US postal worker recants voter-fraud claims after Republicans call for inquiry – reports
A postal worker whose allegations of ballot tampering are the basis of Republican calls for investigations has reportedly recanted his story.
Democrats on the House oversight committee said that Richard Hopkins – the worker who claimed in a signed affidavit that a supervisor at the US Postal Service (USPS) in Erie, Pennsylvania, instructed staff to tamper with ballots by backdating ones that arrived late – had recanted the allegations in an interview with investigators for the USPS inspector general.
Investigators told the committee that Hopkins “did not explain why he signed a false affidavit”, the committee wrote in a statement.
Several injured in explosion at Saudi Armistice Day event
France condemns ‘cowardly attack’ at Jeddah ceremony for foreign diplomatic staff
Several people have been wounded in an explosion in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah during a ceremony to commemorate the end of the first world war attended by staff from foreign diplomatic missions, officials have said.
“The embassies involved condemn this cowardly attack, which is wholly unjustified,” the French foreign ministry said. “They call on the Saudi authorities to shed as much light as they can on this attack, and to identify and hunt down the perpetrators.”
A Greek government official told Reuters that an explosive device had gone off at a ceremony at a non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah. Four people had been slightly injured, the official said, including a Greek national.
Hong Kong pro-democracy opposition MPs resign en masse in protest at China ‘patriotism’ law
Beijing’s ruling allows Hong Kong government to remove legislators who are seen as advocating against Chinese sovereignty in the city
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition legislators have resigned en masse, party leaders said on Wednesday, in protest against a new resolution from Beijing that meant they could be fired for failing to show sufficient patriotism towards mainland China.
The resignation by 19 opposition members of the 70-seat legislative council was announced at a news conference just a couple of hours after a move by Beijing to oust four prominent members of the pro-democracy camp.
The pro-democracy group’s convener, Wu Chi-wai, said they were resigning from their positions “because our partners, our colleagues have been disqualified by the central government's ruthless move”.
Study confirms racism and police brutality in Germany
A team of criminologists in Bochum has spent years investigating racism in the police force and brutality by officers. The results of their research are alarming.
"They hurled insults at us like "filthy Lebanese, filthy foreigners. My sister told me afterward that a police officer said to her ‘You’re not in your own country now, you can’t behave like animals,’" says Omar Ayoub. The 24-year-old from Essen is convinced that he was the victim of racially motivated police brutality.
One evening in April during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Ayoub and his family were breaking the fast when the police suddenly rang the doorbell, allegedly due to complaints about a disturbance of the peace. They demanded to be allowed in to search the house. When Ayoub declined to let them in and tried to shut the door, the situation escalated.
Civilians reel as violence spins out of control in Mozambique
Solution in Cabo Delgado conflict seems further away than ever as gruesome attacks aggravate an already dire humanitarian crisis.
When Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi last month visited some of the areas in the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado that have been hit by an escalating conflict, he was accosted by a man who had an urgent demand.
“We’re not asking for support,” the man said, after Nyusi pointed to humanitarian assistance being provided to the hundreds of thousands of people forced to leave their homes due to the deadly fighting between an armed group linked to ISIL (ISIS) and government forces.
“We want the war to stop.”
This 81-year-old Italian man couldn't visit his wife in hospital, so he serenaded her from the street
Updated 1333 GMT (2133 HKT) November 11, 2020
If music be the food of love, play on -- especially when coronavirus restrictions leave you with little other option.
While Carla Sacchi, his wife of 47 years, watched from a second-floor window of the hospital in Castel San Giovanni, a town in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region, the sprightly troubadour played a medley of love songs on his accordion below.
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