Hurricane Florence: Life-threatening storm starts to lash Carolinas
Tens of thousands of homes are without power and sea water is sloshing through coastal streets as Hurricane Florence begins lashing the US East Coast.
The hurricane is moving towards land with maximum sustained wind speeds of 90mph (150 km/h).
It lost power as it approached North and South Carolina, but officials warn it could still kill "a lot of people" amid risks of "catastrophic" flooding.
Evacuation warnings are in place for more than a million people.
'My soul, where are you?': families of Muslims missing in China meet wall of silence
An estimated 1 million Muslims are being held in re-education camps in Xinjiang. Across the border in Kazakhstan, there’s a desperate wait for news of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities
by Lily Kuo in Shelek, Kazakhstan
For more than a year, *Farkhad, 39, has lived with the uncertainty that his wife Mariam may be dead. *Mariam, 31, was visiting her hometown of Artush in Xinjiang, northwest China, in March 2017 when she sent a frantic message to Farkhad that police were taking her away.
Over the next month, she messaged sporadically on WeChat from inside what appeared to be a detention centre. In April she said she was being transferred to another facility. Farkhad, who calls his wife Jenim (My soul), wrote back: “My soul, what can I do?”
Salisbury attack: Russian novichok suspects deny involvement in poisoning, insisting they were in town to see 'famous' cathedral
It was all about Salisbury Cathedral's 123m spire, suspects claim despite arriving in Britain on business visas
Two men accused of attempting to murder a former Russian spy in Salisbury have denied any involvement, insisting they were in the town to visit its "famous" cathedral.
In an interview with the Kremlin-funded RT network, the men denied they worked for Russian military intelligence and rejected any knowledge of the novichok with which they allegedly poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March.
Investigators named the suspects last week and announced they had been charged with attempted murder, revealing that they arrived in Britain on genuine Russian passports in the names of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.
Why Japan wants to restart commercial whaling
Updated 0733 GMT (1533 HKT) September 14, 2018
Days of debate over the future of whaling will come to a head Friday when members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) vote on a Japanese proposal which could lead to the resumption of commercial whaling.
The Japanese delegation at the IWC's annual symposium in Brazil is seeking several changes to the governing body's procedures and stated mission to, it says, break the deadlock over opposing philosophies of whaling.
A vote tabled Friday would simplify IWC voting rules, reorient the IWC's mission away from conservation and towards "resource management," and look to establish a committee to examine the feasibility of restarting commercial whaling.
Turkey deploys reinforcements to Syrian border
Troops and tanks amassing along the border with Syria in anticipation of a major offensive and ensuing refugee crisis.
Turkey continued to deploy troops and heavy weaponry to its southwestern border with Syria in anticipation of a major offensive by the Syrian government and its allies on opposition-held territory.
A Turkish military convoy arrived at a Turkish outpost near the town of Morek, in Syria's northern Hama province, early on Thursday.
Al Jazeera also observed the arrival of a military plane that unloaded dozens of Turkish soldiers at the civilian airport in Hatay province, about 50km from the Turkish-Syrian border. It was not immediately clear whether the troops were heading across the border.
A SENIOR GOOGLE research scientist has quit the company in protest over its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China.
Jack Poulson worked for Google’s research and machine intelligencedepartment, where he was focused on improving the accuracy of the company’s search systems.
In early August, Poulson raised concerns with his managers at Google after The Intercept revealed that the internet giant was secretly developing a Chinese search app for Android devices. The search system, code-named Dragonfly, was designed to remove content that China’s authoritarian government views as sensitive, such as information about political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest.
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