Trump warns of 'left-wing violence' if Democrats win mid-term elections
US President Donald Trump has warned that his policies will be "violently" overturned if the Democrats win November's mid-term elections.
He told Evangelical leaders that the vote was a "referendum" on freedom of speech and religion, and that these were threatened by "violent people".
He appealed to conservative Christian groups for help, saying they were one vote away from "losing everything".
Mid-term elections are widely seen as a test of the president's popularity.
Mr Trump has been battling negative publicity after his ex-lawyer and former campaign chief were convicted earlier this month.
Iranian activist jailed over hijab protests goes on hunger strike
Farhad Meysami accused of having badges saying he was against the compulsory hijab
Human rights activists in Iran have said they are worried about a man on hunger strike who was reportedly jailed for protesting against rules requiring women to wear a hijab.
Farhad Meysami, 48, a doctor and publisher before becoming a civil activist, was arrested in his office in July and taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
After a wave of hijab protests, Iranian authorities cracked down on activists. Meysami was accused of possessing badges stating: “I am against the compulsory hijab.”
Rohingya crisis: Myanmar rejects UN investigators' report on genocide because it didn't let them into country
Myanmar says report into atrocities against Rohingya must be 'false' because UN fact-finding mission did not visit the scene of the alleged crimes, but it was Myanmar itself that denied investigators access
The government of Myanmar has rejected a new UN report that called for its crackdown on Rohingya Muslims an act of genocide, and for its top generals to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
A government spokesman said the report was flawed because investigators had not visited the affected region in northern Myanmar. It was the Myanmar government itself that prevented them from doing so. "That's why we don't agree and accept any resolutions made by the [UN] Human Rights Council," said Zaw Htay, the main government spokesman.
German state official: Fake news fueled Chemnitz riots
Officials in Chemnitz said that fake news items spread on social media fueled the riots. There are two suspects in custody and police are still looking for at least ten men who were seen making the illegal Nazi salute.
We have to acknowledge that mobilization on the internet was stronger than in the past," said Michael Kretschmer, state premier of Saxony, where the violence took place.
The death of a 35-year-old German man in the early hours of Sunday - allegedly at the hands of two asylum seekers from Iraq and Syria - has sparked two days of protests that were partially fueled by the false claim the victim had intervened to protect a woman. Also, internet users were exposed to fake reports that another man had been killed.
Brazil deploys army to border as Venezuela crisis deepens
Brazil said it was sending armed forces to keep order near the Venezuelan border area, while Peru declared a health emergency, as a regional crisis sparked by thousands of Venezuelans fleeing economic collapse escalated on Tuesday.
In Brazil, where residents rioted and attacked Venezuelan immigrants in a border town earlier this month, President Michel Temer signed a decree to deploy the armed forces to the border state of Roraima.
He said the move was aimed at keeping order and ensuring the safety of immigrants.
Peru, meanwhile, declared a 60-day health emergency in two provinces on its northern border, citing "imminent danger" to health and sanitation.
WORLD’S LEADING HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS TELL GOOGLE TO CANCEL ITS CHINA CENSORSHIP PLAN
LEADING HUMAN RIGHTS groups are calling on Google to cancel its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China, which they said would violate the freedom of expression and privacy rights of millions of internet users in the country.
A coalition of 14 organizations — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, Access Now, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, PEN International, and Human Rights in China — issued the demand Tuesday in an open letter addressed to the internet giant’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. The groups said the censored search engine represents “an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights” and could result in the company “directly contributing to, or [becoming] complicit in, human rights violations.
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