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• Trump's offer to Putin: an end to sanctions for nuclear arms cut - London Times
• Trump says Brexit to be 'a great thing', wants quick trade deal with UK
• In Iraq's Mosul, university a casualty of anti-IS war
• Syrian opposition: Shelling of displaced shelter kills 12
• Iraqi special forces sweep Mosul University for remaining militants: spokesman
• Are terrorists crossing the US-Mexico border? Excerpts from the case file
• Terror and the Mexico border: How big a threat?
• Military: Mosul University fully liberated by Iraqi troops
• In parts of Mosul, a semblance of normality despite war
• Back in the delta, US envoy Kerry meets Viet Cong foe

Trump's offer to Putin: an end to sanctions for nuclear arms cut - London Times Posted: 15 Jan 2017 04:45 PM PST By Guy Faulconbridge and William James LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will propose offering to end sanctions imposed on Russia for its annexation of Crimea in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he told The Times of London. Trump, in an interview with the newspaper published online on Sunday, was deeply critical of previous U.S. foreign policy, describing the invasion of Iraq as possibly the gravest error in the history of the United States and akin to "throwing rocks into a beehive".

Trump says Brexit to be 'a great thing', wants quick trade deal with UK Posted: 15 Jan 2017 03:59 PM PST By William James LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said that Brexit would turn out to be a great thing and other countries would follow Britain out of the European Union but promised to strike a swift bilateral trade deal with the United Kingdom. Speaking in an interview with The Times of London newspaper five days before his inauguration, Trump described himself as a big fan of Britain and endorsed last year's vote to leave the European Union. "I think Brexit is going to end up being a great thing," Trump said.

In Iraq's Mosul, university a casualty of anti-IS war Posted: 15 Jan 2017 11:23 AM PST Some buildings at the University of Mosul are charred by fires, others rigged with explosives, and bullets still periodically fly past a campus scarred by the battle for the city. The sound of a jet, the whoosh of a descending missile and the explosion as it hits home mark an air strike nearby that sends a stream of black smoke rising toward the grey clouds blanketing the sky over Mosul. Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) has retaken the university from IS, officers said, but the danger posed by the jihadists here is far from over.

Syrian opposition: Shelling of displaced shelter kills 12 Posted: 15 Jan 2017 09:16 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces shelled a village in a rebel-controlled area near Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 12 civilians and injuring several others who were taking shelter in a banquet hall.

Iraqi special forces sweep Mosul University for remaining militants: spokesman Posted: 15 Jan 2017 07:51 AM PST Iraqi special forces swept through the campus of Mosul University on Sunday to clear it of any remaining Islamic State militants after taking full control of the area, a spokesman said. A military statement said troops had also taken another area along the eastern bank of the Tigris river, in gains that are bringing more of Islamic State's last major stronghold in the country under Iraqi forces' control. "The university is completely liberated and forces are sweeping the complex for any hiding militants," CTS spokesman Sabah al-Numan told Reuters by phone on Sunday.

Are terrorists crossing the US-Mexico border? Excerpts from the case file Posted: 15 Jan 2017 04:51 AM PST For the past eight years there has been a running debate between conservatives and liberals over the potential threat of terrorists using the US-Mexico border to enter or attack America. Although there have been no terror attacks in the American homeland linked to the US-Mexico border, the threat of terrorists using the border to gain access to the US is not merely hypothetical. What follows are 10 examples from criminal cases that highlight the issue of terrorism and the US-Mexico border.

Terror and the Mexico border: How big a threat? Posted: 15 Jan 2017 04:51 AM PST Islamic militants purchase a nuclear device from a sympathetic official in Pakistan and ship the weapon on the flip side of a drug trafficking route through West Africa to South America. Next, the package is smuggled north to the United States-Mexico border. "From there it's just a quick hop through a smuggling tunnel and … presto, they're mingling with another 12 million 'illegal' aliens in America with a nuclear bomb in the trunk of their car," the 2015 ISIS article says.

Military: Mosul University fully liberated by Iraqi troops Posted: 15 Jan 2017 03:06 AM PST U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops on Sunday fully liberated the sprawling complex of Mosul University, an Iraqi military spokesman said, a major step in the massive operation to retake the Islamic State ...

In parts of Mosul, a semblance of normality despite war Posted: 14 Jan 2017 11:10 PM PST By Isabel Coles MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - In some parts of Mosul, you can almost forget that a war is being waged over the city between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants who still control more than half of it - at least momentarily. Cars clog the streets, stalls are heaped with fresh produce and bicycles weave through the traffic, as the city slowly emerges from more than two years under the iron grip of Islamic State. As Iraqi forces prise away more and more of the militants' largest urban stronghold, a semblance of normality is returning to eastern districts that were retaken in the early stages of a campaign that began nearly three months ago.

Back in the delta, US envoy Kerry meets Viet Cong foe Posted: 14 Jan 2017 08:42 PM PST Viet Cong veteran Vo Ban Tam remembers the first time he crossed paths with John Kerry on the banks on the Bay Hap river, a day that ended in bloodshed. Almost a half-century later, the now 70-year-old Mekong Delta shrimp farmer locked eyes with the US Secretary of State on Saturday and they warmly grasped hands in mutual respect. Kerry returned to the Vietnam waterway at the end of a visit to the Communist nation, less than a week before he was to leave office, searching for the spot where he won a Silver Star for bravery as a young US Navy lieutenant.

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