News Headlines - 18 September 2019

▽Photo Shows Justin Trudeau in Brownface at ‘Arabian Nights’ Party | Time

Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, wore brownface makeup to a party at the private school where he was teaching in the spring of 2001. TIME has obtained a photograph of the incident.
The photograph has not been previously reported. The picture was taken at an “Arabian Nights”-themed gala. It shows Trudeau, then the 29-year-old son of the late former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, wearing a turban and robes with his face, neck and hands completely darkened. The photograph appears in the 2000-2001 yearbook of West Point Grey Academy, a private day school where Trudeau was a teacher.

▽UK military rugby team visit shrine for war criminals in Japan | The Times

A British military rugby team has been embarrassed after making a pilgrimage to a Japanese shrine that honours the souls of executed war criminals.
Members of the UK Armed Forces rugby team have been dressed down by Paul Madden, British ambassador to Tokyo, after being given a guided tour of the Yasukuni Shrine, where the country’s war dead are honoured as Shinto gods.
The team hastily removed a post about its visit to the shrine and its notorious museum, a celebration of Japanese martial prowess and wartime glory. Among other exhibits it features an original Zero fighter plane, a kamikaze submarine and one of the locomotives from the Thailand-Burma “Death Railway”.

▽US Navy confirms previously released UFO videos show 'unidentified aerial phenomena' - CNNPolitics

The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials said they don't know what the objects are, they're not indulging any hints either.
The objects seen in three clips of declassified military footage are "unidentified aerial phenomena," Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher confirmed to CNN.
The clips, released between December 2017 and March 2018 by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, appear to show fast-moving, oblong objects captured by advanced infrared sensors.

▽Justice Department: Edward Snowden Book Profits Should Go To The U.S. Government : NPR

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden alleging that his newly released memoir, Permanent Record, violates nondisclosure agreements he signed with the federal government. Justice Department lawyers say the U.S. is entitled to all of Snowden's book profits.
The civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Virginia names the former National Security Agency contractor and his New York-based publisher, Macmillan.
The suit, submitted to the court on the same day as the release of Snowden's book, argues that Snowden's failure to receive pre-publication approval from the NSA and the Central Intelligence Agency constitutes a breach of contract.

▽Saudi Arabia promises concrete proof Iran behind oil strikes - Reuters

Saudi Arabia promised evidence on Wednesday linking its main regional adversary Iran to an unprecedented attack on its oil industry, which Washington also blames on Tehran in a perilous escalation of Middle East frictions.
Iran, however, again denied involvement in the Sept. 14 raids, which hit the world’s biggest crude processing facility and initially knocked out half of Saudi production.