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Contents: Fake news: Newsweek says Mattis denied any evidence that Assad used Sarin gas; Haley announces major change in policy regarding Russia and Security Council; Major multi-national military operation planned for Syria after Sarin gas use; Russia’s Andrey Klimov: Sarin gas attack is just a Hollywood movie

Contents: New chemical weapon attack in Syria kills 48, hospitalizes hundreds; Trump threatens ‘big price to pay’ after Assad’s chemical weapons attack in Syria; Syria reports that it’s under missile attack, ‘likely’ by the US

Contents: Trump administration approves selling submarine technology to Taiwan; Japan launches first marine brigade since the end of World War II

Contents: Gaza Palestinians burn tires to hide protests from Israel’s army; Hamas and Fatah/PLO criticized for contradictory strategies

Contents: China’s tariff retaliation plan would devastate China’s economy; China on path to repeat Japan’s experience after Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930

Contents: Russia accelerates delivery of S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to Turkey; Mainstream media emphasize the love-fest between Turkey and Russia

Contents: Israel’s government in turmoil over failure to deport African migrants; Netanyahu: We fell into a ‘trap’ with failed deportation plan

Contents: Gaza Palestinian ‘Land Day’ demonstrations lead to violence with Israel’s army; Fears grow of resumption of 2014 Gaza war

Contents: Russia’s Far East under growing threat from Chinese settlers and tourists; Russians increasingly fear losing Lake Baikal to China – and to garbage; Popular pressure grows in China to ‘reclaim’ Vladivostok (Haishenwai) from Russia

Contents: Ethiopia chooses Oromo leader, Abiy Ahmed, hoping to reduce violence; Kenya’s government vs the judiciary — tensions mount over farcical deportation spectacle

Contents: Russia-China strategy to use the UN to control Western foreign policy has stopped working; The West reacts to Russia’s poisoning of double-agent Skripal; China reacts furiously to Western expulsion of Russian diplomats; China ‘prepares for war’ with massive naval/air force drills in South China Sea

Contents: Tense Turkey-EU summit in Bulgaria once again ends in failure; Other unresolved issues from the EU-Turkey summit meeting

Contents: Yemen’s Iran-backed al-Houthi rebels launch barrage of missile attacks on Saudi cities; Al-Houthi missile attack on Saudi cities sharply escalates the Yemen war

Contents: Violent clashes with police in Spain’s Catalonia follow arrest of Puigdemont in Germany; Spain’s arrests of Catalonia secessionist leaders revive memories of Franco’s brutal atrocities

Contents: Florida school shooting causes millions of high school students to rally for gun control; The rise of the Pivotal Generation (Generation Z); Defining the generations — Silent, Boomer, Generation-X, Millennial, Pivotal

Contents: Report that Russia is helping the Taliban in Afghanistan contains delusional aspects; US warship sails near China’s illegal artificial island in the South China Sea

Contents: Turkey’s government takes control of last remaining independent news source; South Africans furious at Australia for condemning white farmer land confiscation

Contents: Massive earth fissure suddenly opens up in mid-Kenya, signaling an eventual split in all of Africa; How China would lose a war with the United States; ISIS-linked terrorists in Afghanistan kill 32 in bombing of Shia Shrine in Kabul

Contents: Xi Jinping invokes the 1840s Opium Wars to justify military action for China’s ‘rejuvenation’; Xi Jinping stokes China’s nationalism with harsh threats to Taiwan and Hong Kong

Contents: Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board overwhelmed by migrants crossing border from US; Turkey achieves victory in Afrin, Syria, but Kurds threaten guerilla war

Contents: Burundi’s Hutu ‘eternal supreme guide’ Nkurunziza to remain in power eternally; Reports of Trump-Kim meeting in Finland unconfirmed so far; Finland is the happiest country in the world, Burundi the unhappiest

Contents: Malaysia’s Najib Razak condemns Myanmar’s (Burma’s) genocide of Rohingyas at ASEAN summit; Cambodia’s Hun Sen threatens violence at protesters at ASEAN meeting

Contents: Ireland border issue continues to confound Brexit negotiations; Despite warnings from China, Trump signs the Taiwan Travel Act

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Concerns grow of humanitarian disaster in Afrin, Syria, as Turkey’s forces enter Silence from North Korea puts Kim-Trump summit in doubt Concerns grow of humanitarian disaster in Afrin, Syria, as Turkey’s forces enter Syrians

Contents: Thousands of Ethiopian Oromos flee into Kenya, threatening regional stability; Fears grow that Ethiopia’s ethnic clashes will destabilize the region

Contents: Trump blocks Broadcom acquisition of Qualcomm over national security; Government urges not doing business with China’s Huawei and ZTE

Contents: Britain threatens Russia with retaliation over nerve gas poisoning of Skripal; Russia reacts with massive disinformation campaign; Skripal was attacked with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia

Contents: Socialists and feminists to act as ‘human shields’ protecting Kurds from Turkey in Afrin Syria; US cuts back operations in Incirlik as Turkey-NATO relations sour

Contents: General warns of US security danger if China acquires Djibouti seaport; China continues influence through ‘debt trap’ policies

Contents: Kenya’s bitter rivals, Kenyatta and Odinga, become ‘brothers’ as Tillerson arrives; The Donald Trump – Kim Jong-un meeting hinges on a decision that Kim has already made

Contents: Portions of Indian-governed Kashmir shut down after deadly clashes; Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) becomes leading jihadist group in Kashmir

Contents: US-backed Kurds stop fighting ISIS in order to fight Turkey in Afrin; Reports of Free Syrian Army atrocities on Kurds in Afrin; Mahmoud Abbas may step down as Palestinian Authority president

Contents: Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim violence; Growing violence by Sri Lankan Buddhist hardliners against Tamils; North Korea says it will denuclearize if the regime is ‘secure’

Contents: The Ghouta ‘ceasefire’ turns into a Syrian army scam to steal humanitarian aid; Syria says close to defeating Jaysh al-Islam in Eastern Ghouta

Contents: India and Vietnam sign security agreements for the South China Sea; India’s relationship with Southeast Asian nations overshadowed by China

Contents: Burkina Faso terror attack targets France’s anti-terror Operation Barkhane; China pushes to invest heavily in Iraq’s energy infrastructure; African Cédric Bakambu joins China’s Sinobo Guoan Football Club