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  • Dutch police question suspect in stabbings of 2 Americans

    The U.S. State Department offered help Sunday to investigators in the Netherlands who are treating the stabbings of two American tourists at Amsterdam’s main railway station as a possible extremist at

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The U.S. State Department offered help Sunday to investigators in the Netherlands who are treating the stabbings of two American tourists at Amsterdam’s main railway station as a possible extremist attack.

    State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the U.S. was “ready to assist Dutch authorities in their investigations as appropriate.”

    “Dutch authorities have announced that investigations are focused on a terrorist motive for this unprovoked, horrifying attack,” Nauert said in a statement. “The United States stands with our Dutch allies and others in our common fight against terrorism in all forms.”

    At a hospital on Sunday, detectives questioned the 19-year-old Afghan citizen who is a suspect in the Friday stabbings. Amsterdam police shot and wounded him.

    Amsterdam Police spokesman Ruben Sprong said the suspect, identified only as Jawed S. under Dutch privacy rules, was scheduled to appear at a closed hearing with an investigating judge on Monday.

    The Americans also remained hospitalized with “serious but non-life threatening injuries,” Sprong said. Their identities haven’t been made public.

    Dutch authorities said the suspect has a German residency permit and that his home in Germany was searched for the stabbing investigation.

    The city government in Amsterdam said Saturday that, based on the suspect’s first statements, “he had a terrorist motive.” It did not reveal what he said.

  • U.S. Navy seizes 1,000 smuggled rifles off war-torn Yemen

    The U.S. military said early Friday it seized over 1,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles being smuggled by small ships in the Gulf of Aden amid the ongoing war in nearby Yemen.

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military said early Friday it seized over 1,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles being smuggled by small ships in the Gulf of Aden amid the ongoing war in nearby Yemen.

    The seizure by the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham may mark the first such interdiction of weapons at sea bound for Yemen in years for American forces patrolling the region.

    However, the military did not say whom they suspected of smuggling the weapons.

    A short video released by the U.S. Navy it said was taken Monday appeared to show a skiff and a dhow, a traditional ship that commonly sails the waters of the Persian Gulf region. As the vessels bob in the high waves, people on the dhow toss large boxes into the skiff.

    The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, said sailors boarded the boats Tuesday, uncovering the arms cache. Photos released by the Navy showed what appeared to be new Kalashnikov rifles wrapped in plastic.

    It said those aboard the vessels were handed over to Yemeni forces loyal to its exiled government in Saudi Arabia.

    The U.S. military did not offer a location for the seizure in the Gulf of Aden, which has Yemen to its north and Somalia to its south. Smuggling of drugs, weapons and charcoal into and out of Somalia by criminal gangs and militant groups remains common.

    The 5th Fleet repeatedly has accused Iran of smuggling arms via the sea to Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels, who have held Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, since September 2014. It points to seizures over a four-week period in early 2016, when coalition warships stopped three dhows in the Arabian Sea. The dhows carried thousands of Kalashnikov assault rifles as well as sniper rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, anti-tank missiles and other weapons.

    Iran denies arming the Houthis.

    One dhow carried 2,000 new assault rifles with serial numbers in sequential order, suggesting they came from a national stockpile, a report by the group Conflict Armament Research said. The rocket-propelled grenade launchers also bore hallmarks of being manufactured in Iran, the group said.

    The U.S. has supported a Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis since March 2015.

  • No deal yet in Canada-U.S. trade talks; time running out

    A deal to replace NAFTA still eluded U.S. and Canada on Friday with just hours before President Trump’s deadline for an agreement, the top Canadian negotiator said.

    A deal to replace NAFTA still eluded U.S. and Canada on Friday with just hours before President Trump’s deadline for an agreement, the top Canadian negotiator said.

    “We are not there yet,” Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Washington.

    Ms. Freeland said they were “working hard” but that her negotiation team was not satisfied that the deal was good for Canada.

    Mr. Trump set a Friday deadline for Canada to agree to join the U.S.-Mexico deal to replace the three-way North American Free Trade Agreement. The replacement deal was announced Monday.

    If Canada is out, Mr. Trump threatened to submit the U.S.-Mexico deal with Congress and hit Canada with a 25 percent tariff on cars.

    Ms. Freeland’s remarks after the morning negotiation session threw cold water on early optimism voiced by both sides of the talks.

    She said the negotiation would continue.

    “As has been the case form the very beginning, Canada is a country that is good at finding win-win compromises. Having said that, in trade negotiations [and] in this negotiation, we always stand up for the national interest,” she said. “And that is what we are going to continue to do. We are looking for a good deal, not just any deal, and we will only agree to a deal that is a good deal for Canada. We are not there yet.”

  • Iran seeking to sidestep U.S. sanctions with rial-backed cryptocurrency

    Iran’s Central Bank has announced details regarding its effort to launch a digital currency backed by the national currency, the rial, in response to the re-imposition of harsh economic sanctions by t

    Iran’s Central Bank has announced details regarding its effort to launch a digital currency backed by the national currency, the rial, in response to the re-imposition of harsh economic sanctions by the U.S..

    The state-supported effort has been spearheaded by the Iranian National Cyberspace Center (NCC) per order of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

    It appears to have similarities to the shadowy cryptocurrency bitcoin, because transaction will occur via the blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, which stores information about all relevant transactions across a user network.

    Tehran’s cryptocurrency, however, differs in that the Central Bank will control the issuance of new tokens, which will be backed by Iranian rials.

    “The infrastructure is supposed to be as an ecosystem available for Iranian banks,” Ibena, the Central Bank of Iran’s news wire, reported earlier this week.

    Alireza Daliri, deputy for management and investment at the Iranian Directorate for Scientific and Technological Affairs, last month told state-sponsored media Press TV that the “currency would facilitate the transfer of money (to and from) anywhere in the world” and will help Iran “at the time of sanctions.”

    Analysts have called Tehran’s entrance into the murky, unregulated world of cryptocurrencies a desperate move driven by a mounting economic crisis in the wake of the Trump administration’s unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. In the deal, Iran had agreed to curb its nuclear programs in exchange for the lifting of international economic sanctions.

    The withdrawal was in May. Since then, the White House has accelerated a campaign to pressure other countries to cut their commercial and financial ties to Tehran. In early August, Washington re-imposed sanctions targeting Iran’s automotive industry, debt sector and metals trade.

    The U.S. is poised to impose far more painful sanctions on Iran’s critical oil export sector starting Nov. 5, with a stated goal of driving Iran oil and gas sales to zero.

    The uncertainty has pushed Iran’s rial to its weakest level in decades, with recent months witnessing major protests over the rising cost of basic goods.

    Subverting dollar transactions

    On Wednesday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Islamic Republic to do more to tackle its economic problems.

    “With regards to the economy, there is need for full force, large-scale and proficient work,” he was quoted as saying by Iran’s state-sponsored Press TV.

    According to analysts, Iranian officials believe a domestic digital currency could offer a solution to moving money around the globe as Tehran becomes further isolated form the global banking system.

    But Iranian bankers have also been skittish about cryptocurrencies and initially banned bitcoin and another leading digital currency, ethereum, earlier this year out of fear of money laundering within the country.

    Earlier this month Yaya Fanusie, director of analysis at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, wrote that “Russia probably is influencing Iran’s push toward crypto.”

    In an article for Forbes, Mr. Fanusie noted that in May, Iranian and Russian press reported that senior economic official from both countries met in Moscow just before Tehran announced its central bank intended to develop a cryptocurrency aimed at subverting dollar transactions and the international SWIFT code banking system.

    Mr. Fanusie also noted that Russian entrepreneurs recently helped Venezuela’s Maduro regime launch a state cryptocurrency.

    Not long after the Venezuela digital currency was unveiled, Mr. Trump signed an executive order banning Americans from using it.

  • Donald Trump lashes out after report with off the record comments derails NAFTA talks with Canada

    President Trump railed against reports that off-the-record comments he made about Canada tanked new NAFTA negotiations on Friday.

    President Trump railed against reports that off-the-record comments he made about Canada tanked new NAFTA negotiations on Friday.

    Mr. Trump criticized Bloomberg for undermining the off-the-record agreement, saying “Oh well, just more dishonest reporting.”

    Wow, I made OFF THE RECORD COMMENTS to Bloomberg concerning Canada, and this powerful understanding was BLATANTLY VIOLATED. Oh well, just more dishonest reporting. I am used to it. At least Canada knows where I stand!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 31, 2018

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    Mr. Trump’s tweet seemed to confirm the comments reported in the Toronto Star.

    “Here’s the problem. If I say no — the answer’s no. If I say no, then you’re going to put that, and it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal … I can’t kill these people,” Mr. Trump said about NAFTA talks with Canada.

    There was also a quote from the president that any new trade deal would be “totally on our terms.”

    The Canadian newspaper said it was not bound by Bloomberg’s agreement with the president and received the information from an anonymous source.

  • John Kerry, ex-secretary of state, says Trump ‘doesn’t know what he’s talking about’ on Iran deal

    Former Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Sunday that President Trump “doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” particularly when it comes to the Iran nuclear deal.

    Former Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Sunday that President Trump “doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” particularly when it comes to the Iran nuclear deal.

    Mr. Kerry insisted that Mr. Trump’s assertion that he “never walked away from the table” during the 2015 negotiations was false, saying, “I did walk away” during the talks.

    “Unfortunately, and I say this sadly, more often than not, he really just doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Mr. Kerry told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “He makes things up. And he’s making that up as he has other things.”

    .@JohnKerry comments on @realDonaldTrump ‘s criticisms of the Iran Nuclear Deal: More often than not, he really just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He makes things up. pic.twitter.com/W4bip9A0iP

    — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) September 2, 2018

    Mr. Trump took a jab at the former Obama administration official in a May 4 speech before the National Rifle Association, saying that Mr. Kerry “never walked away from the table except to be in that bicycle race where he fell and broke his leg.”

    Mr. Kerry also defended his calls to world leaders in defense of the seven-nation Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Obama administration’s signature foreign-policy achievement, after Mr. Trump moved to exit the agreement. The Trump administration ultimately withdrew from the deal in May.

    The former Democratic presidential candidate also defended his decision to make calls to world leaders behind the scenes as a private citizen to save the agreement, including Iranian Foreign Minister Javid Zarif.

    Mr. Trump to accused him of trying to undermine the administration with “possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy,” but Mr. Kerry argued that he was defending the U.S. position, which at the time was the Iran deal.

    The United States does not need John Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal. He was the one that created this MESS in the first place!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2018

    “I spoke out,” Mr. Kerry said. “I will always exercise my right to speak out.”

  • Michel Barnier ‘strongly opposed’ to May’s Brexit plan Inquire From Me

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    The ECU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has said he is “strongly” opposed to key parts of Theresa Might’s proposals for a future industry deal.

    This morning the top minister said she wouldn’t compromise at the UK executive’s Chequers plan.

    But Mr Barnier said plans for a “common rulebook” for goods but no longer services weren’t within the ECU’s pursuits.

    “Our personal ecosystem has grown over decades,” he mentioned. “you’ll be able to now not play with it by choosing items.”

    Whilst he has previously expressed criticism approximately Mrs May’s Chequers plan, assets with regards to Mr Barnier informed the BBC he has no longer been this specific prior to.

    In response, the united kingdom executive insisted its plans had been “actual and pragmatic” and might paintings for the united kingdom and the european.

    The negotiations among the uk and the ecu have an informal October cut-off date, however Mr Barnier stated this is able to be prolonged to mid-November.

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    In an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mr Barnier mentioned Mrs May’s plans “could be the end of the single marketplace and the ecu undertaking”.

    “The British have a choice,” he stated.

    “they could stay in the unmarried market, like Norway, which is additionally not a member of the ecu – however they might then need to take over all the associated rules and contributions to European solidarity. it’s your selection.

    “but if we allow the British pick out the raisins out of our rules, that may have serious results.

    “Then every kind of other 3rd international locations could insist that we provide them the similar benefits.”

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    He mentioned any other problem was once that many items now come with services hooked up – which means they had been laborious to separate in a trade deal.

    “now we have a coherent market for goods, services and products, capital and those – our personal atmosphere that has grown over decades,” he mentioned.

    “you’ll not play with it by selecting pieces. there’s another reason why I strongly oppose the British notion.

    “There are products and services in each and every product. to your cell phone, for example, it’s 20 to 40 percent of the entire value.”

    Mr Barnier’s feedback had been published at the related day Mrs May wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that she was “confident” a “good deal” could be reached.

    However she stated it was right the federal government to prepare for a no-deal scenario – despite the fact that this would create “real demanding situations for each the united kingdom and the ecu” in some sectors.

    Overseas Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned a no-deal Brexit would be a “big mistake for Europe”, even though Britain “might continue to exist and prosper”.

    More Than A Few business teams have warned about the imaginable affect at the UNITED KINGDOM of no-deal Brexit.

    The Sector Trade Organization – beneath whose rules the ecu and UNITED KINGDOM could business if no deal was agreed – mentioned it “would not be finish of the arena… however it’s not going to be a walk within the park”.

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    Responding to Mr Barnier’s remarks, a central authority spokeswoman stated: “we’re assured that we have recommend an offer that is actual, pragmatic and that allows you to paintings for the united kingdom and the ecu.

    “This idea achieves a brand new stability of rights and obligations that fulfils our joint ambition to ascertain a deep and different partnership as soon as the united kingdom has left the european whilst holding the constitutional integrity of the united kingdom. there’s no different suggestion that does that.

    “Our negotiating teams have upped the depth, and we proceed to move at tempo to reach – as Mr Barnier says – an formidable partnership, so as to paintings within the mutual interests of citizens and companies in the united kingdom and in the ECU.”

    The so-called Chequers plan used to be agreed at the prime minister’s u . s . a . place of abode in July.

    Mr Barnier has previously criticised the proposals, ruling out permitting the uk to collect customs tasks on behalf of the ecu.

    the united kingdom is due to depart the european on 29 March but has yet to agree how its ultimate courting with the bloc will work.

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  • South African mainly white industry union to strike over ‘racial exclusion’

    South African petro-chemical company Sasol's synthetic fuel plant in Secunda, north of Johannesburg (file photo) Image copyright Reuters Symbol caption Employees at Sasol’s South African operations are to strike over a new stocks possession scheme

    A South African trade union with principally white individuals is to begin strikes at a petrochemical company over a share scheme to be had handiest to black workers, which it says is “blatant discrimination”.

    Businesses in South Africa are required to meet black possession quotas underneath rules supposed to offset the impact of apartheid-technology policies.

    The Sasol company mentioned final year that it would build up black possession in its native operations to no less than 25%.

    The moves are due to start on Monday.

    Sasol converts coal and gas to gasoline.

    The Harmony Union has 6,300 individuals in Sasol’s South African operations and says it’s unfair that simplest black staff are eligible to obtain the shares.

    In a press release on its website, it described the planned three weeks of commercial action as “the primary time within the history of South Africa that white employees strike on account of racial exclusion”.

    “We intend to switch off a different portion of Sasol on a daily basis by technique of smartly-laid and strategic plans,” it added.

  • Seoul to check public toilets day-to-day for hidden cameras

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    The South Korean capital, Seoul, has pledged to carry out daily exams in all public bogs for hidden cameras.

    Secret cameras in bogs and changing rooms are a significant downside in South Korea – with more than 6,000 circumstances of “secret agent cam porn” suggested closing yr.

    The movies are sometimes uploaded online with out the information of the sufferers.

    In Advance this yr, tens of thousands of women protested towards hidden cameras, carrying signs with messages like “my lifestyles is not your porn”.

    Activists say women reside in constant worry of being photographed or filmed without their wisdom.

    Symbol copyright Getty Images Image caption There were several protests towards undercover agent digicam porn this year

    Seoul’s public bogs are these days best inspected for hidden cameras approximately as soon as a month, Yonhap news agency reports.

    However, group of workers who deal with restrooms will now also be required to check public toilets for undercover agent cameras daily.

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    Law enforcement officers have previously instructed the BBC that it is difficult to trap perpetrators – especially as they are able to install cameras, and take them down again inside quarter-hour.

    While greater than FIVE,400 other people were arrested for spy digital camera similar crimes last 12 months, fewer than 2% of these held had been jailed.

    Yonhap says that the 50 govt employees tasked in particular with finding hidden cameras have not discovered any for 2 years.

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  • Babies’ is still found dumped in Kolkata

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    Police in Kolkata (Calcutta) are investigating after the our bodies of 14 small children and foetuses were found wrapped in plastic baggage right through development work.

    Local media said the is still have been discovered on Sunday when workers dug up a vacant plot of land within the Haridevpur neighbourhood.

    an actual estate corporate had purchased the land recently, the Hindustan Occasions mentioned.

    It isn’t yet clear what came about.

    “The 14 our bodies, wrapped one by one in plastic, were in two luggage,” Kolkata’s mayor Sovan Chatterjee stated.

    “An Intensive seek of all the area, including nearby waterbodies, will likely be conducted to see if there are more our bodies. it seems that the our bodies have been soaked in chemicals.”

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    Condition of skeletons can also be made up our minds most effective after postmortem. We Will inspect. We’re additionally checking the CCTV pictures in the area. a complete seek can be done the next day morning: Nilanjan Biswas, DC (Behala) on skeletons of 14 babies found in Kolkata’s Haridevpur. #WestBengal pic.twitter.com/QSFl6M3Uvv

    — ANI (@ANI) September 2, 2018

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    An unnamed police officer quoted via the click Accept As True With of India urged an “abortion racket running nearby” could be responsible.

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    “we have now no clue from the place they (the bodies) have come. Going by way of circumstantial proof, it seems that they were dumped there as the land used to be mendacity deserted,” the officer stated.

    Post mortems will now be conducted, and police will analyse CCTV footage from the area.