North Korea: Trump expects second Kim summit soon
US President Donald Trump has said he expects to have a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the "not too distant future".
"A lot of progress" was being made, he said, speaking alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in in New York.
"The relationship is very good and in some ways... extraordinary," he added.
Just a year ago, the US and North Korea were publicly speaking of a nuclear confrontation but Mr Trump had historic first talks with Mr Kim in June.
Beijing protests Swedish TV satire about Chinese tourists
The satirical news programme aired on Swedish television a week after police removed three Chinese citizens from a Stockholm hotel
China has complained to Sweden over a satirical news show on Swedish state television that advised Chinese tourists how to avoid culture clashes in a way that Beijing said insulted the Chinese people.
The satirical programme Svenska Nyheter (Swedish News), was aired a week after police removed three Chinese citizens from a Stockholm hotel. Local media reported they had refused to leave the hotel despite the fact they were not booked to stay there.
The television episode sparked uproar on Chinese social media and an unusually strong response from Beijing.
Bodyguard's Nadia shows the danger of underestimating female jihadis
Security experts have long warned of casting all female extremists as unwilling victims coerced by male terrorists
“You all saw me as a poor, oppressed Muslim woman. I am an engineer. I am a jihadi.”
The words delivered the last twist in BBC’s Bodyguard series, revealing the seemingly meek Nadia to be a terrorist mastermind and expert bomb maker.
Her character’s transformation sparked fierce debate on social media, where some of the show's 10.9 million viewers accused writer Jed Mercurio of playing into Islamophobic tropes.
German Catholic Church reveals scale of sexual abuse
The horrific scope of sex abuse within Germany's Catholic Church has been laid out for all to see following a four-year investigation. Head bishop Cardinal Reinhard Marx admitted that the Church has lost public trust.
The German Catholic Church was forced to confront decades-worth of sexual abuse allegations with the presentation of a large-scale investigation at the autumn full assembly of the German Bishops' Conference in Fulda.
The scope of abuse against minors, revealed in the study to be presented in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, has prompted senior clergy members to call for extensive church reforms, such as allowing bishops and priests and marry.
The questions Facebook still needs to answer in Myanmar
Social media giant has blocked accounts and is monitoring for incendiary content but it's unclear how much the company already profited from spreading genocidal hate speech
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 3:57 PM
T here’s a word that appears 289 times in the 444-page UN Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) Report on Myanmar released earlier this month: Facebook.
The majority of Facebook mentions in the report – a damning indictment that suggests Myanmar’s military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide for crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims – were sources for speeches, photographs and statements posted by top soldiers, government officials and other public figures.
The UN report effectively showed how materials shared publicly over social media can be used for legal case-building, including in any future international justice initiatives pursued against Myanmar’s military and other leaders for alleged genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Citing U.S. sanctions, Iranian president says he has no plans to meet Trump
Rouhani said Iran plans to stay in the nuclear deal — for now — despite U.S. withdrawal and sanctions.
by Dan De Luce /
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told NBC News Monday that he had no plans to meet President Donald Trump during his visit to New York, saying the United States had employed only threats and sanctions against his country.
"There is no such program for a meeting," Rouhani said in an exclusive interview with "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt, saying conditions were not ripe for talks.
Rouhani, in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly session, accused the U.S. of adopting a hostile stance toward Iran and turning its back on diplomacy after its unilateral withdrawal from a nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers.
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