Harvey: Fears grow over severe flooding risk
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has warned that severe flooding is his main worry as the rains from Tropical Storm Harvey continue to lash the state.
Mr Abbott said the cities of Houston and Corpus Christi had already received as much as 20in (50cm) of rain.
He said another 40in of rain could be due before the storm subsides midweek.
Rescue efforts are being hampered by strong winds and thousands are without power. Two deaths have been confirmed, in the Rockport area and Houston.
- In Aransas County, where Rockport is the chief town, a person died in a house fire on Friday night
- A woman died in Houston as she drove through flooded streets on Saturday
Houston, the fourth biggest city in the US, could see 2in-3in (5cm-7.5cm) of a rain an hour on Saturday night, Mayor Sylvester Turner said.
Almost 100 dead and thousands evacuated as violence flares in Myanmar
Death toll rises as clashes between army and Rohingya continue for third day, while thousands flee across border to Bangladesh
The Myanmar government has evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers amid ongoing clashes in north-western Rakhine state, the government said, while thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled across the border to Bangladesh.
The death toll from the violence that erupted on Friday with coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents has climbed to 98, including 80 insurgents and 12 members of the security forces, the government said. The clashes, the worst since at least October, have prompted the government to evacuate staff and thousands of non-Muslim villagers from the area.
Fighting involving the military and hundreds of Rohingya across north-western Rakhine continued on Saturday with the fiercest clashes taking place on the outskirts of the major town of Maungdaw, according to residents and the government.
If America takes a legal stand on hate speech, it will be liberals, not neo-Nazis, who suffer
We in the UK have laws designed to combat hate speech. But they provide a salutary lesson. Having established the principle, we very nearly went too far
Yet another American City will reluctantly play host to a gathering of the right at the weekend.
This time it’s San Francisco, one of the birthplaces of American counterculture, a hippie Mecca during the 1960s, and a modern centre of liberal activism where Donald Trump polled just 9 per cent.
I doubt the symbolism of planting a flag in the middle of that will have been lost on Patriot Prayer, the event’s organiser.
Its founder, Joey Gibson, has recently publicly sought to disavow the extreme right wingers that were a notable presence at his earlier events.
Borderline InsanityWhat Does Brexit Mean for Northern Ireland?
For almost 20 years, Northern Ireland has largely been at peace. Brexit now threatens to tear the scabs off of old wounds. London recently presented a plan for the country, but it is vague and lacks detail.
By Jörg Schindler
Declan Fearon is standing with one leg on a grave while his second is in a different country. "The border runs right here," he says, pointing to a wall covered with moss. The wall is part of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Jonesborough, as is the cemetery behind the church. But an invisible line runs in between, dividing those saying their prayers from those lying in eternal repose. For almost 100 years, the line has also divided the largely Protestant Northern Ireland from the Catholic southern part of the island.
Fearon walks over to a gravestone. In gold lettering on a black background, it reads: "Brian Fearon" and "Rest in Peace." The dead man's son grins: "After Brexit I'll have to bring my passport along when I visit dad, just to be on the safe side."
Who are the key players in Afghanistan?
Updated 0133 GMT (0933 HKT) August 27, 2017
Like two US Presidents before him, Donald Trump has a plan to win the United States' longest-running war.
In a long-awaited speech this month, Trump made it clear the US will remain a major actor in Afghanistan for years to come -- doubling down on the conflict with a likely troop increase -- but he also called on other countries in South Asia to do their part.
Once a key battlefield in the "Great Game" between major world powers in the 19th century, Afghanistan today is a mess of overlapping foreign policy and security interests for regional and international powers.
Who are the key players?
DAPL SECURITY FIRM TIGERSWAN RESPONDED TO PIPELINE VANDALISM BY LAUNCHING MULTISTATE DRAGNET
WHEN THE LARGEST Dakota Access Pipeline resistance camp in North Dakota was forcibly shut down in February, the work of TigerSwan, the private security company hired by Energy Transfer Partners to guard its property, appeared to be nearly done. Then the pipeline was hit by several acts of vandalism targeting valve sites along the route. Starting in mid-March, saboteurs snaked down the line, piercing holes in exposed parts of the pipeline and setting equipment on fire.
The vandalism, which disrupted completion of the pipeline, created new work for TigerSwan. But the company did more than deploy additional guards along the line — it also embarked on a multistate hunt for the culprits.
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