US election: Obama blasts Trump with 7-Eleven jibe
President Barack Obama has blasted Donald Trump's recent remarks about women, saying they would be intolerable even for someone applying for a job at a 7-Eleven convenience store.
At a rally supporting Hillary Clinton, Mr Obama also urged senior Republicans to formally withdraw their endorsement of Mr Trump as presidential candidate.
Many top Republicans have distanced themselves from Mr Trump over a video in which he boasts of groping women.
Mr Trump accused them of disloyalty.
He was particularly scathing about House Speaker Paul Ryan whom he described as a "weak and ineffective" leader.
Rebel Hong Kong politicians defy China at chaotic swearing-in ceremony
Pro-democracy politicians rebel at swearing-in session with protest signs, crossed fingers and subversive references to Beijing’s authoritarian rulersA new generation of pro-democracy politicians thumbed its nose at China’s authoritarian leaders on Wednesday, with a succession of lawmakers openly defying Beijing during an action-packed swearing-in ceremony for Hong Kong’s parliament.
Nathan Law, a student protest leader who was among six young pro-democracy faces elected to the former colony’s 70-member legislative council last month, quoted Mahatma Gandhi as he publicly rejected Beijing’s authority.
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body. But you will never imprison my mind,” said Law, the 23-year-old leader of a party called Demosisto
Why did President Erdogan restart the battle with the Kurdish PKK? The answer lies in the tale of the failed coup
The democratic Kurdish parties are dwarfed by this battle, which consumed the centre of Diyabarkir last winter and early spring, and then Cizre – and then Nusaybin
They are levelling the battlefield. Behind the chain wire, for mile after mile, you can see the Turkish mobile cranes and trucks destroying what is left of the ruins of Nusaybin – apartment blocks, shops, crushed concrete in the streets. Turkish soldiers and police, on foot and in armoured vehicles, patrol the “forbidden zone”, the wrecked acres of this ancient south-eastern Turkish city which was held for 72 days by the Kurdish PKK last spring.
The Turkish government’s most ferocious enemy, the Kurdish Workers Party and the so-called Kurdish “People’s Protection Units”, which work for them on the Syrian side of the frontier in the twin city of Qamishli, will never be able to return. There will be nothing to return to. You can snatch photographs through the wire, of men working the cranes, of trucks carrying rubble.
Paris attacks: Lawyers of Salah Abdeslam will no longer defend him
Lawyers for the only known survivor of the Islamists responsible for killing 130 people in Paris last November have said they will no longer defend him. Suspect Salah Abdeslam is refusing to speak.
Salah Abdeslam, who has been held in solitary confinement near Paris since he was captured earlier this year, will use his right to remain silent, his lawyers Frank Berton and Sven Mary said on "BFM Television" on Wednesday.
"We are convinced, and he told us so, that he will not talk and will use his right to remain silent," Berton said.
"What do you want us to do in our position? I've said it from the start, if my client remains silent, I'll drop his defense," he added.
Abdeslam previously refused to answer questions from the anti-terrorist magistrate investigating the Paris attacks and also exercised his right to remain silent during questioning.
Protecting mangroves, Kenya's fishermen net cash – and more fish
A PATH TO PROGRESS A coastal Kenyan community has earned $30,000 in two years selling carbon credits from the mangroves they protect. Mangrove forests are particularly effective at absorbing carbon dioxide.
GAZI BAY, KENYA — For fishing communities on Kenya's southern coast, felling mangrove trees to make boats has long been a part of life.
But traditional attitudes toward the mangroves are shifting, as communities become aware of a new benefit from keeping the trees standing: cash payments for carbon storage.
Local people who are protecting and replanting mangroves are now selling 3,000 tons of carbon credits a year to international buyers, for about $5-$6 a ton. The money goes into financing more forest protection and restoration, and to community-chosen projects.
Israel shoots dead Palestinian protester in Jerusalem
Israeli forces prevent ambulance from reaching 20-year-old Ali Shioukhi in Silwan neighbourhood, local media say.
Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian after clashes in the Silwan neighbourhood of Occupied East Jerusalem, Palestinian officials said.
Ali Shioukhi, 20, was killed by security forces on Tuesday night, as the Israeli army was deployed in force across the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to quell Palestinian dissent during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the officials said.
Israeli forces had raided Silwan late on Tuesday night before protests erupted.
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