"Wars run as long as a nation has the resilience and a will to resist. Conquering a nation when its citizens are ready to fight is impossible even when there is disparity in strength, as there was between Russia and Ukraine, or even more so between the U.S. and Iran" https://t.co/O4C8Hwr4GR via @WSJ
Despite the boos, Trump achieved a historic first at Madison Square Garden: The league says he is the first sitting president to attend the finals. https://t.co/D91zfGImb2 via @WSJ
“Some of the funds that the Kim regime made through selling weapons and hacking are trickling down to the residents,” said Lee, who heads a data-research center owned by DailyNK, an online publication. https://t.co/te0RQFm6qa via @WSJ
A rare strain of Ebola has reached a corner of Congo controlled by Islamic State militants, a place too dangerous for health workers to go https://t.co/9iNmwX28k7?
A growing number of families are grappling with how to make sure that money doesn’t screw up their kids—and the kids don’t screw up the money—as wealth at the top has exploded. https://t.co/Yx2F1jBh1x via @WSJ
The Trump administration is expected to deploy U.S. public-health officers to Kenya to staff a potential quarantine facility there amid the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo https://t.co/B0JJm36QVA via @WSJ
In Congo, health teams are battling superstition and mistrust as they try to slow the Ebola outbreak my latesthttps://www.wsj.com/world/africa/deep-distrust-superstition-impede-efforts-to-contain-ebola-437687d1?st=4VySMh via @WSJ
WSJ: Doctors, Hospitals Struggle to Keep Up With Ebola’s Spread /‘Hospitals are fighting with no tools at all,’
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Over his decade as manager of Manchester City, Pep Guardiola not only crushed the competition. He also changed the way soccer was played.
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One hot spot for the virus—an Ebola strain called Bundibugyo that is fatal in up to 50% of cases, according to CDC—is also a battleground between Ugandan troops and Islamic State militants. The other focal point is a rebel-held city largely cut off from government resources.
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"I used to be the sniper and everyone was dancing around me. Now the drone pilot, everyone dances around him, including me." https://t.co/jzmaggQqyB via @WSJ
“They’re saving on equipment but hemorrhaging men instead. The approach is yielding diminishing gains,” said Michael Kofman, an expert on the Russian military at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank https://t.co/H1IdWXVaLf via @WSJ
Four decades ago, Iran and the U.S. were on a collision course over oil shipping. In July 1988, the USS Vincennes mistook an Iran Air commercial plane for a fighter and shot it down soon after takeoff from Dubai, killing 290 civilians.
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Zambia Helped Chinese Miner Cover Up Pollution Disaster, House Committee Finds—Zambia is relying on China to grow its copper-mining industry and owes Beijing $6.6 billion
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Zambia helped a Chinese-owned miner cover up one of the worst mining pollution incidents in history, according to an investigation by a U.S. House Select Committee on China "Sino-Metals is a Chinese state-owned company, so to criticize it is to criticize the Chinesegovernment.”
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The people of the remote Chagos Archipelago thought they had a chance to return home with the U.K.’s deal to hand over their home islands and lease the Diego Garcia military base https://t.co/vBwDDTqhw1 via @WSJ