A day that will resonate in history
Updated 0548 GMT (1348 HKT) September 27, 2018
It could be one of those Washington days that define a political era.
When Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh and his original accuser Christine Blasey Ford deliver dueling testimony on Thursday, they will conjure drama of an intensity unusual even in the Trump administration.
Take it from the commander in chief himself, who said of a day steeped in political, legal and judicial consequences: "I think it's going to be a very, very, important day in the history of our country," President Donald Trump said in New York on Wednesday evening.
Indonesian government to hold weekly 'fake news' briefings
Initiative aims to stop the spread of disinformation in the social media-obsessed country
Indonesia’s communications ministry has announced plans to hold weekly briefings on fake news, in an effort to educate the public about the spread of disinformation in the world’s third-largest democracy.
Communications minister Rudiantara said the initiative was designed to help the Indonesian public “sort through the news” in the lead up to what is widely expected to be a heated presidential election scheduled for next April.
The initiative would be kicked off as soon as possible, said the minister, and fake news stories – known locally as “hoax” news or “black campaigns” – would be accompanied by factual explanations.
Is the fascinating West Bank home of Munib Musri a shrine – or a gift to a Palestinian state that may never exist?
Musri has himself turned down the presidency of Palestine, although he has been both a Palestinian and Jordanian minister. So what does he believe the future of the Arab world looks like now?
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Munib Musri says that his neo-Renaissance villa and its wealth of carpets, baroque wall coverings, paintings and antiquities is to be a gift to the people of Palestine. He calls it beit filastin – the House of Palestine – and in the basement is a hall to commemorate the suffering and resistance of the Palestinian people.
There is a wall-painting in this cavernous room which portrays a middle-aged man in a keffiyeh leading refugee children out of “Palestine” in 1948. He has a white beard with a brown jacket over a robe and his eyes are staring and appalled. It is a portrait of Musri himself.
Cameroon rail operator Camrail convicted over deadly 2016 train crash
Cameroonian rail operator Camrail and eleven other defendants were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in connection with a train derailment that killed 79 people and wounded over 600 in October 2016.
The packed train operated by Camrail, a unit of French industrial group Bollore, came off the tracks in the town of Eseka en route from the capital Yaounde to the central African country’s port city of Douala .
Eseka district judge Marcel Ndigui Ndigui ruled that Camrail and 11 of the 14 individual defendants were guilty of “dangerous activities and involuntary manslaughter”.
Ayotzinapa 43 four years on: Renewed hope for finding truth
Four years after 43 students went missing, Mexico's President-elect Lopez Obrador promises renewed investigation.
Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has promised to reopen the case of the 43 missing students from a rural teacher's college in Ayotzinapa, who disappeared after the police intercepted them on their way to a protest four years ago.
The case has drawn widespread, symbolising how the state of corruption and impunity that has become the norm in the country.
The government of outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto effectively closed the case a few months after the incident, claiming they had obtained confessions from local drug gang members who said they burned all 43 bodies in a dumpster after being instructed by the police to murder the students.
ABC boss quits over Australian political interference claims
Australia's national broadcaster is facing a leadership crisis following allegations of political interference.
Justin Milne resigned as chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Thursday, amid allegations he tried to fire journalists who were "hated" by the Australian government.
Mr Milne has denied the reports, saying he was leaving to relieve pressure around the public broadcaster.
The government has also denied pressuring the broadcaster over staff.
Managing director Michelle Guthrie was fired by the ABC board on Monday.
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