Mid-term elections 2018: Trump makes final bid for votes
US President Donald Trump has made a last bid for voters to back the Republican party on the eve of a nationwide election that is seen as a referendum on his presidency.
"Everything we have achieved is at stake tomorrow," he said during a blitz of three final rallies.
These elections come mid way through his four-year term in office and the outcome will determine how effectively he can govern for the next two years.
Voter turnout is expected to be high.
At stake are 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of 100 seats in the Senate - the two bodies that make up Congress. Governors are also being chosen in 36 out of 50 states.
China doubles spending on security-related building in Xinjiang – report
Beijing is accused of detaining up to one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in troubled western province
Spending on security-related construction doubled in 2017 in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of detaining as many as one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, an academic analysis of government expenditure has found.
Beijing says its “vocational training centres” in Xinjiang teach employment skills and legal knowledge aimed at curbing religious extremism. But a UN human rights panel has said reports show the facilities are indoctrination camps.
The report published on Monday by US think-tank the Jamestown Foundation examined official Chinese government budget data and found spending on security-related construction in Xinjiang rose last year by nearly 20bn yuan ($US2.90bn), or 213%.
Trump’s sanctions on Iran might well achieve regime change – but not to the kind of regime the US would like
Iran’s deteriorating economic situation will likely bolster the power of the country’s most reactionary forcesKim Sengupta
Donald Trump’s reintroduction of sanctions on Iran – overwhelmingly deplored by the international community with the exception of Israel and a Saudi-led bloc – has now come into force making the world, in many ways, a more uncertain and dangerous place.
Tehran marked the fateful day with air defence drills and military manoeuvres with President Hassan Rouhani saying, “We are in a war situation.” An armed conflict is not about to break out, but the punitive US measures can certainly be seen as a declaration of economic war against his country.
US networks drop Trump's 'racist' ad on eve of midterms
The ad showed an illegal immigrant in court bragging about killing cops and said that Democrats had "let him into the country." President Donald Trump's campaign sponsored the advert as part of the midterm campaign.
A campaign advertisement featuring a courtroom video of an illegal immigrant from Mexico, who was convicted of killing two police officers in 2014, was pulled from the air by Fox News and NBC, while Facebook removed it on Monday.
The 30-second ad was sponsored by president Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign and had debuted online last week. CNN had rejected the campaign ad, saying that it was racist.
Scores of schoolchildren kidnapped in restive English-speaking Cameroon
Armed men kidnapped 79 children from a school in western Cameroon on Monday and a local pastor said separatist militias were responsible.
The abduction happened before dawn in the city of Bamenda in the English-speaking Northwest region. The children, their principal and a driver were taken into the bush outside town, military and governemnt sources said, and the army had started searching the area.
Anglophone secessionists have imposed curfews and closed schools as part of their protest against President Paul Biya's French-speaking government and its perceived marginalisation of the English-speaking minority.
LIFE AFTER TRUMP
How Donald Trump Saved the Democratic Party From Itself
ON THE MORNING of November 9, 2016, millions of Americans woke up in a fog. In New Holland, Pennsylvania, Annie Weaver stopped at the Wawa on her way to the school where she teaches, and she couldn’t look anybody in the eye. Brandi Calvert, a real estate agent in Wichita, Kansas, only got out of bed because she had to take her 11-year-old boy to school. Before heading out, she told him what had happened, but he refused to believe her.
I walked my daughter to school that morning in Washington, D.C. and went inside for her kindergarten class’s biweekly open house. A third-grader had drawn the assignment of reading the day’s news over the PA system, and he began with a brief history of the expansion of voting rights. He then ventured into more recent events: “In 2008, Barack Obama was the first African-American elected president. This year, in 2016, Hillary Clinton was the first female president — nominee. In a surprising election, she was defeated by Donald Trump,” he said. “Stop by room 308 to see our timeline. Have a great day.”
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