Donald Trump under fire after failing to denounce Virginia white supremacists
President laments ‘hatred, bigotry and violence from many sides’ but senior Republicans and Democrats demand condemnation of far-right extremists
Donald Trump has faced bipartisan criticism after failing to explicitly condemn the role of white supremacists in clashes with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a car running into a crowd, killing at least one person.
The president said he condemned “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” on Saturday. He then repeated the phrase “on many sides” for emphasis. A White House spokesperson later amplified the president’s remarks, telling the Guardian: “The president was condemning hatred, bigotry and violence from all sources and all sides. There was violence between protesters and counter-protesters today.”
But there was strong reaction to Trump’s refusal to denounce far-right extremists who had marched through the streets carrying flaming torches, screaming racial epithets and setting upon their opponents.
Seven White Helmets shot dead during dawn raid in Syria
The massacre sparks a manhunt and speculation as to who was behind the murders of the famous rescue workers
Seven paramedics from the White Helmets rescue organisation in Syria have been shot dead during a raid by unknown gunmen in the province of Idlib.
The massacre has sparked a manhunt and speculation as to who carried out the killings at the volunteer group's base in the rebel-controlled village of Sarmin.
The victims' bodies were left sprawled across the floor of their operations centre after being shot through the head at close range.
Dueling HotheadsThe War of Words that Could Go Nuclear
President Trump's "fire and fury" tirade against the regime of Kim Jong Un has escalated tensions with North Korea. A military conflict with the country would have catastrophic results. Is there still a diplomatic way out of this mess?
But this year, the nervousness peaked two weeks before the maneuvers. No tanks or troop deployments were required, all it took was these words: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
The new smartphone game terrifying people in S. Arabia
A new game for smartphones, launched at the end of July by a young Saudi developer, is causing concern amongst people in Saudi Arabia. The game's narrative could almost be the script to a horror film. The premise is a little girl lost in the forest who asks the player to help her find her way home. Strangely, the questions she asks suddenly start to change in tone, becoming more personal — and, more than anything, politically charged.
"Mariam's game" was developed by Salman al-Harbi, a young Saudi researcher specialising in artificial intelligence. The game is only available on the Apple Store, and according to its creator, has been downloaded by more than 400,000 users since it was made available online on July 25. Of the people who downloaded it, 320,000 are based in Saudi Arabia.
In the game, the player is thrown into a creepy, horror-film-style atmosphere, with a little girl resembling an evil doll guiding you through the narrative (calling to mind the 2014 horror film Annabelle), and sound effects like creaking doors and whispering.
Latin America rejects US military threat in Venezuela
Peru, Colombia and Mexico condemn President Donald Trump's comments of using 'military option' against Caracas.
Several Latin American nations have come out strongly against US President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention to solve the ongoing political crisis in Venezuela.
In surprise comments on Friday, Trump asserted a "military option" could be considered, which Venezuela's Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino slammed as "an act of craziness".
Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Saturday Venezuela rejected "hostile" threats and called on Latin America to unite against Washington.
"We want to express gratitude for all the expressions of solidarity and rejection of the use of force from governments around the world, including Latin America," she said in a short speech.
FILM: THE TINY WEST VIRGINIA TOWN HAUNTED BY AN NSA SECRET
Sam Biddle
SUGAR GROVE, West Virginia was, by the accounts of its residents, a fine place to live until the Pentagon shuttered the sprawling naval base that sustained the town for decades — leaving it with a state secret as its sole remaining attraction. A new documentary film by director Elaine McMillion Sheldon, a longtime chronicler of West Virginian life, visits Sugar Grove after the base was decommissioned and being auctioned off, and traces the abiding shadow of a nearby National Security Agency facility still looming over the town.
The film is embedded above.
Antennae at the NSA listening post, codenamed TIMBERLINE, were built to capture Soviet satellite messages as they bounced off the moon, imbuing a pristine stretch of Appalachia with a sort of cosmic gravity. Residents lived with the knowledge that something was hidden away on a hilltop above the town, even if it was something they could never know. TIMBERLINE’s mission has, to say the least, changed in the intervening years, as submarine-laid internet cables have become a greater priority for American spies than foreign satellite communication.
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