Six In The Morning Wednesday 7 October 2020

 

Nagorno-Karabakh: Iran warns of 'regional war' as fighting rages

Iran has warned that renewed fighting between its neighbours Azerbaijan and Armenia could escalate into a wider regional war.

President Hassan Rouhani said he hoped to "restore stability" to the region following days of heavy clashes over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

The enclave is officially part of Azerbaijan but run by ethnic Armenians.

The current fighting is the worst seen in decades, and both sides have blamed each other for the violence.

Golden Dawn leader and ex-MPs found guilty in landmark trial

Thousands welcome verdict in Athens after biggest trial of fascists since Nuremberg

Helena Smith in Athens

Wed 7 Oct 2020 10.57 BST

A Greek court has delivered an overwhelming conviction against Golden Dawn, finding the neo-fascist party guilty of operating a criminal gang that brutally targeted opponents under the guise of being a political group.

At the end of a trial launched more than five years ago, the three-member tribunal headed by presiding judge Maria Lepenioti, announced that seven of Golden Dawn’s leaders were culpable of directing the deadly organisation. Others were found guilty of the lesser charge of participating in the criminal gang.

WHAT IS QANON? THE ORIGINS OF BIZARRE CONSPIRACY THEORY SPREADING ONLINE

The story touches on just about every part of public life, and is making its way into the mainstream

Andrew Griffin@_andrew_griffin

If QAnon’s claims were true, they would shake the very foundations of global government and explain the confusion of politics in recent years. As it is, they are not true – but their importance could nonetheless be hugely significant.

It might have been destined to stay as an underground conspiracy theory. But it has quickly taken root both online and off – becoming a feature of Trump rallies and being shared by some of the most important people in the media.

Kenya court convicts two for aiding Islamist assault on shopping mall

A Kenyan court convicted two men on Wednesday for helping al Qaeda-linked gunmen storm Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall, killing at least 67 people in a 2013 assault that proved Somali militants could strike at the heart of the capital.

Last month was the hottest September ever, breaking last year's record

By Rob Picheta, CNN

Updated 1010 GMT (1810 HKT) October 7, 2020

Searing heat in Europe, Australia, the Middle East and several other pockets of the world made last month the hottest September ever, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service has announced.

The Earth's average temperature was 0.05 degrees Celsius (0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the previous record, which was set last September.

Of the nine completed months this year, three have now broken the global record for average temperature by Copernicus' measures -- marking a dangerous and undeniable trend toward temperature levels that international groups have warned would be devastating to the Earth.

'My life as a hater': The dire warning from a white power leader's son

ALEX HOSENBALL, EVAN SIMON and MIKE LEVINE

Driving through a recent morning rain in the mountains of West Virginia, 60-year-old Kelvin Pierce grew nervous as he approached a gate in the middle of a mud-caked dirt road.

He had been there before, but that was nearly 20 years ago, when the compound beyond the gate headquartered what the FBI considered one of the most prolific and powerful white supremacist groups in America, the National Alliance – an organization led by his own father, Dr. William Luther Pierce.

“To be honest, I have an awful lot of stuff going through my mind as I think about going up to this property,” Pierce confessed to an ABC News team, which accompanied him on the trip.