News Headlines - 17 November 2019
The directive was among 403 pages of internal documents that have been shared with The New York Times in one of the most significant leaks of government papers from inside China’s ruling Communist Party in decades. They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years.
▽Stop Calling China’s Xi Jinping ‘President,’ U.S. Panel Says - WSJ
A bipartisan commission convened by Congress wants everyone to stop calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping “president.”
The title implies Mr. Xi is elected by a popular democratic vote and not the winner of an internal power contest in the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its annual report released Thursday.
▽More than half of Italians in poll say racist acts are justifiable | The Guardian
More than half of the Italians surveyed in a recent poll have said that racist acts were either sometimes or always “justifiable”, a finding that comes after a series of high-profile racist and antisemitic incidents across the country.
The polling firm, SWG, questioned a sample of 1,500 people of whom 10% said racist acts were always justified and a further 45% who said racist acts could be acceptable depending on the situation.
The remaining 45% said racist acts of any kind were completely unacceptable.
▽Heavy snow snarls traffic, shuts schools in Iran capital
Heavy snowfall blanketed the streets of north Tehran on Saturday, causing traffic chaos and forcing the closure of schools, authorities in the Iranian capital said.
Crews of municipal workers were battling to clear roads and pavements in parts of the capital, where snow began falling at the start of the morning rush hour and continued through the day.
▽Japan team finds 143 stunning new images in Nazca Lines of Peru：The Asahi Shimbun
Japanese researchers discovered 143 stunning geoglyphs of humans, birds, camels and other animals etched into the desert in southern Peru around the mysterious Nazca Lines.
One image was found using AI technology, which was backed up by an on-site investigation.
Yamagata University studied the area between 2016 and 2018, and announced its findings on Nov. 15.
