Trump to supporters harassing minorities: 'Stop it'
Updated 0323 GMT (1123 HKT) November 14, 2016
Donald Trump on Sunday told his supporters to stop harassing minorities, in his first televised sit-down interview since becoming President-elect.
"I am so saddened to hear that," Trump told CBS' Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes" when she said Latinos and Muslims are facing harassment. "And I say, 'Stop it.' If it -- if it helps, I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: 'Stop it.'"
Trump directed his comments to his own supporters whom Stahl said have written racist slogans or chanted degrading messages -- particularly in schools. It was a powerful appeal to a nation ripped apart by the divisive 2016 campaign. Trump's election has left Democrats angry and many minorities fearful about the future.
Don't believe for a minute that Donald Trump wants his supporters to stop harassing minorities across America. He's a lifelong racist and has just appointed a racist to be his top strategist.
Hong Kong politician calls pro-independence activists 'cancer cells' at rally of thousands
Pro-China protesters gather outside government headquarters in support of decision to bar activists Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching from political office
Thousands of people attended a pro-Beijing rally in Hong Kong on Sunday in support of China’s decision to in effect bar two pro-independence legislators from taking office, as fears grow for the city’s freedoms.
Beijing’s ruling last week pre-empted a decision by the Hong Kong courts over whether lawmakers Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching should be disqualified from parliament after deliberately misreading their oaths of office, inserting expletives and draping themselves with “Hong Kong is not China” flags.
Beijing’s interpretation of the city’s constitution, issued on Monday, said any oath taker who did not follow the prescribed wording, “or takes the oath in a manner which is not sincere or not solemn”, should be disqualified.
Iraqi troops are getting bogged down in Mosul – Could it spark the first crisis for President Trump?
Kurdish leaders are warning that what could have taken weeks is likely to drag on for months - posing problems for the US-led coalition and especially its incoming Commander-in-Chief
The Iraqi armed forces are becoming bogged down in the battle for Mosul. Its elite special forces and an armoured division are fighting to hold districts in the eastern outskirts of the city against counter-attacks by Isis fighters using networks of tunnels to move about unseen.
“In one day we lost 37 dead and 70 wounded,” said a former senior Iraqi official, adding that the Iraqi forces had been caught by surprise by the extent of the tunnel system built by Isis, said to be 45 miles long.
The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) and the Ninth Armoured Division have been trying for two weeks to fight their way into that part of Mosul city, east of the Tigris River.
Shock in Iran as professor refuses to trample US flag
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Every November 4, Iran’s hardliners celebrate the date of the hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979, which lasted 444 days. On this occasion, they hold anti-American demonstrations, where they shout slogans like “Death to America” and burn US and Israeli flags. But this year, a professor refused to trample on the flags. A video of his defiant act rapidly went viral.
Last Friday, the flags of the two countries were laid out on the floor in the political science department of the University of Mashhad, so that professors and students could trample them. But Sadegh Zibakalam, a political science professor visiting from Tehran, decided to go against the authorities’ wishes, and walks around the flags – not once but twice. His refusal was caught on camera.
The first video shows the Israeli flag at the entrance to the university, and Zibakalam stepping around it.
He has more trouble with the US flag, because university personnel have blocked his route to avoid walking on it. However, he doesn’t give in, and pushes them out of his way in order to avoid stepping on the flag.
South African minister linked to rhino trafficker
Al Jazeera Investigative Unit's exclusive report raises serious questions about South African security chief.
Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit has uncovered evidence of high-level political connections to rhino poaching in Africa.
The investigation raises serious questions about the involvement of a South African government minister and members of a Chinese presidential delegation in the illegal rhino horn trade.
Of the just 25,000 remaining African rhino, the biggest population is in South Africa's Kruger National Park, where at least two rhino are killed for their horns by poachers every night.
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