5: A MIGRANT-SMUGGLING “COYOTE” TOLD US TRUMP’S POLICIES HAVE BEEN GREAT FOR BUSINESS
LA MESILLA, Guatemala — A group of five adults and two kids were speeding toward the Mexican border when things started to go wrong. They were in the care of a coyote, whom they’d paid to ensure their passage to the U.S. But now a Guatemalan police officer was staring into their car, threatening to throw them in jail.
The officer demanded $65 for each of the children, or she’d arrest them. “We can bring you in for trafficking people,” she warned.
Vice News
4: Iran slams US as Trump says drone downing may have been a mistake
President Donald Trump says he does not believe the shooting down of a US military drone by Iran was “intentional”, in an apparent turnaround amid fears the escalating tensions between the two countries could spark an open confrontation in the Gulf.
Hours after tweeting on Thursday that “Iran had made a very big mistake” in downing the unmanned aircraft, Trump told reporters that it could have an error by a “loose and stupid” Iranian general.
Earlier in the day, the two countries offered differing accounts over the incident.
Washington said the drone had been downed in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. But Tehran disputed where the incident took place, saying the drone had violated Iranian airspace over the southern coastal province of Hormozgan.
Aljazeera
ON WEDNESDAY, the United Nations released the results of a five-month investigation into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Utilizing recordings and forensic evidence from inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, where Khashoggi was killed, the 100-page report details the grisly final moments of the journalist’s life. The report suggested that Khashoggi first struggled with his killers, after which he “could have been injected with a sedative and then suffocated using a plastic bag.”
The report’s author, Agnes Callamard, the U.N. human rights agency’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, places guilt for the murder squarely on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, emphasizing the “individual liability” of many senior officials. There was “credible evidence,” the report said, of the direct involvement of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Describing Khashoggi’s murder as a “deliberate, premeditated execution” and an “extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under international human rights law,” Callamard called on the U.N. secretary general to establish an international criminal investigation.
The Intercept
On the heels of Wednesday’s historic hearing on reparations, we speak with renowned writer Ta-Nehisi Coates on the lasting legacy of American slavery, how the national dialogue about reparations has progressed in the past five years and his testimony in favor of H.R. 40, which took direct aim at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Coates says, “It is absolutely impossible to imagine America without enslavement.”
Democracy Now
1: Hunt to face Johnson amid rumours of tactical voting in Tory leadership race
