overnight News of 09/23/19

Arab Lawmakers In Israel Are Endorsing Benny Gantz For Prime Minister

(JERUSALEM) — The Arab bloc in Israel’s parliament abandoned its usual hands-off stance Sunday and endorsed former military chief Benny Gantz for prime minister, potentially giving him the edge over hard-line incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu. ...

Amnesty International Says Hong Kong Police Using ‘Reckless And Indiscriminate Tactics’

Amnesty International on Friday accused Hong Kong police of employing “reckless and indiscriminate tactics” against protesters in what amounts to an alarming pattern of abuse, and called for an independent investigation. In a new ...

A Top Defector Says The U.S. Must Levy Tougher Sanctions On North Korea To Prevent A New Nuclear State

The U.S. needs to wake up to the reality that its policy on North Korea is not working and quickly impose harsher sanctions if the world is going to avert the birth of a new nuclear state, a former North Korean diplomat says. Thae Yong-ho, one of ...

Why Hong Kong Protestors Are Watching A Film About Ukraine’S Bloody Revolution

Just outside a subway station in the city’s east, dozens gathered around a projector screen. They watched, transfixed, as the scene cut to riot police in full gear advancing towards protestors. For many in the audience, this was a picture they ...

Global Climate Strike Protests Kick Off In Australia Ahead Of U.N. Summit

(CANBERRA, Australia) — Thousands of protesters gathered Friday at rallies around Australia as a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action to guard against climate change began ahead a U.N. summit in New York. Some of the first ...

State Department Expels Two Cuban Diplomats Over Alleged ‘Influence Operations’

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. announced Thursday that it is expelling two Cuban diplomats and restricting travel of members of Cuba’s permanent mission to the United Nations as leaders gather from around the world for the annual U.N. General ...

Bernie Sanders Says He’S The First Democratic Presidential Candidate To Reach 1 Million Individual Donors

(WASHINGTON) — Bernie Sanders’ campaign says that it has received contributions from more than 1 million individual donors and that it’s the first in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential field to do so. In a statement Thursday, ...

Iran Envoy Warns Of ‘All-Out War’ If Hit For Saudi Oil Facility Attack

(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Any attack on Iran by the U.S. or Saudi Arabia will spark an “all-out war,” Tehran’s top diplomat warned Thursday, raising the stakes as Washington and Riyadh weigh a response to a ...

‘Materialism Will One Day Bring Change.’ Why A Senior Defector Believes North Korea’S Days Are Numbered

An influx of capitalist culture and a swelling desire for material goods could one day spell the end for North Korea’s Kim dynasty and hasten the pariah state’s re-entry into the international community. That’s according to a ...

E.U. Chief Says The Risk Of A No-Deal Brexit ‘Remains Very Real’

(STRASBOURG, France) — The risk of Britain leaving the European Union without a divorce deal remains “very real,” European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker declared Wednesday as EU lawmakers debated the ramifications of a no-deal ...

Israel’S Two Main Political Parties Are Deadlocked After A Repeat Election

(JERUSALEM) — Israel’s two main political parties were deadlocked Wednesday after an unprecedented repeat election, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing an uphill battle to hold on to his job. The election’s seeming ...

Jimmy Carter Says He Couldn’T Have Managed The Presidency At Age 80

(ATLANTA) — Weeks shy of his 95th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he doesn’t believe he could have managed the most powerful office in the world at 80 years old. Carter, who earlier this year became the longest-lived ...

Israel’S Netanyahu Says He’Ll Seek To Form A ‘Zionist’ Government Without Arab Parties

After an apparent election setback, Israel’s prime minister says he will seek the formation of a new “Zionist” government that excludes Arab parties. Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a small crowd of supporters in Tel Aviv at 3:30 a.m. ...

‘This Is A Global Fight.’ Cantonese Pop Diva Denise Ho Wants The World To Stand Up With Hong Kong

Geneva, Sydney, Taipei, New York—at another point in Denise Ho’s career these might have been stops on a concert tour. Instead, the Cantonese pop diva turned icon of Hong Kong’s protest movement has been traveling around the world ...

Saudi Energy Minister Says 50% Of Crude Oil Production Restored After Attack

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister says 50% of the production cut by the attack on its oil processing plant has been restored. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman made the comments Tuesday night at a news conference in Jiddah. The attack Saturday struck ...

India Arrests A Senior Kashmiri Leader Under A Controversial Law

(NEW DELHI) — A Parliament member who is a senior pro-India politician in Indian-controlled Kashmir was arrested Monday under a controversial law that allows authorities to imprison someone for up to two years without charge or trial. Farooq ...

In Hong Kong, Employees Hide Their Political Leanings As Beijing Forces Companies To Take Sides

By day, Lucy is a flight attendant. Dressed in a neat uniform, she politely offers passengers meals and drinks while they cruise at 35,000 feet. Recently though, she’s been switching shifts to make sure that she’s in town to join the ...

Joe Biden Condemns Racism While Visiting A Black Church And Says Whites ‘Can Never Fully Understand’

(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Visiting a black church bombed by the Ku Klux Klan during the civil rights era, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday framed current racial tensions as part of an enduring struggle that is older than the ...

Bahamians Look For Loved Ones As 1,300 Remain Missing After Hurricane Dorian

(MCLEAN’S TOWN, Bahamas) — They scan social media, peer under rubble, or try to follow the smell of death in an attempt to find family and friends. They search amid alarming reports that 1,300 people remain listed as missing nearly two ...

Facebook Expands The Reach Of A Tool That Exposes Users To More Local News

(SAN FRANCISCO) — Facebook is trying to coax “news deserts” into bloom with the second major expansion of a tool that exposes people to more local news and information. But the social network confesses that it still has a lot to ...