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Duterte goes out 'on a limb' to get Trudeau invited to key security event
Rodrigo Duterte went "out on a limb" to secure a key invitation for Justin Trudeau to attend a prestigious Asia-Pacific security event alongside powerful world leaders, government officials say.
But one senior insider insists the Philippine president's helpful gesture won't have any impact on whether Trudeau confronts him about human-rights violations in the southeast Asian country that have shocked people around the world.
Trudeau has hinted he might bring up the issue of human rights with Duterte, if he gets the opportunity.
A bit of a different view on this event. Who knows what really happened between Trump and anyone else?
New Zealand Prime Minister blasts Australia’s handling of refugee crisis
PRIME Minister Jacinda Ardern has blasted Australia’s handling of the refugee crisis on Manus Island as unacceptable as she seeks another meeting with Malcolm Turnbull on the issue.
Ms Ardern has continued to push New Zealand’s offer to accept 150 refugees and asylum seekers from Australia’s offshore detention centres since her first face-to-face meeting with her Australian counterpart in Sydney a week ago, the New Zealand Herald reports.
She wants a more substantive conversation when both leaders reach the Philippines for the East Asia Summit this week.
“We made the offer because we saw a great need. No matter what label you put on it there is absolute need and there is harm being done,” she said on Sunday morning.
From the island formerly known as Christmas Island, New Zealand remains concerned about Australia’s treatment of refugees. Immigration and refugee crises abound around our world right now. Immigration countries (USA, Canada, Australia): Why are they stopping refugees?
All you need to know about how the same-sex marriage survey results will be announced
HE IS the global trotting, career public servant with an eye-watering pay packet who tries to fly under the radar.
But on Wednesday morning, at the dot of 10, all eyes will be on Australia’s numbers man-in-chief, David W. Kalisch.
Grandly titled the “Australian Statistician”, Mr Kalisch heads the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and it is he who will reveal the answer to the $122 million` question — did we vote Yes or No in the same-sex marriage survey.
Following three months of debate, we’re almost at the survey finishing line.
In its latest update, released last Tuesday, the ABS said 12.6 million of the 16 million eligible voters had posted their vote, a huge 78.5 per cent return rate.
That’s 3p Tuesday afternoon in dkos time, 6p Eastern, 4p in the Intermountain.
Zuma’s allies are once again gung-ho about nuclear. Will they get their way?
The worsening financial plight of the state and its parastatals makes the estimated R1 trillion rand cost of the proposed nuclear build programme increasingly unaffordable. The new Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said as much. Slow economic activity is squeezing the tax revenue base while social expenditure demands keep rising. This has caused the deficit indicators to rise a cause for serious concern. Its ludicrous for government to insist on adding the humongous nuclear build programme into such dire state of public finances.
It’s also important to consider that government’s atomic ambitions go far beyond the 9 600 MW of extra nuclear power stations. It also wants to rebuild a uranium enrichment plant that dates back to former apartheid-era President PW Botha in the 1980’s. South Africa gave up its nuclear capability in 1989. It was the only country in Africa that had the ability to make a nuclear bomb.
Zuma’s administration wants to regain some of the lost nuclear capacity. It wants to construct a fuel element fabrication factory. It has talked of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. All these also bear steep price tags.
Zuma’s chair of ANC ends soon and his presidential term ends in less than 2 years. It seems his whole term of service has been troubled by various allegations of financial misdeeds of one kind or another but I chose the nuclear story. It was nice to see the Mail & Guardian again after all these years.
In address to Jewish Federations G.A., Rivlin calls for unity with diaspora
Appealing to the diaspora community, President Reuven Rivlin, while addressing the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly, told the audience that he hopes that ''we can return to the table and reach an understanding'' on the divisive issue of the Western Wall.
Rivlin did, however, remind the audience that ''Israel's democratic process, decision-making process'' must be respected with regards to internal matters.
The Western Wall has, in recent months, become a source of strain between Israel and the diaspora. Many progressive Jewish leaders and groups both outside and within Israel have pushed for an egalitarian prayer space to be instituted at the wall, which the government has refused to implement, despite orders from the High Court. Rivlin, speaking about future arrangements for the wall, said specifically that the process for implementing future plans would be ''led by the government.''
I always wonder what it means when “government led” vs. High Court.
Fire Destroys Years of Research at 4,500-year-old Ventarron Site
The Ministry of Culture has requested a criminal investigation into the causes of a fire that has heavily damaged the pre-Inca site of Ventarron, outside the city of Chiclayo on the north coast in Lambayeque.
Conservation specialists from the Culture ministry have arrived at the site to assess the damage. According to archaeologist Walter Alva, who discovered the magnificent burial site of the Lord of Sipan nearby almost 30 years ago, years of research and excavation work have been lost.
Alva’s son Ignacio, also an archaeologist and working at the site, said pots and other artifacts more than 4,500 years old have also been destroyed or damaged.
1. Click through for the photos. 2. Most other articles on this topic focused on the destruction of the mural.
San Francisco shipwreck: Divers find 'cannonball clue'
The San Francisco was travelling from the Philippines to Mexico when it sank.
The galleon was believed to be carrying valuable trade goods which could be worth millions today, researchers say.
Its location has been a mystery - but the suspected cannonball, thought to be the first artefact ever found from the ship, offers clues about where it sank.
Dr Jun Kimura from Tokai University has been leading a team of maritime archaeologists, who have been searching for the San Francisco in waters off Iwawada in Chiba prefecture.
The cannonball was discovered by Ian McCann, an Australian researcher at the University of New England, during a deep dive nearly 40m (131 ft) below the surface.
Iran-Iraq earthquake death toll climbs to more than 400
A powerful magnitude-7.3 earthquake has rocked the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing more than 400 people and injuring thousands more.
Iran’s state-run Irna news agency has raised the death toll to 407 and said 6,700 people were injured after the quake that struck the country’s western provinces at 9.20pm local time on Sunday. Tremors were felt hundreds of miles away in both capitals, in Tehran and Baghdad.
Local officials said the toll was likely to rise as search and rescue teams reached remote areas. More than 70,000 people were in need of emergency shelter, the Iranian Red Crescent said.
The hardest hit province was Kermanshah, where three days of mourning have been announced. More than 236 people died in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab, about 10 miles from the Iraq border. In Kermanshah’s Dalahu county, the local governor was quoted as saying that some villages had been completely destroyed.
It’s already cold there. Al Jazeera’s headline was more philosophical: Iran-Iraq earthquake: What happened and why
Erdogan calls on Russia, US to pull troops out of Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested Russia and the US should pull their troops out of war-torn Syria after their leaders - Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump - said there was "no military solution" to the country's long-running conflict.
"I am having trouble understanding these comments," Erdogan was quoted by reporters as saying on Monday before he flew out to Russia's coastal city of Sochi for talks with Putin.
"If a military solution [in Syria] is out of the question, then those who say this [Russia and the US] should pull their troops out ... and steps for a political solution should be taken," he said.
I imagine that Erdogan wants to target the Kurds. There was never any kind of happy ending for this civil war.
Utah’s proudly conservative Black Rifle coffee gets a boost from upset Sean Hannity viewers after Keurig pulls its TV ads
A Salt Lake City coffee company emerged Monday as the right wing’s preferred roaster, and it all started because the Keurig coffee machine company pulled its TV ads after Sean Hannity defended the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama amid sexual misconduct allegations.
Roy Moore is accused of having inappropriately touched a 14-year-old girl and pursuing other teens when he was in his 30s. An increasing number of Republicans, including a handful of senators, have asked Moore to drop out of the race.
Keurig was among the companies asking Fox not to air its ads during Hannity’s show. That led some loyal Hannity viewers to literally jettison their single-cup Keurig brewing machines. Hannity quickly shared tweets from viewers who said they were boycotting the company and destroying its household machines.
This story has so much wrong I don’t know where to start unpacking it. Mormons. Coffee. Guns. Republicans. Hannity. Environmental waste. It’s got it all.
The internet is nauseated over this Iowan's Pop-Tart and cheese sandwich
Iowans tend to get creative with their meals. One stroll around the food stands at the Iowa State Fair will prove as such.
But a Pop-Tart and cheese sandwich? That might be pushing the envelope a bit too much, social media suggests.
Chris Jorgensen, a sophomore at Iowa State University, tweeted a pair of photos Nov. 9 of the breakfast-and-dairy product combination. The caption read: "You ain’t from Iowa if you never had one of these."
The tweet drew hundreds of retweets, quote tweets and comments.
I am from Iowa. No, I have not. I take my Pop Tarts without cheese. And my cheese with crackers or bread or pasta or rice but not Pop Tarts.