Jamal Khashoggi: US envoy Mike Pompeo to meet Saudi Arabia's king
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Saudi Arabia to meet King Salman, as pressure grows on the Saudis to explain the fate of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr Khashoggi was last seen at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago.
Turkish officials believe Mr Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents but the Saudis have denied this.
However, US media are reporting that the Saudis may be preparing to admit that Mr Khashoggi died as a result of an interrogation that went wrong.
Overnight, Turkish police completed a search of the consulate after being admitted by Saudi authorities.
Internment camps make Uighurs' life more colourful, says Xinjiang governor
China on defensive over camps where ex-prisoners have told of arbitrary detention, abuse and indoctrination
Beijing has faced growing international criticism for its crackdown in Xinjiang, a far north-western territory of China where it holds as many as a million Muslims prisoner in camps. Former detainees have said that they were subjected to political indoctrination and abuse.
In a rare, detailed interview published by the state-run news agency Xinhua, the Xinjiang governor, Shohrat Zakir, said: “Xinjiang conducts vocational skills education and training according to law. The purpose is to fundamentally eliminate the environment and soil that breeds terrorism and religious extremism, and eliminate the terrorism activities before they take place.”
Modern slavery victims 'drawn back into exploitation' after Home Office slashes support
Exclusive: Asylum-seeking victims of trafficking ‘cannot afford food and are returning to illegal and exploitative work in order to survive following subsistence cuts‘May BulmanSocial Affairs Correspondent
Modern slavery victims who have escaped their abusers are being drawn back into exploitation as a means of survival following cuts to their financial support, The Independent can reveal.
Asylum-seekers believed to have been trafficked to the UK have had their weekly subsistence rate reduced from £65 to £37.95. The reduction is set to be rolled out to all modern slavery victims “in due course”.
Lawyers said victims whose support has been reduced struggle to afford basics such as food and travel, placing them at high risk of being re-exploited financially, sexually and emotionally.
Malta battles over memorial to murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
Tourist routes, the justice system and Maltese history intersect where activists set up a memorial to push for answers in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. One year on, authorities have tried to remove it from sight.
Walking across the center of Valletta, Raymond and his partner stop to look at the latest additions to a makeshift memorial for the immensely popular blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered in a car bomb on October 16 last year. "We are lucky to have had someone like her," the man remarks. "People like her … OK, they are not perfect, but not everybody can investigate [like] that." Nearby, a city employee is sweeping the square after thick crowds of tourists have dispersed and artisans, competing for their attention, have packed their goods and left. Valletta carries on in its usual rhythm even as, for the past month, this memorial has been different from day to day.
‘How can you call us monkeys?' Kenyans say Chinese bring racism
By Joseph Goldstein
Before last year, Richard Ochieng', 26, could not recall experiencing racism firsthand.
Not while growing up as an orphan in his village near Lake Victoria where everybody was, like him, black. Not while studying at a university in another part of Kenya. Not until his job search led him to Ruiru, a fast-growing settlement at the edge of the capital, Nairobi, where Ochieng' found work at a Chinese motorcycle company that had just expanded to Kenya.
But then his new boss, a Chinese man his own age, started calling him a monkey.
It happened when the two were on a sales trip and spotted a troop of baboons on the roadside, he said.
Why you're seeing more of Japan's military
Updated 0549 GMT (1349 HKT) October 16, 2018
When tanks rolled and troops marched at a Japanese military base on Sunday, it was just the latest display in what analysts say is a campaign by Tokyo to increase the profile of its Self-Defense Forces.
Presiding over the display involving 4,000 troops, dozens of pieces armor and warplanes, including its newest F-35 stealth fighters, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touted Japan's defense relationships extending as far as Europe.
"You're working on warning and surveillance activities, cooperating with allied countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand," the Japanese Prime Minster told the troops assembled for the Japan Self-Defense Forces annual military review at Camp Asaka, just northwest of Tokyo.
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