Trump at Apec summit: US will no longer tolerate trade abuses
President Donald Trump has said the US will no longer tolerate "chronic trade abuses", in a defiant address at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit in Vietnam.
He said the US was prepared to work with Apec countries as long as they "abide by fair reciprocal trade".
Mr Trump said free trade had cost millions of American jobs, and he wanted to redress the imbalance.
He has already visited China and Japan as part of a five-nation Asia tour.
Apec brings together 21 economies from the Pacific region - the equivalent of about 60% of the world's GDP.
Since taking office, President Trump has pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major trade deal with 12 Apec member countries, arguing it would hurt US economic interests.
'Half my lung cancer patients have been non-smokers': choking over Delhi toxic air crisis
Pollution not just affecting peoples’ health but also India’s political leadership, with Modi appearing reluctant to head response
As the air quality fell, first to severe, then to emergency levels this week, doctors at Sir Ganga Ram hospital knew they needed to start fast-tracking patients.
“They come in, they get a nebuliser, and they go,” says Arvind Kumar, a lung surgeon at the medical facility in north Delhi.
Doctors have declared a public health crisis in the city. Dust, industrial emissions and vehicle fumes have been sealed in by cool temperature and still winds.
At the same time, mass burning of crop waste across the north Indian hinterland has sent dense smoke billowing across one of the world’s most populated regions.
Generation Identity: Far-right group sending UK recruits to military-style training camps in Europe
Footage shows white nationalists training in hand-to-hand combat amid warnings over rising extremism
A white nationalist group is recruiting British members and sending them to military-style training camps abroad, an investigation has revealed.
Generation Identity (GI), a pan-European group, officially launched its new UK branch last month but undercover reporters from ITV found supporters had already been taking part in its activities.
One man secretly filmed for the documentary Undercover – Inside Britain’s New Far Right, described GI’s week-long camp in France as “really good”.
In Benin, lack of funds forces rural schools to hold classes outdoors
A dearth of resources and infrastructure means children in remote villages in Benin’s Collines Department receive schooling in the open air, or in crude straw huts. Our Observer is trying to bring the situation to the attention of authorities by taking images of these roofless schools, some of which make do without any desks, and sharing them on social media.
In Benin, 90 percent of children of school age attend primary school. But conditions often leave a lot to be desired. Our Observer Arsène Donouvi, project leader for the NGO Regard Fraternel, which campaigns for schooling for all children, visited several schools in isolated villages in the Collines Department in the south of the country.
In Kpingni, a village of a little over 4,000 inhabitants, he filmed a class taking place under a tree. In these pictures can be seen some 30 children huddled together at small school desks and a few others sitting on the ground.
Shamshad TV news reader's courage leaves Afghans in awe
by Shereena Qazi
An Afghan journalist stunned viewers by appearing on television to present the news, moments after an attack by ISIL fighters at his station's premises in Kabul came to an end.
Defiant Parwiz Sapy appeared calm and collected on Shamshad TV as he announced to viewers on Tuesday: "The attack has ended."
Earlier, fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) had stormed the station in the Afghan capital.
LEAKED DOCUMENTS EXPOSE STUNNING PLAN TO WAGE FINANCIAL WAR ON QATAR — AND STEAL THE WORLD CUP
A PLAN FOR the United Arab Emirates to wage financial war against its Gulf rival Qatar was found in the task folder of an email account belonging to UAE Ambassador to the United States Yousef al-Otaiba and subsequently obtained by The Intercept.
The economic warfare involved an attack on Qatar’s currency using bond and derivatives manipulation. The plan, laid out in a slide deck provided to The Intercept through the group Global Leaks, was aimed at tanking Qatar’s economy, according to documents drawn up by a bank outlining the strategy.
The outline, prepared by Banque Havilland, a private Luxembourg-based bank owned by the family of controversial British financier David Rowland, laid out a scheme to drive down the value of Qatar’s bonds and increase the cost of insuring them, with the ultimate goal of creating a currency crisis that would drain the country’s cash reserves.
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