French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday by nearly a 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in the southwest city of Toulouse.
There were also clashes in the southern city of Montpellier where around 300 protesters faced off with police.
Police there said four officers were slightly injured and nine demonstrators arrested for offences including throwing projectiles.
A police statement in Toulouse said officers made five arrests after being targeted by missiles thrown by some of the protesters.
A group that observes police conduct at yellow vest protests said officers had attacked five of their number during the demonstration, injuring one of them.
The Observatory of Police Practice (OPP) posted images and video on Twitter to support their account and posted an open letter to the authorities protesting the incident.
The police headquarters in Toulouse was not available to comment on the allegations Saturday evening.
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Christian Coleman stormed to victory in the 100 metres at the World Championships in Doha, emphatically shrugging off the missed drug test controversy which had threatened to derail his career.
The 23-year-old American, who escaped a doping ban earlier this month on a technicality, swept over the finish line in a world-leading personal best of 9.76sec to claim his first major outdoor championship gold medal on Saturday.
Defending champion Justin Gatlin took silver in 9.89sec at the age of 37 while Canada's Andre De Grasse claimed bronze in 9.90sec.
It completed a flawless championship campaign for Coleman, who had been the only man to duck under 10 seconds in both Friday's opening rounds and Saturday's semi-finals.
Coleman's victory in perfect conditions at the Khalifa Stadium was never in doubt, the stocky 2017 World Championships silver medallist exploding out of the blocks to take the lead over the opening 20 metres.
The American let out a roar of triumph as he crossed the line ...

Brilliant Coleman blasts to 100m world gold

US sprinter Christian Coleman blasted to the 100 metres title at the World Championships in Doha on Saturday, outclassing the field in a personal best of 9.76 sec.
Coleman, who before the championships avoided a lengthy ban for missing doping tests, was followed over the line by reigning champion Justin Gatlin and Andre De Grasse.

Christian Coleman wins world 100m gold

Iran has released a "never before seen" photo of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alongside Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
The photo published on the supreme leader's official website shows Nasrallah with Khamenei on his right and Qassem Soleimani -- the commander of Iran's elite Qods Force -- on his left.
The three men are shown in front of what appears to be a door covered by a curtain and surrounded by shelves stacked with books -- decor associated with Khamenei's Tehran office.
Before a 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, Nasrallah often openly visited the Iranian capital, but since then his public appearances have been limited.
Iran's support for Hezbollah and Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad are an enduring feature of the Islamic republic's foreign policy.  The photo -- first published on Wednesday and still available on Saturday -- has received little coverage in other Iranian media.
The picture will make the ...

Iran releases photo of Khamenei with Hezbollah chief

A Canadian tourist died Saturday while parachuting from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak and Tanzania's top tourist attraction.
Justin Kyllo, 51, was killed after his parachute failed to open, Tanzanian National Parks spokesman Pascal Shelutete said.
Kyllo had arrived in the country on September 20, he said.
Around 50,000 people climb the nearly 6,000-metre mountain, located near the northeastern frontier with Kenya, every year.

Canadian tourist dies in Kilimanjaro parachute accident

Cuba slammed the United States at the United Nations Saturday for barring former president Raul Castro and his family from entering the country.
Washington announced travel sanctions on Thursday that made Castro -- brother of late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro -- and his relatives ineligible for travel to America.
"This is an action that is void of any practical effect, aimed at offending Cuba's dignity and the feelings of our people," Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told the UN General Assembly.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the order had been passed due to 88-year-old Raul Castro's support for Venezuela's leftist leader Nicolas Maduro, who presides over a crumbling economy.
He accused Castro of violations of human rights in his continued role as first secretary of Cuba's ruling Communist Party.
President Donald Trump has vowed to rid Latin America of socialism, a stance that resonates with many Cuban and Venezuelan exiles in the politically crucial state of ...

Cuba decries US Castro ban at United Nations

Controversial US sprinter Christian Coleman's bid for 100 metres gold took centre stage at the World Championships on Saturday as endurance athletes prepared for another battle with Doha's punishing heat and humidity.
Coleman romped to a 9.88sec win in his semi-final to underline his intention to clinch his first major championship outdoor title, just weeks after escaping a lengthy anti-doping ban because of a technicality.
Coleman has received strong public backing from world athletics chief Sebastian Coe, who has defended the American's right to be regarded as a clean athlete.
The 23-year-old from Tennessee narrowly avoided a ban after failing to properly notify drug testers of his whereabouts on three occasions in a 12-month period -- an offence normally punishable by a one-year suspension.
"We have to be very careful not to play fast and loose with the reputation of athletes," Coe said on Friday following criticism of Coleman by US sprinting legend Michael Johnson.
"I am pleased ..

Heat is on Coleman and world championships organisers

Ukrainian politicians on Saturday expressed alarm after US special representative on Kiev affairs Kurt Volker resigned following a summons by US Congress to answer questions in an impeachment inquiry on President Donald Trump.
Volker was appointed in 2017 to take charge of US policy on Ukraine, in particular overseeing critical Washington support to the country as it faces a separatist insurgency backed by Russia.
He resigned Friday after being ordered to answer questions in the impeachment investigation, a source familiar with the matter told AFP.
Ukrainian ex-president Petro Poroshenko called news of Volker's decision "disturbing" and praised his contribution to "strengthening of our strategic partnership with the United States."
"It would be hard to overstate his firmness and strategic vision countering the Russian aggression," Poroshenko wrote on Facebook.
"With Kurt, we all were feeling more confident in Ukraine." Former foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin said the resignation was ...

Ukraine concerned as US envoy named in Trump scandal quits

Liverpool sent out an ominous warning to the rest of the Premier League on Saturday, proving they can win ugly as Harry Kane rescued 10-man Tottenham.
Frank Lampard's Chelsea beat Brighton at Stamford Bridge, winning at home for the first time in the league under their new manager, courtesy of a Jorginho penalty and a Willian strike.
Elsewhere, there were wins for Wolves against bottom club Watford while West Ham's draw at Bournemouth lifted them to third in the table.
Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool won their seventh Premier League game out of seven to pull eight points clear ahead of Manchester City, thanks to Georginio Wijnaldum's fortunate strike in a 1-0 victory at Sheffield United.
The European champions looked short on invention against the well-organised Blades until Wijnaldum's shot from the edge of the box 20 minutes from time trickled between the legs of United goalkeeper Dean Henderson.
Liverpool, who have won 16 consecutive league games, finished a single point behind champions .

Liverpool win ugly to romp clear in Premier League as Kane saves Spurs

Cristiano Ronaldo returned from an injury scare to score as Juventus eased past struggling SPAL 2-0 and took top spot in Serie A on Saturday.
Ronaldo notched up his third consecutive goal at home this season after 78 minutes in Turin to add to Miralem Pjanic's opener just before the break.
Juventus have 16 points from six games, one ahead of Inter -- the only team with maximum points -- before their game at Sampdoria later on Saturday.
Ronaldo was rested for the midweek win over Brescia as a precaution with a slight muscular problem ahead of Tuesday's Champions League game against Bayer Leverkusen in Turin and next weekend's clash with Inter at the San Siro.
The damage could have been worse for SPAL, who achieved just their second ever win over the Turin giants last April, but for some fine saves from Albanian goalkeeper Etrit Berisha.
Berisha, on-loan from Atalanta this season, got his hand to deny Paulo Dybala's curling goal-bound effort just after half an hour, and then parried a ..

Ronaldo helps ease Juventus past SPAL and top Serie A

Saudi Arabia on Saturday said it would impose fines for violations of "public decency", including immodest clothing and public displays of affection, a day after the austere kingdom opened up to foreign tourists.
The interior ministry said it had identified 19 such "offences" but did not specify the penalties, as the ultra-conservative Islamic country begins issuing tourist visas for the first time as part of a push to diversify its oil-reliant economy.
"The new regulations require men and women to dress modestly and to refrain from public displays of affection. Women are free to choose modest clothing," a government statement quoted the ministry as saying.
"The regulations are meant to ensure that visitors and tourists in the kingdom are aware of the law relating to public behaviour so that they comply with it."
Saudi Arabia on Friday said citizens from 49 countries are now eligible for online e-visas or visas on arrival, including the United States, Australia and several European ...

Saudi Arabia to enforce 'decency' amid tourism push

US sprinter Christian Coleman romped into the World Championships 100m final on Saturday, winning his semi-final in 9.88sec.
Coleman, the fastest man in the world this year over the distance, took the tape ahead of Canada's Aaron Brown, who was second in 10.12sec.
It was an emphatic display from the 23-year-old Coleman, the heavy favourite to claim gold later Saturday.
The stocky American erupted smoothly out of the blocks and led almost from start to finish, easing up well before the line.
Brown won the battle for second, with Britain's Adam Gemili third with 10.13sec.
But while Coleman cruised, defending champion Justin Gatlin only scraped into the final as one of the fastest losers.
Gatlin squeezed in after finishing third in his semi-final behind Canada's Andre DeGrasse and Jamaica's Yohan Blake.
DeGrasse won in a time of 10.07sec, with Blake clocking 10.09sec. The 37-year-old Gatlin was just behind in 10.09sec.
The third semi-final was won by South Africa's Akani Simbine in ...

Coleman powers into 100m final

Nine people, including a soldier and a policeman, were killed in two separate attacks by jihadists in restive northeast Nigeria, officials and vigilantes said Saturday.
Fighters from the IS-aligned Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group attacked Nigerian and Chadian troops in the town of Gajiram late Friday, prompting a fierce battle in which eight people were killed.
"We lost eight people in the attack including a policeman, a local hunter and six residents," local district official Shettima Maina told AFP.
The militants in several pickup trucks fitted with machine guns attacked the town, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from regional capital Maiduguri, and engaged Nigerian and Chadian troops assisted by local hunters in battle, Maina said.
The jihadists lost a truck when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during the fight, killing all fighters on board, said Maigana Maidurama, the head of Borno state hunters union.
"We dealt them a heavy blow and forced them to flee as one ..

Jihadists kill 9 in Nigeria attacks

Armed raiders killed eight civilians in an attack on a village Saturday in Burkina Faso's troubled north, with another person missing, security sources said.
The attack happened on Saturday morning in the village of Komsilga, in the Zimtanga district, one source said.
"They also burnt shops and motorcycles," the source said, adding that security forces had been deployed for "clearing up operations."
Another source said around 20 attackers came on motorbikes.
"A resident was kidnapped by the assailants," the second source said.
Nine civilians were killed in two separate attacks in the same region in the past week.
Burkina Faso has become part of a seven-year-old jihadist insurgency in the poor, fragile Sahel region.
More than 580 people have been killed since early 2015, according to an AFP toll.
Many of the attacks have been attributed to groups affiliated to Al-Qaeda, and others to the so-called Islamic State group.

8 civilians killed in Burkina Faso attack: security sources

Protecting a potentially vulnerable whistleblower versus the public's need to know: a US newspaper's publication of information on the man whose complaint led to an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has sparked controversy and debate.
After the release of a complaint accusing Trump of having solicited "interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election," The New York Times reported that the whistleblower is a CIA officer once posted to the White House who is an expert on European issues and the political situation in Ukraine.
Lawyers for the whistleblower have deemed those revelations to be dangerous for their client, both personally and professionally.
Calls to cancel subscriptions to the Times, circulated under the hashtag #CancelNYT, have proliferated on social media, where some have demanded the resignation of executive editor Dean Baquet.
Baquet defended the decision, saying that Trump and some of his supporters had attacked the whistleblower's credibility, 

US newspaper sparks controversy by publishing details on whistleblower

Meghan Markle has visited the site where a young female student was murdered in South Africa last month in a show of solidarity with victims of gender violence in one of the world's most dangerous countries for women.
The Duchess of Sussex tied a yellow ribbon in memory of 19-year old Uyinene Mrwetyana, brutally raped and killed in the coastal city of Cape Town, where she was attending university.
The visit took place secretly this week but was announced on the official Sussex Royal Instagram page on Saturday.
"Visiting the site of this tragic death and being able to recognise Uyinene... was personally important to The Duchess," said the Instagram post, adding that Meghan also met her mother to relay her condolences.
South Africa is plagued by gender-based violence, with at least 137 sexual offences committed per day, according to official figures.
In August alone, more than 30 women were killed by their spouses.
Mrwetyana's murder is among a handful of recent cases that sparked ...

Duchess of Sussex pays secret tribute to murdered S Africa student

Dozens of women protested in Istanbul on Saturday to denounce rising violence against women and the government's failure to stop brutal attacks across the country.
They gathered in the Kadikoy neighbourhood on the Asian side of Istanbul, recounting harrowing stories of women recently murdered across the country, including Emine Bulut, whose killing by her ex-husband in August sparked outrage.
"Stop the murder of women!", "Stop male violence!" and "Do not watch violence, do something," they shouted.
Bulut's murder in front of her daughter sent shockwaves across Turkey after a video of the attack was published online.
The 38-year-old was stabbed to death in a cafe on August 18 by her former husband in the central Anatolian city of Kirikkale. Bulut, who had divorced him four years ago, died in hospital.
Her name was a worldwide trending topic on Twitter and "I don't want to die" (#olmekistemiyorum) was widely quoted on social media.
"The murder of Emine Bulut sparked frustration and ...

Turkish women rally against rising violence targeting them

The British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero docked in Dubai on Saturday after sailing from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas where it was held for more than two months, according to pool footage and a tracking website.
The vessel docked at Port Rashid in Dubai on Saturday after halting off the coast overnight, according to data from ship tracking website MarineTraffic.com.
Pool reporters at the commercial port confirmed the ship had moored, while video images showed the Swedish owned vessel docked and surrounded by several small boats, including at least one flying the United Arab Emirates flag.
The ship's seizure back in July was widely seen as a tit-for-tat move after authorities in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar detained an Iranian tanker on suspicion it was shipping oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.
Tehran repeatedly denied the cases were related.
The Stena Impero sailed from Iran and into international waters of the Gulf on Friday morning, according to local ...

British-flagged tanker docks in Dubai after Iran release

Jurgen Klopp said he was happy to win ugly after Liverpool extended their perfect start to the Premier League season thanks to Georginio Wijnaldum's fortunate strike in a 1-0 victory at Sheffield United on Saturday.
The European champions looked short on invention against the well-organised Blades until Wijnaldum's shot from the edge of the box 20 minutes from time trickled between the legs of United goalkeeper Dean Henderson.
The win -- Liverpool's 16th consecutive victory in the top flight -- moved Klopp's men eight points clear of champions Manchester City ahead of City's game against Everton later on Saturday.
Liverpool missed out on winning the Premier League by a single point last season but are now setting a searing pace as they chase their first top-flight title since 1990, with seven victories in as many matches.
"For us it was important to win, we had unbelievably big chances," Klopp told BT Sport.
"In the first half we had two big chances and in the second one which we ...

Liverpool grind out win against Sheffield United to extend perfect start

Decathlon star Kevin Mayer slammed the decision to stage the World Athletics Championships in Doha on Saturday, accusing organisers of putting athletes "in jeopardy."
The 27-year-old -- Olympic silver medalist in 2016 -- said staging the championships in the heat and humidity was a "catastrophe".
Mayer was speaking after 28 of the 68 runners in the women's marathon failed to finish after wilting in weather conditions of 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) and humidity of over 70%.
His stinging comments follow those of 50 kilometres walk defending champion Yohann Diniz, who accused the IAAF of treating athletes as 'idiots' for making them compete in such conditions.
Diniz -- who added the walkers were being used as "guinea pigs" -- defends his title later on Saturday, both the men and women's races get underway (2030GMT).
"Clearly by organising the championship here, they didn't put the athletes first, they've mostly put them in jeopardy," said Mayer at a press conference on ...

IAAF placing athletes in jeopardy, claims decathlon champion Mayer

Aryna Sabalenka was in disbelief after she became the first player to claim back-to-back titles in Wuhan thanks to a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory over American Alison Riske in the final on Saturday.
The 21-year-old improved her record at the event to a perfect 12-0 and joins Petra Kvitova as the only player to have won the tournament twice.
"I can't believe that I defended this title. I couldn't even imagine that I would be able to do this," she said.
In a rematch of their final in Shenzhen last January, Sabalenka utilised her power game once again to overcome Riske in 114 minutes in front of a 13,000-strong centre court crowd. She unleashed 18 aces and won 79 percent of her first-serve points.
Sabalenka was emotional during the trophy ceremony as she addressed her coach Dmitry Tursunov, after the duo briefly split following her second round exit in the US Open.
"Special thanks to my team, this year has been really tough for us, and I think because of Wuhan, because I was really afraid of ...

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