Trump: Clinton's foreign policy plan would start WW3
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said his rival Hillary Clinton's foreign policy plan in Syria would trigger World War Three.
He also said the US should focus on defeating so-called Islamic State (IS) rather than removing Syria's president.
Mrs Clinton has proposed a no-fly zone over Syria. The top US military chief has said that could spell conflict with Russian jets in the region.
The Clinton campaign accused Mr Trump of "playing to Americans' fears".
Mr Trump also attacked Republicans for not uniting behind his candidacy.
"If we had party unity, we couldn't lose this election to Hillary Clinton," he told Reuters news agency at Trump National Doral golf resort in Miami, Florida.
Pro-Beijing supporters mass outside Hong Kong parliament amid turmoil
More than 10,000 people reported to have gathered as pro-democracy candidates force their way into legislative council to demand their seats
Thousands of pro-Beijing protesters gathered outside Hong Kong’s parliament on Wednesday as an intensifying row over the former British colony’s relationship with China boiled over on to the streets.
Recent weeks have seen the semi-autonomous city thrust into what looks set to be a new period of political turbulence, as a younger generation of pro-democracy activists faces off against Beijing loyalists.
Two years after the historic umbrella movement street protests, six young pro-democracy activists, who are pushing for greater autonomy from China, claimed seats in Hong Kong’s 70-member legislative council (Legco) last month.
Refugee women forced out of Italian town after locals block streets
Around 200 residents of Gorino and neighbouring Goro chanted anti-immigrant slogans
A small group of refugee women and children were forced to leave a town in northern Italy after locals barricaded the road chanting “we don’t want them here”.
The town of Gorino in Ferrara was asked to accommodate 12 women, one of whom was pregnant, and eight minors who were with them.
As a coach arrived to take the refugees to a publicly-owned hostel, more than 200 locals turned out to block the road with bins, and planks of wood. Gorino itself has a population of only around 500, though some protesters are thought to have come from the larger neighbouring town of Gore.
Haiti cholera scandal 'the UN's Watergate', says body's own human rights adviser
Latest update : 2016-10-26
The UN's refusal to accept responsibility for bringing cholera to Haiti six years ago, leading to the deaths of more than 9,000 people, is a scandal on the same scale as Watergate, the organisation's own human rights adviser has told FRANCE 24.
The comparison was made by Philip Alston, professor of law at NYU and the United Nation's special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, who labelled the UN’s "explicit and unqualified denial" of being behind the outbreak "a disgrace" in a scathing report presented to the intergovernmental body on Tuesday.
"The situation is completely clear: that the UN was responsible for bringing cholera to Haiti, but the formal position adopted is that 'we are not culpable' and that is a scandal comparable to Watergate in my view," Alston told FRANCE 24.
South Korea's shame: Child victims of Brothers Home abuse still searching for justice
Updated 0322 GMT (1122 HKT) October 26, 2016
Han Jong-sun sleeps with the lights on.
At 40, he is still haunted by the horror he lived through when he was just eight.
"When the lights were turned off, that's when the sexual abuse started," he says.
Han is one of thousands of victims of what human rights groups call one of the most shameful human rights abuses in recent South Korean history.
He wants the truth to be known and those responsible, or those who turned a blind eye, to be held accountable. He and others who suffered alongside him want closure.
Gambia withdraws from International Criminal Court
African nation says ICC persecuting "people of colour" but ex-prosecutor says continent's leaders covering up crimes.
Gambia has announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, accusing the Hague-based tribunal of "persecution and humiliation of people of colour, especially Africans".
Tuesday's announcement comes after similar decisions earlier this month by South Africaand Burundi to abandon the institution, set up to try the world's worst crimes.
The ICC was set up in 2002 and is often accused of bias against Africa and has also struggled with a lack of cooperation, including from the US, which has signed the court's treaty but never ratified it.
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