IS 'DECIMATED” and DOWN to LAST MILE of territory, says
US vice president Mike Pence
He said the US would keep a strong presence in the Middle
East and vowed the remnants of IS would be "hunted down
wherever and whenever they rear their ugly head".
BIDEN TELLS EUROPEANS in MUNICH that America is 'an
embarrassment'
Speaking on German soil 75 years after the U.S. and its allies
prepared for D-Day, Joe Biden described America as "an
embarrassment" and its trade policies "self-defeating."
"The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching
children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at
our border. Americans know that’s not right,” the former vice
president and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
told the Munich Security Conference. "The American people
understand plainly that this makes us an embarrassment. The
American people know, overwhelmingly, that it is not right.
That it is not who we are."
DONALD TRUMP: Britain should take back Islamic State fighters
and put them on trial
Donald Trump has called on Britain and other European allies to
take back more than 800 Islamic State fighters captured in Syria
and put them on trial. The US president said "the alternative is
not a good one in that we will be forced to release them", with
the terror group's caliphate in Iraq and Syria "ready to fall".
POUND SHOWS SIGNS of CREAKING
Under Weight of a No-Deal Brexit
Pound traders are losing faith that U.K. Prime Minister Theresa
May can get a Brexit deal with the European Union. The U.K.
currency fell for a third week on Friday, paring this year’s
advance and highlighting the growing pessimism in markets
that shrouds Britain’s exit from the EU. May suffered another
Parliamentary defeat Thursday and could have just two weeks
to reach a compromise with the bloc and secure domestic
backing before British lawmakers could wrest control of the
process from her in a vote proposed for Feb. 27.
SAUDI CROWN PRINCE BEGINS ASIA TOUR with
$20 billion Pakistan investment pledge Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday said Saudi Arabia
has signed investment agreements worth $20 billion
during his high-profile visit to Pakistan, where tensions
were flaring up with nuclear-armed rival India.
NORTH KOREAN WOMAN imprisoned for faith shares how God
sustained her amid horrific abuses
During her year in solitary confinement, she was trapped in a
cold cell and never saw sunlight or another prisoner: "I spent
one year in prison, and for one year my skin didn’t touch a
single ray of sunlight," she said. So, she prayed and sang a
song she wrote in her head — but never out loud. Lyrics
included the lines “My heart longs for my Father in this
prison/Although the road to truth is steep and narrow/A
bright future will be revealed when I continue.”
BEACH STORMED in US-Asian military exercise
Soldiers from Thailand, South Korea and the United
States, backed by amphibious vehicles, storm a beach
in Sattahip.
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Sissi: Israeli-Palestinian conflict is main source of instability
in Middle East
Record number of reports criticizing Israel said to be released
by UN next month
Kuwait will be the last to normalize relations with Israel:
Deputy FM
Hezbollah: We can conquer the Galilee
TV host in hot water for saying control of West Bank
turns troops into 'animals'
Islamic State: Trump calls on European allies to take
800 fighters captured in Syria
Syrian military linked to more than 300 chemical attacks,
report says
US vice president Mike Pence
He said the US would keep a strong presence in the Middle
East and vowed the remnants of IS would be "hunted down
wherever and whenever they rear their ugly head".
BIDEN TELLS EUROPEANS in MUNICH that America is 'an
embarrassment'
Speaking on German soil 75 years after the U.S. and its allies
prepared for D-Day, Joe Biden described America as "an
embarrassment" and its trade policies "self-defeating."
"The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching
children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at
our border. Americans know that’s not right,” the former vice
president and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
told the Munich Security Conference. "The American people
understand plainly that this makes us an embarrassment. The
American people know, overwhelmingly, that it is not right.
That it is not who we are."
DONALD TRUMP: Britain should take back Islamic State fighters
and put them on trial
Donald Trump has called on Britain and other European allies to
take back more than 800 Islamic State fighters captured in Syria
and put them on trial. The US president said "the alternative is
not a good one in that we will be forced to release them", with
the terror group's caliphate in Iraq and Syria "ready to fall".
POUND SHOWS SIGNS of CREAKING
Under Weight of a No-Deal Brexit
Pound traders are losing faith that U.K. Prime Minister Theresa
May can get a Brexit deal with the European Union. The U.K.
currency fell for a third week on Friday, paring this year’s
advance and highlighting the growing pessimism in markets
that shrouds Britain’s exit from the EU. May suffered another
Parliamentary defeat Thursday and could have just two weeks
to reach a compromise with the bloc and secure domestic
backing before British lawmakers could wrest control of the
process from her in a vote proposed for Feb. 27.
SAUDI CROWN PRINCE BEGINS ASIA TOUR with
$20 billion Pakistan investment pledge Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday said Saudi Arabia
has signed investment agreements worth $20 billion
during his high-profile visit to Pakistan, where tensions
were flaring up with nuclear-armed rival India.
NORTH KOREAN WOMAN imprisoned for faith shares how God
sustained her amid horrific abuses
During her year in solitary confinement, she was trapped in a
cold cell and never saw sunlight or another prisoner: "I spent
one year in prison, and for one year my skin didn’t touch a
single ray of sunlight," she said. So, she prayed and sang a
song she wrote in her head — but never out loud. Lyrics
included the lines “My heart longs for my Father in this
prison/Although the road to truth is steep and narrow/A
bright future will be revealed when I continue.”
BEACH STORMED in US-Asian military exercise
Soldiers from Thailand, South Korea and the United
States, backed by amphibious vehicles, storm a beach
in Sattahip.
***************
Sissi: Israeli-Palestinian conflict is main source of instability
in Middle East
Record number of reports criticizing Israel said to be released
by UN next month
Kuwait will be the last to normalize relations with Israel:
Deputy FM
Hezbollah: We can conquer the Galilee
TV host in hot water for saying control of West Bank
turns troops into 'animals'
Islamic State: Trump calls on European allies to take
800 fighters captured in Syria
Syrian military linked to more than 300 chemical attacks,
report says