| Trump declares 'major breakthrough' in Syria, lifts sanctions on Turkey Posted: 23 Oct 2019 09:30 AM PDT  President Trump on Wednesday declared his strategy in Syria a success amid bipartisan anger over the president's decision to pull U.S. troops from the region.
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| Police Shooting Outside El Paso Walmart Leaves Shoppers Stuck in Store and Suspected Car Thief Dead Posted: 24 Oct 2019 12:50 AM PDT  It comes months after 22 people were killed in a mass shooting at another El Paso Walmart
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| Bamboozled: 'Panda dog' cafe sparks China animal rights debate Posted: 23 Oct 2019 03:58 AM PDT  A pet cafe in China where dogs are dyed black and white to look like panda cubs has triggered a heated online debate over the treatment of animals. The Cute Pet Games cafe opened last month in Chengdu, capital of southwest Sichuan province which is home to China's famous giant pandas, and features six panda-like Chow Chow dogs, according to a video posted by Hongxing News on Tuesday. The cafe owner, only identified by his last name Huang, told Hongxing News that he had started offering pet dyeing services after the panda dogs became an instant hit with clients.
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| NYPD officer fired in chokehold death sues to get job back Posted: 23 Oct 2019 08:04 PM PDT  The officer who was fired in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner is suing the New York Police Department and the police commissioner to be reinstated. Video of the confrontation between Garner, a black man, and the officers trying to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes drew outrage and was viewed millions of times online.
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| Former Acting Attorney General: ‘Abuse of Power Is Not a Crime’ Posted: 23 Oct 2019 01:30 AM PDT  Following Tuesday's devastating House testimony by acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor about President Trump allegedly coercing the Ukrainian president to do his political bidding, former acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker defended the president by claiming "abuse of power is not a crime."With House Democrats reportedly looking to focus their impeachment inquiry on a basic "abuse of power" narrative going forward, Fox News' Laura Ingraham brought Whitaker on her primetime show Tuesday night to provide a counter-argument.Predicting Republican "payback" in the future if Democrats are successful in impeaching and removing the president, Whitaker went on to complain about the "secret testimony" in the House hearings before claiming that it is too close to the 2020 election for impeachment."It's corrosive and yet those that are perpetrating it cast themselves as the white knights," Ingraham replied, seemingly referring to Taylor, among others. "They are saving the republic from the man whose policies they disagree with so vehemently."Whitaker, meanwhile, blasted the "global elitists and careerists" who are upset with Trump for "upsetting the apple cart" of the "world establishment," claiming Trump is "being punished for this." He then called on Democrats to hold public hearings to make their case for impeachment."I'm a former prosecutor and what I know is this is a perfect time for preliminary hearings where you would say show us your evidence," Whitaker stated. "What evidence of a crime do you have? So the Constitution—abuse of power is not a crime.""Let's fundamentally boil it down," he added. "The Constitution is very clear that there has to be some pretty egregious behavior and they cannot tell the American people what this case is even about."The articles of impeachment against former President Bill Clinton specifically laid out gross abuse of presidential power charges. Richard Nixon was also looking at three articles of impeachment—one of which was for abuse of power—before he resigned as president.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Zero support: the Democratic presidential candidate who refuses to give up Posted: 23 Oct 2019 11:00 PM PDT  A two-term congressman's campaign demonstrates the difficulty hopefuls have in breaking through the crowded fieldJoe Sestak is the Democratic candidate for president that you've never heard of. Photograph: Mark Lorenz/The GuardianJoe Sestak, three-star admiral, two-term congressman, and Democratic presidential candidate, strode into his campaign event in New Hampshire last Tuesday to something of an anticlimax.There was only one person there."Hello," Sestak said, shaking the hand of the lone attendee: a woman named Kath Allen. The rally had been billed as a discussion of government's role in society, and was held in the downstairs room of a public library in Peterborough, south-east New Hampshire.It was an inauspicious start to the two days the Guardian spent with Sestak, 67, who is spending three weeks campaigning in New Hampshire – including walking 105 miles (169km) across the state – as he seeks to build momentum for his little-known campaign to take on Donald Trump in the race for the White House in 2020.But it was also an insight into the difficulty that even seemingly well-qualified candidates have in breaking through the noise of a densely populated Democratic field, and the money and effort spent on campaigning that runs under the radar.Sestak, 67, spent four years in the House of Representatives, representing a traditionally Republican Pennsylvania district, until 2010. He announced his run for the presidency on 23 June. Before this New Hampshire sojourn, he had spent three months in Iowa, holding 235 events, driving 17,000 miles (27,000km) and, according to his campaign, "shaking nearly 30,000 hands". He started his ramble across New Hampshire on 13 October, and is planning to cover 105 miles (169km) in eight days.Joe Sestak, a two-term congressman, announced his run for the presidency on 23 June. Photograph: Mark Lorenz/The GuardianSo far, all that effort has had little impact. The most recent polling shows Sestak has the support of 0% of Iowans and 0% of New Hampshirites. Both states vote in three and a half months. A Quinnipiac nationwide poll released on Monday also bore bad news. Of 1,195 registered voters, Sestak was the choice of … 0%.On the same day, Sestak met Allen in Peterborough, the 12 leading Democratic candidates were debating in Ohio on CNN. The audience was 8.3 million: disappointing for CNN, but priceless exposure to someone like Sestak.Yet, to his credit, Sestak persevered with his one-person crowd in Peterborough. He'd walked there, after all – seven miles, from Dublin. Sestak's staff will pick him up and drive him to some of his farther-flung New Hampshire events, but he plonks a stick in the ground at the end of each walk, and starts there again the next day.That same persistence was eventually rewarded at his Peterborough event, when, after speaking to Kath Allen and three journalists for half an hour, a second person showed up. And after listening to Sestak, Allen was impressed.He had answered her questions about senior care, and healthcare – he prefers the centrist Medicare-for-all-who-want-it-style plan, rather than the more progressive, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders proposal of Medicare for All. He had confidently fielded queries from the latecomer, about nuclear power. (He is in favor, but wants to use thorium reactors, not uranium.) But Allen wasn't planning to vote for him, and she was skeptical about whether he will be the Democratic nominee."I don't think he can get it," Allen said. "People want the flamboyant. And he's not well-known.""I like other candidates, I like Tulsi, I like Joe. I really like what Joe has to say on most of the things," Allen said. "But I don't know. I'm gonna see how this plays out."By the time Sestak entered the race, most of the other candidates had been running for months. (John Delaney, a businessman and three-term congressman, had been running for almost two years.)Sestak announced his candidacy late because he was caring for his daughter, who had been diagnosed with cancer for a second time. Happily, she is now in recovery, but his late entry means other candidates have pulled ahead. It goes without saying that his rivals have drawn larger crowds. Some 15,000 people attended an Elizabeth Warren rally in Seattle in August, and her campaign said 20,000 came out to an event in New York City in September.Sestak is planning to cover 105 miles (169km) in eight days as he campaigns in New Hampshire. Photograph: Mark Lorenz/The GuardianAs the 12 leading candidates prepped to go onstage, Sestak attended his third event of the day: a local Democratic party meeting in Goffstown, 40 minutes north-east of Peterborough.It was 6.30pm before Sestak arrived and started speaking – 10 people had shown up – and he had another event in Windham, 35 minutes away, at 7.30pm. He promised to keep it short, and started with a joke."I'm actually in the debate tonight," Sestak told the crowd."Congratulations!" someone said. They sounded surprised."Online," Sestak said. "We're doing a live stream, in a Dunkin' Donuts."Sestak had used the same gag at the Peterborough library, where Allen had been halfway out of her chair going for a high five before he dropped the punchline.As promised, that night Sestak held his own online debate. He answered the same questions posed to the candidates on stage, live from a Dunkin'. Sestak was sitting quite far away from the camera and it was difficult to hear him. At 9.57pm, just three people were watching the live stream on Sestak's Facebook page, and the Guardian was one of them.Part of Sestak's problem may be that he is a centrist, white, older man, in a field with plenty of centrist, white, older men. Sestak's USP, though, is his foreign policy experience and, given the chance, he ties it well to other aspects of the presidency.Climate change, for example. Sestak tells voters the US could pass the Green New Deal – the sweeping progressive proposal to tackle the climate crisis and inequality through economic reform – but it won't make a difference to rising temperatures, given 80% of emissions come from the rest of the world."We need someone who can unite this country and convene the world," Sestak says, promising to bring the country together in the wake of Donald Trump's presidency.The Guardian met Sestak again the day after the debate, in Peterborough, where he had planted his stick on Tuesday. He had 18 miles (29km) to walk on Wednesday, and he expected to be on the road until 11pm. We set off walking east, uphill, at a fast pace, Sestak wearing black hiking boots. He walked across Pennsylvania in 2015, when he campaigned for the Senate – he lost in the primary – and believes the benefits outweigh any potential pain."It seems to be catching a little bit," he said of his campaign. As well as walking and meeting people, Sestak is running a TV ad campaign in New Hampshire."We see people who are seeing our ads. It's coming to a point of once you know I'm out here serving, trying to serve you, and they're interested."'I wouldn't go through this if I didn't think we have a possibility of winning,' said Sestak as he walks across New Hampshire. Photograph: Mark Lorenz/The GuardianSestak doesn't regret entering the race late. But he agrees he missed out on early exposure."Would my position have been enhanced if I had got in earlier? With the town halls happening, I think it would be a bit easier," Sestak said. With his lower profile, his campaign has been told by some of the main networks that they won't book him for interviews – even on foreign policy, despite his experience.He raised almost $375,000 in the third quarter of 2019, a total that pales in comparison with the $25m Warren raked in, or even the $2.3m raised by Steve Bullock, the Montana governor running at a more Sestak-esque 0.2% in national polls, but not a bad start.That fundraising total, combined with his polling, means he is highly unlikely to meet the threshold for the next televised Democratic debate in November. But, marching uphill in New Hampshire, Sestak told the Guardian he had no plans to drop out."I wouldn't go through this if I didn't think we have a possibility of winning," he said.He had an additional 16 miles (26km) to go that day – a long way, but nothing compared with the distance he has to make up if he is to be the Democrat's choice in the race for the White House.
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| Democrat Buttigieg used marijuana 'a handful of times' Posted: 23 Oct 2019 11:45 AM PDT  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that he's used marijuana "a handful of times a long time ago," and that it's time for the U.S. to legalize marijuana. Buttigieg, speaking to reporters after touring a legal pot dispensary in suburban Las Vegas, was asked about whether he'd ever used marijuana. A handful of times a long time ago," he said.
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| Iraq says it is taking "measures" over entry of US forces from Syria Posted: 23 Oct 2019 06:52 AM PDT ![Iraq says it is taking "measures" over entry of US forces from Syria]( "Iraq says it is taking \"measures\" over entry of US forces from Syria") Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday said Baghdad is taking "all international legal measures" over the entry of U.S. troops from neighbouring Syria, in an apparent attempt to assert his government's opposition to the arrival of the American forces. In a statement, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi reiterated his government's position that U.S. troops pulling out of northeast Syria and moving into Iraq were not allowed to remain in his country.
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| A Single Car Parking Spot Just Sold in Hong Kong for Almost a Million Dollars Posted: 23 Oct 2019 12:15 AM PDT  That works out to just over $7,200 a square foot.
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| Executive privilege mentioned in case of Giuliani associates Posted: 23 Oct 2019 03:12 PM PDT  Two Rudy Giuliani associates with ties to Ukraine pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they used foreign money to make illegal campaign contributions, with a defense lawyer for one of them floating the idea that the White House could assert executive privilege over evidence in the case. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arraigned in federal court in Manhattan in a case that has cast a harsh light on the business dealings of Giuliani, who is President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and a former New York City mayor.
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| 2020 BMW M340i vs. 2020 Genesis G70 in Photos Posted: 23 Oct 2019 08:30 AM PDT |
| India Is Slowly Easing Its Lockdown in Kashmir. But Life Isn't Returning to Normal Posted: 23 Oct 2019 09:14 AM PDT  Over two months since the repeal of Kashmir's special status, citizens are bracing themselves for what's next
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| Connecticut College Students Charged With Violating State Law Prohibiting ‘Ridicule’ after Using Racial Slur Posted: 22 Oct 2019 07:06 AM PDT  University of Connecticut students Jarred Karal and Ryan Mucaj were arrested by campus police Monday night and charged with violating a Connecticut hate crime statute for using a racial slur in an incident captured on video.One night earlier this month, Karal and Mucaj — both described by police as white — walked with another individual through the parking lot of a student apartment complex playing "a game in which they yelled vulgar words," according to the incident report. Police allege that the two switched to saying "n*****" when they reached the parking lot, which was loud enough for two people inside to hear.The two were charged under a Connecticut State law that criminalizes ridiculing "any person or class of people on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality, or race." The misdemeanor is punishable by up to 30 days in jail, a fine of $50, or both. The third individual was not charged for saying the slur.It is unclear whether the statute violates First Amendment grounds. "It is supportive of our core values to pursue accountability, through due process, for an egregious assault on our community that has caused considerable harm," UConn President Thomas C. Katsouleas said in a statement late Monday.Karal and Mucaj were released after promising to return for a scheduled court date on October 30.After the video went viral online, Campus blowback was swift. The administration, which learned of the incident October 11, faced severe criticism from students and activists. On Monday, the university's NAACP chapter published a letter to the editor in the campus newspaper lambasting the university's administration."If the university does not adequately address and handle these occurrences of racism appropriately, it will create a culture in which racism is tolerated and normalized," the NAACP letter reads. "We demand for your full assurance that you will take appropriate measures to hold the students involved in these heinous acts of racism accountable."On Monday afternoon, hundreds of students chanted "it's more than just a word" during an on-campus march and rally. During the march, Katsouleas voiced support for the students and extended an invitation to discuss the incident during his open office hours scheduled for Friday morning.UConn's president also announced a nationwide search for a chief diversity officer in a letter to students on Friday. But students and professors criticized the president for his slow and inadequate response."No stance is a stance," Conn senior Areon Mangan told the Chronicle. "Not saying anything says a lot."In its letter to the campus newspaper, the NAACP released a list of eight demands, including new student guidelines and punishments for instances of racism, a new first-year course on diversity training, and increased hiring of black administration, faculty, staff, and police officers.Democratic State Senators Mae Flexer and Gregory Haddad, both UConn alums, voiced their support for students during the Monday rally."White people can't just say they care about this with words,"Flexer said. "You can't just say you're an ally. You need to be a co-conspirator.""I'm here because I want to lift your voices up," Haddad added.
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| Lawyer for Kavanaugh accuser to investigate Baltimore police Posted: 23 Oct 2019 01:48 PM PDT  A former federal prosecutor who represented one of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's accusers has been picked to lead an independent review of a corruption-plagued unit of the Baltimore Police Department, the department's chief announced Wednesday. Michael Bromwich will have "full autonomy" to conduct the review of the department's Gun Trace Task Force "without interference from us," said Police Commissioner Michael Harrison. Bromwich was the Justice Department's inspector general from 1994 to 1999 and served as the nation's top offshore drilling regulator after BP's deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Mark Zuckerberg how big a lie she could buy on Facebook Posted: 24 Oct 2019 02:55 AM PDT ![Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Mark Zuckerberg how big a lie she could buy on Facebook]( "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Mark Zuckerberg how big a lie she could buy on Facebook") The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing Wednesday ostensibly about Facebook's cryptocurrency, Libra, but lawmakers weren't going to waste their chance to question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on some Bitcoin knockoff. Here's how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made her pivot: "In order for us to make decisions about Libra, I think we need to kind of dig into your past behavior and Facebook's past behavior with respect to our democracy."Ocasio-Cortez grilled Zuckerberg on the Cambridge Analytica election-data-manipulation scandal -- Zuckerberg said he learned of the breach "around" March 2018, even though correspondence unearthed in a lawsuit this year showed executives knew about potential improper data harvesting as early as September 2015 -- and then she turned to Facebook's "official policy" of allowing "politicians to pay to spread disinformation in 2020 elections and in the future. So I just want to know how far I can push this in the next year," she said.Zuckerberg said Ocasio-Cortez couldn't buy an add targeting black voters with the wrong election date, but when she asked if she could "run advertisements on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries, saying that they voted for the Green New Deal," Zuckerberg said yes, probably. "Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact-checking on political advertisements?" Ocasio-Cortez asked, and Zuckerberg said he thinks "lying is bad, and I think if you were to run an ad that had a lie in it, that would be bad," and voters should know if she or any other politician is a liar."Facebook doesn't need to run political ads; they're not a significant portion of its business," Vox notes. "But the company appears determined to leave its policy unchanged. So prepare for some your-Republican-congressman-supports-the-Green-New-Deal ads from Democrats in 2020. Maybe."
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| 'White terror': Hong Kong's China critics beaten in targeted attacks Posted: 23 Oct 2019 11:17 PM PDT  The men jumped Stanley Ho without warning, smashing both his hands with metal rods -- one of multiple recent attacks against prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy figures that activists have dubbed a "white terror". Since late August, eight well-known pro-democracy figures have been beaten by unknown assailants as fear swirls that some "triad" crime networks have flocked to Beijing's cause after five months of protests. "The cause of the attack may be related to two things -- the upcoming district council election and the ongoing movement," Ho told AFP, referring to the protests.
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| Shark tears woman's hands off in Polynesian paradise island attack Posted: 22 Oct 2019 07:15 AM PDT  A French tourist has lost both her hands in a rare shark attack in the Pacific islands of Polynesia, say emergency services. The woman was swimming during a whale-watching trip on Monday off the island of Mo'orea, a honeymoon destination in the French overseas territory, when the oceanic whitetip shark bit into her chest and arms.
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| Almost all Republicans — especially Fox News viewers — opposed Trump's impeachment before the inquiry was opened, new poll finds Posted: 22 Oct 2019 06:53 AM PDT  In a poll before the Ukraine scandal, 98% of Republicans who said Fox News was their main news source said Trump shouldn't be impeachment and removed.
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| UPDATE 1-Chinese ship leaves Vietnam's waters after disputed South China Sea surveys Posted: 24 Oct 2019 02:28 AM PDT ![UPDATE 1-Chinese ship leaves Vietnam's waters after disputed South China Sea surveys]( "UPDATE 1-Chinese ship leaves Vietnam's waters after disputed South China Sea surveys") A Chinese oil survey vessel that has been embroiled in a tense standoff with Vietnamese vessels in the South China Sea left Vietnamese-controlled waters on Thursday after more than three months, marine data showed. The Chinese vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8, was speeding away from Vietnam's exclusive economic zone towards China on Thursday under the escort of at least two Chinese ships, according to data from Marine Traffic, a website that tracks vessels. China claims almost all the energy-rich waters of the South China Sea but neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
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| A Fast-Moving Wildfire in Sonoma County Shows No Signs of Slowing. Here's What to Know Posted: 24 Oct 2019 03:06 AM PDT  Residents of the Northern California county were forced to evacuate as the rapidly burning Kincade Fire fanned southwards
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| The Crisis of Catholic Leadership Posted: 22 Oct 2019 10:22 AM PDT  In the last 48 hours there have been two big Vatican stories. First, revelations about the Holy See's financial crisis; second, and more bizarrely, a furious dispute over statues being thrown into the Tiber. But really it's all one story, the big story of contemporary Catholicism: a disastrous failure of leadership at the top of the Church.Vatican finances may not usually be a subject to set the pulse racing, but the last month has been dramatic: Vatican police raided offices and confiscated computers, after finding — to quote a leaked search decree — "serious indications of embezzlement, fraud, abuse of office, money-laundering, and self-laundering." Other leaks suggested that as much as $560 million of Catholics' donations to the Vatican were invested in speculative deals that Vatican investigators described as "reckless." The pattern, even at this early stage of the inquiry, is familiar: The faithful have trusted a leadership class that has done little to deserve their trust.Indeed, donations are already falling — partly because of the abuse crisis, where once again the Vatican has been less than transparent. In 2017 it emerged that Pope Francis had reduced sanctions against some abusers. Then last year, the Vatican's former ambassador to the U.S. made a set of spectacular accusations, claiming there had been a concerted effort, featuring many senior figures up to and including the pope, to protect Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from numerous allegations of abuse. A letter from the Catholic Women's Forum, bearing almost 50,000 signatures, asked for a Vatican response to the ambassador's claims. None came.Silence and confusion have recently become Vatican trademarks, not least where doctrinal questions are concerned. For instance, an ambiguous papal document was used to claim that the Church now blesses divorce and remarriage; instead of clarifying that the Church could never do so, the Vatican allowed the confusion to grow, and when the pope did speak, he piled ambiguity on ambiguity.Something similar happened with the female statues that ended up in the Tiber. On October 4, versions of these statues were used during a ceremony in the Vatican gardens to mark the start of a synod (meeting of bishops) on the Amazon region. As the pope looked on, the participants knelt and bowed before the statues. Cue two weeks of debate. Were they, as critics suggested, offering a kind of pagan worship to Mother Earth — or were they, as the statues' defenders argued, paying an Amazon-flavored homage to the Virgin Mary? Only the Vatican could have given a full answer. But there was no explanation before or during the ceremony; when journalists requested one, they got a series of contradictory, sometimes maddeningly vague, answers. Meanwhile, versions of the statues have been paraded through St Peter's Basilica, prominently displayed in the synod hall, and exhibited in a well-known Roman church — from which, in the early hours of yesterday morning, they were removed and hurled into the river. Things only reached this stage because the Vatican, in response to the sincere anxiety of many Catholics, refused to clarify what was going on.But the Vatican isn't always characterized by silence and inaction. Much of the time there is a frenzy for change, the ecclesiastical equivalent of a midlife crisis in which a man abandons his family, leaves the country, and tries to reinvent his personality from scratch. Out goes the Vatican's cautious diplomacy and witness to human dignity; in comes an inexplicable desire to flatter Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, with one senior official declaring that "right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese." (Not a word on the Chinese government's Uyghur internment camps.) Distinguished cardinals are removed without explanation, while newcomers are rapidly promoted only to fall from grace for offenses such as plagiarism and photo-doctoring. One of Rome's great theological schools, the John Paul II Institute, is gutted and the faculty replaced with fresh faces, some of whom are best-known for attacking Catholic doctrine.And now, at the Amazon synod, there is another push for "reform," inspired by radical theologians such as Bishop Fritz Lobinger. Under Lobinger's scheme, outlined in a 1998 book, Catholics will no longer be chiefly served by seminary-trained priests; instead, every parish will be crowded with part-time clergy. "The word 'priest' will be nothing special," Lobinger fantasized, "because there will be so many priests — the bus-driver, the bank-teller, the postmaster, the butcher." For Lobinger and his ilk, women priests are a good idea, but the main thing is to reconstruct the priesthood and the sacraments. Figures such as Bishop Erwin Kräutler — a Lobinger fan, and an outspoken critic of Church teaching — are highly influential at the synod and propose, as a first step toward more revolutionary changes, the ordination of married men. If the synod does suggest such a move, it would be another episode that would test the loyalty of Catholics.Saint Robert Bellarmine, one of the giants of Catholic theology, observed that Catholics might end up having to "resist" a pope. Nobody, Bellarmine wrote, can "judge, punish, or depose" the pontiff: Catholics must acknowledge him as their lawful superior. But it may, in extraordinary circumstances, be right "to resist him, by . . . hindering the execution of his will." Bellarmine was speaking theoretically. But for many Catholics, it is becoming a very practical distinction.
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| Japan's Emperor Naruhito hosts tea party for foreign royals Posted: 23 Oct 2019 07:14 AM PDT  Japanese Emperor Naruhito hosted a tea party at his residence for royals from other countries on Wednesday, thanking them for celebrating his enthronement the day before. Naruhito proclaimed his succession in a ritual-laden ceremony Tuesday at the Imperial Palace. Naruhito and his wife, Masako, greeted the royal guests with hugs or handshakes as they arrived at the tea party they hosted at their Akasaka Imperial residence.
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| The Balkans fuse Posted: 23 Oct 2019 07:56 AM PDT ![The Balkans fuse]( "The Balkans fuse") Three nations in what was once Europe's powder keg set plans to blend their economies, replicating the "common home" of the EU.
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| Hillary Clinton says she would run again in 2020 if she thought she could win, report says Posted: 22 Oct 2019 07:33 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton has told people privately that she would consider joining the 2020 Democratic primary, but only if she thought she could win.The private conversations were aired publicly in a new report from The New York Times, which spoke with several people involved with Democratic politics, many of whom are concerned that the current crop of candidates is less than ideal.
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| Russian forces patrol Syrian-Turkish border Posted: 23 Oct 2019 10:53 AM PDT  Russian forces in Syria conducted their first patrols near the Turkish border Wednesday to ensure Kurdish fighters withdraw under a deal between Moscow and Ankara ousting them from the minority's entire heartland. US President Donald Trump hailed the agreement as a "big success" and announced his administration was lifting sanctions it had imposed on Turkey after it launched its offensive against Kurdish armed groups earlier this month. Kurdish forces, who previously controlled nearly a third of Syria, have lost almost everything under the deal, which sees Turkey remain fully deployed in an Arab-majority area that was the main target of its two-week offensive.
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| AOC's reelection campaign says it refunded two mysterious $500 donations from former Facebook exec and Trump supporter Palmer Luckey Posted: 23 Oct 2019 10:03 AM PDT  Oculus founder Palmer Luckey regularly donates to far-right causes, but he donated to AOC without explanation.
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| "A better life somewhere else": Europe-bound African migrants wait in Rwanda Posted: 23 Oct 2019 09:54 AM PDT !["A better life somewhere else": Europe-bound African migrants wait in Rwanda]( "\"A better life somewhere else\": Europe-bound African migrants wait in Rwanda") At the United Nations emergency transit centre next to a serene lake south of Rwanda's capital on Wednesday, the quiet mood was broken by the sobs of a group of female migrants from Ethiopia. "They were evacuated from Libya but they don't want to live here," said a U.N. refugee agency translator. "Brighter future is not only resettlement in Europe," said Elise Villechalane, a UNCHR spokeswoman in Rwanda.
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| Driver arrested after 39 found dead in truck near London Posted: 23 Oct 2019 01:41 AM PDT  British police found the bodies of 39 people inside a truck at an industrial estate near London on Wednesday and said they had arrested the driver on suspicion of murder. The discovery of the bodies - 38 adults and one teenager - was made in the early hours after emergency services were alerted to people in a truck container on an industrial site in Grays, about 20 miles (32 km) east of central London. Police said the trailer had arrived at nearby docks having traveled from Zeebrugge in Belgium and the bodies were found just over an hour later.
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| South Korean prosecutors arrest ex-minister's wife Posted: 23 Oct 2019 09:14 PM PDT  Prosecutors on Thursday arrested the wife of South Korea's former justice minister who resigned last week over corruption allegations surrounding his family that have sparked huge protests and rattled Seoul's liberal government. The Seoul Central District Court said a judge issued an arrest warrant for Chung Kyung-shim over concerns that she might attempt to destroy evidence as prosecutors investigate her suspected involvement in dubious financial investments and creating fake credentials to help her daughter get into medical school.
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| View Photos of the BMW Alpina B3 Sedan Posted: 23 Oct 2019 03:00 PM PDT |
| Rep. Ilhan Omar condemns North Dakota state senator's Facebook post Posted: 22 Oct 2019 10:10 AM PDT  Rep. Ilhan Omar has condemned a Republican state senator from North Dakota who posted a long-debunked photo on his Facebook page that purports to show the Minnesota Democrat holding a weapon at an al-Qaida training camp.
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| South Carolina police find remains of 5-year-old girl missing since August in landfill Posted: 22 Oct 2019 07:18 PM PDT  The Sumter Police Department on Tuesday announced the remains of Nevaeh Lashy Adams were found after a search that began in August.
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