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Anonymous ID: d73ed4 Nov. 17, 2018, 5:24 p.m. No.3945101   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5129 >>5438 >>5443 >>5564 >>5573

UN Says Warring Parties Agree to Yemen Peace Talks in Sweden

 

UN envoy says positive international momentum for peace process

 

While a date has yet to be officially set, the UN has announced Friday that all warring parties in Yemen have agreed to attend peace talks in Sweden. UN envoy Martin Griffiths said the talks would be “soon.”

 

Griffiths credited growing interest from the international community as helping get everyone on board for talks. He says it is a crucial opportunity that the world must seize to end the Yemen War, and the humanitarian crises that come along with it.

 

Preparatory meetings are already underway, and both sides are close to finalizing a prisoner exchange agreement on the sidelines of this effort. This too is a potentially strong confidence-building measure.

 

The last UN attempt to get peace talks going had the sides agreeing to attend, but was derailed when the Shi’ite Houthis were unable to secure guarantees of safe travel to the talks from the Saudi government. With the Saudis trying to make a big show of supporting this peace push, it is likely this will have better results.

 

https://news.antiwar.com/2018/11/16/un-says-warring-parties-agree-to-yemen-peace-talks-in-sweden/

Anonymous ID: d73ed4 Nov. 17, 2018, 5:35 p.m. No.3945223   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5248 >>5443 >>5564 >>5573

3000 Votes 'Disappear' From Florida Recount Tally

 

The New York Times is reporting that a discrepancy of 3000 ballots exists between the number of votes originally reported and the tally after the Florida recount was finished on Friday.

 

Does it surprise anyone that the counties with the largest discrepancies are Democratic counties?

 

The discrepancy in votes is especially pronounced in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Here are some highlights from the Times' report:

 

None of the discrepancies would be enough to affect the outcome of the three statewide and three local elections that are still waiting for a winner to be called. But they come as at least three Florida counties — two of them Democratic strongholds whose results could be decisive — have reported problems counting their shares of the more than 8.1 million ballots cast across the state.

 

In one of the most serious cases, Palm Beach County found “dozens of precincts missing a significant number” of votes during the machine recount, according to the supervisor of elections, Susan Bucher, causing the county to conclude that entire boxes of ballots may not have been counted.

 

Wow. Just wow.

 

https://pjmedia.com/trending/3000-votes-disappear-from-florida-recount-tally/