US mail bombs: Cesar Sayoc charged after campaign against Trump critics
A 56-year-old man has been arrested in Florida in connection with a mail-bombing campaign aimed at critics of US President Donald Trump.
US officials named the man as Cesar Sayoc. He faces five charges including mailing explosives and threatening ex-presidents.
Mr Trump said the acts were "despicable and have no place in our country".
Fourteen items have been sent in recent days to figures including ex-President Barack Obama and actor Robert de Niro.
Two were found in Florida and New York City on Friday morning.
Mexico offers temporary permits to caravan migrants seeking asylum
Move is being seen as attempt to step up efforts to stop large group heading for the US
Mexico has offered temporary identification papers and jobs to migrants who register for asylum in the country, stepping up efforts to halt the advance of a US-bound caravan that has angered Washington.
Donald Trump has threatened to close the US-Mexico border and cut aid to Central America to try to stop the caravan of several thousand people. US officials have said that up to 1,000 troops may be sent to the southern borderto prevent the migrants from crossing.
The Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, said that migrants wishing to obtain temporary identification documents, jobs or education for their children could do so by registering for asylum in southern Mexico.
As a Democrat, I now fear for my safety. As an American, I weep for my country. This is not a healthy democracy anymore
When I moved to deep red North Carolina this spring, a man at a bar told me that if I’m a Democrat, I should keep that to myself to stay safe. I thought he was joking
Skylar Baker-JordanNorth Carolina
It was always going to come to this. The attempted bombing campaign against Democratic leaders was inevitable. Perhaps not the specifics – could have been different targets, with different methods – but the violence was unavoidable. We have been percolating towards this point for years now.
We don’t yet know who sent the bombs or what their motives were. We have a pretty good idea, though. The bomb includes a parody Isis flag and the words “get ‘er done,” the catchphrase of Larry the Cable Guy, a comedian popular amongst the swaths of the country that make up Trump’s base. You only need to look at the current political climate and look at the targets to draw the obvious conclusion. This was an act of political terrorism.
Syria summit: What Germany wants, and how it might help
Turkish, Russian, French and German leaders are gathering in Istanbul to discuss the future of Syria at the weekend. Germany has clear objectives — and perhaps more to offer than you might think.
Ahmad Taher Mustafa was lucky. Only one day after he'd been abducted in mid-October by a criminal gang in the vicinity of Afrin, a civilian brigade managed to free him. Having suffered no bodily harm, the 9-year-old could return to his family.
Although the boy escaped the kidnapping unscathed, his case highlights the precarious security situation in northern Syria. According to the internet magazine Al-Monitor, which deals with political affairs in the Middle East, the fact that former members of the rebel group "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) were among the kidnappers was particularly unsettling. Al-Monitor cited an unnamed source to bear out its claim.
The quiet suicide epidemic plaguing French farmers
In France, one farmer commits suicide every two days. Dairy farmer Michou from the Loire-Atlantique region agreed to talk to us about the quiet epidemic that’s affecting his community.
“I’m the one who found him. It was awful. When I phoned him and he didn’t pick up but I saw his car I thought, something has happened to Raymond. Something really bad.”
On June 8, 2011, at around 5.45am, Michou’s friend and business partner for 20 years hanged himself on the wooden beams of the barn on their farm. “He tied his hands together, to make sure it worked,” leaving Michou “abandoned and alone”.
Jailed Reuters journalists: Families face life with no father
Updated 0430 GMT (1230 HKT) October 27, 2018
Eleven-week-old Thet Htar Angel still hasn't met her father.
The baby girl from Myanmar is still too young to visit the prison where her father, Reuters journalist Wa Lone, is serving a seven-year sentence for exposing a massacre by the country's military.
Recently, the baby was released from hospital after spending two days being treated for breathing problems.
"When I see the doctor about our daughter, I see others with their husbands," her mother, Wa Lone's wife, Pan Ei Mon, tells CNN. "But for me, I have to suffer alone. I was supposed to go through all these things together with him."
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