US election: Donald Trump sorry for obscene remarks on women
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has apologised for obscene comments about women he made in a newly released videotape from 2005.
Mr Trump said that "these words don't reflect who I am... I apologise".
In the video, Mr Trump says "you can do anything" to women "when you're a star" and brags about trying to grope and kiss women.
Top Republicans condemned the comments. His election rival Hillary Clinton called them "horrific".
"We cannot allow this man to become president," she posted on Twitter.
Mr Trump's 90-second statement on Saturday morning appeared to be his first full apology in a campaign laced with controversial remarks.
Philippines to suspend joint exercises and patrols with US military
- Move is first sign of President Duterte’s hardline anti-US rhetoric in action
- US currently stages 28 exercises with Philippine forces each year
Associated Press in San Antonio, Philippin
The Philippine defense chief has told the US military that plans for joint patrols and naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea have been put on hold, the first concrete break in defense cooperation after months of increasingly strident comments by the country’s new president.
Delfin Lorenzana, the defense secretary, also said that 107 US troops involved in operating surveillance drones against Muslim militants would be asked to leave the southern part of the country once thePhilippines acquires those intelligence-gathering capabilities in the near future.
President Rodrigo Duterte also wants to halt the 28 military exercises that are carried out with US forces each year, Lorenzana said. Duterte has said he wants an ongoing US-Philippine amphibious beach landing exercise to be the last in his six-year presidency as he backs away from what he views as too much dependence on the US.
The invasion of Afghanistan 15 years ago was an arrogant, wretched adventure that caused a migrant crisis
Afghanistan will not become Islamistan or even Talibanistan. It will, when the West finally packs up and leaves, become Mafiastan. Perhaps it already is
As usual, all the warnings were there. Three Anglo-Afghan wars. Russia’s Vietnam. The Graveyard of Empires. Poppy capital of the world. The most bombed, crushed, corrupted, mined nation on the globe.
So off we set in our righteous war of revenge for the Twin Towers and the dead of 9/11 to bomb Afghanistan all over again and – a new twist, this – to bring “democracy” to the land through which Alexander the Great passed en route to India. Osama bin Laden was our latest Hitler, although his protective screen of Salafist obscurantist Taliban legions could hardly be compared to the Wehrmacht.
Bin Laden was a Saudi – so were 15 of the 19 hijackers who committed the international crime against humanity of 11 September 2001 – and Saudis supported the Taliban. But, as usual,Saudi Arabia was not part of the media story.
Why Saudis are smashing up their modems
Social media has been awash with videos of angry Saudis smashing up their computer modems and SIM cards in a protest against a price hike by Saudi Arabia’s largest telecom company.
Since Sunday, October 2, hundreds of Saudis have been participating in a boycott against the country’s biggest operator, Saudi Telecom Company (STC), which just hiked its prices. Angry subscribers have been taking to social media using the hashtag (in Arabic) #wearegoingtobankruptyou and posting videos of themselves destroying their electronic devices.
The anti-STC campaign also took other forms. Hundreds of Twitter users unfollowed the telecom’s Twitter account, as illustrated by the video below.
India to seal border, allows evacuated residents to return
THE NEWSPAPER'S CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI: India said on Friday it would completely seal the border with Pakistan by December 2018 and, in a sign that the military escalation could be abating, allowed evacuated local residents in Punjab to return home.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in Jaisalmer that all effective means, including technological solutions, would be used to seal off the border.
Speaking to media after reviewing the security situation on border with ministers and officials of four states, Mr Singh proposed setting up a border security grid for which suggestions have been invited from all the stakeholders concerned, including the states which share border with Pakistan.
“It is a new concept. We will be framing guidelines after getting suggestions from all stakeholders,” Mr Singh said.
Germany: Syrian children attacked by right-wing youths
Syrian children, aged five, eight and 11, hit and threatened with a knife in eastern town of Sebnitz, police say.
Three Syrian refugee children have been hit and threatened with a knife by a gang of right-wing youths in eastern Germany, according to police.
The boys, aged five, eight and 11, were getting out of a bus in the town of Sebnitz, around 40km east of Dresden, when they came under attack, police said in a statement on Friday.
Following the assault, the attackers started chanting right-wing slogans, police said.
A spokeswoman for the police said the identity of the attackers was not yet known.
Police found several young people aged between 15 and 20 near the site of Thursday night's attack, but it is not yet clear if they were the attackers.
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