World News Briefs For Sunday, 6 November 2016
Hello Australia!! - Pressure grows on South Korea's president to resign - The US presidential candidates trudge through the mire towards the election - Another Chibok girl is freed - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
More than 200,000 people marched in Seoul, demanding the resignation of President Park Geun-hye over an alleged corruption. A long-time friend is accused of wielding undue influence over Park, and soliciting millions of dollars to foundations she controlled. Protesters held banners reading "Park Geun-hye out" and "Treason by a secret government". The scandal has sunk Park's approval rating to just five percent. The opposition is demanding she either resign or accept a Prime Minister of their choosing.
Philippine police shot and killed a mayor linked to the drug trade while the man was in his jail cell. Estimates vary from 4,000 - 5,000 people have been killed by vigilantes or cops in the chaotic war on drugs brought on by the election of President Rodrigo Duterte, who promised to pardon anyone accused of murdering a "drug dealer".
The US Presidential candidates are in the home stretch to Tuesday's caustic, bitter election - made caustic and bitter by the racist, misogynist, conspiratorial language of fascist scumbag Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is calling up the black vote with a concert starring Jay-Z and Beyonce, and campaign appearances pop star Pharrell Williams and basketball star LeBron James. Admitted sexual abuser Donald Trump is saying stupid crap and appealing to brain dead racists.
Roadside bombs planted by the so-called Islamic State killed 17 civilians fleeing Kirkuk in Iraq. They were members of several families packed onto a truck when twin bombs went off; a police officer was also killed. Further north in Mosul, IS says an Irish man named Terrance "Khalid" Kelly blew himself up in a suicide car bomb attack. The convert to radical Islam had appeared in a number of Irish TV documentaries. The foreign ministry in Dublin is investigating the claim.
Nigeria's military says soldiers found another Chibok schoolgirl, carrying a ten month old baby in a group of people fleeing Boko Haram's base in the Sambisa Forest in northeastern Nigeria. The terrorists abducted more than 270 girls from the Chibok boading school in 2014, setting off global outrage. More than 50 escaped immediately, one was located earlier this year, and 21 were freed a month ago after negotiations with the group. Nigeria officials vow to find the rest.
Uruguay suspended all of this weekend's football matches over the death of a fan who was shot by rival supporters for his team scarve. "As important to all Uruguayans as football is, there is nothing more important than the life of a human being and young football fan," read a statement from Uruguay's football association. Authorities jailed 15 men and charged them with homicide.