Trump shocks with racist new ad days before midterms
Updated 0558 GMT (1358 HKT) November 1, 2018
In the most racially charged national political ad in 30 years, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party accuse Democrats of plotting to help people they depict as Central American invaders overrun the nation with cop killers.
The new spot, tweeted by the President five days before the midterm elections, is the most extreme step yet in the most inflammatory closing argument of any campaign in recent memory.
The Trump campaign ad is the latest example of the President's willingness to lie and fear-monger in order to tear at racial and societal divides; to embrace demagoguery to bolster his own political power and the cause of the Republican midterm campaign.
'They considered us toys': North Korean women reveal extent of sexual violence
Dozens of women who fled regime say abuse from officials, police and even prosecutors is part of daily life
Women in North Korea are routinely subjected to sexual violence by government officials, prison guards, interrogators, police, prosecutors, and soldiers, according to a new report, with groping and unwanted advances a part of daily life for women working in the country’s burgeoning black markets.
The widespread nature of abuse by North Korea officials was documented in a new report by Human Rights Watch that interviewed 54 people who fled North Korea since 2011, the year Kim Jong-un came to power. It took more than two years amass the stories collected in the report, with subjects interviewed in countries across Asia.
Which countries grant unconditional birthright citizenship?
Donald Trump has said children born on American soil should not automatically get citizenship, claiming that the US is "the only country in world" to do this. DW shows where else "jus soli" is enshrined in law.
In the final days before the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump has called for doing away automatically granting an individual American citizenship if he or she is born within and subject to the jurisdiction of the US. This includes the children of non-citizens, whether documented or documented,
"We're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States," Trump claimed.
Saudi-led coalition masses troops near Yemen's Hodeidah as pressure mounts to end war
The United Nations said on Wednesday that it aims to re-launch Yemen peace talks "within a month", shortly after the United States called for the warring parties to come to the negotiating table.
The Saudi-led coalition has massed thousands of troops near Yemen's main port city of Hodeidah, local military sources said on Wednesday, in a move to pressure Iranian-aligned Houthi insurgents to return to UN-sponsored peace talks.
The United States and Britain have called for an end to the 3-1/2-year war that has driven impoverished Yemen to the verge of famine, raising pressure on Saudi Arabia as it faces a global outcry over the murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
Turkish prosecutor: Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered
The prosecutor said in a statement that it was a “premeditated” attack.
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Jamal Khashoggi was strangled to death and then dismembered in a preplanned attack inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, a Turkish prosecutor said on Wednesday — the first official confirmation from Turkey’s government about how the journalist died.
It’s the latest development in an ongoing, horrific murder case that sounds like it was pulled straight from the pages of a gruesome political thriller and threatens to undermine relations between Saudi Arabia and the world.
In a statement released to the Turkish press on Wednesday, Istanbul’s top prosecutor Irfan Fidan described the killing as “premeditated” and categorized recent meetings with Saudi Arabia’s prosecutor about the ongoing investigation as less than helpful.
Google staff walk out over women's treatment
Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company's treatment of women.
The employees are demanding several key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations are dealt with at the firm, including a call to end forced arbitration - a move which would make it possible for victims to sue.
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has told staff he supports their right to take the action.
"I understand the anger and disappointment that many of you feel," he said in an all-staff email.
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