US urges UN action after Saudi blames Iran over missile
The United States has called on the United Nations to act against Iran after Saudi Arabia, a Washington ally, accused Tehran of "direct military aggression" through the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Amid an escalating war of words, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday pointed the figure to Iran for supplying a ballistic missile that was fired on Saturday from Houthi-held territory towards Riyadh's international airport.
Saudi-led forces, which have been fighting the Houthis since March 2015, intercepted and destroyed the weapon before it reached its target.
Donald Trump to ask China to cut financial links with North Korea in meeting with Xi Jinping
President to press regional superpower to put further strain on rogue Pyongyang
US President Donald Trump will ask China to cut its financial links with North Korea and to abide by UN sanctions when meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, a senior White House official said on Wednesday.
Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday afternoon from South Korea for a two-night stop in the Chinese capital as part of his marathon Asia tour.
The US president was undecided on whether to declare North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism by the end of his trip, the official said, speaking to reporters on-board Air Force One.
India: Delhi residents advised to stay inside as air pollution hits hazardous levels
The Indian capital is covered in a blanket of thick smog as the concentration of harmful particulate matter in the air reached hazardous levels. Local officials have asked schools to remain shut for a few days.
Air pollution in Delhi hit hazardous levels on Tuesday, prompting doctors to declare a "public health emergency" in the world's most polluted city.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called for schools to be shut down for the next few days.
"Delhi has become a gas chamber. Every year this happens during this part of year," Kejriwal tweeted.
As winter approaches, a thick blanket of poisonous air particles envelops Delhi, mainly due to burning of crop stubble by farmers in the neighboring states, dust from construction sites, vehicle emissions and burning of coal and garbage. Low wind speeds and low temperatures further aggravate the problem.
Reporter’s notebook: Inside Canada’s opioid crisis
In Canada and the United States, thousands of people have become addicted to fentanyl, a synthetic opiate up to 50 times stronger than heroin. Last year, more than 20,000 people fatally overdosed on the drug. For the Observers Direct TV show, our journalist Derek Thomson travelled to Vancouver to meet users of the drug as well as those who are trying to help them. Watch the report below, or read on for Derek's notes from the road.
In the Downtown Eastside, you know when there’s a new shipment of drugs on the streets – you hear the sirens. The neighbourhood, just yards away from the city’s coffee houses and boutiques, is an open market for hard drugs, including fentanyl, the hardest of them all.
Fentanyl is the perfect drug for a dealer. You can order it online from an illegal factory in China, have them send it via the mail, then package it as pills, or add a few grains to the heroin, methamphetamines or cocaine you’re selling to your customers – without telling them. They’ll love the kick it gives them, and be back for more.
CIA DIRECTOR MIKE Pompeo met late last month with a former U.S. intelligence official who has become an advocate for a disputed theory that the theft of the Democratic National Committee’s emails during the 2016 presidential campaign was an inside job, rather than a hack by Russian intelligence.
Pompeo met on October 24 with William Binney, a former National Security Agency official-turned-whistleblower who co-authored an analysis published by a group of former intelligence officials that challenges the U.S. intelligence community’s official assessment that Russian intelligence was behind last year’s theft of data from DNC computers. Binney and the other former officials argue that the DNC data was “leaked,” not hacked, “by a person with physical access” to the DNC’s computer system.
The controversy over Disney blacklisting the LA Times, explained
Disney retaliated against the LA Times for reporting it didn't like. The implications are huge.
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As reviews of Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok began rolling out in advance of the movie’s November 3 release, a review from one news outlet in particular — the Los Angeles Times — was glaringly absent. And its editors didn’t hold back in explaining why.
In a simple “note to readers,” published November 3, the newspaper explained that it could not review Thor: Ragnarok prior to the film’s release — nor include it or the highly anticipated Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi in its annual entertainment Holiday Preview. The reason, the note said, is that Disney (which owns both Marvel and Lucasfilm) had barred LA Times critics from attending advanced press screenings of both movies — and, in fact, anyDisney movies — in response to “unfair coverage.” (LA Times film critic Justin Chang only saw and reviewed Thor: Ragnarok once it was released to the public.)
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