'Perversion', 'cover up': The eve of the Trump impeachment vote
Trump and his fellow Republicans trade jabs with Democrats as US House expected to vote on impeachment on Wednesday.
The eve of the expected US House of Representatives vote on whether to impeach President Donald Trump was full of name-calling, divisive rhetoric and fighting over next steps.
Trump faces a near-certain impeachment on Wednesday on charges he abused power and obstructed Congress over his dealings with Ukraine.
'These babies should not have died': How the measles outbreak took hold in Samoa
The unprecedented health crisis has claimed 72 lives, mostly children. Now questions are being asked about how it came to this
“Every time I visit my baby, I see a morgue full of dead babies,” says a mother sitting at Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hospital in Apia, the capital of Samoa.
The woman’s one-year-old died in the measles outbreak that has wracked the Pacific nation over the past two months. She now comes to the morgue day after day, awaiting the release of her child’s body.
“It is the most unnatural thing you would ever see in your life, these babies should not have died,” she says.
Why was Bill Clinton impeached and what did the Senate do?
Clinton's own lawyers said his actions were 'morally reprehensible' but not impeachable
Clark MindockNew York
When the full House of Representatives formally votes on articles of impeachment, Donald Trump is likely to become the first American president to face such a judgement in more than two decades.
The last time an American president faced impeachment it was Democrat Bill Clinton’s actions up for judgement in the House of Representatives in 1998, yet another time of incredible division in US politics — not unlike the division seen in the modern political landscape.
Mr Trump, like Mr Clinton before him, appears poised to fight the accusations he faces, with an eye towards avoiding becoming the first president in US history to be tossed out of office by Congress.
Lebanese army clashes with supporters of Hezbollah, Amal in Beirut
Lebanese troops lobbed tear gas on Tuesday to disperse supporters of Shi'ite groups Hezbollah and Amal who tried to storm a square in Beirut in response to a video that purportedly offended Shi'ite figures, witnesses and media reports said.
Hundreds of youths on motorcycles waving their party and religious flags gathered in downtown Beirut chanting "Shi'ites, Shi'ites" and setting fire to tyres. They hurled stones and fireworks at security forces standing nearby, witnesses said.
Ignoring calls for restraint by politicians, the youths tried to break a security cordon to storm the square where demonstrators have set up tents as part of an anti-government protest that has been going on for weeks.
Understanding the Myanmar military’s genocidal mind
Recent atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims were business as usual for Myanmar’s war-hardened army
In her defense of Myanmar against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague last week, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was at pains to stress the complexity of the ethnic conflict in Rakhine state and her country’s stumbling efforts to implement its own process of accountability and military justice.
As Myanmar’s de facto political leader and foreign minister, she was clearly hobbled by her inability to articulate what would have been a far more persuasive line of argument: the 2017 atrocities perpetrated on the Rohingya Muslims of Rakhine were hardly an exceptional campaign of genocide, but rather what for the Myanmar Army, or Tatmadaw, was simply business as usual – in military jargon “standard operating procedure” (SOP) – that has not normally garnered international attention, let alone global outrage.
Japan to tighten screws on tech giants to ensure transparency
Japan will tighten regulations to prevent technology giants including Facebook Inc and Google from abusing their market power and having unfair advantage over small businesses, officials said on Tuesday.
The new law would oblige tech giants, including Google LLC, Apple Inc, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc to disclose the terms of contracts with customers and to report to the government about their operations, they said.
Japan's move followed the global trend - from the United States to Europe and Australia - of tightening the regulatory screws on the online platforms, which have policy makers scrambling to address concerns ranging from anti-trust issues to the spread of "fake news" and hate speech.
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