Typhoon Mangkhut: South China battered by deadly storm
A powerful storm which killed dozens of people in the Philippines is now making its way across southern China.
Typhoon Mangkhut is one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in decades.
Two people have been killed in the Chinese province of Guangdong, according to state media - more than 2.5 million people have been evacuated in Guangdong and on Hainan island.
In Hong Kong, the storm wrecked buildings and shut down the city.
The typhoon is now moving inland, and is expected to hit the Chinese regions of Guizhou, Chongqing and Yunnan later in the day.
Shocking video shows pastor beating followers of South Korean cul
Footage also appears to show family members forced to assault each other during Grace Road Church meetings
Shocking footage showing a South Korean pastor beating her followers and ordering them to beat one another has emerged as Korean police investigate claims that she ran a cult in Fiji, forcing people to work without pay and endure violent rituals.
The footage appears to show violent assaults on members of the South Korean Grace Road Church.
Pastor Shin Ok-ju was arrested last month along with three other church leaders when they landed at Incheon airport just outside of Seoul.
Female trafficking victims unlawfully held in UK jails due to ‘disturbing’ failure to identify exploitation, finds report
Exclusive: Women who commit offences as result of coercion by traffickers jailed in breach of Modern Slavery Act 2015 as hostile environment drives ‘relentless’ focus on deportation
Female victims of human trafficking are being routinely held in prison in breach of the law because of a “disturbing” government failure to identify exploitation, The Independent can reveal.
Foreign national women who have committed offences as a result of exploitation and coercion by traffickers are routinely jailed in breach of Modern Slavery Act 2015, according to new research by the Prison Reform Trust.
The problem has been driven by an “overarching” aim of government policy in recent years to deport foreign national offenders as quickly as possible, with the stated intention to create a hostile environment for illegal immigrants, the report finds.
Woman who accused Supreme Court pick Kavanaugh of sexual assault goes public
A woman who had anonymously accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in the early 1980s went public on Sunday, prompting Republicans to plan further discussions about his nomination before a committee vote this week.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Christine Blasey Ford said that as a high school student in suburban Maryland decades earlier, a "stumbling drunk" Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her and attempted to remove her clothing.
Last week, Kavanaugh, Republican President Donald Trump's second nominee for a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court, said he "categorically and unequivocally" denies the allegations.
Iran slams Twitter for shutting 'real Iranian' accounts
Country's foreign minister questions Twitter's decision while asking why US-backed 'bots' were still active.
Iran has accused Twitter of closing accounts of "real" Iranians, while allowing anti-government "bots" backed by the United States, to continue.
Facebook and Twitter collectively removed hundreds of accounts tied to an alleged Iranian propaganda operation last month.
But in a tweet sent out on Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif questioned Twitter's decision to not block "bots" that "prop up 'regime change' propaganda spewed out of DC".
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE THAT THE BORDER PATROL TARGETED HUMANITARIAN VOLUNTEERS
FOUR VOLUNTEERS WITH a faith-based humanitarian group drove onto a remote wilderness refuge in southern Arizona last summer hoping to prevent an unnecessary loss of life. A distress call had come in, a woman reporting that two family members and a friend were without water in one of the deadliest sections of the U.S.-Mexico border. For hours, the volunteers’ messages to the Border Patrol went unanswered. With summer in the Sonoran Desert being the deadliest time of year, they set off in a pickup truck, racing to the peak where the migrants were said to be.
Once on the refuge, the volunteers were tracked by federal agents, beginning a process that would lead to federal charges. Now, more than a year later, they each face a year prison, and Trump administration prosecutors are fighting to keep the communications of law enforcement officials celebrating their prosecution from becoming public.
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