News Headlines - 30 September 2019

▽Confusion as Afghan election frontrunners each claim victory | The Guardian

The frontrunners for Afghanistan’s presidency, the incumbent Ashraf Ghani and chief executive Abdullah Abdullah, have both declared victory, echoing an election crisis five years ago when competing claims by the two men led to months of turmoil.
The country’s Independent Election Commission is gathering votes from Saturday’s poll. If no candidate wins more than half, a runoff vote will be held between the top two.

▽Peter Navarro: Reports that US would bar Chinese firms are 'fake news'

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday characterized recent reports that the U.S. is considering restrictions on Chinese companies as grossly inaccurate.
“The last time we talked, I proposed ‘Navarro’s Rule,’ which is that any story that comes from anonymous sources is likely to be fake news designed to part a fool from his money,” Navarro told CNBC. “And that story, which appeared in Bloomberg, I’ve read it far more carefully than it was written.”
“Over half of it was highly inaccurate or simply flat-out false,” he said.

▽Boris Johnson denies squeezing the thigh of journalist Charlotte Edwardes | The Sunday Times

Boris Johnson last night denied that he had squeezed a journalist’s thigh under the table at a private lunch.
Charlotte Edwardes made the accusation in a column for The Sunday Times in an account of an event at The Spectator’s offices shortly after Mr Johnson became the magazine’s editor 20 years ago in 1999.

▽Team creates world’s 1st mini multi-organ from human iPS cells：The Asahi Shimbun

In a world first, researchers have created a mini multi-organ structure from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.
According to results published in the British science journal Nature on Sept. 25, Takanori Takebe, a professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and other researchers created a liver, bile duct and pancreas at the same time.

▽315 billion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica - BBC News

The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years.
The calved block covers 1,636 sq km in area - a little smaller than Scotland's Isle of Skye - and is called D28... Not since the early 1960s has Amery calved a bigger iceberg. That was a whopping 9,000 sq km in area.