Navy secretary 'fired' for proposing 'secret agreement' with White House in SEAL case, senior defense official says
Updated 0009 GMT (0809 HKT) November 25, 2019
In an extraordinary move, the Pentagon chief "fired" the Navy secretary for going outside his chain of command by proposing a "secret agreement with the White House," according to a senior defense official.
The agreement that led to Defense Secretary Mark Esper forcing Navy Secretary Richard Spencer's resignation involved the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher. The official said Spencer had proposed to the White House a review with a secret guarantee that Gallagher would be allowed to keep his status as a SEAL. That would go counter to the ongoing review underway by the Navy to take away Gallagher's status.
Katie Hill: rightwing media attack women because ‘they’re easier targets’
Congresswoman who resigned amid claims of relationship with staffer says Marie Yovanovitch and Fiona Hill also bullied
The former California congresswoman Katie Hill, who resigned in October after the publication of nude photographs and allegations of an affair with a member of her congressional staff, said on Sunday rightwing media outlets attacked women because “they’re easier targets” for bullying.
In an interview on CNN’s Reliable Sources, the Democrat said bullying affects women across the US, whether they are teen girls or power-players such as the former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and ex-national security council official Fiona Hill.
Yovanovitch and Hill, both naturalized US citizens, testified in the congressional impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. As with other witnesses, Trump supporters in the media questioned their loyalty to the US.Egypt newspaper offices raided by security forces hours after editor detained
Mada Masr is one of few remaining independent news sites in the country
Egyptian security forces have raided the offices of one of the last independent newspapers in Egypt and arrested a number of staff, just a day after one of its editors was taken from his Cairo home and held in an unknown location.
Mada Masr, part of the shrinking number of independent news sites in the country, said on Sunday the police arrested editor-in-chief Lina Attalah as well as reporters Mohamed Hamama and Rana Mamdouh, and took them to the prosecution.
British citizen and journalist Emma Scolding as well as American citizen and reporter Ian Louis may be deported, it added.
Protesters in Iraq Face Down State Violence
A fleet of three-wheeled taxis makes up the backbone of the anti-government protests in Baghdad. They bring supplies to the front lines and return with the wounded. It is a dangerous game, but one they are determined to win.
By Christoph Reuter
Death threats normally come over the phone, but Abu Tiba's enemies were unable to reach him. He had lost his phone several days earlier after being shot at while trying to pull a severely injured man from the combat zone. So he received an old-fashioned warning, a note slipped under his door saying they would kill him if he carried on.
Abu Tiba, an imposing man prone to melancholy, just shrugs his tattooed shoulders. "Let them go ahead and try," he says. The 34-year-old father of three is part of what may be the most unusual group in the mass protests that have shaken Baghdad and other large Iraqi cities in the past month and a half. He's a tuk-tuk driver, one of thousands in Baghdad's poor neighborhoods, who transports people through the Iraqi capital on his three-wheeled motorized vehicle.
Zehra Dogan's prison paintings fight for the Kurdish cause
The Kurdish artist, activist and journalist Zehra Dogan was imprisoned for 600 days in Turkey as part of the crackdown on journalists in the wake of the failed 2016 military coup. As her paintings from prison go on display in Paris and her letters are published in French for the first time, she talks to FRANCE 24 about her plans for the future and the recent US betrayal of the Kurds.
In a cramped prison cell in southeastern Turkey, a young Kurdish woman lies drawing on a mattress on the floor. The light is poor, the air is bad and the cell where she’s held is oppressively hot.
She draws on T-shirts and towels. She paints on pillow-cases and linen, envelopes and cigarette papers. Her paint-brushes are made from the hair of her fellow inmates. Her pigments are parsley and potato peel, turmeric, tomato paste and tea. Sometimes she paints with her “most beautiful pigment” of all – her menstrual blood.
Hong Kong elections: Pro-democracy groups makes big gains
Hong Kong's opposition pro-democracy movement has made major gains in the Chinese territory's district council elections, local media reports say.
It took 201 of the first 241 seats declared, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper. Pro-Beijing candidates took just 28.
More than 2.9m people voted, a turnout of more than 71%, against 47% in 2015.
The election was billed as a test of support for embattled Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
Hong Kong's district councillors mainly deal with local issues such as bus routes and garbage collection - however, the polls were widely seen as a test of public opinion on the government's handling of five months of unrest and pro-democracy protests.
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