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BEIRUT — Syrian government forces captured a central rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo on Tuesday after a week of blistering airstrikes, as a military official vowed that the offensive would continue until insurgents are "wiped out."
Syrian state TV said troops captured Farafra, near Aleppo's famous citadel, and that fighting was underway near the historic core of the northern city.
Aleppo, Syria's largest city and former commercial center, has been fiercely contested since rebels captured several eastern neighborhoods in 2012. Those neighborhoods are now under siege, and over the past week have endured the worst aerial onslaught since the start of the war, with more than 200 people killed and sev...
The battle for the city still appears to be mired in stalemate. Government forces captured the Handarat area on the northern edge of Aleppo over the weekend, only to lose it hours later.
The contested historic quarter of Aleppo, one of the world's oldest cities, is home to the Umayyad Mosque, a UNESCO world heritage site. The 11th-century minaret of the famed mosque collapsed in April 2013 during fighting.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, confirmed that government forces are advancing on the old quarter.
"There was intense shelling earlier. It seemed the (government) was preparing for the attack," said Ibrahim Alhaj, a member of the Syrian Civil Defense, volunteer first responders also known as the White Helmets. He added that news from the front line suggests a large mobilization of pro-government militias in the old ...
Alhaj and activist Yassin Abu Raed, who is based outside the city, said rebels were able to repel the offensive. Abu Raed said five troops were killed in the fighting. Alhaj said the house of his parents was shelled earlier Tuesday, but that he was able to rescue them and bring them to his own home.
The latest escalation came after a weeklong cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia unraveled, which each side accusing the other of violating the agreement.
A Syrian military official in the capital, Damascus, said operations in Aleppo will continue until the "terrorists" in the eastern parts of the city are "wiped out." The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump's personal counsel, Michael Cohen, hand-delivered a "peace" plan for Russia and Ukraine to former national security adviser Michael Flynn before Flynn was asked to resign, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
The plan involved lifting sanctions on Russia in return for Moscow withdrawing its support for pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine. It would also allow Russia to maintain control over Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.
Trump has suggested he would be open to lifting sanctions on Russia if Moscow proved a useful ally in fighting terrorism.
The Times said the plan was pushed by Cohen — a close confidante of Trump who served as his organization's special counsel from 2007 to 2017 and now serves as Trump's personal lawyer — and Felix Sater, a Russian-American real-estate developer who has helped the Trump Organization scout deals in Russia.
Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii V. Artemenko, who met with Trump's campaign team during the election, was also involved in drafting the proposal. Artemenko told the Times he had evidence of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's corruption that could lead to his ouster.
Poroshenko has been locked in a war with pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine since he took power in 2014. He is considered more friendly to the West than his ousted predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych's political rise was heavily aided by former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who worked as an advise...
Cohen, Sater, and Artemenko met in a hotel lobby on Park Avenue in Manhattan in late January to draw up the proposal, the Times reported. Cohen told the paper that the meeting was aimed at "bringing about peace" between Ukraine and Russia. Violence flared up again in eastern Ukraine last month between the Ukrainian arm...
In a series of text messages to Business Insider on Monday, Cohen said he "never delivered any documents to Flynn or any member of the White House nor engaged the President regarding this matter." He gave a similar statement to the Washington Post on Sunday.
Cohen told Business Insider that he "emphatically" denies drafting the plan "or even knowing what the plan is." He acknowledged that he met with Artemenko for "under 10 minutes" to discuss a plan Artemenko said "was acknowledged by Russian authorities that would create world peace.
"My response was, 'Who doesn't want world peace?'" he said.
The Times stood by its story, however, telling The Washington Post that Cohen "told The Times in no uncertain terms that he delivered the Ukraine proposal to Michael Flynn's office at the White House. Mr. Sater told the Times that Mr. Cohen had told him the same thing."
Sater, a businessman who has boasted of his "relationship with Trump," told the Post last May that he "handled all of the negotiations" for the Trump Organization's dealings in Russia in the mid-2000s.
Trump has distanced himself from Sater, insisting in sworn testimony as part of a 2013 lawsuit that "if [Sater] were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn't know what he looked like."
Cohen, Trump's lawyer, was named in the explosive, unsubstantiated dossier presented by top US intelligence officials to Trump and senior lawmakers last month that has increased scrutiny of his presidential campaign's ties to Russia.
The memos, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele for an opposition research firm in Washington, DC, said that Cohen was part of the "ongoing secret liaison relationship between the New York tycoon's campaign and the Russian leadership," and that he met secretly with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 201...
Cohen, whose wife is Ukrainian, insisted shortly after the dossier was published that he was in California at the time of the alleged meeting and that he had never been to Prague.
The FBI is currently reviewing the allegations made in the dossier and is pursuing three separate investigations into Russian hacking that targeted prominent Democrats during the US election. The intelligence community is also examining phone calls made between Trump associates and Russian officials throughout the camp...
This article has been updated to include further comments from Michael Cohen.
The remains of a bride-to-be from Brooklyn Heights who died on 9/11 have finally be identified almost 11 years after the terrorist attacks.
Karol Ann Keasler, 42, worked as an event planner for investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods on the 89th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center.
She was finally identified by New York's chief medical examiner on Friday.
'It’s been almost 11 years. And after all this time, I had come to believe that things like this only happen on ‘CSI.’ Susan, her younger sister told the New York Daily News, from her Las Vegas home.
A bone in Karol's foot was found in the months after 9/11 and identified via breakthrough technology, developed since 9/11, that can extract a full DNA profile from a small bone fragment.
'I feel a little bit restful, a little bit relieved, a little bit thankful,' her sister told the Daily News.
The fragment will be returned to Nevada and her mother, Denise Keasler, plans on having it cremated with her own remains upon her death.
In 2005, Karol’s business cards, an emery board and a nail clipper she always carried in a make-up case were found at the site and returned to the family.
Her sister said that she was not even supposed to be in New York on that fateful day, her sister told the Daily News.
Her mother Mrs Keasler recalls speaking to her daughter for the final time on the day of the attacks.
'She said ‘mom I’m sorry I was going to call you’ and at the same time, I was looking at the TV and I saw this plane making this wide arc.
'I saw it hit the building, we were disconnected and, of course, I never heard from her again,' she told CBS New York.
The latest identification brings the number of victims whose bodies or body parts have been recovered and positively identified to to 1,633.
Another 1,120 people were either not recovered or have not yet been identified - out of the 2,753 who died.
I have the honour to transmit herewith a report of the work of the Security Council during the presidency of Portugal in November 2011 (see annex).
The report was prepared under the responsibility of Ambassador José Filipe Moraes Cabral, Permanent Representative, after consultation with the other members of the Security Council.
During November, traditionally a busy month, the Security Council dealt with 27 items. The Council held 26 public meetings and 18 consultations of the whole, adopted three resolutions, one statement by the President and nine statements to the press.
With regard to the Middle East, one of the main issues during the month of November was the application of Palestine for membership in the United Nations. As President of the Security Council, I chaired two private meetings of the Committee on the Admission of New Members. At the first meeting, on 3 November, delegatio...
On 21 November, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process briefed the Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Concerning the Middle East peace process, he considered that provocations continue to damage confidence and make resuming negotiations very difficult. He...
In consultations of the whole, Council members expressed both their support for the efforts of the Quartet and their concern over the lack of progress in negotiations and the troubling developments on the ground, in particular Israel’s continued settlement activity and decision to hold payments of tax revenues to the P...
During the month of November, the Committee on the Admission of New Members held two private meetings to discuss the application of Palestine to the United Nations. At the first meeting, on 3 November, delegations expressed their views on the application of Palestine, on the basis of which the Chair of the Committee pr...
On 29 November, the presidency delivered a statement on behalf of the Security Council on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
President Michel Aoun on Wednesday called on the United Nations to “facilitate” the return of Syrian refugees to their country as well as Lebanon's exportation of goods via the Nassib border crossing between Syria and Jordan.
In a meeting with Acting U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Pernille Dahler Kardel, Aoun also urged the U.N. to help Lebanon continue the demarcation of its maritime and territorial southern border with Israel, including in the occupied Shebaa Farms and Kfarshouba Hills.
“This is Lebanese territory and its residents are Lebanese,” Aoun stressed during the meeting, referring to the two occupied regions.
Aoun also briefed Kardel on the main points of the national economic plan that is expected to be discussed and approved by the new government.
“The U.N. has a role to play in facilitating the flow of the importation and exportation movement via the Nassib border crossing, which would revive Lebanon's industrial exports and accordingly revitalize the economy and its various sectors,” Aoun added, referring to a border crossing that the Syrian regime has recentl...
Former NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.) weighs in on the White House push to boost defense spending.
During an interview with Neil Cavuto on the FOX Business Network, former NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander addressed the recent controversy involving Attorney General Jeff Sessions and allegations he communicated with Russian diplomats during the presidential election, despite stating that he didn’t during his confirma...
“Well, I think the facts are what we need and I think jumping to the conclusion that the Attorney General did something wrong is a big jump,” General Alexander said.
In a statement to Fox News, the Attorney General denied the accusations, “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign. I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false," he wrote.
The attorney general has asked the privacy commissioner to investigate Aussie Farms and called on states to increase trespass penalties in response to the animal rights group.
But Coalition backbenchers including senators John Williams and James McGrath have demanded the government do more, including stripping Aussie Farms of charitable status due to concerns publication of information about farms encourages trespass.
The Aussie Farms website shows the location of hundreds of farms and abattoirs, encouraging people to upload photos or videos of animal exploitation in a bid to influence consumer choices.
Although the agriculture minister, David Littleproud, has already said he will write to the charity commissioner to review its charitable status, scrutiny on Aussie Farms intensified on Monday because of nationwide protests including by vegan activists in Melbourne.
The National Farmers’ Federation chief executive, Tony Mahar, said that the world’s biggest action by animal rights activists had resulted in the unlawful entry of a Queensland dairy farm while meat processors in Yangan, Queensland; Goulburn, New South Wales and Laverton, Victoria were shut down for several hours.
“Farmers have endured an anxious 24 hours with the threat of farm invasions by radical extremists looming large,” he said.
The attorney general, Christian Porter, wrote to the privacy commissioner on Monday arguing that “there are strong grounds to conclude that Aussie Farms Inc is engaging in a systematic effort in collecting, using and disclosing personal information to the detriment of farmers and agricultural producers”.
He requested the commissioner investigate whether a breach of privacy had occurred after a special regulation on Saturday applied the requirements of the Privacy Act to the group.
Porter said it appeared that Aussie Farms Inc “continues to act in a way inconsistent with its obligation under the Privacy Act and has played a significant role in spreading disruptive protest activity from Australia’s farms to our capital cities”.
Porter also asked states and territories to “consider taking action to strengthen penalties and enforcement of criminal trespass offences”.
Porter complained that “a number of farmers and associated businesses have experienced criminal trespass, intimidation and disruption of their business activities” but there had only been “a limited number of prosecutions or arrests”.
He suggested states and territories assess whether “greater enforcement action” should be taken by local police forces on what he labelled an “important issue of public safety”.
Williams told Sky News on Monday that Aussie Farms should not have charitable status because it was not “responsible” and it was wrong to allow a “tax deduction for donations to people who are breaking the law”.
Williams said he will raise the matter with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission on Wednesday, adding that the NSW agriculture minister, Adam Marshall, will “certainly be stepping up that line” on harsher penalties for trespass.
McGrath said he would also write to the ACNC to review the charitable status, labelling it “outrageous” that donations could be used to “effectively commit criminal acts”.
Aussie Farms is registered as a charity with the purpose of preventing or relieving the suffering of animals.
Aussie Farms has said that the Privacy Act is “irrelevant” to its map and has not been breached by publication of information about farms.
In a statement it accused Littleproud of “smoke and mirrors to keep consumers in the dark and keep the conversation away from what’s happening to animals every day inside Australian farms and slaughterhouses”.
Teddy Bishop believes getting a full pre-season under his belt will be ‘game-changing’ for him as he continues his drive for full fitness following three injury-disrupted years.
The midfielder has been one of the bright spots of a disastrous season on the pitch for the Blues, which is almost certain to end with relegation to League One.
Bishop, who made just 10 league starts in the three seasons prior to the start of this campaign, has been in the matchday squad for all-but one of the Blues’ games in 2019, only missing the draw at Wigan due to illness.
“That would be game-changing for me because I’ve not had a proper pre-season in three years,” Bishop said.
“It’s massive because if you miss pre-season you are always playing catch-up for the rest of the year, trying to get that fitness.
“I need to stay fit now between now and the end of the season and then that could be massive for me.
“I played at Exeter and then didn’t play again for months and after that I had a bit of a reaction and had to build myself back up again and get back into training for a month before you get considered.
“A good pre-season for me would do me the world of good.
While Bishop knows he still has a way to go before he reaches peak match fitness levels, he feels as sharp as he did during the 2014/15 season, when he burst onto the scene and helped Ipswich charge into the Championship play-offs.
“I’m still getting back to it, even though I’ve not missed any training,” Bishop said.
“I do still get aches and pains because of the player I am I think, because I get fouled a lot. You pick up little niggles here and there if you’re getting kicked all the time.
“I feel the best I’ve felt in four years.
“I feel my sharpness is like it was in the play-off year, the year I broke through, and I haven’t felt this sharp since then.
“The manager (Paul Lambert) and all of the staff have been really patient with me and haven’t pushed me too hard, putting me in when he thought was right. I’ve agreed with him on that.
(CNN) — With Ramadan coming to a close and Muslims around the world celebrating Eid al-Fitr, there's no better time to revel in the things that have been off limits during daylight hours for the last month.
Across Asia, where millions follow Islam, food is a central theme to nearly all social occasions.
Here are 20 of the most delicious dishes from Malaysia, though they can also be found elsewhere, that can now fill stomachs around the clock, not just after sun down.
Tender beef rendang can't be missed.
Though sometimes erroneously labeled as a curry, aficionados will be quick to point out that this chunky cauldron of coconut milk and spices is nothing of the sort. The difference is in how it is cooked: slowly simmered (to let the meat absorb the spices) until the rosy liquid completely evaporates.
A favorite, especially during festive seasons, grabbing some rendang is as easy as picking up a warm, freshly ladled plastic bag and some rice to complement it.
Apam Balik is the ultimate Malaysian pancake.

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