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Hold me responsible for killings in drug crackdown, Duterte says
Nearly 6,000 killings of drug suspects have been reported by police since he took office in mid-2016, but rights watchdogs suspect the death toll is far larger. Read more
Nearly 6,000 killings of drug suspects have been reported by police since he took office in mid-2016, but rights watchdogs suspect the death toll is far larger. Read more
The approach, called a challenge study, is risky but proponents say it may produce results faster than standard research, which waits to see if volunteers who have been given an experimental treatment get sick. Read more
The indictment accuses the defendants in hacks that prosecutors say were aimed at furthering the Kremlin’s geopolitical interests and as retribution against its perceived enemies. Read more
Retail spending rebounded to above pre-virus levels for the first time and factory output rose, boosted by demand for exports of masks and other medical supplies. Read more
While insisting it planned no “buying spree,” Iran in theory can purchase weapons to upgrade military armament dating back to before its 1979 Islamic Revolution and sell its own locally produced gear abroad. Read more
The protesters are calling for Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to leave office, the constitution to be amended and the nation’s monarchy to undergo reform. Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron went to the school to denounce what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack.” Read more
The incident came as Macron’s government works on a bill to address Islamist radicals who authorities claim are creating a parallel society outside the values of the French Republic. Read more
They were on their way to a landslide at a hydroelectric plant construction site in Thua Thien-Hue province that left dozens missing. That site is still inaccessible. Read more
Tesla is building its first European factory outside the German capital and aims to eventually build 500,000 electric vehicles there. Read more
A Congolese activist was fined 2,000 euros ($2,320) for trying to take a 19th-century African funeral pole from a Paris museum in a protest against colonial-era injustice that he streamed online. Read more
Furtada Island, referred to widely as “Island of the Cats,” is a vast swath of mountainous tropical forest and sandy coves. But when COVID-19 forced people to quarantine, boat traffic around the island fell sharply — and with it, the food and water deposited there. Read more
Boosted by human-caused climate change, global temperatures averaged 60.75 degrees last month, edging out 2015 and 2016 for the hottest September in 141 years of recordkeeping. Read more
He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Read more
The payments will be going to approximately 240,000 survivors around the world, primarily in Israel, North America, the former Soviet Union and Western Europe, over the next two years. Read more
Egypt today began the trial of a former student of an elite university on charges of sexual assault of three minors, in a case that has launched a new wave of the #MeToo movement in the Arab world’s most populous country. Read more
Wildfires around the Middle East triggered by a heatwave hitting the region have killed two people, forced thousands of people to leave their homes and detonated landmines along the Lebanon-Israel border, state media and officials said today. Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned today that his country would “fully mobilize” its nuclear force if threatened as he took center stage at a massive military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the country’s ruling party. Read more
Announcing the prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said it wished “to turn the eyes of the world towards the millions of people who suffer from or face the threat of hunger.” Read more
Benchmarks in Shanghai, Hong Kong, South Korea and Sydney advanced. Tokyo was off 0.1%. Read more
Clashes between rock-throwing demonstrators and riot police broke out near Jakarta’s presidential palace as police tried to disperse the protesters, including workers and high school and university students. Read more
