Trump tweet angers survivors of Parkland shooting
Updated 0110 GMT (0910 HKT) February 19, 2018
Students who survived the Parkland, Florida, shooting laid into President Donald Trump after he linked the FBI's failure to follow up on a report about the school shooter and the resources expended on the Russia investigation.
On Saturday, Trump tweeted, "Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!"
The President's tweet caused considerable outrage online, including among apparent survivors of the shooting:Benazir Bhutto showed you can be a mother and prime minister – I know, I am her son
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Mon 19 Feb 2018 00.20 GMT
After Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, some questioned how she would cope. They should look at Pakistan’s late leader
The news about Jacinda Ardern struck a nerve with my sisters and I. It is indeed uplifting to see the world rejoice at her good fortune.
While there are the detractors and naysayers, the barrage of good wishes, the #knitforJacinda campaign and countless other little gestures, has been overwhelmingly positive.
But it was only natural for me to look back and compare this situation with the one my mother faced 28 years ago when she became the first world leader to give birth while in office.
'Italians First': Anti-immigrant sentiment becomes focus as parties chase undecided voters ahead of country's election
Right-wing coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi leading in polls, but is short of number required for a working majority
“Italians First” is the defining catchphrase of 2018 Italian election. In the race between a centre-left coalition, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (5SM) and a right-wing collation, the slogan can be heard repeatedly.
Final polls published two weeks before the 4 March vote have the right-wing coalition – led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and hs Forza Italia party and including two anti-migrant parties, the Northern League and the smaller Brothers of Italy – out in front, but short of the around 40 per cent that will be required for a working majority. The 5SM are the single biggest party at around 28 per cent, while the centre-left grouping led by the governing Democratic Party (PD) has a similar share.
Syrian army to help Kurdish forces repel Turkish offensive in Afrin: reports
The Damascus government and Kurdish forces have reportedly agreed to join forces in Afrin to counter an ongoing Turkish offensive. The cooperation underscores the increasingly tangled battlefield in northern Syria.
The Syrian army could enter the Kurdish-held enclave in Afrin within the next two days after the Kurds agreed to let the Damascus government repel a Turkish offensive, Reuters news agency reported on Sunday, citing a senior Kurdish official.
The agreement, supposedly brokered by Russia, further complicates the conflict in Northern Syria as rivalries and alliances among Kurdish forces, the Syrian government, rebel factions, Turkey, the United States and Russia become more entangled.
How a plot to kill Kim Il Sung ended in mutiny and murder
Updated 0610 GMT (1410 HKT) February 19, 2018
They were supposed to be a top-secret assassination squad tasked with attacking the residence of North Korea's then-leader Kim Il Sung.
But South Korea's "Unit 684," created in 1968 following a brazen attack by North Korea on Seoul's presidential compound, proved anything but.
The experiment to create a crack team of would-be assassins ended in disaster. Seven lost their lives -- executed for desertion or criminal activity, and dying from fatigue during the arduous training on a remote island. The remaining 24 members turned on their military trainers, killing most of them in a bloody mutiny.
Oxfam: Witness 'threatened' in sexual misconduct probe
Internal inquiry report from 2011 also reveals charity's former Haiti director 'admitted to using prostitutes'.
Three men who worked for the Oxfam Haiti team and are accused of sexual misconduct in the country physically threatened a witness during an internal investigation into the allegations, UK-based charity Oxfam said.
The aid organisation released the findings of its 2011 internal inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct of its staff in Haiti on Monday.
It said it wanted to be "as transparent as possible" as the scandal involving the charity deepens.
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