News Headlines - 10 November 2020

▽WTO postpones meeting to choose new leader | NHK WORLD

The World Trade Organization has postponed a meeting to select the organization's new chief. The decision was apparently due to US opposition to the appointment of a Nigerian official.
The meeting scheduled for Monday was expected to choose between former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee.
On October 28, WTO officials recommended that Okonjo-Iweala be the body's new director-general, saying that she had broad support from the members.
But the US insisted that Yoo, who has extensive experience in trade, should be the next chief.

▽EU imposes retaliatory tariffs on US over Boeing-Airbus spat

The European Union said Monday it would impose tariffs on up to $4 billion worth of U.S. goods and services over illegal aid for plane maker Boeing - but expressed hope that trade ties would improve once President Donald Trump leaves office.

▽Facebook removes pages tied to Steve Bannon for misinformation - The Washington Post

Facebook took down a widespread network of pages tied to President Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon for pushing misinformation about voter fraud and delegitimizing election results... The seven pages, which had a total of over 2.45 million followers and had pushed the “Stop the Steal” messaging that alleges election fraud, were flagged for Facebook by the liberal group Avaaz on Friday night.
The move comes just days after Bannon was permanently banned from Twitter after saying that Trump should execute Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert. Facebook had also removed two videos from his page for inciting violence.

▽India hails Kamala Harris as history-making U.S. vice president-elect | The Japan Times

Residents set off firecrackers in the ancestral home of Kamala Harris on Sunday as India celebrated the vice president-elect’s victory in the U.S. election, as others hailed her achievement as historic and a “proud moment” for the country.
Harris - daughter of breast cancer specialist Shyamala Gopalan from the southern Indian city of Chennai - paid tribute to her late mother, who “believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible” in a national address with president-elect Joe Biden on Saturday.
At Thulasendrapuram village in Tamil Nadu state, once home to Harris’ maternal grandfather P.V. Gopalan, celebrations broke out with locals lighting firecrackers, praying at its main temple and waving posters bearing the 56-year-old’s face.

▽Militant Islamists 'behead more than 50' in Mozambique - BBC News

More than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report.
The militants turned a football pitch in a village into an "execution ground", where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said.
Several people were also beheaded in another village, state media reported.
The beheadings are the latest in a series of gruesome attacks that the militants have carried out in gas-rich Cabo Delgado province since 2017.