Hurricane Matthew: Thousands displaced in Haiti
The most powerful Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade has left thousands of people displaced in Haiti, with officials struggling to reach the worst-hit areas.
Hurricane Matthew is said to have devastated parts of the country, where at least two people have died.
The storm has now moved off the north-eastern coast of Cuba towards Florida, where warnings are in place.
South Carolina is to start evacuating more than a million people.
Matthew, now a category three hurricane, is predicted to hit the US east coast later in the week.
Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
Exclusive: Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsibleKate Lamb in Manila
“We are not that bad policemen or bad individuals. We are just a tool, we are just angels that God gave talent to, you know, to get these bad souls back to heaven and cleanse them.”
The words flow unnervingly from the mouth of the policeman, a senior officer in the Philippines national police (PNP), as he explains his role in 87 killings in the past three months.
It’s not about killing for pleasure, or being a “homicidal maniac”, he says. There is a higher purpose at play.
“We are here as angels. Like St Michael and St Gabriel, right,” he says.
Pakistani man on why he murdered his sister in honour killing: ‘There was no choice’
'It was all I could think about – I had to kill her,' says Mubeen Rajhu
A man in Pakistan has told how a sense of shame drove him to murder his teenage sister because of her relationship with a Christian.
Mubeen Rajhu killed 18-year-old Tasleem with a single bullet to the head in August after she married in secret. Her husband had converted to Islam to be with her, but he was originally a Christian.
Rajhu's confessions come amid concern over rising numbers of so-called honour killings in the country.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 1,184 people were killed last year, 1,005 the year before and 869 in 2013. Many more are likely to have gone unrecorded.Disillusioned Moroccan voters to snub parliamentary election
Latest update : 2016-10-05
Morocco’s October 7 election has been presented as a showdown between the ruling PJD party and a self-styled party of “modernity”. But on the streets of Casablanca, the country’s largest city, few people can be bothered to vote.
Morocco heads to the polls Friday, and yet there is hardly any trace of the looming general election in the sprawling port city of three million.
Campaign posters are few and far between, restricted to authorised locations. A handful of campaigners go door-to-door, canvassing for the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), which hopes to oust the ruling Justice and Democracy Party (PJD).
The local branch of Istiqlal, one of Morocco’s oldest parties, is eerily deserted.
Colombian ceasefire with FARC rebels to end on October 31
Updated 0831 GMT (1631 HKT) October 5, 2016
Colombian President Jose Manuel Santos announced Tuesday that the ceasefire signed with Marxist rebel group FARC will expire at the end of the month.
"I hope that we can advance in our accords and dialogues so that we can settle on the arrangements, and the agreements that allow us to put in place a solution to this conflict," Santos said in a televised statement.
Colombia was thrown into disarray Sunday after voters narrowly rejected a referendum on the deal brokered between the government and FARC to end a 52-year war. Final results showed a little more than 50% of voters chose "no."
Hong Kong pro-democracy leader deported from Thailand
Supporters of 19-year-old activist who became face of protest movement accuse China of being behind deportation.
A Hong Kong student activist who became a face of a pro-democracy movement in the Chinese-ruled city has been deported from Thailand after being detained on arrival at the airport.
Joshua Wong, 19, was held in Bangkok where he had been invited to speak at two universities about Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement street protests and on setting up his political party, Demosisto.
"Demosisto has just been informed by the Hong Kong Immigration Department that ... Joshua Wong has boarded Hong Kong Airlines HX772 earlier from Bangkok, Thailand, en route back to Hong Kong." Demosisto said in a statement posted on its Facebook page.
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