world news update

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5-29-18  

-Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters on their way to Raqqa, Syria June 6, 2017.  REUTERS/Rodi Said

 Baghdad (IraqiNews.com)   The Syrian Democratic Forces have announced heading toward Islamic State’s stronghold, south of Hasaka, to liberate the region from the militants.

  In remarks to the Russian Sputnik News agency, Lilwa al-Abdallah, the spokesperson for the Operation al-Jazeera Storm, said the operation “is ongoing to eliminate presence of IS in eastern Euphrates and south of Hasaka.  Our troops are heading toward al-Desheisha, located south of Hasaka to liberate it completely from the militants until reaching to the Iraqi borders.”

  The operations to free Desheisha, according to Abdallah, are carried out “in cooperation with Iraqi troops at the joint task forces to eliminate IS from the region and prevent the militants infiltration to Iraqi and Syrian regions.”
  After freeing Desheisha or Badiya region, according to Abdallah, “we will head toward Hegeen, which is considered the last and biggest strongholds of IS.”  https://www.iraqinews.com/arab-world-news/sdf-says-to-head-toward-islamic-state-south-of-hasaka-reaching-to-iraqi-borders/

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5-31-18  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned US-backed Kurdish forces he would not hesitate to use force to retake the third of the country they control.

  "The only problem left in Syria is the SDF," Assad told Russia Today in an interview aired Thursday, referring to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forceswhich has spearheaded battles against Islamic State group jihadists.  "We're going to deal with it by two options," he said.

  "The first one:  we started now opening doors for negotiations.  Because the majority of them are Syrians, supposedly they like their country, they don't like to be puppets to any foreigners," Assad said in English.      http://www.france24.com/en/20180531-syria-assad-kurds-us-military-threat-force

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5-31-18     Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Pyongyang on Thursday invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Russia, Moscow said, during the first meeting between the head of the reclusive state and a Russian official.

  "Come to Russia, we'll be very happy to see you," Lavrov told Kim in remarks released by the Russian foreign ministry.  Lavrov passed greetings from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Kim, saying he wished him success in the "major undertakings that have been initiated on the Korean peninsula", the ministry said in a statement.undertakings that have been initiated on the Korean peninsula", the ministry said in a statement.  http://www.france24.com/en/20180531-north-korea-russia-lavrov-invitation-kim

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On Feb. 13, 2018, detectives of Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) brought embezzlement charges in absentia against

Odesa Mayor Hennadii Trukhanov and three officials of the mayor's office.  https://en.censor.net.ua/news/3050252/odesa_mayor_trukhanov_three_mayors_office_officials_indicted_on_embezzlement_charges_nabu

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4-7-`8   "Mr Trukhanov, are you corrupt?" - Odesa Mayor's guards attack BBC reporter after tough questions on official's secret investments overseas. VIDEO

BBC reporter Andy Verity wanted to ask Odesa Mayor Hennadii Trukhanov whether he had been using London to hide dirty money when the official's security hustled him out of the place and kicked him in the groin.  

As reported by Censor.NET, a BBC investigation has revealed how an organised crime gang secretly invested millions of pounds in the UK.

The journalists discovered that the Ukrainian gangsters bought luxury properties in central London.  This is what happened when reporter Andy Verity tried to question the Mayor of Odesa, suspected of involvement:  https://en.censor.net.ua/video_news/3063160/mr_trukhanov_are_you_corrupt_odesa_mayors_guards_attack_bbc_reporter_after_tough_questions_on_officials

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5-31-18       On Friday, June 1, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will make a working trip to Odesa region, where he will open a bridge on Odesa-Reni highway.

  The head of state said this at the opening ceremony of a new line of the cement plant in the village of Yamnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. "Tomorrow I will go to Odesa region.  We will open a bridge on Odesa-Reni highway," Poroshenko said.  In addition, Poroshenko plans to meet with German Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Thursday at 9 pm.  They will discuss the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas.  https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/2471504-poroshenko-to-meet-with-german-foreign-minister-in-evening-to-visit-odesa-on-friday.html

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409.  One need not expend energy twice if the blow has been properly prepared.    -Leaves of Morya's Garden  1924

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III, ii, 17.  A command to my warriors is not spoken twice.  Let us build better our ways, marking the possibilities.  Let us not be afraid if at first glance these possibilities appear too scattered.  Grass does not grow instantaneously.  But fortunately I see youthful heads worthy to be entrusted with the loosened threads. (of purpose).  

III, iii, 5.  Do not be displeased except with yourself.   Do not let others do what you can do for yourself, and in this way you will abolish the thralldom of servants.  Do not say twice what needs to be said once.  Do not retread the same path, for even a stone threshold will wear away . Do not swim where one has to fly.  Do not turn back where one should make haste.  Do not distort your mouth in ill-speech where you should pass in silence.  When the steel of achievement is needed do not cover yourself with rays.  No need for a saddle where wings are growing.  Not the fist but the hammer drives in the nail.  Not the bow but the arrow reaches the mark.  Not by my God, but by thine.  Do not be bounded by a fence but by the fire of thought.       -Leaves of Morya's Garden 1925

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81.  It is better to say "Yesterday is past; let us learn how to meet a new dawn."  We all grow, and our works are expanding with us.  After twenty-seven years no one is a youth, and we all can then understand the achievement of service. It is unworthy to rummage in yesterday's dust; henceforth let us establish a new step.  Let us begin to labor surrounding ourselves with a thousand eyes; let us acquire purity of thought and co-measurement of actions.  Thus let us fill our days; let us become used to mobility and decisiveness.     

  Likewise let us not forget that there is nothing on Earth higher than the given plan for the common good; let us manifest understanding of the Teachings of life....Ponder how the boundaries of cosmos have touched you.  Recall the steps of wondrous tensions not in a book but in life.  Reflect that so much has not been taken up and absorbed and yet you stand in your place.  Therefore be not disheartened by mistakes but ascend by the Hierarchy of the Teaching.   

148.  On the path let us not be finicky.     -M:  Community 1926

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442.  An orderly life is not something shameful, for one must carefully protect the apparatus built through the ages.      -M:  Agni Yoga 1929

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248.  Each ploughman will say that he wants the plough that makes the largest and deepest furrow.  Indeed why cross the field twice and why not reach the fertile strata?  Let the depth of the furrow be reverence to Hierarchy and the width of the furrow be steadfastness of motion.  Let us watch where there is a lack of reverence for Hierarchy and where non-fulfillment of commands.  Let us notice where there is readiness to retreat.  Each harm must be eradicated.  Rising in spirit one should watch where are unprotected spots.      -M:  Hierarchy 1931
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254.  No one requires that a telephone call or a telegram be repeated twice before he will believe it, but it works out otherwise in the matter of information from the finer energy plane.  For some reason people invariably insist upon repetition of manifestations, as if they could be convinced only through repetition--in such a manner much energy is wasted.  Conditions have already become altered, but man wishes to turn backward---much is made difficult by such retrogression.      

(by Schmiechen, 1882)

                                        -Morya:  Brotherhood  1937