International Business Times
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore made headlines in August when he predicted Republican Donald Trump would win the presidential election. In a Wednesday interview, the 62-year-old speculated if the president-elect would actually make it to the White House.
Speaking on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Moore said: “He’s not president until noon on January 20 of 2017. So that’s more than six weeks away.
Tibetan self-immolates
in China
AFP, Beijing
A man has self-immolated in protest against China’s presence in Tibet while calling for the return of the Dalai Lama, a rights group said Saturday, the first Tibetan to set themselves on fire since March.
Horrific video footage online showed the man, aged in his thirties and named by The International Campaign for Tibet as Tashi Rabten, walking down the road in northwest China’s Maqu region with his entire body engulfed in flames while a passerby recited prayers.
Nigeria suicide attacks toll reaches 45
AFP, Kano
Two female suicide bombers on Friday killed 45 people and wounded 33 others when they detonated their explosives in a crowded market in Nigeria’s restive northeast, the emergency service said
The army had earlier put the death toll at 30.
US Senate passes funding bill
Reuters, Washington
The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday to fund the government through April and President Barack Obama promptly signed it into law, after Democrats who had sought more generous healthcare benefits for coal miners stopped delaying action on the measure.
Many government services and operations would have been closed or suspended at midnight, when current funding authority expired, if the Senate had not approved the bill. The vote was 63-36.
Bulgaria train blast death toll rises to 5
Reuters, Sofia
At least five people were killed and 25 injured when a cargo train derailed and exploded in the northeastern Bulgarian village of Hitrino, demolishing around 20 buildings, police said on Saturday.
At least three of the victims remain in critical condition and the number is likely to rise, authorities said.
Car bomb kills 2 cops in Somali
Reuters, Mogadishu
A car bomb killed at least two policemen when it exploded at a checkpoint near the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police and militants fighting to topple the government said.
“A blast took place at the Siinkadheer checkpoint,” Police Major Nur Farah told Reuters. The area lies some 15 km (9 miles) northwest of Mogadishu.
