Obama speech: Democracy needs you, says outgoing president
President Barack Obama has called on Americans to defend their democracy in his farewell speech in Chicago.
"By almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place" than it was eight years ago when he took office, he told thousands of supporters.
But he warned "democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted".
He implored Americans of all backgrounds to consider things from each others point of view, saying "we have to pay attention and listen".
Myanmar sends envoy to Bangladesh as Rohingya crisis deepens
Kyaw Tin, deputy minister of foreign affairs, will make a three-day visit to the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka
A special envoy of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi will begin top-level talks in Bangladesh on Wednesday, as the United Nations said the Rohingya crisis prompted 65,000 people to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh in the past three months.
Kyaw Tin, Myanmar’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, will make a three-day visit to the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in a rare diplomatic foray to tackle the biggest challenge facing Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi’s nine-month old administration.
Intelligence chiefs allege Russians have compromising personal information on Donald Trump
The claims allege the now-President-elect had been in contact with Russian intermediaries for five years
Russian operatives reportedly compiled salacious information about Donald Trump, and are said to have communicated with his campaign throughout the election, according to a highly classified addendum to the intelligence report about alleged Kremlin-ordered hacking, delivered to President Barack Obama and the President-elect.
Intelligence officials attached a two-page synopsis of the apparent findings to the highly classified report to illustrate the harm Russian operatives intended to inflict upon both American parties; and to bring the allegations that are circulating among the intelligence community to Mr Trump’s attention.
Reports: Morocco stops sale, production of full-face veil
Local media has reported that factories across Morocco were made to stop manufacturing burqas, while shops have been told to liquidate inventories. The Interior Ministry cited security concerns as grounds for the move.
Authorities in Morocco have prohibited both the manufacture and sale of the burqa for security reasons, local media has reported. Although there has been no official announcement from the government concerning the move, the new measures are set to take affect as soon as next week.
"We have taken the step of completely banning the import, manufacture and marketing of this garment in all the cities and towns of the kingdom," news website "Le360" wrote, quoting a source in the Interior Ministry.
The source said the decision had been made for safety reasons, adding that "bandits have repeatedly used this garment to perpetrate their crimes."
Pioneering war reporter 'an inspiration' to all women in journalism
Lindsay Murdoch
For decades members of venerable Foreign Correspondent's Club of Hong Hong speculated that Clare Hollingworth, the correspondent who broke news of World War II, may have been immortal.
She sat in a corner at "Clare's table" near photographs of the Vietnam War, sometimes banging her cane on the floor for attention.
"We are sad to announce that after an illustrious career spanning a century of news, celebrated war correspondent Clare Hollingworth died this evening in Hong Kong," a spokesman for the Celebrating Clare Hollingworth group said in statement on Facebook on Tuesday. She was 105.What a ruling on swim classes in Switzerland means for Muslims in Europe
The human rights court in Strasbourg rules that Swiss Muslim girls must swim with boys in mandatory swim class, rejecting their parents' appeal.
When must a newcomer adapt and when must a host society accept?
Europe has been struggling with where to draw this line with its Muslim population, and the latest splash comes from a swimming pool in Basel, Switzerland.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg seems to have sided for now with “adapt,” in ruling that Swiss Muslim girls must swim with boys. It rejected the appeal of two Swiss citizens, originally from Turkey, who cited their Muslim faith in seeking to keep their two prepubescent daughters out of a mixed, mandatory swimming class.
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