U.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears
By Justin Mitchell and Andy Sullivan,Reuters
Down a Georgia country road, camouflaged members of the Three Percent Security Force have mobilized for rifle practice, hand-to-hand combat training -- and an impromptu campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
"How many people are voting for Trump? Ooh-rah!" asks Chris Hill, a paralegal who goes by the code name "Bloodagent."
"Ooh-rah!" shout a dozen militia members in response, as morning sunlight sifted through the trees last weekend.
As the most divisive presidential election in recent memory nears its conclusion, some armed militia groups are preparing for the possibility of a stolen election on Nov. 8 and civil unrest in the days following a victory by Democrat Hillary Clinton.
They say they won't fire the first shot, but they're not planning to leave their guns at home, either.
Amnesty accuses Italian police of maltreating migrants
Italian police beat and used electric shocks to coerce migrants into being fingerprinted, Amnesty International has reported. The human rights organization said the treatment potentially constituted "torture."
"The European Union's pressure on Italy to 'get tough' on refugees and migrants has led to unlawful expulsions and ill-treatment which in some cases may amount to torture," Amnesty wrote in a report.
"In their determination to reduce the onward movement of refugees and migrants to other member states, EU leaders have driven the Italian authorities to the limits -- and beyond -- of what is legal," said Matteo de Bellis, Amnesty International's Italy researcher."The result is that traumatized people, arriving in Italy after harrowing journeys, are being subjected to flawed assessments and in some instances appalling abuse at the hands of the police, as well as unlawful expulsions," he was quoted as saying.
IS group leader Baghdadi tells jihadists in Mosul 'do not retreat' in audio message
Latest update : 2016-11-03
Jihadist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on his fighters to resist as Iraqi forces were poised Thursday to enter the city of Mosul where he declared a "caliphate" two years ago.
The appeal was made in an audio recording released on the Internet and purported to be by the elusive leader of the Islamic State group, his first message this year.
"Do not retreat," he said. "Holding your ground with honour is a thousand times easier than retreating in shame."
"To all the people of Nineveh, especially the fighters, beware of any weakness in facing your enemy," Baghdadi said, referring to the northern Iraqi province of which Mosul is the capital.
In June 2014, days after jihadist fighters swept across swathes of Iraq, he made a rare public appearance in Mosul and announced the creation of an Islamic "state" straddling Iraq and Syria.
President unlikely to avoid investigation |
By Jung Min-ho
President Park Geun-hye may go down in Korean history as the first incumbent head of state ever to be investigated.
And the likelihood of such an unprecedented event is increasing daily. At the National Assembly, Thursday, Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong shifted his previous stance and said that if necessary he will urge Park to cooperate with the prosecution's investigation into the influence-peddling scandal involving her confidant Choi Soon-sil. Just last week, Kim tried hard to defend her, arguing that it would be unconstitutional to question an incumbent president. Kim Byong-joon, the prime minister nominee appointed by Park, also told reporters Thursday that he believes investigating her would possible, noting that "all citizens have equal rights and duties before the law." |
Boko Haram survivors sexually abused by government officials at 'safe' camps
Updated 1116 GMT (1916 HKT) November 2, 2016
Women and girls who survived Boko Haram violence were raped by government officials at camps in northern Nigeria where they sought safety, according to a new rights group report.
Dozens of victims who stayed at camps for the displaced in Borno State's capital Maiduguri told Human Rights Watch they were sexually abused or coerced into sex by camp leaders, vigilante group members, policemen and soldiers. Many of the women were abandoned after becoming pregnant.
"It is bad enough that these women and girls are not getting much-needed support for the horrific trauma they suffered at the hands of Boko Haram," said Mausi Segun, senior Nigeria researcher at HRW.
Life on the Pine Ridge Native American reservation
Where life expectancy is the second-lowest in the western hemisphere and 80 percent of people are unemployed.
by
Patrick Strickland
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, United States - Donald Morrison's one-room home, hidden behind a row of trees, can only be reached via a half-kilometre dirt path.
He lives on his family's ancestral land. His uncle's and brother's trailer homes are nearby. Donald's yard is dotted with rusting automobiles - decaying and half-dismembered, excavated for car parts.
He lives on his family's ancestral land. His uncle's and brother's trailer homes are nearby. Donald's yard is dotted with rusting automobiles - decaying and half-dismembered, excavated for car parts.
A few metres from the wooden steps leading to his front door sits the decrepit structure - made from a pop-up trailer, scrap wood and tarps - that he lived in for two decades before the local charity Families Working Together built him a tiny home in 2011.
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