US election: Ted Cruz booed for failing to back Donald Trump
Texas Senator Ted Cruz was booed as he failed to endorse Donald Trump as the US Republican nominee, during a speech at the party convention in Cleveland.
Mr Cruz only went as far as congratulating the man who had been his bitter rival in the primary contests.
Angry chants of "We want Trump!" and "Endorse Trump!" grew louder as the senator came to the end of his speech.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence then took centre stage to give his vice-presidential acceptance speech.
Mr Pence praised Mr Trump's record as a businessman and said the country had "but one choice" in November.
"It's change versus the status quo, and when Donald Trump is president, the change will be huge," he said.
Student leader Joshua Wong guilty over Hong Kong pro-democracy protest
Teenager convicted of ‘illegal assembly’ by a court after entering fenced off area outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters
Joshua Wong, the teenage activist who was one of the most recognisable faces of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement protests, has been found guilty of “illegal assembly” by a court in the former British colony.
Wong, 19, was convicted of unlawfully entering a fenced off area outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters on 26 September 2014. The action helped launch a 79-day street occupation that was described as the greatest challenge to China’s Communist rulers since the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
Alex Chow, another prominent student leader, was found guilty of the same offence while Nathan Law, a third activist, was convicted of inciting others to join the unlawful action, local broadcaster RTHK reported. Wong was found not guilty of inciting others to join the assembly.40,000 lodge complaint with police accusing Farage and Leave.EU campaign of inciting racial and religious hatred
Exclusive: Move comes in response to the campaign’s ‘Breaking Point’ poster that depicted Syrian refugees crossing a border in central Europe
Nearly 40,000 people have lodged a complaint with the police alleging that Nigel Farage incited racial and religious hatred during the European Union referendum campaign.
A statement signed by over 39,800 people alleging the offence, was handed into officers at Kentish Town police station at 12.30pm on 20 July 2016. The alleged crime was issued with a reference number by police.
Figures released by the National Police Chiefs’ Council earlier this month show a 42 per cent spike in race and religious hate crimes during and in the wake of the EU referendum campaign.
Indians assaulted in DRC: ‘The slightest incident can spark attacks’
OBSERVERS
Two months after the murder of a Congolese student in Delhi, a Congolese woman was killed by her Indian husband in Telangana state, in the south of the Indian subcontinent. In reaction, tensions rose in the Congolese capital Kinshasa, where Congolese attacked Indian shop-owners with rocks.
According to our Observers, who have sent us videos showing this violence, these incidents are also fuelled by a longstanding mistrust toward the Indian community in the DR Congo
Earlier this month, Indian shop-owners shut their doors in Kinshasa for several days following a series of attacks against them on July 6 and 7. Assailants had lobbed projectiles at several Indian storefronts on the Avenue du Commerce, a commercial artery in the centre of the Congolese capital, where there is a concentration of Indian-owned shops.
An Observer who is frequently in contact with the Indian community sent France 24 a video of the recent assaults. She prefers to remain anonymous.
Filthy language used against me, Dalits will never forgive BJP: Mayawati
- HT Correspondent, New Delhi |
- Updated: Jul 21, 2016 14:26 IST
The Dalit community will never forgive the BJP for comparing Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati to a prostitute, the Dalit leader said on Thursday, as protests over the controversial remarks rocked Uttar Pradesh and Parliament.
Her comments came minutes after the BSP called off massive street protests in Lucknow after the state administration said BJP leader Daya Shankar Singh – who made the controversial remark – will be arrested in 36 hours.
Tribunal finds Indonesia guilty of 1965 genocide; US, UK complicit
Updated 0747 GMT (1547 HKT) July 21, 2016
An international panel of judges has concluded that Indonesia's mass killings of 1965 were crimes against humanity, and that the United States, United Kingdom and Australia were all complicit in the crimes.
Their report estimates that 400,000 to 500,000 people -- believed associated with the communist party, were killed by military deaths squads, but indicates that official secrecy around these numbers makes the actual figure hard to gauge.
The panel, presided over by head judge Zak Yacoob, a former South African Constitutional Court Justice, held a four-day hearing in the Hague in November of last year, where they heard over 20 witnesses, some of whom gave evidence behind a screen to protect their identity.
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