Trump 'personally answers Mueller Russia questions'
Donald Trump says he has finished answering questions into alleged Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The US leader told reporters he had personally answered the questions "very easily", but that they had yet to be submitted to Robert Mueller's team.
Mr Mueller has been looking into allegations of collusion between Mr Trump's campaign and Russia since 2017.
Mr Trump strongly denies any collusion, calling the probe "a witch hunt".
On Thursday, he took to Twitter to describe Mr Mueller as "conflicted", called the investigation "absolutely nuts", adding that those involved in the long-running probe "are a disgrace to our nation".
'Nothing has changed': the men who remain in limbo on Manus Island
Former case worker Nicole Judge returns to Manus more than four years after she left believing the camp would soon close
“I remember talking to [friends] about how it’s definitely going to get shut down – we thought someone would probably die,” says Nicole Judge.
“But then Reza Barati was murdered, it still didn’t get shut down. And Hamid Kehazaei got sick and died and it didn’t get shut down.”
A former caseworker with the Salvation Army, Judge was last at Australia’s immigration detention centre on Manus Island in February 2014, before the murder of Barati and the numerous other violent incidents that followed.
Velvet Revolution: Czechs and Slovaks celebrate anniversary of fall of communism and triumph of Vaclav Havel
Peaceful student uprising brought oppressive rule to end, swept dissident playwright to power and spelled doom for Soviet Union in 1989
Citizens of the former Czechoslovakia will honour the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution this weekend.
The uprising, entirely peaceful in spirit, brought about the end of 41 years of one-party communist rule and saw the election of playwright-turned dissident Vaclav Havel as the country’s first democratically-elected president in decades.
The revolution began on 17 November 1989 with the gathering of thousands of undergraduates from the Socialist Union of Youth on campus in Prague to honour International Student’s Day, an occasion taking place precisely 50 years on from the Nazis storming the city’s universities.
China hotels red-faced after dirty cleaning practices revealed
Footage posted online showing questionable cleaning practices in some hotels in China has sparked social media outrage. Several hotels have apologized, though one said such actions were an "isolated occurrence."
Chinese tourism authorities have called for 14 major hotels in Beijing, Shanghai and three provinces to be investigated after video from hidden cameras showed workers using the same sponge to wipe down sinks and wash cups and mugs, along with other unhygienic cleaning techniques.
The video footage was posted online late on Wednesday by an activist blogger who goes by the pseudonym of "Huazong" and claims to often spend nights at hotels across China.
Chinese media picked up the story from Weibo, a Chinese social media site akin to Twitter, and it has been viewed more than 30 million times.
'Death knell' of press freedom in Hong Kong has been a long time coming
Every day before work, Kevin Lau stopped for breakfast at a restaurant in Sai Wan Ho, a residential area in eastern Hong Kong. It was a routine as ingrained in him as brushing his teeth, and it nearly cost him his life.
On a morning in February 2014, Lau -- a senior editor at the popular, upmarket daily Ming Pao -- had parked his car on a street near the restaurant when two men, wearing motorcycle helmets and gloves, rushed up to him. One slashed at Lau with a meat cleaver, knocking him to the floor, where he lay bleeding with deep wounds in his back and legs as his assailants ran off.
With what a court later described as "superhuman calm," Lau phoned for an ambulance, and was rushed to hospital. He survived, and two men with triad links -- Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah -- were arrested and charged with grievous bodily harm.
Climate change policy can be overwhelming. Here’s a guide to the policies that work.
A new book from veteran energy analyst Hal Harvey simplifies decarbonization.
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Climate change is such a large and sprawling problem — there are so many forces involved, so many decision makers at so many levels — that solving it can seem hopelessly complex. There are so many options available to policymakers, each with their own fierce constituencies. Where to begin? Which clean-energy policies actually work?
That is the question Hal Harvey, long-time energy analyst and CEO of the energy policy firm Energy Innovation, set out to answer with a new tool.
The tool is the Energy Policy Simulator, which allows anyone to choose a package of energy policies and immediately see the impact on carbon emissions and other pollutants. (It’s like a video game for energy nerds.) It’s based on a model that attempts to replicate the physical economy, with detailed information about real-world assets.
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