Confusion reigns at Egyptian airport amid British evacuation
LONDON —Confusion reigned at the airport in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Friday as a British plan to quickly evacuate thousands of its citizens under emergency security rules was thrown into doubt.Despite repeated assurances from British officials that the airlift would go ahead as planned, the low-cost carrier EasyJet announced Friday that “rescue plans that were put in place yesterday have been suspended by the Egyptian authorities.”[Anger rises among stranded tourists]Egypt’s civil aviation officials, however, blamed the snag on trying to add flights to the limited capacity of the airport in the Red Sea resort, where many airlines canceled service after last week’s crash..>> view originalJason Hatcher blames ineffective run defense on underperforming...
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In a blistering critique, former president George H.W. Bush says Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld "served the president badly" when his son George W. Bush was in the White House. (AP)A former president is rarely publicly critical of another former president — especially by way of a tell-all book. Even more rarely has one president been the father of another. And those categories have never intersected. Until now.And so begins another round of Bush family drama tied mostly to foreign policy, this time in the pages of an authorized biography of former president George H.W. Bush. While generally supportive of his son's presidency, he criticizes former president George W. Bush, former vice preside..>> view originalObama pushes military frustration to highest level in decades
Key lawmakers from both parties say frustration with theWhite Houseamong the top military officers is at its highest level in decades, the product of President Obama’s cautious approach to the wars inSyriaandIraqand an indecisive inner circle ofWhite Houseadvisers who, critics say, have iced the Pentagon out of the policymaking process.“There’s a level of dissatisfaction among the uniformed military that I’ve never seen in my time here,” said Senate Armed Services Committee ChairmanJohn McCainin an interview. “For some of us who are a little older, let’s go back and read the Pentagon Papers — what the administration is doing is the kind of incrementalism that defined much of the Vietnam conf..>> view originalBen Carson's stories of violence in his past questioned
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)It was the 1960s. Ben Carson, 14-year-old ninth grader, was growing up rough in Detroit. And, one fateful day, the future neurosurgeon and Republican presidential contender got very, very angry.The argument, like many among teenagers, was about nothing: what radio station to listen to. Carson’s friend Bob dared turn the dial on the transistor radio.“You call that music?” Bob said.“It’s better than what you like!” Carson yelled back, grabbing for the dial.That could have been it — good friends have argued about greater things and quickly made up. But Carson found himself consumed by rage.“In..>> view originalLow polling drags Christie and Huckabee to undercard debate
FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2015, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., speaks at the Iowa GOP’s Growth and Opportunity Party at the Iowa state fair grounds in Des Moines, Iowa. Christie and Mike Huckabee have been relegated out of prime-time and onto the undercard at the Nov. 10, GOP presidential debate. (Nati Harnik, File/Associated Press)ByJill Colvin and Steve Peoples | APNovember 6 at 3:06 AMNEWARK, N.J. — Two candidates who have been part of each of the prime-time Republican debates so far, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee, have been demoted to next week’s undercard event because of low national poll numbers, delivering a major blow to their..>> view originalRussia moves to ground Boeing 737s two years after crash
Relatives read lists of killed passengers aboard a plane that crashed at Russia’s Kazan airport on Nov. 17, 2013. (ROMAN KRUCHININ/AFP/Getty Images)Boeing will meet with Russian authorities in Moscow on Friday over the country’s move to ground the world’s most plentiful commercial jet aircraft, the Boeing 737.Safety concerns about the 737 have been raised by Russian investigators finalizing their work on a crash of a plane attempting to land a Kazan International Airport, about 500 miles east of Moscow. The November 2013 crash killed all on board, 44 passengers and six crew members.“Boeing will be meeting with Russian officials to discuss this,” said Doug Alder, spokesman for the airline man..>> view originalPrimer on Myanmar's historic elections on Sunday
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, file photo, a man casts his ballot in advance of the upcoming Nov. 8 general election at a township Election Commission Office in Mandalay, Myanmar. Myanmar will hold general elections on Sunday to choose representatives for both houses of Parliament, known as Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. (Hkun Lat, File/Associated Press)ByAssociated PressNovember 6 at 2:07 AMYANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar will hold general elections on Sunday to choose representatives for both houses of Parliament, known as Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. A look at what’s at stake:___PARTIES AND CANDIDATES: A total of 6,193 candidates from 91 parties are contesting the election. The main fight, however, is betwe..>> view originalNet of Insecurity: The kernel of the argument
‘Dodo birds had it coming’The Cassandra myth reached its tragic climax when she warned the Trojans that a giant wooden horse on their shores — supposedly a gift of surrender after a long siege — actually was filled with Greek warriors who soon would emerge to destroy Troy. The Trojans laughed and ridiculed Cassandra. They realized their error when it was too late.In the days after Ryabitsev gave hisAugust keynote addresssuggesting that software makers should rethink how they approach security, several Linux maintainers exchanged messages on a public mailing list about the possibility of revisiting some of the issues long raised by Spengler and other critics.“We have some measures in place, a..>> view originalNetanyahu's new top media adviser called Obama an anti-Semite
Ran Baratz has been appointed to serve as the Israeli prime minister’s media adviser and director of public diplomacy. (Reuters)JERUSALEM —Just a few days before he heads to Washington to try to mend fences with the White House and secure billions of dollars in U.S. military aid, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed a new chief of public diplomacy who called President Obama a modern-day anti-Semite and wrote that Secretary of State John F. Kerry has the intellectual acuity of a 12-year-old.Netanyahu’s choice of Ran Baratz was pounced uponby Israeli news mediaand the political opposition, which quickly combed through his social media posts and past articles to find a string of ..>> view original
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