Trump threatens to pull US out of World Trade Organization
President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming it treats his country unfairly.
"If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO," Mr Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News.
The WTO was established to provide rules for global trade and resolve disputes between countries.
Mr Trump says the body too often rules against the US, although he concedes it has won some recent judgments.
He claimed on Fox News earlier this year that the WTO was set up "to benefit everybody but us", adding: "We lose the lawsuits, almost all of the lawsuits in the WTO."
Detention of Uighurs must end, UN tells China, amid claims of prison camps
Committee cites reports that ‘tens of thousands to upwards of a million’ Muslim Chinese are being held, as US lawmakers call for sanctions
United Nations human rights experts have called for China to shut down alleged political “re-education camps” for Muslim Uighurs and called for the immediate release of those detained on the “pretext of countering terrorism”.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination cited estimates that “from tens of thousands to upwards of a million Uighurs” may be detained in the far western Xinjiang province. Its findings were issued after a two-day review of China’s record, the first since 2009.
China’s foreign ministry has rejected the allegations, saying anti-China forces are behind criticism of policies in Xinjiang.
Trump administration ‘denying passports to US citizens living near Mexico border’
'They think we're all liars, including the lawyers,' one immigration attorney says
The Trump administration is increasingly cracking down on applications for passports by lifelong US residents who they suspect of being born outside the country, according to attorneys working near the US-Mexico border.
Lawyers for Hispanic Americans living near the border in Texassay their clients are increasingly being denied the documents, because the government suspects their birth certificates were falsified. These denials can put applicant’s entire citizenship status in jeopardy.
“I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention centre – US citizens,” attorney Jaime Diez told the Washington Post of clients who had recently applied for passports.
Is Qatar failing to deliver on its World Cup promises?
Qatar has come under immense criticism following the deaths of hundreds of foreign workers at FIFA 2022 World Cup venues. It has pledged reforms, but what's happening on the ground? Anchal Vohra reports from Qatar.
On a midsummer afternoon, workers are carving out a diamond in the desert; at least, that's what the Education City Stadium is designed to be. It is expected to host 40,000 football fans and be ready by 2019.
On July 28, DW saw more than a dozen workers laboring between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., hours designated as a rest period by the state of Qatar between June 15 and August 31, the hottest time of the year.
Though experts argue there should not be any work during the day in the harsh summers — when temperatures can rise to 50 Celsius (120F) — Qatar itself has banned work during these three and a half hours. And, yet, DW witnessed a clear breach of law even during the tiny window of reprieve for the workers.
Dozens killed after days of clashes near Libyan capital
Violent clashes resumed late Thursday afternoon between rival militias south of the Libyan capital, just hours after a truce was announced to end fighting that has killed almost 30 people since Monday.
The fighting broke out on Monday in suburbs south of Tripoli and continued into Wednesday evening after a truce collapsed, despite an appeal by the United Nations for calm.
The clashes had paused on Thursday after a ceasefire agreement announced by officials from western areas, but by late afternoon the hostilities had resumed.
Residents in the Khellat al-Ferjan area reported the use of heavy weapons and rifle fire.
Former NBC producer who worked on Ronan Farrow's Harvey Weinstein reporting breaks silence
August 31, 2018: 12:43 AM ET
Rich McHugh, who left NBC News' investigative unit recently, said in a statement provided to CNN that the orders not to run the story came from "the highest levels of NBC. That was unethical."
"At a critical juncture in our reporting on Harvey Weinstein, as we were about to interview a woman with a credible allegation of rape against him, I was told not to do the interview and ordered to stand down, thus effectively killing the story," McHugh said in the statement.
An NBC News spokesperson said in a statement that "the assertion that NBC News tried to kill the Weinstein story while Ronan Farrow was at NBC News, or even more ludicrously, after he left NBC News, is an outright lie."
Unpacking South Africa's fraught and complex land debate
Land reform a key issue before elections next year, experts say, turning up debate over legacy of apartheid.
by Azad Essa
Last week, US President Donald Trump ignited a firestorm when he decided to wade into the sensitive land debate in South Africa.
Trump wrote in a tweet that he had asked Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, to look into "land and farm seizures" and "large scale killings of white farmers".
Trump's comment came after he watched a six-minute segment on the issue on Fox News, a conservative US broadcaster. The president was immediately condemned by the South African government and his comments raised the ire of many South Africans, a majority of whom, 24 years after the end of apartheid, are still waiting for land reform to take place.
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