NINE YEARS ago Asia Bibi, a poor farm labourer from Pakistan’s tiny Christian minority, went to fetch a jug of water from a well for the Muslim women working beside her in the fields. It was a hot day. She took a sip before passing the water on, inadvertently initiating a furore that has lasted…
“Automakers urge the U.S. and Mexico to quickly re-engage with Canada to continue to build on this progress,” the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers, which represents most carmakers that sell vehicles in the United States, said in a statement. “The industry is hopeful that any changes to Nafta auto rules of origin continue to strike the…
Yet the government’s social media manipulation tracks with crackdowns in recent years in other authoritarian states, said Alexei Abrahams, a research fellow at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Even for conversations involving millions of tweets, a few hundred or a few thousand influential accounts drive the discussion, he said, citing new research. The…
Sign up for the latest Russia investigation updates here» Lawyers for President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort have resumed talks with the special counsel Robert Mueller's team about a possible plea deal ahead of Manafort's second trial in Washington, DC. Bloomberg reported that the discussions centered around which charges Manafort would potentially plead…
new video loaded: What Our Reporter Saw During the D.C. ShootingOur reporter was with President Trump at the White House correspondents’ dinner when a gunman breached security. He describes the frantic scenes that unfolded.By Shawn McCreesh and Nikolay NikolovApril...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Turkey on Wednesday after visiting Saudi Arabia in response to the disappearance of the Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi, but repeated, gruesome reports of Khashoggi's suspected murder have kept the crisis boiling. Pompeo and President Donald Trump appear to be giving Saudi Arabia the benefit of the doubt on…
HOTAN, China — On the edge of a desert in far western China, an imposing building sits behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Large red characters on the facade urge people to learn Chinese, study law and acquire job skills. Guards make clear that visitors are not welcome. Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Muslims…
IT HAS been over a week since Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and government critic (pictured), walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get paperwork for a marriage. No one has seen him since. Turkish officials say that he was killed by a team of Saudi assassins, who dismembered his body, on orders…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption"It's a horrific crime scene. One of the worst, and I've been on plane crashes" The names of the 11 people killed in Saturday's attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh have been released, with the oldest aged 97.Two brothers and a husband and wife were among those…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPresident Trump: "If they had protection inside, the results would have been far better" Eleven people have been killed, officials say, in a gun attack on a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The gunman, who opened fire as the Tree of Life synagogue held a…
