Iran nuclear deal: France condemns US move to re-impose sanctions
France has condemned as "unacceptable" a US move to re-impose sanctions on companies trading with Iran.
The action from Washington followed President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of a landmark deal that sought to curb Iran's nuclear programme.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said European companies should not have to pay for the US decision.
The US says firms have six months to halt business and cannot enter into new contracts or they will face sanctions.
Single women a 'burden on the state', says Japanese MP
Kanji Kato criticised for telling women to have multiple children as birth rate falls to lowest level since 1899
An MP from Japan’s governing party has drawn accusations of sexism after he said women should have multiple children and warned those who preferred to remain single that they would become a burden on the state later in life.
Kanji Kato, a member of prime minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic party, told a party faction meeting that when he is asked to give speeches at wedding receptions, he encourages the bride and groom to produce “at least three children”.
When he encounters young women who say they do not intend to marry, Kato, who has six children and eight grandchildren, said: “I tell them that if they don’t get married then they won’t be able to have children, and that they’ll end up in a care home paid for with the taxes of other people’s children.”
Climate change: Washington county lawsuit demands oil and gas companies help pay adaptation costs
The lawsuit is similar to legal efforts in Colorado, California, and New York
A county in Washington State has become the latest locality to sue the oil industry for cash to help pay for the costs of adapting to climate change.
King County — a large county in the northwest of the state that includes Seattle — filed suit against British Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell, and Conocophillips, with attorneys for the county arguing that those oil giants should help pay for the “hundreds of millions of dollars” that is expected to be needed to adapt to changing conditions created by climate change.
Those five companies, the lawsuit reads, knowingly sold a product with the potential for massive consequences. Comment requests sent to the companies were not immediately returned.
Syria's Bashar Assad talks 'world war,' chemical weapons and political solution in new interview
Syria's president believes his country is caught up in a much larger conflict than its own civil war. He warned that "things are going to be out of control" if superpowers engage in direct conflict.
In an exclusive interview with Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Syrian President Bashar Assad weighed in on major issues, including allegations of chemical weapons attacks, US troops in the country and his possible resignation as a political solution to the seven-year conflict.
Assad compared the fighting in Syria to a "world war," saying "it's something more than a cold war, but less than a full-blown war."
Since the civil conflict emerged in 2011, it has transformed into a multi-faceted war, drawing in global superpowers, regional players and non-state actors, including the US, Russia, Iran and Israel.
Search for survivors after deadly Kenya dam collapse
Rescue operation under way in Rift Valley after a commercial dam burst killed 49 people, with dozens still missing.
A search and rescue operation is under way in Kenya after a deadly dam collapse, which killed at least 49 people with many more still missing.
Water burst through the banks of the Patel Dam in Kenya's Rift Valley, about 150km north of the capital Nairobi, on Wednesday night, washing away almost an entire village.
With the death toll expected to rise, according to officials, rescuers continued their search for survivors on Thursday night.
Military finds multiple failures led to deadly Niger ambush
Lolita c. Baldor, Associated Press,Associated Press
Multiple failures led up to the deadly Niger attack last October, but top military leaders said Thursday that none directly caused the overwhelming enemy ambush that killed four American service members and sent others fighting and running for their lives.
"The direct cause of the enemy attack in Tongo Tongo is that the enemy achieved tactical surprise there and our forces were outnumbered approximately three-to-one," Maj. Gen. Roger Cloutier Jr. told reporters during a Pentagon press conference.
He described a brutal, chaotic firefight, as 46 U.S. and Nigerien forces battled more than 100 enemy fighters. Amid the chaos, he said, there were repeated acts of bravery as the outnumbered and outgunned soldiers made split-second decisions under heavy fire, struggling to protect and rescue each other during the more than hourlong assault.
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