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Turkish troops keep up their build-up along the Syrian border though the night as the government promises a long-threatend assault on the Kurdish-ruled northeast will begin "soon"

Turkey Launches Ground Offensive Against Kurdish Forces In Syria

Turkey has launched a broad assault on Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria, with intensive bombardment followed by a ground offensive made possible by the withdrawal of US troops.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday the start of the attack on Twitter and soon after jets and artillery targeted Kurdish positions along the full width of the border, sending thousands of civilians fleeing their homes.
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Protesters covered themselves with umbrellas as they gathered outside the Eastern District Courts in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Cabinet Member Floats Internet Curbs To Contain Unrest

Hong Kong may curb access to the internet in a bid to contain months of increasingly violent pro-democracy protests, a cabinet member told AFP on Monday, after an emergency-law ban on demonstrators wearing face masks failed to quell the unrest.The warning came as the international financial hub remained partly paralysed from three days of protests in which the city's rail network and business outlets seen as pro-China were badly vandalised.
The launch came a day after the North said that Pyongyang had agreed to hold working-level talks with Washington later this week

Trump Says North Korea Talks Going Ahead Despite Missile Test

US President Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off North Korea's test of a sea-launched ballistic missile, saying that planned nuclear talks with Pyongyang will go ahead."They want to talk and we'll be talking to them," Trump told reporters at the White House in his first public reaction to North Korea's claim to have entered a "new phase" with the test of a submarine-launched missile."We'll see," Trump added, when asked if the test had gone too far for him.

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