Newlyweds are slammed for staging wedding photos in war-torn Congo
10/24/2018, 9:13:52 PMTravel photographer, John Milton, and his now-wife (pictured) have been slammed for staging their wedding photos at the top of a volcano in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo. ✔ The audacity of the couple continues with a another photo showing Milton's wife wearing her short wedding dress with black boots as she posed in a local village and called it a 'ghetto' (pictured) And a fourth photo shows a wedding ring on an AK47 in the hands of a Congolese person and captioning it: 'Blood diamonds' This photo shows the couple climbing to the top of the volcano to get married and take photos Several outraged Americans called the couple 'racist' and 'despicable' in the comments
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: We Must Stop Helping Saudi Arabia in Yemen
10/24/2018, 11:25:24 PMCongress needs to step in to end our complicity in the kingdom’s human rights abuses. ✔ But the fact is that the relationship between Iran and the Houthis has only strengthened with the intensification of the war ✔ The war is creating the very problem the administration claims to want to solve ✔ Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook , Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram
UN investigator: Genocide still taking place in Myanmar
10/24/2018, 8:05:39 PMGenocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar, UN investigators said on Wednesday. ✔ China, which is Myanmar's neighbour and ally, Russia and Bolivia voted no and Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan abstained ✔ AP Rohingya Myanmar Most Viewed in World Loading Please explain Our weekly podcast giving you insight into the stories that drive the nation
Famine in Yemen could become one of worst in living memory, UN says
10/24/2018, 11:21:16 PMCountry is in ‘clear and present danger’ of mass deaths from starvation, top aid official says ✔ Yemen is sliding fast toward what could become one of the worst famines in living memory, the UN’s top emergency relief official has warned ✔ Lowcock said intense fighting around the rebel-held port city of Hodeida, once the entry point for much of the country’s food, posed a particular threat
Tokyo confirms Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda released after three years of captivity in Syria
10/24/2018, 8:04:24 PMThe government officially confirmed Wednesday that a man believed to be Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who was captured by an armed group in Syria thre ✔ The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that monitors the Syrian civil war, also said that Yasuda had been released under a Turkish-Qatari deal, AFP reported, with some sources saying a ransom had actually been paid ✔ A native of Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, he started his journalism career in 1997 as a reporter with the Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, a local newspaper based in Nagano Prefecture before becoming a freelance journalist in 2003
Rohingya genocide is still going on, says top UN investigator
10/24/2018, 8:04:22 PMHead of fact-finding mission said Myanmar’s leaders are denying abuse of Muslim group ✔ The Myanmar government’s hardened positions are by far the greatest obstacle, Darusman told reporters ✔ The camps, the shelters, the model villages that are being built, it’s more of a cementing of total segregation or separation from the Rakhine ethnic community
Polio eradication: ‘We owe it to the CHILDREN’ says top WHO official
10/24/2018, 11:09:29 PMPOLIO, which once ravaged the world causing paralysis as it shut down nervous systems, is a long-eradicated disease in some countries. Now, WHO officials have led the fight to completely eradicate the disease from existence. ✔ The United States is at the moment under threat from a Polio-like disease which is infecting young children, with possible deaths on the horizon ✔ He said: If we were to stop the efforts and no longer strive to actually eradicate the wild virus we could very soon within a period of 10 years perhaps have 100,000 or 200,000 cases every year again
Abe vows to bolster ties with China
10/24/2018, 9:50:51 PMPrime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to bolster cooperation and friendship between Japan and China in a key policy speech Wednesday before making the first official trip to Beijing by a Japanese leader in seven years. Abe said Japan and China are both responsible for the region's peace and prosperity, which… ✔ Now 64, he has been prime minister since December 2012 and is determined to remain Japan's leader for three more years ✔ In his policy speech, Abe also said he wants to close unfinished World War II diplomatic legacies by also aiming to normalize ties with North Korea and resolving territorial disputes and sign peace treaty with Russia ✔ This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave Fiji and head to Tonga
10/24/2018, 11:59:08 PMThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew from Fiji's capital Suva to Nadi, in the country's west, to unveil the new statue commemorating Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba. ✔ Labalaba is an enduring legend among Fijians, 1,250 of whom are currently serving in the British Army ✔ Later they will be the guests of honour at another welcome reception and dinner in Nuku'alofa with the Tongan ruler, King Tupou VI and his wife, Queen Nanasipau'u, with traditional Tongan entertainment
ROBERT HARDMAN: Remembrance symbol is more poignant than ever
10/24/2018, 11:38:29 PMThis autumn, take a closer look. Ostensibly, every poppy is identical but one in six will be different this time. They will have ‘1918-2018’ printed in gold on the leaf attached to every stem. ✔ St John Ambulance will allow its staff to wear pacifist white poppies on Remembrance Sunday for the first time Years later, Winston Churchill wrote that this one student debate had played a part in the war ‘calculations’ of Germany and Japan ✔ Yet let us also remember that once this centenary is over, remembrance will be more important than ever
Czech FM wants EU debate on arms sales to Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi killing
10/24/2018, 11:30:45 PMThe Czech Republic will recall an official from its embassy in Saudi Arabia, the first such move against the kingdom since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate was revealed. ✔ While Saudi officials have since acknowledged that the kingdom's operatives were responsible for the journalist's killing, explanations for the exact cause and circumstances of his death have varied widely ✔ Share it with a friend! Trends: Czech Republic newsJamal Khashoggi newsSaudi Arabia news
AMD’s stock craters more than 20% after hours on weak graphics sales
10/24/2018, 9:25:55 PMAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. shares plummet in the extended session Wednesday after the chip maker’s outlook and revenue fall short of Wall Street estimates owing to weaker-than-expected graphics sales. ✔ AMD was expected to post adjusted earnings of 12 cents a share, according to analysts surveyed by FactSet ✔ Wallace Witkowski Wallace Witkowski is a MarketWatch news editor in San Francisco ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment
Trump says ‘major federal investigation’ underway after his critics are sent bombs and suspicious packages
10/24/2018, 11:21:42 PMFBI warns public to stay vigilant as they hunt for those responsible for a number of intercepted explosive devices and suspicious packages ✔ She also dug a cave under her home AFP/Getty 44/50 11 September 2018 People waving pro-independence Catalan flags 'Esteladas' while holding letters reading independence during a pro-independence demonstration in Barcelona to mark the National Day of Catalonia, the Diada
At least two dead in shooting at supermarket in Kentucky
10/24/2018, 11:21:40 PMWitness reports seeing two men running out of store firing at each other ✔ Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors after the powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing AFP/Getty 50/50 5 September 2018 US Capitol Police arrest a protestor as Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his US Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court
Travellers' confidence plummets after millions of Cathay Pacific customers have data stolen
10/24/2018, 8:26:31 PMAirlines run on an unenviable tangle of legacy computer systems that have had to be meshed with 21st century technology and connectivity ✔ - Morrison on October 22 issued an emotive apology to children who suffered sexual abuse, saying the state had failed to protect them from evil dark crimes committed over decades AFP/Getty 4/50 21 October 2018 A derailed train in Yian, eastern Taiwan
Japan’s Abe set for warmer welcome from Xi during China visit
10/24/2018, 10:48:43 PMundefined ✔ Shinzo Abe will arrive in Beijing on Thursday for meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, in what promises to be a much warmer affair than his last trip to the Chinese capital four years ago ✔ Japan’s business community is eager for better ties; the foreign policy establishment is more cautious
Vladimir Putin Russia fall aids Communists, Liberal Democrats
10/24/2018, 10:53:15 PMWidespread discontent, fueled by a massively unpopular pension reform, has sent the approval ratings for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ruling party tumbling to historic lows — just seven months after Mr. Putin triumphantly won a re-election campaign meant to cement his grip on power. ✔ Some analysts suggested, however, that the LDPR’s electoral success reflected a surge in protest voting ✔ The authorities could again find themselves on the back foot, Vitali Shkliarov, a Russian political consultant, wrote in an article for Republic, a Russian-language current affairs website ✔ Another ‘geopolitical success’ remains, perhaps, one of the few strategies for Putin
Jamal Khashoggi - why was he killed? Why was journalist MURDERED in 'cover up'?
10/24/2018, 8:42:41 PMON OCTOBER 2, Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul. He never walked out. As details of his murder continue to emerge, here is everything we know about why and how Khashoggi was murdered. ✔ For decades, he was close to the Saudi royal family and also served as an adviser to the government ✔ WHAT DOES SAUDI ARABIA SAY HAPPENED TO HIM ✔ For more than two weeks Saudi Arabia consistently denied any knowledge of Khashoggi's fate ✔ Whoever thought of that idea, I think is in big trouble
JANET STREET PORTER Talking to strangers helps me cope with loneliness
10/24/2018, 9:22:57 PMThere is a definite stigma attached. It could mean you are a failure socially. So how did it happen to me, the woman who has spent decades going out most nights, asks JANET STREET-PORTER. ✔ Researchers for Age UK discovered that 200,000 older people hadn’t spoken to a friend or relative in more than a month ✔ So he went to Portugal to stay with an uncle, learned the language and was working as a waiter while training to be a guide ✔ Ultimately, we ourselves must fight off the feeling before it takes hold ✔ Otherwise we will all have shorter and more miserable lives
Nepal's plan to save women's lives
10/24/2018, 11:54:19 PMMany countries turn a blind eye to domestic abuse – but Nepal's approach could be the model for a global solution. ✔ Although Maya still faced abuse, the one-stop crisis centre has linked her to multiple services ✔ But in situations where this isn’t possible, the guidelines explain how to listen, enquire about needs, and validate the patient’s experiences ✔ Join our Facebook group Future Woman and be a part of the conversation about the day-to-day issues that affect women’s lives
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