in Iraq and SyriaMacedonian police said Thursday that Islamist terror attacks had been foiled in the Balkan country as they announced the arrest of two citizens in a wider regional crackdown. Mitko Cavkov, chief of public security, did not give details of the planned attacks, but his announcement followed reports of another strike planned at an Albanian football stadium this weekend during a match against Israel. Since Saturday, 13 people have been arrested in neighbouring Albania and Kosovo accused of plotting attacks and recruiting for the Islamic State (IS) group.


Serbia extradites pregnant jihadi suspect to Netherlands

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 09:31 AM PST

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Serbian authorities have extradited a pregnant woman to the Netherlands who is suspected of trying to travel to Syria or Iraq to join jihad fighters there.

Tycoon as president: Donald Trump's conflicts of interest

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 08:49 AM PST

Republican Donald Trump was elected US president over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016Head of a business empire and now US president: by combining these two roles, billionaire Donald Trump could face conflicts of interest of an scale unprecedented in American political history. The Republican elected to the White House Tuesday made his fortune by building a network of hotels, office towers and luxury apartment buildings as the head of the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization is not publicly traded, so many of its activities are closed to scrutiny.


Iraq forces accused of killing, torturing civilians south of Mosul

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 08:31 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers celebrate as they pose with the Islamic State flag along a street of the town of al-ShuraIraqi government forces killed and tortured civilians south of Mosul, rights groups said on Thursday, in the first such reports of alleged abuse in a U.S.-backed campaign to retake the city from Islamic State. Amnesty International said up to six people were found dead last month in the Shura and Qayyara sub-districts who security forces suspected of ties to the ultra-hardline jihadist group which seized a third of Iraqi territory in 2014. "Men in federal police uniform have carried out multiple unlawful killings, apprehending and then deliberately killing in cold blood residents in villages south of Mosul," said Lynn Maalouf, deputy director for research at Amnesty's Beirut office.


Battle for IS-held Mosul nears ancient site

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 08:28 AM PST

Nimrud was one of the great centres of the ancient Middle EastThe battle for Iraq's second city Mosul neared the remains of ancient Nimrud on Thursday, as the offensive against the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold Raqa was hampered by a sandstorm. Backed by a US-led coalition, Iraqi forces and a Kurdish-Arab militia alliance are advancing on Mosul and Raqa in separate assaults aimed at driving IS from its last major bastions. Launched on October 17, the Iraqi offensive has seen federal forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters advance on Mosul from the east, south and north, pushing inside the eastern city limits last week.


One year after Paris attacks, how has France changed?

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 08:24 AM PST

A makeshift memorial outside the Carillon bar in Paris to victims of deadly attacks, pictured on November 20, 2015Opposite sits the Petit Cambodge restaurant, another business thriving again after being targeted by the Islamic State (IS) extremists who killed 130 people during their rampage across the French capital. Sarkozy has gone as far as proposing preventative detention for anyone suspected by security forces of being a radical, even if they have not committed a crime.


Year-old Paris attack probe sights new suspect, but mastermind elusive

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 08:14 AM PST

People mourn in front of the screened-off facade of the Bataclan Cafe adjoining the concert hall, one of the sites of the deadly attacks in ParisBy Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French investigators believe they have identified a Belgian militant in Syria as a coordinator of the deadly Islamic State (IS) attack on Paris, but a year on they are still struggling to pinpoint the mastermind. A painstaking investigation led by an exceptionally large team of six judicial magistrates has inched forward in search of the "remote-controllers" - those who pulled the strings from abroad, at IS bases in Iraq and Syria or elsewhere. A source close to the investigation told Reuters this week that a new name had been added to the web of militants involved as coordinators - Oussama Atar, a 32-year-old from a Brussels suburb, now believed to be in Syria.


Belgium freezes assets of 15 people linked to terrorism

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 07:54 AM PST

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has frozen the assets of 15 people allegedly linked to terrorism, including a Belgian man identified as being a possible organizer of the deadly attacks on Paris and Brussels.

Islamist extremists revel in Trump triumph

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 07:38 AM PST

The Islamic State group has not officially commented on Trump's victory but supporters took to chat groups and social media to celebrate his winIslamist extremists have responded to Donald Trump's election victory with glee over his reputation as a loose cannon who has been openly hostile to Muslims. The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, which is being pummelled by a US-led military coalition in Iraq and Syria, had said ahead of the US presidential vote that there was no substantial difference between Trump and Hillary Clinton. "I am optimistic about Trump's victory because he is a stupid, arrogant, hubristic bull who is dumber than (George W) Bush," said another.


Iraqi forces preparing advance on south Mosul

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 07:26 AM PST

An Iraqi air force helicopter fires a machine gun at Islamic State militants south of MosulBy John Davison and Dominic Evans SOUTH OF MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces are preparing to advance toward Mosul airport on the city's southern edge to increase pressure on Islamic State militants fighting troops who breached their eastern defenses, officers said on Thursday. The rapid response forces, part of a coalition seeking to crush the jihadists in the largest city under their control in Iraq or Syria, took the town of Hammam al-Alil, just over 15 km (10 miles) south of Mosul, on Monday. More than three weeks after the U.S.-backed campaign to retake Mosul was launched, the city is almost surrounded by the coalition of nearly 100,000 fighters.


Every Day is Veteran's Day with Special Dogs That Heal

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 05:17 AM PST

PALMETTO, Fla., Nov. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "My dog saved my life" is a phrase heard every day from veterans. "Our dogs improve the lives of our veterans every day with their unconditional love, acceptance and support," says Kim Hyde, manager of one of the organization's service dog training teams.

Japanese journalist denies allegation he is IS sympathizer

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 03:11 AM PST

Kosuke Tsuneoka, a Japanese freelance journalist who was detained by local authorities in Iraq, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Tsuneoka was released Monday, Nov. 7 after being suspected of being a member of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese journalist deported from Iraq denied on Thursday allegations by Kurdish officials that he is a sympathizer of the Islamic State extremist group.


OPEC pumping oil at record levels ahead of crunch meeting: IEA

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 02:55 AM PST

OPEC production rose to "a record 33.83 million barrels per day in October", the IEA saidOutput by OPEC oil producers has reached record levels, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, raising fears a global oil glut will continue to weigh on markets unless the cartel agrees on a cut. Production by the 14 members of OPEC rose to a record 33.83 million barrels a day in October, the IEA said, just weeks ahead of talks aimed at hammering out a deal to curb production. The accord aims to stabilise prices that have dramatically fallen since 2014, deeply hurting producers across the board, but its details are to be determined at OPEC's meeting on November 30 in Vienna.


Global oil output hit new record pending promised OPEC cuts

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 02:19 AM PST

FILE - This Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, shows a pump jack for pulling oil from the ground, near New Town, N.D. On Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, the Energy Department said it is raising its forecast of U.S. production for both 2016 and 2017, as drillers respond to higher crude prices. Still, output won't match 2015, which was the biggest year for U.S. production in 35 years. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)PARIS (AP) — The International Energy Agency says global oil production climbed higher in October — even after OPEC pledged to curb output in hopes of driving up prices.


Trump triumph deals body blow to US brand

Posted: 10 Nov 2016 01:44 AM PST

Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the race to the White HouseWith his stunning election triumph, Donald Trump has emblazoned his name in golden letters on the brand of the United States. Trump's surprise election could have far-reaching effects for the US image with potential consequences for companies, universities and tourism. Most foreigners presumably can differentiate between politics and people, and America's best-known entertainers overwhelmingly backed rival Hillary Clinton.


China state media warns Trump against isolationism, calls for status quo

Posted: 09 Nov 2016 11:56 PM PST

People walk by an electronic billboard in New YorkChinese state media has warned the U.S. president-elect against isolationism and interventionism, calling instead for the United States to actively work with China to maintain the international status quo. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to tear up trade deals and pursue a more unilateral foreign policy under his "America First" principle during a tempestuous election campaign.


Depleted by coup, Turkish air force seeks to lure back seasoned pilots

Posted: 09 Nov 2016 11:08 PM PST

A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter flies over a minaret after it took off from Incirlik air base in AdanaBy Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's air force in September made a public appeal to hundreds of former pilots to return to its depleted ranks to replace more than 350 airmen purged after July's failed coup.  The call has largely gone unanswered, according to military officials and former pilots, as the deep divisions exposed by the coup attempt in Turkey's military and other institutions remain unhealed. Six pilots who left the air force over the past decade and would be eligible to return spoke to Reuters. Air force pilots played a major role in the abortive putsch, commandeering jets and helicopters that bombed parliament and threatened the aircraft of President Tayyip Erdogan.


'Crashing waves' of jihadists fray soldiers' nerves in Mosul battle

Posted: 09 Nov 2016 10:12 PM PST

Federal police forces fire mortar toward Islamic State militants south of MosulBy Dominic Evans and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A week after his tank division punched through Islamic State defenses on the southeast edge of Mosul, an Iraqi army colonel says the fight to drive the militants out of their urban stronghold is turning into a nightmare. Against a well-drilled, mobile and brutally effective enemy, exploiting the cover of built-up neighborhoods and the city's civilian population, his tanks were useless, he said, and his men untrained for the urban warfare they face.


Critic's Notebook: 'Atlanta,' 'Better Things' and the Joys of Formula-Free Comedy

Posted: 09 Nov 2016 09:00 PM PST

The exceedingly rare and precious pleasure of watching the first seasons of FX's 'Atlanta' and 'Better Things' has been in never knowing, from week to week, what the shows might turn out to be.

Today in History

Posted: 09 Nov 2016 08:01 PM PST

Today in History

'Unpredictable' Trump foreign policy leaves world guessing

Posted: 09 Nov 2016 07:26 PM PST

Newspapers in Sydney headline the win by Donald Trump who has yet to detail his foreign policy leaving Washington's friends and foes looking for clues to his agendaBuild a wall, make nice with Moscow, tear up free trade deals and force Washington's allies to pay more for their own security. Beyond a few broad isolationist and protectionist strokes, President-elect Donald Trump has not painted a detailed picture of his foreign policy. Now, with just ten weeks until he takes command of the world's sole superpower, Washington's friends and foes are seeking clues to his agenda.


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