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Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
Basically the existence of commercial air travel in the United States right now rests on the willingness of a bunch of security guards to show up to work to do a thankless job, for no pay, indefinitely, in the middle of the hottest private sector job market anyone can remember.
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State Dept officials say SecState
#Pompeo will use next week's trip to the Mideast to reassure allies that the US is not pulling out of the#MiddleEast, despite Trump's decision to pull troops out of#SyriaThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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#Pompeo's trip to the Mideast, a State Dept official says the US is still dissatisfied w/#SaudiArabia's response to#Khashoggi murder: "the Saudi narrative or legal process has yet to hit the threshold of credibility & accountability"Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
Thus began the Great Historian Meltdown of 2019.https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1080549357232025601 …
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Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
There are unconfirmed reports in Seoul that a senior North Korean diplomat in Italy is seeking asylum. All anonymous sources which were first quoted in the JoongAng Daily. This would be a very high profile defection.https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190103003700325 …
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Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
Thae Yong-ho tells South Korean TV that Jo Song-gil, the acting NK ambassador in Italy who has disappeared, has family who were also diplomats. Jo's father-in-law was a leading diplomat in Thailand and Hong Kong, says Thae
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Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
South Korea’s spy agency has told Congressmen in Seoul that North Korea’s ambassador to Italy has gone into hiding with his wife. The announcement comes amid reports that Pyongyang’s top diplomat in Italy has sought asylum from an unidentified western country with his family.
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Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
Middle East this a.m • FBI team in Turkey to discuss Gulen • Saudi opens 1st Khashoggi trial, 11 suspects • UK: Assad’ll be around for a while! •UK-Iranian prisoner on hunger strike in Iran • Qatar introduces Sin Tax on Alcohol • China seeks deeper ties w Egypt in Africa
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State Dept confirms that US ambo to
#Russia has visited & expressed support for detained Amn citizen Paul Whelan, arrested by Moscow last week on spying chargesThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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Trump: we will pull our troops out of
#Syria "over a period of time"Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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#Syria: 'I don't want to be in Syria forever: it's sand, and it's death."Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
The most disturbing thing about Jair Bolsonaro's presidency is what he plans to do to the Amazon rain forest - the largest carbon reserve on earth, barring the sea.
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Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
In the wake of the Kaepernick ad, Nike announced that it had crushed earnings expectations, leading to a market surge Friday that found Nike's stock as the sole gainer in the entire Dow.https://trib.al/AusDY4C
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Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
I had a lot of respect for Paddy Ashdown. During the Bosnian war most politicians pontificated from a safe distance. I would see Paddy when he came into besieged Sarajevo across a risky mountain route. He used his own eyes and ears to work out the war’s rights and wrongs
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Barbara Plett Usher Retweeted
McGurk, incredibly, managed to be a key official for Middle East policy under GW Bush, Obama, and Trump. It says something about this moment that he essentially just said: “This is where I get off the bus.”https://twitter.com/AP/status/1076511604978733056 …
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"Trump adopted a bellicose stance towards Tehran long before he became president. But he was never comfortable with an indefinite stay in
#Syria yoked to#Iran." https://www.thedailybeast.com/boltons-hawkish-syria-plan-backfired-pushing-trump-to-get-out?source=twitter&via=desktop … via@thedailybeastThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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Breaking: Brett McGurk, the president's envoy to the anti-
#ISIS coalition, has resigned in protest at#Trump's abrupt decision to w/draw US troops from#Syria. Seems he was as blindsided as everyone else, here's what he told me just last weekpic.twitter.com/EQk0dyT0cXThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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