Alabama Senate race: Trump records message for Roy Moore
US President Donald Trump has recorded an audio message for a Republican Senate candidate accused of sexual misconduct, on the eve of the election.
The president has thrown his political weight fully behind former Alabama judge Roy Moore, who is vying with Democrat Doug Jones for the seat.
Mr Moore denies claims by several women that he made unwelcome sexual advances, mostly when they were teenagers.
The race remains too close to call a day before Alabamians go to the polls.
Mr Trump has pointed to Mr Moore's repeated denial of the allegations against him as part of his reason for endorsing the former Alabama supreme court judge.
EU leaders complicit in torture of refugees and migrants, Amnesty says
Rights group claims EU is financing Libyan system that routinely acts in collusion with militia groups and people traffickers
European leaders stand accused by Amnesty International of being knowingly complicit in the torture and exploitation of thousands of migrants and refugees by the EU-financed Libyan coastguard and officials running the country’s detention camps.
In an attempt to stem the flow of people across the Mediterranean to Europe, the EU is financing a system that routinely acts in collusion with militia groups and people traffickers to “make money from human suffering”, a report from the human rights group claims.
Following the provision of ships, training and funding from the EU and Italy to the Libyan coastguard, the number of arrivals to Italy fell by 67% between July and November compared with the same period in 2016. Deaths at sea have been reduced commensurately.
US drug company hikes price of everyday vitamin pills by 800%
It has increased the price of a second drug by 2,500 per cent
A US drug manufacturer has increased the price of a bottle of vitamins - a generic version of which can be bought for around $5 - by more than 800 per cent.
In the latest example of eye-dropping price-gouging in the US’s lightly regulated pharmaceutical industry, records show Avondale Pharmaceuticals, a mysterious company registered in Alabama, raised the price of Niacor from $32.46 to $295.
Niacor is a prescription version of niacin, a type of vitamin B3 that is frequently used to treat high blood cholesterol. A wide range of generic versions of the vitamin are available; Walmart sells a jar of 100 tablets for $14.99 while other brands are available online for even less.
Venezuela's opposition rebuffs threats by President Nicolas Maduro
Venezuela's opposition has said it won't be bullied out of participating in future elections, a day after threats by President Nicolas Maduro. The US said it stands with Venezuelans as they "seek to restore democracy."
Juan Andres Mejia, a leader of the opposition party Voluntad Popular, called Sunday's mayoral elections a "farce" but vowed to take part in future elections.
"What we saw yesterday was an electoral farce that in no way represents the will of the people," Mejia said Monday, citing abuse of state resources and coercion of government employees to vote.
"This party does not kneel," Mejia said. "This party does not back down and does not give up on its principles."
Charles Jenkins, husband of Japanese ex-abductee to North Korea Hitomi Soga, dies at 77
KYODO
Charles Jenkins, husband of former Japanese abductee to North Korea Hitomi Soga, died Monday due to an unknown cause, sources said Tuesday. He was 77.
A former U.S. Army sergeant, Jenkins deserted to North Korea in 1965 and married Soga there in 1980. He came to Japan with the couple’s two North Korean-born daughters after being reunited in Jakarta with Soga in July 2004. Soga had earlier returned to Japan with a group of other abductees.
The couple began living in Sado, a Sea of Japan island city in Niigata Prefecture, from December 2004 with the two daughters, Mika and Brinda.
The growing tide of fake news in India
by Ruchi Kumar
It was early March, 2014, and India was buzzing with activities that often precede a parliamentary election of this magnitude, in the world's largest democracy.
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing website, put out a statement refuting claims of an unlikely endorsement of Narendra Modi, then prime ministerial candidate and the eventual frontrunner.
The statement was issued after several infographics were shared across social media with fake quotes, attributed to Assange, praising Modi.
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