Brett Kavanaugh: Republicans push for US Supreme Court vote
Republicans are pushing to vote on President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Supreme Court on Friday, after hearing dramatic testimony from him and a woman accusing him of sexual assault.
Brett Kavanaugh, at times emotional and angry, denied assaulting Christine Blasey Ford when they were teenagers.
Dr Ford, close to tears, described the incident in detail saying it had "drastically" affected her life.
Mr Trump has urged the Senate - where Republicans have a majority - to vote.
This is expected next week, although the outcome is far from certain with a number of senators on both sides undecided.
Duterte confesses: 'My only sin is the extrajudicial killings'
Philippines president’s admission in speech could add weight to international criminal court inquiry
President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted for the first time to authorising extrajudicial killings as part of his war on drugs in the Philippines.
Duterte made the admission during a speech at the presidential palace on Thursday, where he directly challenged anyone who criticised how he ran the country. “I told the military, what is my fault? Did I steal even one peso?” said Duterte. “My only sin is the extrajudicial killings.”
Duterte has previously addressed the existence of extra-judicial killings but has always denied they were state-sponsored. This direct acknowledgment of his role in the deaths could give further weight to the ongoing preliminary investigation by the international criminal court (ICC) into the thousands of extrajudicial killings carried out as part of Duterte’s “war on drugs”.
Tara Fares death: Iraqi model and Instagram star shot dead in Baghdad
'Tara’s death screams discrimination, lack of freedom and rights'
Tara Fares, a prominent former beauty queen with nearly three million followers on Instagram, was killed after gunmen opened fire on her on Thursday in the city's Kam Sara neighbourhood.
The Iraqi Ministry of the Interior announced it had opened an investigation into the model's death, according to Kurdistan 24.
Ms Fares' body was taken to Baghdad's Sheik Zaid hospital at 5:45 am local time. Doctors told local media she had died after suffering three bullet wounds.
The 22-year-old lived in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, but regularly visited Baghdad.
Yemen is undeniably the world's worst humanitarian crisis: WFP
Chief of UN's food agency raises alert over Yemen's hunger crisis at the UN General Assembly as famine fears loom.
by Ruairi Casey
The World Food Programme (WFP) has said there "very well could be" famine in remote areas of Yemen where the UN's food agency does not have access, painting a bleak picture of the hunger crisis gripping the country.
"Yemen is a disaster and I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel right now," WFP's Executive Director David Beasley told reporters at a closed briefing during the UN General Assembly in New York City on Thursday.
THE WOMEN WERE slapped and shoved down a dusty road. They were blindfolded and forced to the ground. Then they, and two young children, were gunned down — 22 shots from assault rifles fired at close range — by men in military uniforms.
In July, The Intercept was the first media outlet to publish the complete, unedited footage of this murder of four civilians by members of the Cameroonian armed forces — a key U.S. military ally in the region — drawing on extensive investigative work by experts at Amnesty International. The government of Cameroon quickly dismissed reports that its soldiers were involved in the atrocity, calling it “fake news.”
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Japan to continue to push resumption of commercial whaling
By Mari Yamaguchi
A senior Japanese whaling negotiator said Thursday that Tokyo will continue to push for a resumption of commercial whaling despite the recent defeat of its proposal by the International Whaling Commission.
Fisheries negotiator Hideki Moronuki said the IWC should represent both conservation interests and backers of sustainable use of resources, and not act as if it were an anti-whaling group.
IWC imposed a ban on commercial whaling in the 1980s because of dwindling stocks. Japan has instead conducted what it calls research whaling, and says stocks have recovered enough that commercial hunts should resume. Its proposal to do so was defeated at an IWC meeting in Brazil on Sept 14.
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