G7 summit dogged by divisions between Trump and allies
Talks at the G7 summit in Canada have failed to resolve deep differences between US President Donald Trump and leaders of major industrial nations.
The divisions were laid bare on Friday, notably over trade.
Allies of the US are furious over Mr Trump's recent decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, raising fears of a global trade war.
It is unclear whether a communique agreed by all will be released when the meeting concludes later on Saturday.
The two-day summit is being held in the town of La Malbaie, in Quebec province.
Mr Trump is due to leave early on Saturday to head to Singapore for a landmark meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Mexico's disgraced leadership has an eleventh-hour chance to give us the truth on the Iguala massacre
Peña Nieto knows his humiliations have barely begun. He must take the court’s demands not as a rebuke but as a gift and, in the very short amount of time he has left, finally do the right thing
As the ruling party in Mexico of president Enrique Peña Nieto faces almost certain humiliation in national elections on 1 July, there’s little hiding the reasons why. In the six years since the last presidential vote, the country’s twin scourges of violence and corruption have exerted an even tighter grip. Visiting last week, I heard one refrain over and over: “We are at bottom now.”
The scars of dysfunction cover the landscape. Four governors of Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, currently face corruption charges. Transparency International's corruption perceptions index puts Mexico at 135th out of 180 countries. Meanwhile, in 2017 there were almost 27,000 murders in the country. And it has become one of the most dangerous places in the world to practise journalism: six journalists killed so far this year; eleven last.
Report: China hacked sensitive US Navy data
China's government hacked 614 gigabytes of data from the US Navy, according to a Washington Post report. The revelations come as a former CIA officer was convicted for sharing information with China in exchange for cash.
Chinese government hackers stole a large amount of sensitive data from a US Navy contractor, including plans to develop a new type of submarine-launched anti-ship missile, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
The hackers targeted a contractor who works for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, a military entity based in Newport, Rhode Island, the unnamed officials said without identifying the contractor, according to the Post.
Who gave soldiers order 'not to enter' Bataclan, attack victims demand
Survivors and families of victims of the 2015 Bataclan attack in Paris filed a legal complaint Friday over the inaction of some soldiers that night in what could expose egregious failings within France's military and political commands.
The legal complaint was triggered by the testimony of a top military commander who gave evidence during a parliamentary investigation of the actions of police and military on the night of the attacks of November 13, 2015.
General Bruno Le Ray, Military Governor of Paris, defended the order he'd given that prevented eight soldiers located near the Bataclan concert hall from intervening in the attack because he thought “it unthinkable to put soldiers at risk just hoping, hypothetically, to save other lives”, Samia Maktouf, a Paris lawyer for the survivors and victims’ families, told FRANCE 24.
The kingdom that China just can't flip
Updated 0157 GMT (0957 HKT) June 9, 2018
When 15-year-old Nozipho Mpapane first arrived at the temple as a tiny child, she thought the hundreds of white statues inlaid into the walls were dolls to play with.
"Then they told me it was the Buddha. And I said, 'oh, so this is the supreme being,'" she recalls.
Now, nine years on, she chants Buddhist mantras from memory daily alongside hundreds of other children at the Amitofo Care Center in southern Swaziland.
The internet was supposed to save democracy. I asked 4 tech optimists what went wrong.
After Cambridge Analytica, social networks look less like a savior than a menace.
The internet was supposed to save democracy.
The web, and in particular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, were supposed to make information easier and freer to share, to advantage the citizen at the expense of governments, to provide access to more information and viewpoints and more vibrant debates than residents of democracies had ever experienced before. It was supposed to topple dictators, to build social collaboration, to punish defection and isolation.
Now, in 2018, the familiar techno-utopian pronouncements of the 1990s and ’00s seem not just wrong but like a bad joke.
Citizens enjoying a wealth of new information? Take a look at the depth of the fake news problem.
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