Tweets For Today

Brazil's President Michel Temer called an emergency meeting of key ministers after ordering troops to the border with Venezuela https://t.co/UFxGDOiFcN pic.twitter.com/ix3e5AD8hC

— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 19, 2018

“Trying to stop migrants coming from Africa with a fence alone," says an immigration expert, "is as fanciful as the little Dutch boy who saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike” https://t.co/NtVIW2htR4

— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) August 19, 2018

In Afghan north, another district falls to the Taliban - https://t.co/1Ffehejh7n pic.twitter.com/3cOqQNGH8x

— Long War Journal (@LongWarJournal) August 19, 2018

NASA astronauts could be headed to space from American soil for the first time since 2011. More in this week's tech playlist from @ReutersTV https://t.co/q2KI6IzG7v pic.twitter.com/LMC5Y7j43x

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 20, 2018

This was the news 50 years ago: Soviet armor on the streets of Prague, unarmed Czech civilians trying to stop it with makeshift barricades. #PragueSpring pic.twitter.com/uKBBt0TRoj

— RFE/RL (@RFERL) August 19, 2018

Pic of the week: US #F22 #Raptor flypast over #Warsaw🇵🇱 for the PL Armed Forces Day. Good to see high-end capabilities on NATO's eastern flank. They should be coming more often, including for combat exercises. #PolishArmedForcesDay #NATO pic.twitter.com/coeh5XHpda

— Dominik P. Jankowski (@dpjankowski) August 19, 2018