Trump vows to 'close government' to build Mexico wall
Donald Trump has vowed to close down the US government if necessary to build his wall along the Mexico border.
The president told supporters at a "Make America Great Again" rally in Phoenix, Arizona, that the opposition Democrats were being "obstructionist".
During the 80-minute speech, he also took aim at the media, blaming them for giving far right groups "a platform".
But he selectively quoted his initial response to violence at a far-right rally that left one woman dead.
He omitted the controversial claim that "many sides" had to shoulder the blamefor violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
'Too many soldiers to feed': North Koreans fear more sanctions as drought threatens famine
Plight of ordinary people being overlooked amid focus on missile launches and rising tensions between Pyongyang and Washington
Sanctions and the worst drought for almost two decades threaten to cause severe hardship for millions of people in North Korea, while the country’s leadership continues to plough scarce resources into its missile and nuclear programmes, according to UN agencies and those with contacts in the impoverished nation.
A drought that ravaged crops earlier this summer will leave the North unable to properly feed many of its people, including soldiers in the country’s million-strong army, the groups have warned.
While living standards have improved for some North Koreans under Kim Jong-un’s leadership, many of the country’s 25 million people face a struggle to secure enough food while others risk losing their jobs due to sanctions, according to Jiro Ishimaru, a Japanese documentary maker who runs a network of citizen journalists inside North Korea.
Boko Haram: Huge rise in children used as 'human bombs' by Islamists in Nigeria, UN warns
Young victims of the group are encouraged to go to busy areas, including markets, before the bombs they carry are triggered
There has been a fourfold increase in the number of children used as bombers in northeast Nigeria this year, the United Nations Children’s Agency (Unicef) has said.
Since the start of the year at least 83 children have been used as "human bombs" in attacks on civilians and Nigerian military checkpoints, the agency said, with most incidences claimed by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Of these, 55 were girls, 27 were boys, and one was a baby strapped to a girl. Most of the girls were under 15.
Military officials in northeast Nigeria say the children are often encouraged to go to busy areas, including markets, while the explosives they carry are sometimes triggered from a distance. Occasionally, children get scared approaching checkpoints and detonate the bombs without injuring anyone else.
How using drones could save lives in Colombia
In Colombia, it can take hours to travel just a few kilometres because of the poor road conditions and the rugged landscape. That means that it can be extremely difficult for people in certain rural areas to access healthcare. A Colombian tech company, based in Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city, thinks they might have the answer. They are currently conducting a series of test flights using drones to transport medicine and blood samples between a main hospital and rural health centres.
In April 2015, Red de Salud de Ladera – a network of hospitals and public health centres in the Cali area – asked for permission from the Minister of Health to use drones to transport blood samples to labs and medicine to patients in rural areas.
Aeronautical engineer Daniel Salamanca launched the company Nuba Drones in December 2015 with the specific aim of building drones to be used in the health sector.
In April 2015, Red de Salud de Ladera – a network of hospitals and public health centres in the Cali area – asked for permission from the Minister of Health to use drones to transport blood samples to labs and medicine to patients in rural areas.
Aeronautical engineer Daniel Salamanca launched the company Nuba Drones in December 2015 with the specific aim of building drones to be used in the health sector.
THE TALIBAN TRIED TO SURRENDER AND THE U.S. REBUFFED THEM. NOW HERE WE ARE.
DID YOU KNOW that shortly after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, the Taliban tried to surrender?
For centuries in Afghanistan, when a rival force had come to power, the defeated one would put down their weapons and be integrated into the new power structure — obviously with much less power, or none at all. That’s how you do with neighbors you have to continue to live with. This isn’t a football game, where the teams go to different cities when it’s over. That may be hard for us to remember, because the U.S. hasn’t fought a protracted war on its own soil since the Civil War.
So when the Taliban came to surrender, the U.S. turned them down repeatedly, in a series of arrogant blunders spelled out in Anand Gopal’s investigative treatment of the Afghanistan war, “No Good Men Among the Living.”
U.S. Navy to relieve Seventh Fleet commander after collisions in Asia
Today 03:50 pm JST
The U.S. Navy will relieve Seventh Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin after a series of collisions involving its warships in Asia, a U.S. official told Reuters, as the search goes on for 10 sailors missing since the latest mishap.
The move to replace Aucoin comes days after a pre-dawn collision between a guided-missile destroyer and a merchant vessel east of Singapore and Malaysia on Monday, the fourth major incident in the U.S. Pacific Fleet this year.
"An expedited change in leadership was needed," the official said in Washington on Tuesday of the decision to relieve Aucoin of his command.
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