North Korea: Trump says he will leave Kim summit if it isn't 'fruitful'
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Donald Trump has pledged to meet the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, “in the coming weeks” but warned that he was prepared to walk away if the talks were not “fruitful”.
“As you know, I will be meeting with Kim Jong-un in the coming weeks to discuss the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula,” the US president told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. “Hopefully that meeting will be a great success and we’re looking forward to it.”
There has never been a summit between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader, though Bill Clinton came close to agreeing to meet Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, in late 2000.
Yazidis who suffered under Isis face forced conversion to Islam amid fresh persecution in Afrin
Islamist rebels allied to Turkey accused of destroying temples of those following the non-Islamic sect
The Yazidis, who were recently the target of massacre, rape and sex slavery by Isis, are now facing forcible conversion to Islam under the threat of death from Turkish-backed forces which captured the Kurdish enclave of Afrin on 18 March. Islamist rebel fighters, who are allied to Turkey and have occupied Yazidi villages in the area, have destroyed the temples and places of worship the Kurdish-speaking non-Islamic sect according to local people.
Shekh Qamber, a 63-year-old Syrian Kurdish Yazidi farmer who fled his town of Qastel Jindo in Afrin, described in an exclusive interview with The Independent what happened to Yazidis who refused to leave their homes. He said that some were forcibly brought to a mosque by Islamists to be converted, while others, including a 70-year-old man he knew, were being lured there by offers of food and medical attention.
French students dig in for a bitter battle against Macron’s reforms
French President Emmanuel Macron faces mass demonstrations Thursday as students join trade unionists and public sector workers opposed to his reform plans. Students are protesting a bid to overhaul the university admission system.
The main entrance to another French university was blocked Wednesday by protesting students – only this time, it was the alma mater of French President Emmanuel Macron, whose reforms the students oppose.
A group of around 70 students are occupying the prestigious Sciences Po university in the sixth arrondissement of the French capital. They are part of a nationwide show of force by students and other groups opposed to the Macron’s plans to reform the university admission system, making it more merit-based and selective.
Beaten, tortured, sexually abused: An American ISIS widow looks for a way home
Updated 0647 GMT (1447 HKT) April 19, 2018
For Samantha Sally, a vacation was all it took to flip her quiet middle-American world of muscle cars, cotton candy and an Indiana packing company, into the horror of the ritual beatings, serial rape, torture and propaganda videos of ISIS's so-called Caliphate.
A holiday is what her husband, Moussa Elhassani, promised her when she went to Hong Kong in 2014, she says. The couple was planning to move to Morocco to start a new, cheaper life, she says, and needed to go through Hong Kong to transfer money.
Foreigners beware in the Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte bids to block outside scrutiny of his rights record through arrests, threats and expulsions of his foreign critics
MANILA, APRIL 19, 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s repression has entered a dangerous and potentially more damaging phase as he aims to block foreign scrutiny of his policies and rule.
In recent days, the strongman ruler has barred a European Union party official from entering the country, detained an Australian nun and threatened to arrest an International Criminal Court investigator if she travels to the Philippines.
In 1988, O’Brien, then a stockbroker at Dean Witter Reynolds, filed the earliest sexual harassment case we could find in a public database maintained by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-governing organization, which is overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The year before, O’Brien had sued Dean Witter in Los Angeles Superior Court, but the brokerage firm successfully argued that she was legally bound to use Wall Street’s closed-door arbitration forum, then run by a FINRA predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers. The arbitrators’ decision in her case would turn out to be a common one in harassment cases over the following years: The claim was dismissed. The panel, offering no explanation as to how it came to the decision, charged her $3,000 in arbitration fees.
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