US election 2016: Trump cries foul as FBI clears Clinton
Donald Trump has accused the FBI of impropriety after it once again exonerated his rival Hillary Clinton of criminal conduct on her emails.
The FBI director said a fresh inquiry into the Democratic candidate's communications found nothing to change the bureau's conclusion this summer.
The Clinton campaign said it was "glad" the lingering issue had been resolved.
The dramatic twist lifted a cloud from her campaign as the final day of the marathon US election race loomed.
The latest opinion polls on Sunday, before news broke of the FBI announcement, gave Mrs Clinton a four to five-point lead over Mr Trump.
Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians banned by China as crisis grows
Beijing makes landmark ruling on the future of the former British colony, barring two pro-democracy parliamentarians from office
Hong Kong is facing a severe political crisis after China barred two pro-independence politicians from the city’s legislature.
In a highly controversial move that struck a blow to the burgeoning movement calling for greater autonomy from the mainland, Beijing said Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus “Baggio” Leung would not be able to hold office.
The ruling, which amounts to Beijing’s most direct intervention in the territory’s legal system since the 1997 handover to Chinese rule, is expected to spark renewed street protests in the former British colony.How basket-weaving is helping Malaysia's displaced Penan people
OBSERVERS
On the island of Borneo, widespread deforestation has left dozens of Penan families with no other choice but to flee their ancestral homes. Once displaced, these hunter-gatherer tribes, who had lived in harmony with the rainforest for thousands of years, found themselves without a livelihood. However, an NGO has helped some Penan women start businesses selling traditional baskets.
Sarawak is the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo. After years of logging, spearheaded for the most part by three Malaysian companies — Samling, Interhill and Shin Yang — the state has been virtually stripped bare of its traditional forests. NGO Survival International says the rate of deforestation in Sarawak is among the highest in the world.
Deforestation has had catastrophic consequences for the region's ecosystem. As well as depriving many species of their natural habitat, it also causes silt to build up on riverbeds, killing off fish and thus leaving the Penan people without a crucial source of food. Giant palm oil plantations have sprouted up in the place of ancient rainforests, providing the raw material for products such as biodiesel and cosmetics.
Iraqis flee fighting with tales of horror
Updated 0421 GMT (1221 HKT) November 7, 2016
A rising tide of humanity ebbed east from Mosul on Thursday as Iraqi forces entered the ISIS-controlled city for the first time in two years and engaged in up-close battles with the militants.
Aid groups have been warning for months that the Mosul campaign could lead to a human catastrophe. Thursday provided a glimpse of the potential tragedy.
Already, 18,000 Iraqis have been displaced from their homes since the Mosul offensive was launched October 17, according to the International Organization for Migration. The agency warns that the weeks ahead will generate even greater displacement, especially now that the battle is being fought on the streets of Iraq's second largest city. It's believed as many as 1.5 million people are still living there.
Nicaragua: President Ortega on course for third term
Ortega leads polls with 71 percent of votes, according to electoral authorities, as opposition contests turnout.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is on course to win a third consecutive term in a vote that the opposition called a farce.
The president of the Supreme Electoral Council, Roberto Rivas, said late on Sunday that Ortega had more than 71 percent of the votes with about a fifth of the ballots counted.
Ortega, who ran with his wife Rosario Murillo as his vice-presidential candidate, faced five other lesser-known candidates in an election that critics of the government had called unfairly tilted against the opposition.
Nine Ways the U.S. Voting System Is Rigged But Not Against Donald Trump
DONALD TRUMP IS right — the U.S. voting system is totally rigged!
It’s not rigged against him, though. It’s rigged against people without much money, and people who are members of any number of minority groups.
Some of the rigging is by design, and dates all the way back to the Founding Fathers. Some of it is simply a byproduct of an economic system where the top 0.1 percent have almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. Some falls somewhere in between.
Add it all up, and it constitutes a gigantic obstacle to regular people using their purported power to run our purported democracy.
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