An 18-year-old man was killed and two teenage girls were injured in a shooting Thursday in rural eastern Oklahoma, and a woman believed to be the mother of at least one of the victims is in custody, a sheriff said.
The shooting was reported around 6.30 am local time at a home in the Nuyaka area, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) southwest of Tulsa. Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said at a news conference that the young man was found dead at the scene, one of the girls was in critical condition and the other was stable.
Rice said Amy Leann Hall, 38, who is believed to be the biological mother of at least one of the teens, is in custody. She was being held in the Okmulgee County Jail on preliminary charges of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill. Formal charges have not been filed.
It was not clear if Hall has a lawyer. "We do not have a motive at this time. We're still investigating this," Rice said.
Police have visited the household multiple .

1 teen dead, 2 hurt in Oklahoma shooting; woman in custody

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The US Justice Department on Thursday charged a fugitive Malaysian financier in a money laundering and bribery scheme that pilfered billions of dollars from a Malaysian investment fund created to promote economic development projects in that country.
The three-count indictment charges Low Taek Jho, who is also known as Jho Low, of misappropriating money from the state-owned fund and using it to bribe foreign officials and to pay for luxury real estate, art and jewelry in the US and to fund Hollywood movies, including "The Wolf of Wall Street."
Also charged was a Goldman Sachs banker, Tim Leissner, who pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and to conspiring to violating foreign bribery laws. Another bank official, Ng Chong Hwa, 51, also known as Roger Ng, was arrested earlier Thursday in Malaysia, prosecutors said.
A lawyer for Leissner did not return multiple messages Thursday.
The charges are the first arising from a global scandal over the epic corruption scandal at the ...

US charges Malaysian financier in money laundering scheme

World Anti-Doping Agency President Craig Reedie says his wife threatened to divorce him if he didn't resign from the organisation amid the furore over the Russia investigation.
Critics say because Reedie is a member of the International Olympic Committee his objectivity has been compromised.
Reedie told The Associated Press, "I don't think the world gets better by me not being there."
Despite WADA investigators finding a state-sponsored doping program was run from Moscow, the Russians haven't had to accept the full findings before being readmitted to the agency, which allows them to test athletes again.
Reedie says "it's not particularly comfortable to continually read in the papers ... that you should resign or you're not doing (the job) properly."
It's affecting his home life.
Reedie says "my wife gave me an option a few days ago, resignation or divorce.
Fortunately she calmed down." Asked how he persuaded Rosemary Reedie, the Scotsman said, "I decided to develop a new kitchen which 

WADA leader says wife threatened divorce if he didn't quit

Thousands of Central American migrants resumed their slow trek through southern Mexico on Thursday, and activists aiding the group said they were shifting their route toward the Gulf coast, a path closer to the Texas border.
The migrants set out before dawn after taking a day's break in the Oaxaca state city of Juchitan.
The activists said they would try to reach the town of Matias Romero, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) ahead.
They had tried to arrange bus transport from Juchitan, but failed, leaving them once again on foot, hitch-hiking and looking for rides where they can find them.
The migrants have not said what route they intend to take northward or where on the US border they planned to reach, and Juchitan, still about 900 miles from US soil, was something of a crossroads.
While Matias Romero would carry them toward the Gulf coast city of Veracruz and a route toward the Texas border, another large caravan early this year passed through Veracruz and then veered back toward Mexico 

Migrant caravan must walk as Mexico ignores demand for buses

Joint US-Turkish patrols will begin within hours around the northern Syrian town of Manbij, part of a roadmap for easing tensions between the two NATO allies, an official with a US-backed militia said Thursday.
Sharfan Darwish, spokesman of the Manbij Military Council, told The Associated Press the patrols will begin later Thursday.
He said they will take place on the front lines between his group and those of Turkey-backed rebels in the operation called Euphrates Shield.
Ankara and Washington agreed on a roadmap in June amid Turkish demands for the withdrawal of the US-backed Kurdish militia that freed Manbij from the Islamic State group in 2016.
The US and the Turks have been conducting independent patrols along the front line and joint patrols are considered a way to tamp down potential violence between the various groups in the region.
The Manbij Military Council that administers the town says the Kurdish militia, the People's Protection Units, or YPG, which Turkey views as a ...

US, Turkey to begin patrols around northern Syrian town

A Danish man has been arrested in South Africa on suspicion of having played a key role in a fraud case that caused a Danish government welfare agency to lose at least 111 million kroner (USD 17 million), Denmark's top prosecution authority said.
Prosecutor Thomas Anderskov Riis with the Serious Economic and International Crime unit said the unidentified man was arrested Tuesday in Johannesburg as he was trying to leave the country.
Anderskov Riis said "the focus remains on arresting the main suspect"  Britta Nielsen, 64  adding Denmark would seek the extradition of the arrested man.
His role was not known. Nielsen, a civil servant for 40 years with the National Board of Health and Welfare, is suspected of stealing money intended to help vulnerable people, including the homeless and disabled.
Shortly before the fraud was made public last month, Nielsen vanished from Denmark and her whereabouts are unknown. She is sought by the Interpol. According to Danish media, her family owns ...

Man arrested in South Africa in Denmark fraud case

Ground, air and naval units from five Arab nations are arriving in Egypt to join their Egyptian counterparts for war games, according to the Egyptian military, in the first sign that a military alliance proposed by Washington for its Middle East partners may be gaining traction.
A military statement late Wednesday said forces from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan will take part in the November 3-16 exercises codenamed "Arab Shield" and to be held in western Egypt. Lebanon and Morocco are taking part as observers.
The announcement came a little more than a month after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met in New York with the foreign ministers from the six nations participating in this month's war games plus those from Oman and Qatar to advance the idea of creating a Sunni alliance uniting America's Middle East partners against Shiite and non-Arab Iran.
However, the Egyptian military statement made no link between the war games and the proposed alliance, ..

Forces from Egypt, 5 other Arab nations to start joint drill

President Donald Trump says the number of military troops deployed to the US-Mexican border could reach 15,000  roughly double the number the Pentagon said it currently plans for a mission whose dimensions are shifting daily.
The Pentagon says "more than 7,000" troops were being sent to the southwest border to support the Customs and Border Protection agents. Officials said that number could reach a maximum of about 8,000 under present plans.
The troop numbers have been changing at a dizzying pace, with Trump drawing a hard line on immigration in the lead-up to the mid-term elections.
Just last week officials were indicating that about 800 to 1,000 might be sent.
On Monday, officials announced that about 5,200 were being deployed. The next day, the Air Force general running the operation said more than the initially announced total were going, and he pointedly rejected a news report that it could reach 14,000, saying that was "not consistent with what's actually being ...

Trump says border troops could hit 15K, surprising Pentagon

The Brazilian judge at the center of one of the largest corruption investigations in history is meeting with President-elect Jair Bolsonaro.
Judge Sergio Moro was seen by Associated Press journalists entering Bolsonaro's home in Rio de Janeiro early Thursday.
Bolsonaro has said he wants Moro to be justice minister or to fill the next vacancy on the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil's top court.
Moro told the AP in a statement earlier this week he was honored and considering the possibilities.
Launched in 2014, the "Car Wash" investigation into billions of dollars in bribes to politicians and other government officials has led to the jailing of many of the country's biggest names.
That list includes jailed ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was convicted of corruption by Moro.

Brazil's anti-graft judge Moro meets with president-elect

Turkey's justice minister on Thursday renewed a call on Saudi Arabia to cooperate in the investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, saying "no one can escape responsibility."
Abdulhamit Gul said that Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor  who spent three days in Istanbul as part of joint Turkish-Saudi efforts to investigate the killing  had failed to answer Turkish investigators' questions about the location of the writer's remains as well as who ordered the killing.
"We expect these questions to be answered swiftly," Gul told reporters. "No one can escape responsibility. This issue has become a world matter. It is not an issue that can be covered up."
He added: "We want the Saudi authorities to enter into close cooperation with us. They have to support (the probe) so that the entire incident is brought to light." Istanbul's chief prosecutor announced Wednesday that The Washington Post columnist was strangled immediately after he entered ..

Turkey urges Saudi cooperation in Khashoggi probe

China and America are "competitors but not adversaries," US Sen Lamar Alexander told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday, despite a spiralling trade war and other tensions that have pushed relations to their lowest point in years.
The upbeat message at their meeting in Beijing came amid concerns that the US-China trade dispute will drag on, hurting company profits and the overall US economy. Tensions have also arisen over China's claims to Taiwan and the South China Sea, allegations of Chinese theft of commercial secrets and accusations of meddling in American politics.
Coming a week ahead of the US midterm elections, the visit by Alexander at the head of a seven-member delegation of Republican senators and congress members seemed all the more extraordinary. All are strong supporters of US President Donald Trump, who has slapped tariffs on USD 250 billion on Chinese products and threatened much more.
"Your country and our country are competitors but not adversaries and we believe ..

US senator says China, US 'competitors but not adversaries'

Australia has announced it will invest in redeveloping a Papua New Guinea naval base as concerns mount over increasing Chinese influence in the South Pacific.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Papua New Guinea counterpart Peter O'Neill met in Sydney on Thursday to sign the joint redevelopment agreement for the Lombrum Naval Base on Manus Island.
The leaders said in a joint statement the deal will enhance interoperability between the near-neighbours' militaries and lead to more Australian naval visits.
US Chief of Naval Operations Adm John Richardson has described the base redevelopment as a "terrific opportunity."
Richardson is visiting Australia for talks on regional security and the Indo-Pacific region.
Richardson says it's too early to tell if US warships will eventually use the port.

Australia invests in developing Papua New Guinea naval base

The first democratically elected president of the Maldives has returned home after more than two years in exile to escape a long prison term.
The plane carrying Mohamed Nasheed from Sri Lanka landed in Maldives' capital, Male, on Thursday.
He was welcomed by his party members and supporters.
Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in jail in 2015 after being convicted of terrorism for ordering the arrest of a top judge in 2012 while he was president.
His trial was criticised internationally for lack of due process.
He was offered asylum in Britain when he travelled there for medical treatment on leave from prison.
Nasheed was elected president in the country's first multiparty election in 2008.
His return follows the election defeat of strongman Yameen Abdul Gayoom.

Maldives ex-president returns from asylum

Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Thursday, just months after the small Central American nation broke its diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
The state visit comes one day before that of the president of the Dominican Republic, whose country also switched allegiances from Taiwan to China this year.
El Salvador and the Dominican Republic are among a growing number of countries that have cut ties with Taiwan in favour of resuming or establishing relations with China, which considers the self-governing island democracy to be part of its territory.
Only 17 mainly small, developing countries now recognise Taiwan as a sovereign nation.
Taiwan split from mainland China during a civil war in 1949, and Beijing has been steadily ratcheting up diplomatic and economic pressure since Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016.
Beijing's aggressiveness is largely driven by Tsai's refusal to endorse Beijing's "one-China ...

China hosts El Salvador as nations cut ties with Taiwan

Turkey's state-run news agency says a passenger bus has crashed into the back of a truck on a highway in northern Turkey, killing two people and wounding 31 others -- including several soldiers travelling to join their army units.
Anadolu Agency says the accident occurred Thursday near the town of Tosya, in the Black Sea coastal province of Kastamanu.
The bus driver and his assistant were killed at the scene.
The private DHA news agency said the bus was travelling from Istanbul to the city of Samsun.
None of the injured passengers was in serious condition.
The cause of the accident, which temporarily shut down the highway, was under investigation.

Bus crash in Turkey kills 2, wounds 31 including soldiers

Australia aims to remove all asylum seeker children from Nauru within two months as concerns escalate about their deteriorating health after languishing on the tiny Pacific atoll nation for up to five years.
But Cabinet ministers said Thursday the government is maintaining its much-criticised policy of sending all asylum seekers who attempt to reach Australia by boat to immigration camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
Refugee advocates welcomed the change for children, 46 of whom were born in Nauru.
Activists said there were only 38 children remaining on Nauru by Thursday.
Papua New Guinea has male-only facilities and all asylum seekers there are adults.
Australia's top diplomat in Britain, High Commissioner George Brandis, told London radio LBC that the government expects all asylum seeking children to be moved from Nauru to Australia this year.
"There are hardly any children on Nauru ... and we expect that by the end of this year, there will be none," Brandis said.
Prime Minister ...

Australia aims to remove asylum seeker children from Nauru

One by one, five to a grave, the coffins are buried in the red earth of this ill-kept corner of a South African cemetery.
The scrawl on the cheap wood attests to their anonymity: "Unknown B/Male."
These men were migrants from elsewhere in Africa with next to nothing who sought a living in the thriving underground economy of Gauteng province, a name that roughly translates to "land of gold."
Instead of fortune, many found death, their bodies unnamed and unclaimed  more than 4,300 in Gauteng between 2014 and 2017 alone.
Some of those lives ended here at the Olifantsvlei cemetery, in silence, among tufts of grass growing over tiny placards that read: Pauper Block. There are coffins so tiny that they could only belong to children.
As people worldwide flee war, hunger and a lack of jobs, global migration has soared to record highs, with more than 258 million international migrants in 2017.
That is an increase of 49 per cent from the turn of the century, according to the United Nations.
Far 

Tracing the path of 56,800 dead and missing migrants

The name of the store is High North, but it might as well be named High and Dry because for all but about four hours of the first two weeks since marijuana was legalized in Canada, there was no pot to sell.
Trevor Tobin, one of the owners of the Labrador City shop in Newfoundland and Labrador, said they went 10 straight days without supply.
"The producers keep saying there will be some bumps in the road, but right now it's not a bump in the road. It's a big pothole," he said.
His mother, Brenda Tobin, is a part-owner and said that after she tells customers there's nothing to buy, "a lot of them are saying, 'Oh, well. I guess it's back to the black market.'" Legalization arrived Oct. 17, and Canada became the world's largest national marketplace for so-called recreational marijuana. But for now, it's a superlative in name only.
The first weeks have felt more like a soft opening with few retail outlets operating and rampant supply shortages. It's not because Canada can't produce enough .

Supply shortages plague Canada's new cannabis marketplace

Like untold numbers of spontaneously shot smartphone videos, Paul Ferdinand Ayorbaba's most recent was not a work of art, full of the backs of heads and the constant bobbing and disorientating pans and zooms that are a signature of mass digital culture.
But its mundane details have been transformed by tragedy into something deeply chilling  the last images of some of the 189 people who perished in terrifying circumstances little more than an hour after the video was shot.
Just minutes after takeoff, their Lion Air flight plunged into the Java Sea, tearing apart the plane and the people in it.
Ayorbaba traveled frequently within Indonesia on business and the boarding video was perhaps meant to comfort his wife, Inchy Ayorbaba, who felt a little anxious about the trip to an outlying island he'd never visited.
"It was his last contact with me, his last message to me," she said in an interview with Indonesian TV at a police hospital where she'd taken their three children for DNA tests to .

Chilling phone video shows passengers boarding fatal flight

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will "soon" visit Seoul as part of a flurry of high-profile diplomacy aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
During a speech before parliament, Moon said that a second North Korea-US summit is "near at hand" and that Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit North Korea soon. Moon also said he expected Kim to visit Russia soon and that Kim may meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Moon has previously said that Kim told him he would visit Seoul within this year when the leaders met in Pyongyang in September. South Korea's presidential office said later Thursday that it had nothing to add to Moon's speech about Kim's trip. His comments were in line with previous statements, the Blue House said.
They suggest that Moon is determined to push ahead with diplomacy to resolve the nuclear issue.
"Now, based on firm trust among one another, South and North Korea and the United ...

S Korea's Moon: N Korean leader Kim to visit Seoul 'soon'

Japan's central government resumed work at a disputed US military base relocation site on Okinawa on Thursday even though residents see the project as an undemocratic imposition on the small southern island.
The Defense Ministry's branch on the island said an early stage of landfill work at Henoko on Okinawa's east coast began Thursday morning.
Construction workers were setting up floats to mark the designated landfill area, making it off-limits to the public, including protesters, said Satoshi Shirakata, a spokesman at the Okinawa Defense Bureau overseeing the Henoko project.
At the centre of contention is a decades-old plan to move a Marine Corps air station from densely populated Futenma in the southern part of the island to less-crowded Henoko on the east coast.
Many Okinawans say the presence of so many US troops on the island is burdensome already and they want the air station moved off the island entirely.
Defense Ministry officials said the resumption of work at Henoko ...

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