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It's a story that has made headlines around the world. A British peer's daughter found lying dead in a Philippine street next to a sign declaring "drug pusher to the celebrities you're next!"

Maria Aurora Moynihan, a 45-year-old with dual British-Filipino nationality, appears to have become the latest victim in the crackdown on drugs by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
She had been on bail since her arrest for alleged possession of drugs in 2013.
Baron's daughter killed in Philippines
Her death has thrown the spotlight back on her father Antony, the 3rd Baron Moynihan, who himself was linked to international heroin smuggling as well as prostitution and fraud, and spent years on the run.

'Playboy Peer'

The Moynihan family's entry into the British aristocracy began in the 1920s when Berkeley Moynihan - a highly-regarded surgeon - was made the 1st Baron Moynihan.
His father Andrew, an army captain, had won the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Crimean War.
But scandal came to the 2nd Baron Moynihan, Patrick, who at the time of his death in 1965 was facing charges of homosexual importuning.
His son Antony Moynihan, the third baron, was born in 1936 and educated at the private school, Stowe.
A sign that his life was not going to follow the traditional route of a peer of the realm was when he married actress and sometime nude model Ann Herbert in secret in 1955.

The marriage quickly turned sour, though, and a year later he fled to Sydney.
There, while working as a bongo drummer in a nightclub, the man who would become known as the "Playboy Peer" met his second wife, Shirin Belly, a Malaysian belly dancer and fire-eater.
They married in 1958, had a daughter, and enjoyed both a move to Ibiza and a belly-dancing tour of Europe during their nine years together.
In 1965, Antony Moynihan - who once worked as chauffeur for notorious slum landlord Peter Rachman - entered the House of Lords, declaring: "I have every intention of shaking this place up. Sparks will fly."
But his active days in the Lords were short-lived as, by 1970, he was facing dozens of fraud charges over various business and financial transactions.
He would later say he had been given 48 hours' notice by a man from the CID who offered to make the charges go away for £50,000.
Instead, he fled the country with his, by then third, wife Luz de la Rossa Fernandez, a dancer and the niece of the Philippines' ambassador to Cambodia.
After a brief spell in Spain, during which British officials sought his extradition, the family landed in the Philippines where he remained for most of the rest of his life.
Maria Aurora was born in 1971, a younger sister for the couple's first child Antonita, now a famous Filipino actress known as Maritoni Fernandez. A third sister Kathleen was born in 1974.
After learning of her sister's death this week, Ms Fernandez described her as an "exceptional human being I will forever have the privilege of calling my sister".

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Their parents split in 1980 - the same year Antony Moynihan was described as a "shadowy figure" by an Australian judge investigating Sydney's drugs world.
Mr Justice Woodward told the New South Wales Royal Drugs Commission the peer "is or was in some way involved in the importation of heroin from Manila", Australian media reported at the time.
The court also heard he owned a farm where he grew vegetables and flowers, as well as running "massage parlours".
But when a reporter in the Philippines put the allegations to him, he retorted: "Me shadowy? Isn't it absurd?"
However, it was widely accepted he had become involved in Manila's underworld, running a number of brothels, including one called the Yellow Brick Road.
And he did it all without fear; his close connection with then-president Ferdinand Marcos - who he described as a "drinking buddy" - apparently affording him some level of protection.
But after Marcos fell in 1986, that protection disappeared - and Lord Moynihan was suddenly vulnerable to the various international agencies who had been waiting to get their hands on him.

Botswana is to deport controversial US pastor Steven Anderson after he said on a local radio that homosexuals should be "stoned to death".

President Ian Khama told the Reuters news agency that he had personally ordered his arrest.
"We don't want hate speech in this country. Let him do it in his own country," he said.
Last week, South Africa barred Mr Anderson from visiting because of his critical remarks about homosexuality.

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Homosexual acts are illegal in Botswana, as in many African countries.
After his visa for South Africa was rejected, Mr Anderson had posted on his Facebook page: "Thank God we still have a wide open door in Botswana."
Mr Anderson was taking part in a morning show hosted by GabzFM station together with a local pastor and an LGBT activist.
The show's presenter Reginald Richardson told the BBC that Mr Anderson expressed disdain for homosexuals during the show saying that they should be killed.
Botswana's private Mmegi newspaper reported that security agents apprehended the pastor after the radio show.
"I am not being arrested. I am leaving Botswana voluntarily," Mr Anderson told witnesses at the radio station, Reuters reports.
Onkokame Mosweu, a commentator on gay and lesbian affairs, commended the government's action but said that the pastor should not have been allowed into the country.
Mr Khama said that the pastor had been put on a visa watch list after he was banned from travelling to South Africa, but the order had not been communicated to all officials manning the country's borders.
The preacher had arrived in Botswana late last week and had given a sermon at a local church that he helped set up, Mr Richardson said.
Mr Anderson runs the Faithful Word Baptist Church, which says that homosexuality is an abomination punishable by the death penalty.
His church is based in the US state of Arizona and describes itself as an "old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist church".

Would you stop throwing things away and get them repaired instead, if it were cheaper to do so?

The Swedish government likes to think its citizens would, and is putting the idea into practice.
The country's Budget for 2017 will cut the VAT rate charged on minor repairs to things like bicycles, shoes and clothes.
Tax refunds will be offered to people who get their white goods repaired, like washing machines and dishwashers.
The VAT rate will be cut from 25% to 12%, and the tax refund will let people reclaim half the labour cost of a repair to white goods and kitchen stoves.
The idea of encouraging people to be less wasteful in their everyday lives has been promoted by the Swedish Green party, which is a partner in the country's ruling minority coalition government, along with the Swedish Social Democrats.

Donald Trump Jr's tweet comparing Skittles to refugees has caused a furore on social media. In a new development, the man who took the photo of the Skittles has revealed himself to be a former refugee.

David Kittos, 48, from Guildford, UK, woke up to find an image he had posted to Flickr in January 2010 had become embroiled in a political controversy.
"This was not done with my permission, I don't support his politics and I would never take his money to use it," Mr Kittos told the BBC.
"In 1974, when I was six-years old, I was a refugee from the Turkish occupation of Cyprus so I would never approve the use of this image against refugees."

In his tweet, the son of the Republican presidential candidate uses Mr Kittos' image with the accompanying text: "If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?''
"That's our Syrian refugee problem."
He adds: "This image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first."
Wrigley, the company that owns Skittles, stepped in to the furore by responding: "Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don't feel it is an appropriate analogy".

'No permission'

David Kittos, who does not follow Twitter, was alerted to the use of the image by friends.
A keen photographer, he told the BBC he originally took the picture in his home studio: "I was just experimenting with something called off-camera flash.
"This was six years ago when there were no Syrian refugees at the time and it was never done with the intention of spreading a political message.
"I have never put this image up for sale. This was not done with my permission, I don't support Trump's politics and I would never take his money to use it."
Mr Kittos' personal history means he is particularly dismayed by his image being used in a debate around accepting refugees.
"I am now a British citizen but I am Greek-Cypriot by birth and in 1974 I was a refugee because of the Turkish occupation.
"I was six years old. We lived in the area of Cyprus that is now under Turkish military control. We had to leave everything behind overnight. Our property and our possessions."

'Pure greed'

Mr Kittos is unsure whether he will take action over the use of his image by the Trump campaign.
"I would like the Trump campaign to delete the image, but they are probably not interested in what I have to say," he said.
"I was thinking about getting lawyers involved but I don't know if I have the patience.
"This isn't about the money for me. They could have just bought a cheap image from a micro stock library. This is pure greed from them. I don't think they care about my feelings. They should not be stealing an image full stop."

An experiment in Germany has found evidence of job discrimination against women with Turkish names - and even more if they wear an Islamic headscarf.

A university researcher sent 1,500 identical CVs to German firms - except that some bore the name Meryem Ozturk and others the name Sandra Bauer.
In 18.8% of cases Sandra Bauer was invited for interview, whereas the figure for Meryem was just 13.5%.
When the photo of Meryem showed her in a headscarf only 4.2% invited her.
The study was published by the Institute for the Study of Labour, in Bonn. The researcher was Doris Weichselbaumer from the University of Linz, in Austria.
The findings are especially significant in light of Germany's current efforts to integrate record numbers of Muslim migrants, many of them refugees from the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than a million asylum seekers reached Germany last year, and there has been a backlash from nationalist groups, especially Pegida and Alternative for Germany (AfD).
With an estimated three million people of Turkish origin, Germany is home to the largest Turkish diaspora.

'Modern-looking' headscarf

In her study, Ms Weichselbaumer said that "a very modern binding of the headscarf was chosen to signal that the applicant was a young, modern woman who could easily fit into a secular environment".
It is normal in Germany to attach a photo to a job application, she pointed out.
The result of the experiment "implies that the candidate with the headscarf had to send 4.5 times as many applications as an identical applicant with a German name and no headscarf to receive the same number of callbacks for interview", she said.
Discrimination appeared to intensify when the job required a higher skill level. When Ms Ozturk in a headscarf was applying for a secretarial job she had to send off 3.5 times more applications than Ms Bauer. For the post of chief accountant Ms Ozturk had to make 7.6 times more applications.
Ms Weichselbaumer has found similar levels of discrimination in Austria. A female Nigerian job applicant was only half as successful as an Austrian woman in getting invitations to interview, her research showed in 2013

Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour under his leadership is reaching out to voters across the UK, after ex-leader Neil Kinnock warned against his re-election.

Lord Kinnock told the BBC the party faced a "lifetime" out of power if Mr Corbyn wins the leadership contest.
But Mr Corbyn told ITV's Peston on Sunday Lord Kinnock should be "more optimistic", as he insisted Labour could appeal to the centre-ground.
It comes with under a week to go until the contest ends this Saturday.
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Mr Corbyn is being challenged for the leadership by Owen Smith, a former Labour work and pensions spokesman".
The contest was sparked after Mr Corbyn lost a vote of no confidence by his MPs, following a series of resignations from his shadow cabinet in protest at his leadership.

A US-led air attack in eastern Syria that killed dozens of government troops fighting so-called Islamic State has endangered an already shaky ceasefire deal, Russia says.

The attack put "a very big question mark" over the truce's future, said Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
The Russian army says at least 62 Syrian troops were killed in the Deir al-Zour strikes.
The US has expressed "regret" for the "unintentional loss of life".
It says its coalition planes halted strikes when informed of the Syrian presence.

A ceasefire deal agreed by the US and Russia went into effect in Syria on Monday, but important terms of the deal, such as the safe passage of aid, have still not been fulfilled.

'American heavy-handedness'

The air attack caused a bitter row between the US and Russia at the United Nations Security Council on Saturday night, with each country's representatives walking out while the other was speaking.
US envoy Samantha Power criticised Russia for calling an emergency meeting of the council, which she said was "cynical and hypocritical".
"Russia really needs to stop the cheap points-scoring and the grandstanding and the stunts and focus on what matters, which is implementation of something we negotiated in good faith with them," she told reporters.
But Mr Churkin said he had never seen "such an extraordinary display of American heavy-handedness" as shown by Ms Power.

Mr Trump suggested Mrs Clinton's security detail should give up their guns and "see what happens to her".
He told supporters his rival wanted to "destroy your second amendment" - referring to the right to own guns.
Mrs Clinton's team has accused Mr Trump of "inciting people to violence".
Speaking at a rally in Miami on Friday, the Republican candidate said, apparently sarcastically: "I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm, right?
"Take their guns away, she doesn't want guns. Take their guns and let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away. OK, it would be very dangerous."
Robby Mook, a spokesman for Mrs Clinton, said: "Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in Chief.
"This kind of talk should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate."
Mrs Clinton has called for tighter gun control laws but has also stressed her support for the second amendment, telling the Democratic Party Convention in July "I'm not here to take away your guns".

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Mr Trump's remarks echoed a controversial speech last month which many Democrats condemned as a call for Mrs Clinton's assassination.
Speaking in North Carolina, he claimed that Mrs Clinton wanted to abolish the second amendment, adding: "By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."
The Trump camp later said he was referring to action through the ballot box, not violence.

His agent said his death on Friday was doctor-assisted, legal practice in Canada from earlier this year. No other details about his health were given.
Kinsella published more than 30 works spanning poetry, fiction and non-fiction and won the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest honours.
But it is the baseball-themed fantasy Shoeless Joe that he is best known for.
In it, a farmer hears a voice urging him to build a baseball field in the middle of his corn crop. When he does the spirits of great players from the past come to play.
The novel was adapted into 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner.
After suffering a head injury in car crash, CBC reported, Kinsella said he lost interest in writing fiction and instead spent his time playing Scrabble online.
However he did resume writing and his final work Russian Dolls is due to be released next year.

Police reportedly fired teargas at mourners. Kashmir is under lockdown as protests against Indian rule continue.
More than 80 people, nearly all anti-government protesters, have died in more than two months of violence.
Nasir Shafi was found dead after going missing on Friday in Srinagar.
An almost complete curfew is now in place in Kashmir, part of the Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state.

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Some reports say Nasir Shafi was 11 years old.
Correspondents say restrictions on free movement and internet use are at their tightest since street demonstrations began on 9 July.
They were sparked by the killing of a popular militant leader in a gunfight with the army.

Russian generals said attacks by rebels, some US-backed, had increased sharply over the past 24 hours.
Gen Viktor Poznikhir said the rebel groups had "not met a single obligation" of the truce.
President Vladimir Putin earlier accused the rebel groups of exploiting the ceasefire to regroup.


Russian General Vladimir Savchenko said "the situation in Syria is worsening", with 55 attacks over the past 24 hours, leading to the deaths of 12 civilians.
Gen Poznikhir said Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, was doing all it could to rein in Syrian troops.
"If the American side does not take the necessary measures to carry out its obligations... a breakdown of the ceasefire will be on the United States," he said.
"The United States and the so-called moderate groups they control have not met a single obligation they assumed in the framework of the Geneva agreement."
The terms require moderate rebel groups to separate themselves from militant factions.
"Without separating, the government troops' hands are tied," Gen Poznikhir said.
"Our repeated messages to the American side are left without a response.. There is doubt that the US is able to influence the moderate opposition they control."
Ceasefire breaches have been reported from both sides since the truce began.

Baada ya mahakama kufanyia uamuzi pingamizi lililowekwa na mawakili wa NHC, kesi hiyo imeahirishwa mpaka tarehe 27 Septemba, mwaka huu ambapo itaanza kusikilizwa rasmi.

he leaders of France and Germany say the EU has agreed on priorities for reinvigorating the bloc despite the "critical situation" created by the UK Brexit vote.
They showed symbolic unity by holding a joint press conference after the summit talks in the Slovak capital Bratislava.
It was the EU's first major meeting as 27 - without the UK present.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said the migrant crisis was a key issue.
"We didn't dodge anything," Mr Hollande said. "We decided that together we have to deal with the migration issue, while respecting the right to asylum."

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Tension over migrants

There is a deep rift over the influx of migrants - including many refugees from Syria - as Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland refuse to accept EU quotas for housing asylum seekers.
They are under pressure to accept quotas so that 160,000 refugees at camps in Greece and Italy can be relocated.
"We talked very concretely about what we are going to do to tackle issues like immigration," Mrs Merkel said. She spoke of an emerging "Bratislava spirit" of co-operation to tackle the toughest issues facing Europe.
"We will all need to make compromises," she admitted.
"We agreed that Europe finds itself in a critical situation after Brexit but that there are also other issues which we need to tackle together."

Aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto, 37, was killed while being held hostage by al-Qaeda in 2015.
US aid worker Warren Weinstein, 73, being held with him also died in the operation.
The White House has confirmed that payments were made to both families, without releasing details.

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President Barack Obama admitted the deaths in April last year, saying that he profoundly regretted them. It was announced that compensation would be paid to the families.

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Officials said at the time that the operation had targeted an al-Qaeda compound in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that they had believed there were no civilians present.
But according to La Repubblica newspaper (in Italian) and the Guardian newspaper, the agreement states that Mr Lo Porto was killed inside Pakistan.

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US military commanders have long tried to make condolence payments to families of innocent people who've been killed in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Making these payments has been harder when the civilians were killed in drone strikes in Pakistan, Libya and other places where the US is not officially at war, however. The drone strikes themselves were kept secret, and determining whether - or how - to provide money for victims' families has been fraught.
In July, however, President Obama released statistics on civilians killed in airstrikes outside of conventional war zones (official estimates of the dead range from 64 to 116).
And now the families of Giovanni Lo Porto and Warren Weinstein have received a payment. These are important steps for Mr Obama, part of a fitful, halting effort to provide transparency about the government's actions and to do the right thing, even when operating in the shadowy world of targeted killings.

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The payment was considered a "donation in memory" of the Italian, La Repubblica says.
Mr Lo Porto had disappeared from Multan, Pakistan, in January 2012 but little is known about what happened then. He had worked for an international aid group called Welthungerhilfe.

But Mr Trump also falsely accused Hillary Clinton's team of starting the so-called "birther" campaign in 2008.
The "birther" movement had questioned Hawaii-born Mr Obama's citizenship and therefore his eligibility as president.
Mrs Clinton said Mr Trump had founded his campaign on "this outrageous lie".
Mr Trump said at a campaign event in Washington: "President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.
"Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean?"
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Mr Trump's campaign team had earlier also said it was Mrs Clinton's team who had started the rumours in 2008.
Senior Trump adviser Jason Miller said that Mr Trump had brought "this ugly incident to its conclusion" in 2011 by forcing Mr Obama to release his birth certificate.
However, Mr Trump had tweeted in 2012 that an "extremely creditable source" had told his office the certificate 
He was also still refusing to say that Mr Obama had been born in Hawaii when questioned on the issue during a Washington Post interview on Thursday.
Analysts say that although the birther issue has not been a major one in this campaign, it continues to rankle with African-Americans, who see it as an attempt to challenge the legitimacy of the country's first black president.
Their vote has been solidly behind Mrs Clinton in opinion polls and Mr Trump needs to court it.

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• Matokeo yanaonyesha IMANI kubwa ambayo wananchi wanayo kwa Rais Magufuli. Hata hivyo IMANI hiyo inakuja na wajibu mkubwa sana na Rais asitumie vibaya imani hiyo. Kiongozi mwenye busara hawezi kutumia imani hii kwa kukandamiza demokrasia na kukanyaga Katiba. 
• Matokeo pia yanaonyesha kuwa Wabunge na Madiwani kwa kiasi kikubwa wana IMANI ya wananchi wao wanaowawakilisha. Huu ni wajibu na fursa kwa Wabunge wa Upinzani kuonyesha uongozi mahiri wenye kutoa majawabu ya changamoto za wananchi kwenye maeneo yanayoongozwa na Vyama vya Upinzani.

Tujifunze kukubali tusiyopenda kuyasikia. Wakati tunapambana vita adhimu sana dhidi ya Udikteta Mamboleo unaonyemelea nchi yetu, pia kwa nguvu hizo hizo tuonyeshe tofauti ya kiuongozi katika Halmashauri za Wilaya, Miji, Manispaa na Majiji tunayoongoza

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Three veiled women were killed by Kenyan police after they launched an attack Sunday on a police station in the port city of Mombasa, a local commander said.

A petrol bomb was thrown and officers were stabbed in the attack on Mombasa's Central Police Station, which Mombasa county police commander Patterson Maelo described as a terrorist incident.

The attack began when the women, their faces covered with buibui, a black shawl worn by many Muslim women in east Africa, entered the police station complaining their phones had been stolen, Maelo said.

One of the women then threw a petrol bomb, while the other two stabbed police officers. Police responded by shooting the women, killing them, he said.

The women were wearing bulletproof vests, he said. Images from the scene showed bomb detector units checking the women's bodies for explosives.

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Two police officers were injured in the attack and were in stable condition Sunday at a local hospital, he said.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but Patterson said suspicion was falling on Al-Shabaab, an Islamist group in neighboring Somalia which has repeatedly carried out terror attacks on Kenyan soil.

 

Saudi Arabia has reached its climax with 1.5 million Muslims gathering at Mount Arafat to offer day-long prayers and recitations from the Koran.The pilgrims congregated from sunrise at the site and the vast plain which surrounds it, about 15km from Mecca.

Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad gave his last sermon at the location.
The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam, which all Muslims are called upon to perform at least once.
On Saturday it emerged that Saudi Arabia's top cleric, Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, would not deliver the traditional Hajj sermon for the first time in 35 years because of health complications.

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton felt unwell at a 9/11 ceremony in New York but is now better, her campaign says.

She had "felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment", the campaign said.
Mrs Clinton's Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has previously raised concerns about her health.
Her doctors say she made a full recovery from surgery she underwent in 2012 for a blood clot.
Mrs Clinton's personal doctor Lisa Bardack said last month she was "in excellent health and fit to serve as president of the United States".
The Clinton campaign has accused the Trump campaign of pushing a "deranged conspiracy about Clinton's health".