Hurricane Irma: Storm hits west coast of Florida
Hurricane Irma is blasting up the west coast of Florida after buffeting the city of Miami, with dangerous flooding along long stretches of coast.
It has been downgraded from category three to one but still has maximum sustained winds of 85mph (137km/h).
More than 3.4 million homes in the state are without power, with parts of the city of Miami are under water.
Three storm-related deaths have been reported and several areas have brought in curfews.
Irma cut a devastating track across 10 Caribbean countries and territories, killing at least 28 people there.
President Donald Trump has approved a major disaster declaration and emergency federal aid for Florida, describing the hurricane as a "big monster".
Steve Bannon compares China to 1930s Germany and says US must confront Beijing
Former senior aide to Donald Trump prepares to visit Hong Kong and warns that China is at ‘economic war’ with America
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former consigliere, has compared China to 1930s Germany, warning the country could go down the same dark path if the US fails to challenge its rise.
“A hundred years from now, this is what they’ll remember — what we did to confront China on its rise to world domination,” Bannon told the New York Times.
“China right now is Germany in 1930,” he said. “It’s on the cusp. It could go one way or the other. The younger generation is so patriotic, almost ultranationalistic.”
Burma treatment of Rohingya Muslims a 'textbook example of ethnic cleansing', says UN
The United Nations has denounced Burma's operations against Rohingya civilians as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights said the “brutal security operation” in Rakhine state was “clearly disproportionate” to insurgent attacks carried out last month.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva that more than 270,000 people had fled to Bangladesh, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings.
Former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili makes point at Ukrainian border
Supported by former Ukrainian leader Yulia Tymoshenko and others, Saakashvili has pushed his way from Poland into Ukraine in a bid to regain his citizenship. But he faces an extradition request from Georgia.
After a standoff, Saakashvili, who was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship in July in a falling out with President Petro Poroshenko, walked towards hundreds of supporters at the border on Sunday.
Thousands of his supporters had gathered on the Ukrainian side of the border and some pushed through guards and brought Saakashvili into Ukraine at the Medyka-Shehnyi crossing - 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the Ukrainian city of Lviv.
"I came with my Ukrainian passport, I wanted to show my passport and make a statement," Saakashvili told
supporters after crossing.
supporters after crossing.
The real-life 'Forrest Gump' running across Libya for peace
Libya has been riven with terrorism, political conflict, and militia violence since the country's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi was caught and killed in 2011. But one marathon runner, Abdusslam al-Busaïri, has been running all over the country since 2015 in a quest to bring his country's people back together. And wherever he goes, he creates a buzz.
Between the 15th and the 20th August 2017, Abdusslam al-Busaïri ran more than 430 kilometres through the desert. He left the village of Tijari at the border with Niger, and reached the town of Sebha, the capital of the Fezzan region, in eight days.
He ran 75 kilometres on average every day, in temperatures of around 40 degrees Celsius. All while holding a flag on which was written, "Let's reconcile, and embrace each other".
US says pilot error led to Dec. Osprey crash-landing off Okinawa
NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The United States military has concluded pilot error caused one of its Osprey aircraft to crash-land in waters off Japan's southern island of Okinawa in December, the Japanese government said Monday.
The finding was part of a final report released following a series of accidents involving the tilt-rotor aircraft in Japan and abroad which stirred safety concerns in Okinawa, where the bulk of U.S. military facilities in the country are based.
Okinawa Deputy Gov. Moritake Tomikawa visited Camp Foster in the prefecture on Monday to hear the outcome of the investigation report from Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, the top commander of U.S. forces in Okinawa.
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