Donald Trump: Mexico will pay for wall, '100%'
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has insisted Mexico will pay for a border wall "100%", in a major immigration speech.
He told a cheering crowd in Arizona that he would secure the border, and left open the possibility that millions of illegal immigrants be deported.
Hours earlier, he met Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto but said they had not discussed financing the wall.
The president later insisted he had told Mr Trump Mexico would not pay.
There had been speculation that the Republican candidate would back off his plan to deport the estimated 11m undocumented immigrants living in the US.
Twitter campaign draws attention to plight of Afghanistan's persecuted Hazaras
After attack in Kabul, minority group demands end to ‘systematic discrimination’ and experts say Australia should stop rejecting Hazara refugee claims
On 23 July, two men joined the crowd of thousands of Afghanistan’s Hazara marching in protest through the streets of Kabul. They wore suicide vests under billowing perahan.
The Hazara protest was, ostensibly, in response to the Afghan government’s decision to divert a promised power transmission line from Bamiyan – a Hazara enclave, where it would have brought jobs, economic growth and, most fundamentally, electricity – to another area of the country further north. But the demonstration, and the power line’s diversion, was aimed too at a broader discrimination Hazaras say they suffer in Afghanistan.
The two men wearing suicide vests at the demonstration – Islamic State militants – detonated their devices as the protest reached Deh Mazang square. More than 80 protestors were killed – recent reports say at least 97 – and more than 230 injured, in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital in 15 years. Isis’s media agency Amaq confirmed the Hazara religious and ethnic minority were specifically targeted, saying the attack was aimed at the “Shia gathering”.
Israel's police chief claims it's 'natural' to be suspicious of Arabs and Ethiopians
Roni Alsheich cites studies that apparently show immigrants are more likely to be involved in crime than others
Israel’s police chief has claimed it is “natural” for officers to be suspicious of Arabs and Ethiopians.
Speaking to a group of lawyers, Roni Alsheich, argued that migrants deserved more suspicion than others.
Mr Alsheich said he believed immigrants tend to be more involved in crime than the rest of the population.
“Studies the world over, without exception, have shown that immigrants are invariably more involved in crime than others, and this should not come as a surprise,” the Times of Israel reported Mr Alshiech as saying at a meeting of the Israel Bar Association in Tel Aviv.Bongo’s disputed poll win sparks ‘deadly’ clashes in Gabon, parliament torched
Latest update : 2016-09-01
Incumbent Ali Ben Bongo was declared the winner in Gabon’s presidential poll Wednesday triggering violent protests, with angry crowds torching the parliament. Opposition candidate Jean Ping told FRANCE 24 that two died in the violence.
Bongo secured a razor-thin victory against his main challenger Jean Ping, securing 49.8 percent of the vote with Ping gaining 48.2 percent, according to the final results announced by Gabonese Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet-Boubeya.
The opposition promptly rejected the results, calling them fraudulent.
After the results announcement, demonstrators flooded the streets of the capital, Libreville, throwing projectiles and burning tyres at security forces, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.
Divisive Mao Zedong concerts in Sydney, Melbourne cancelled
Philip Wen
Beijing: A planned concert series glorifying the life of Chairman Mao has been cancelled in Sydney and Melbourne after strong backlash within the Chinese community prompted police concern over public safety were it to go ahead.
The tribute to Mao Zedong, marking the 40th anniversary of his death, touched a raw nerve among many Chinese-Australians, whose families suffered under the former Communist Party's brutal legacy, with the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward contributing directly to the deaths of tens of millions.
Demonstrations had been planned for outside the Sydney and Melbourne town halls, where the concerts were to be held next week.What the death of al-Adnani means for IS
With the killing of Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the Islamic State group lost one of its most powerful figures, a militant with multiple roles.
BEIRUT — With the killing of Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the Islamic State group lost one of its most powerful figures, a militant with multiple roles: A propaganda chief, overseer of spectacular attacks in Europe and a trusted lieutenant of the group's top leader.
Al-Adnani was the mastermind of the extremist group's strategy of lashing out abroad with attacks that overshadowed its battlefield losses in Syria and Iraq. He formed militant cells in Europe to carry out organized attacks and inspired "lone wolves" who struck out on their own.
Coming on the heels of the death of the group's war minister, al-Adnani's loss is likely to prompt a shake-up in the IS leadership and may force its shadowy leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to address the loss of its most charismatic figure.
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