Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say Trump has left US 'in tatters'
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris have attacked "whining" President Donald Trump as an incompetent leader who has left the US "in tatters".
The pair held their first campaign event together, a day after Mr Biden unveiled Ms Harris as his number two.
President Trump hit back, saying Ms Harris had "dropped like a rock" in her own presidential bid.
Belarus protests: 25-year-old man dies in police custody
Alexander Vikhor left in van for hours after being detained in Gomel, mother tells local news
Andrew Roth in Moscow
Published onThu 13 Aug 2020 09.13 BST
Belarus has confirmed that a young man has died in police custody, the second death since mass protests began on Sunday against the country’s leader, Alexander Lukashenko.
Alexander Vikhor, 25, died after being detained on Sunday in the city of Gomel in south-east Belarus during countrywide protests over accusations of mass vote-rigging in presidential elections. Protests continued for a fourth night on Wednesday.
His mother told the RFE/RL news service in Belarusia that her son had heart problems and was held alone in a police van for hours as his condition worsened.
Mauritius oil spill: Island nation seeks compensation for ‘national disaster’
Catastrophe threatens 35 years of conservation work in protected wetlands, activists say
Mauritius says it is seeking compensation from the owners of a Japanese ship that spilled oil after it grounded in the shallow waters off the Indian Ocean island nation, while urgent efforts continue to pump out the remaining fuel.
The MV Wakashio has spilled 1,000 tonnes of its cargo of 4,000 tonnes of oil into the sea, fouling the coastline of Mauritius, including a protected wetlands area. That threatens 35 years of work to restore the area, environmental activists said on Wednesday.
An estimated 2,500 tonnes of fuel has been pumped from the ship, stranded on a coral reef at Pointe d'Esny, a sanctuary for rare wildlife. Workers are racing to empty the ship before it breaks up in heavy seas and further pollutes the shore.
Will protests after Beirut blast bring reform to Lebanon?
The August 4 explosion in Beirut has intensified calls to overhaul a negligent sectarian system. But, with entrenched political interests at play, gradual change may be more realistic than complete structural reform.
Already verging on economic collapse, Lebanon now faces an uncertain political future after the August 4 explosion in Beirut led to demonstrations of grief and fury over the official negligence that caused the blast. Prime Minister Hassan Diab's 7-month-old government resigned on Mondayand will be diminished to a caretaker role until a new Cabinet can be selected.
For days, effigies of politicians have hung from symbolic gallows, put up by protesters who see the confessional system of government, in which power is divided among Lebanon's Muslim and Christian sects, as the source of official corruption. Important appointments and control over key sectors are used to promote each sect's interests in a system of patronage.
OPINION
Already some on the left are 'cancelling' Kamala Harris - and that could re-elect Trump
By Thenu Herath
The insistent buzzing of my phone woke me up on Wednesday morning, signalling big news. Sure enough, a woman of Jamaican and South Asian heritage had become the vice-presidential nominee in the United States. It was historic.
Senator Kamala Harris joins forces with Joe Biden to offer Americans a platform that pledges raising the minimum wage, swift action on the climate crisis and more affordable healthcare.
For anyone watching from afar, the selection appears to be a smart move by Biden to garner support from progressive voters. However, the Twittersphere tells a strikingly different story.
From Google to garbage disposal: the environmentalist cleaning up India's lakes
Updated 0211 GMT (1011 HKT) August 13, 2020
When Arun Krishnamurthy was a teenager, he witnessed a pond near his home in the suburbs of Chennai, India, fill up with trash.
The damage to the pond "snatched away" happy childhood memories, he says -- and inspired him to become a conservationist. "I wanted to somehow see (the pond) revived to its original glory."
The 33-year-old now runs the Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) -- a nonprofit group that restores freshwater lakes and ponds across India. Krishnamurthy set up the foundation in 2007, the same year he started working as an account associate at Google. Three years later, he quit his job to run EFI full time.
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