Ex-FBI chief James Comey says Trump 'morally unfit to be president'
Former FBI director James Comey has said Donald Trump is "morally unfit to be president", who treats women like "pieces of meat".
Mr Comey was giving his first major television interview since he was fired by President Trump last year.
He told ABC News that Mr Trump lies constantly and may have obstructed justice.
Hours before the interview aired, the president went on the offensive, accusing Mr Comey of "many lies".
Mr Comey told ABC's 20/20 programme on Sunday night: "I don't buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia."
"I don't think he's medically unfit to be president. I think he's morally unfit to be president.
Japan's Shinzo Abe tipped to resign in June as cronyism scandals take toll
Prime minister’s popularity is at an all-time low and risks damaging his party’s standing in coming elections
Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is likely to resign in June after two cronyism scandals sent his approval ratings to an all-time low and risk damaging his party’s fortunes in elections next year, according to one of Japan’s most popular postwar leaders.
Junichiro Koizumi, a flamboyant reformer who was prime minister from 2001-06, told a weekly magazine published on Monday that Abe has found himself in a “dangerous” situation over the scandals, adding: “Won’t he resign around the time the current parliamentary session ends [on 20 June]?”
Speaking to Aera magazine, Koizumi said Abe could harm his Liberal Democratic party’s chances in next summer’s upper house elections if he manages to cling on to the LDP presidency in a leadership election due in September.
Is inequality good or bad for the economy?
The gap between the rich and the poor has been widening in most countries. Economists are analyzing the potential consequences, among them pundits at the IMF which is holding its spring meeting in Washington this week.
Economists don't have a reputation for being compassionate. They focus on numbers, not human fortune. Most have no problem with wealth or income inequality. Quite the contrary: People work harder if they want to move up. Redistribution of wealth and social programs are costly and dampen motivation, the argument goes.
But for some years now, there have been signs of a change of heart. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), not exactly known for leftist leanings, is now warning that inequality is hurting growth. The OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, agrees.
Standing up for truth: Meet India’s 'fake news' fighters
Combating fake news is difficult everywhere, but it poses particular challenges in India. In the world’s second-most populous country, fake news can quickly spread on a massive scale. And in a nation where mob violence is a recurring problem, this can have gruesome real-world consequences: last year, false claims that spread through WhatsApp about strangers abducting children led to mobs lynching seven men.
In the past few years, a handful of impassioned fact-checkers have been trying to make a dent in the flood of misinformation being shared every day on social media and via messaging apps. The first, in 2015, was Pankaj Jain.
At the time, friends and relatives were sending me stupid messages on WhatsApp saying things like, if you buy such-and-such brand of cold drink, you’ll get AIDS, because someone added a virus into it. I knew that you couldn’t get AIDS like that, but I didn’t want to just tell them, “This is wrong”, I wanted to give them proof. So I’d do research online, which led me to discover hoax-busting sites from the United States and Australia. I thought, I should do the same!
New York Times editorial: Trump 'is not above the law'
With an unusually long editorial in Monday's newspaper, The New York Times is making a forceful statement: "The president is not above the law."
The 1,366-word article warns that President Donald Trump "may act to cripple or shut down an investigation by the nation's top law-enforcement agencies into his campaign and administration." It says that "lawmakers need to be preparing now for that possibility because if and when it comes to pass, they will suddenly find themselves on the edge of an abyss, with the Constitution in their hands."
The editors are referencing concerns Trump could fire special counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Trial of American pastor highlights strained U.S.-Turkish alliance
An American pastor facing decades in prison on terrorism-related charges in Turkey is scheduled to appear in court for the first time on Monday, in a case that could test the Trump administration’s ability to sway its increasingly estranged Turkish allies.
The pastor, Andrew Brunson, was detained in October 2016 during a large-scale wave of arrests by the authorities after a failed coup attempt in Turkey. A formal indictment — presented a year and a half after Brunson’s arrest — accused him of associating with the coup plotters and other offenses, based on evidence that his lawyer, his advocates and U.S. officials have dismissed as groundless.
White House officials, including Vice President Pence, have repeatedly pressed Turkey to release him.
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