| Israel defence minister says hopes Palestinian protests waning Posted: 10 Dec 2017 08:31 AM PST ![Israel defence minister says hopes Palestinian protests waning]( "Israel defence minister says hopes Palestinian protests waning") Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday he hoped the violence that erupted in Palestinian protests against President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital was abating. "Our hope is that everything is calming down and that we are returning to a path of normal life without riots and without violence," Lieberman told Army Radio. Violence erupted for a third day on Saturday in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in response to Trump's announcement on Wednesday in which he overturned decades of U.S. policy towards the Middle East.
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| Star U.S. Diplomat Quits With Fiery Letter To Rex Tillerson Posted: 10 Dec 2017 08:00 AM PST  A distinguished U.S. diplomat who was seen as a rising star at the State Department resigned after writing a searing letter to Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson, accusing him of gutting the department and damaging America's standing across the world.
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| McDonald's Malaysia refutes Israel ties after boycott calls Posted: 10 Dec 2017 06:33 AM PST ![McDonald's Malaysia refutes Israel ties after boycott calls]( "McDonald's Malaysia refutes Israel ties after boycott calls") The Malaysian franchise of McDonald's Corp said it was "disappointed" with calls on social media to boycott the fast food restaurant chain in apparent retaliation to the United State's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Social media users in the Muslim-majority country called on boycotting various U.S. companies following U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a city important to both Israelis and Muslims. One user of Twitter Inc's microblogging platform, TheUsopIbrahim, stated without citing sources that U.S.-headquartered McDonald's "channelled funds to Israel".
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| Trump slams 'vicious' media after erroneous reports on WikiLeaks, Russia Posted: 10 Dec 2017 04:50 AM PST  Donald Trump on Saturday renewed his onslaught against major US news networks, accusing them of launching a "vicious" assault on his presidency as he seized on a reporting error by CNN. Trump sounded the same anti-media narrative in a speech Friday in Florida when, pointing to a reporting error by ABC, he said, "Did you see all the corrections the media's been making? The US president regularly rails against top news outlets, both broadcast networks and newspapers including the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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| North Korea Renews 'Dotard' Insult For Donald Trump Over Jerusalem Move Posted: 10 Dec 2017 02:48 AM PST  North Korea reignited its feud with President Donald Trump on Saturday.
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| Donald Trump salutes civil rights heroes at boycotted museum opening Posted: 10 Dec 2017 12:30 AM PST  US leader Donald Trump called for an end to racial hatred Saturday at the launch of a museum dedicated to victims of white-supremacist violence in America's Deep South, a ceremony boycotted by several black leaders. The president's attendance at a private gathering to open the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History next door, which came at the invitation of the state's Republican governor, had triggered a backlash from some who marched in the movement to win those rights, including veteran US congressman John Lewis. Lewis – a Democratic lawmaker from Georgia who also skipped Trump's presidential inauguration in January – said Friday that the president's "attendance and his hurtful policies are an insult to the people portrayed in this civil rights museum." Democratic US congressman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi joined Lewis in the boycott. Trump did not reference the controversy in his tribute, opting instead to stay on script. In his remarks to invited guests prior to the museum's public opening, the president emphasized the new institution's recording of "the oppression, cruelty and injustice inflicted on the African American community, the fight to end slavery." President Donald Trump greets Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters "We want our country to be a place where every child from every background can grow up free from fear, innocent of hatred and surrounded by love, opportunity and hope," he said. Trump honored the legacy of slain activist Medgar Evers, whose widow and brother were in attendance, as well as Martin Luther King Jr – "a man we have studied and watched and admired for my entire life." He called the museum "an incredible tribute to Mississippi, a state I love; a state I've had great success." "This is a tribute to our nation at the highest level." Afterward, he took to Twitter to express his "great honor" at the ceremony and "pay solemn tribute to our heroes of the past & dedicate ourselves to building a future of freedom, equality, justice & peace." Small protests turned out in Jackson against the president's presence, which was also boycotted by the city's mayor and the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Several racially charged controversies have beset the Trump administration in its first year, notably his reaction to an August rally of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump came under fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after he failed to definitively condemn the role of white supremacists in the event, which turned violent and left one woman dead. In 1965, Lewis – one of King's closest collaborators – led a landmark civil rights march in Selma, Alabama that prompted state troopers to attack the protesters during what later became known as "Bloody Sunday." Lewis suffered a fractured skull. When Lewis bowed out of the president's inauguration ceremony earlier this year, Trump called him "all talk" and "not action or results."
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| Iraqi PM declares 'end of war against IS' in Iraq Posted: 09 Dec 2017 10:41 PM PST  Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Saturday declared victory in a three-year war by Iraqi forces to expel the Islamic State jihadist group that at its height endangered Iraq's very existence. "Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I therefore announce the end of the war against Daesh (IS)," Abadi told a conference in Baghdad. As the authorities announced a public holiday on Sunday "to celebrate the victory", Abadi said in a speech at the defence ministry that Iraq's next battle would be to defeat the scourge of corruption.
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| Prosecutor declines to charge officer in deaf man's killing Posted: 09 Dec 2017 08:43 PM PST  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor announced Friday that he won't charge a police officer who fatally shot a deaf man, determining the killing was legally justified after the man aggressively approached the officer while armed with a 2-foot metal pipe.
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| Trump administration facing lawsuit for allowing fracking companies to dump waste in Gulf of Mexico Posted: 09 Dec 2017 07:27 PM PST  Donald Trump's administration is facing a lawsuit for permitting oil companies to dump fracking waste into the Gulf of Mexico. The Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a formal notice of intent against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), arguing the practice endangers sea turtles, whales and other marine life. It comes just months after the EPA finalised a Clean Water Act that allows oil companies to offload unlimited amounts of waste into the ocean basin.
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| Ryan Zinke Dismisses Reports On His Use Of Helicopters As ‘Fabricated’ Posted: 09 Dec 2017 06:51 PM PST  WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Saturday swung back at recent media reports about his costly use of government helicopters, calling them "total fabrications and a wild departure from reality."
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