CORENEWS: October 2018

Indonesia military chief believes fuselage of crashed plane located

Indonesia's military chief believes a search and rescue team has found part of the body of a Lion Air plane that crashed into the sea with 189 people on board, he told a television channel on Wednesday.

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U.S. general says troop numbers at Mexican border to rise further

The top U.S. general overseeing a deployment of more than 5,200 troops to the border with Mexico said on Tuesday that troop levels would rise further, but declined to say how high or estimate what the operation will cost.

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Thousands of Venezuelans head to Peru to beat residency deadline

At least 6,000 Venezuelans lined up at Peru's northern border on Tuesday in hopes of entering the country before a deadline for acquiring residency, and another 4,000 were due to arrive in the next two days, Peru's ombudsman's office said.

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Bolsonaro's economic guru urges quick Brazil pension reform

The future economy minister tapped by Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro insisted on Tuesday that he wanted to fast-track an unpopular pension reform to help balance government finances despite mounting resistance to getting it done this year.

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U.N. chief taps Norwegian diplomat as new Syria envoy: letter

Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen will be the new United Nations Syria envoy, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. Security Council in a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

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Nato holds biggest military exercise since Cold War

Trident Juncture is the biggest exercise of its kind since the Cold War.

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Electric food – the new sci-fi diet that could save our planet | George Monbiot

Growing food without plants or animals sounds like science fiction. But it could stop environmental destruction

It’s not about “them”, it’s about us. The horrific rate of biological annihilation reported this week – 60% of the Earth’s vertebrate wildlife gone since 1970 – is driven primarily by the food industry. Farming and fishing are the major causes of the collapse of both marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Meat – consumed in greater quantities by the rich than by the poor – is the strongest cause of all. We may shake our heads in horror at the clearance of forests, the drainage of wetlands, the slaughter of predators and the massacre of sharks and turtles by fishing fleets, but it is done at our behest.

As the Guardian’s recent report from Argentina reveals, the huge forests of the Gran Chaco are heading towards extermination as they are replaced by deserts of soya beans, almost all of which are used to produce animal feed, particularly for Europe. With Jair Bolsonaro in power in Brazil, deforestation in the Amazon is likely to accelerate, much of it driven by the beef lobby that helped bring him to power. The great forests of Indonesia, such as those in West Papua, are being felled and burned for oil palm at devastating speed.

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The new 50p has echoes of the first, disastrous Brexit | Charlotte Higgins

This won’t be the first time a British coin has celebrated a schism with the rest of Europe

“Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations”: what a curious motto for the new 50p coin that the Treasury has announced will commemorate Britain’s exit from the European Union. It has an air of playground desperation about it – the neediness of a kid who, having wilfully pissed off all 27 of his friends, is slinking nervously back into the schoolyard looking for someone – anyone – to play with.

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Steve Bell on talk of a 'Norway for now' post-Brexit deal – cartoon

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Throwaway Phil embraces austerity-lite to save his skin | John Crace

The chancellor may have gambled with the UK’s cash, but at least his job is safe – for now

Shortly before she was due to address the Nordic Council in Oslo, Theresa May was asked if she was planning on calling a snap general election. “No,” she replied sternly. “A general election would not be in the national interest.” As this was precisely the same answer she had given seven times before calling last year’s snap general election, many MPs must have feared the worst.

Though one definition of insanity is repeating the same mistake and expecting a different result, it was still a fair question. Not least because no one can any longer count on the prime minister being sound of mind. How else to explain a budget in which the chancellor appears to have undergone a total personality change?

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The killing of Suzy Lamplugh affected a generation of women. Now it’s back | Joan Smith

The case of the 25-year-old estate agent, presumed murdered in 1986, still fills me with horror at the dangers women face

More than 30 years after her disappearance, police are carrying out yet another search related to the murder of Suzy Lamplugh. The news will send shivers down the spine of anyone who remembers the headlines in 1986, appealing for help in finding the missing estate agent. Smiling pictures of Suzy, a lock of brown hair falling over her forehead, were everywhere, but days lengthened into weeks and the woman herself was nowhere.

The fact that a 25-year-old woman could leave her office, head for a perfectly ordinary street in southwest London and never be seen again defied belief. On the day of her disappearance, she had been due to show a house to a client, a routine appointment none of us would have thought twice about in those days. It was only afterwards that the man’s name, “Mr Kipper”, started to look like an obvious pseudonym – and one that suggested a twisted sense of humour, assuming it belonged to her abductor.

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The Church of England should learn from Harry Potter this Halloween | Andrew Brown

JK Rowling understands that the supernatural needs to be frightening. ‘Light parties’ to replace Halloween are absurd

The Church of England has just done another slightly silly thing. Senior figures, including Archbishop Justin Welby, are backing attempts to draw children away from the lure of Halloween into “light parties”, where they can share “fun activities” in church. It is suggested that attendees wear superhero costumes instead of dressing up as “scary witches and ghosts”. “Nowadays,” the church claims, “most people believe that you can’t fight evil with evil – you can only fight evil by doing good, and good will always win in the end.”

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Can Mauricio Pochettino afford to tie his career to Tottenham’s stadium? | Barney Ronay

Overrun on White Hart Lane has begun to affect an overachieving manager who may tire of austerity

Football fans. Save money on expensive TV subscriptions. Create your own Sky Sports Monday Night Football debate by standing behind a desk shrieking “Twenty‑nine million pounds net!” and “Five hundred million on a stadium!” in a voice so high-pitched it’s audible only to fish, dogs and snails, before almost coming to blows during a metaphysical debate over the meaning of success in an essentially meaningless world.

Among the many oddities of Tottenham v Manchester City at the Wembley multisport complex on Monday was the sight of Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher being drawn, with a commendable degree of feeling, into the general uncertainty around where exactly Spurs and their manager stand right now.

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Cricket must show unity if battle against fixing is to be won | Andy Bull

Al-Jazeera’s second expose prompted a slanging match with authorities but the question should be not whether spot-fixing exists but who is doing it and how often

Seems like it was Mark Wood’s bad luck to draw a short straw last week. The day after al-Jazeera released the second part of their investigation into spot-fixing in cricket Wood was put up to talk to the press. He said the accusations reminded him of “the boy who cried wolf”. Maybe Wood always used to fall asleep before his parents made it to the end of the book. Right now, five months after the first part of al-Jazeera’s expose, we are still waiting to see whether the danger they are shouting about really exists, but Wood, like everyone else in English cricket, will hope this story does not end with everyone looking the other way while the wolf eats up the sheep.

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Geraint Thomas: ‘Ideally, Froome would ride for me but that’s not possible’

The Tour de France winner on overcoming frustration with Team Sky, meeting Lionel Messi and why he cannot wait for next year

Geraint Thomas has already told me about the night he and Lionel Messi met in an underground car park and how it feels to have won the Tour de France. He has considered public suspicion of Team Sky and explained his long battle to be accepted as their leading rider in this year’s race ahead of Chris Froome. Thomas pauses briefly now and, stepping away from the whirlwind of the last four months, looks ahead.

“I’d love to win it again,” he says. “Each year’s different but I still feel I’m improving even though I’m 32. I still have the motivation and commitment where I think Brad Wiggins, once he’d won it [in 2012], didn’t have 100% motivation. I’ve still got the appetite. I enjoyed the whole race – not just the end.”

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Mike Brown dropped by Eddie Jones for England Test against South Africa

• Full-back omitted for first time in the Jones era
• Brown has been a virtual ever-present since 2012

Eddie Jones has omitted Mike Brown, Ben Morgan and Michael Rhodes from his England squad to face South Africa on Saturday, with Courtney Lawes also ruled out through injury.

Bath’s Zach Mercer and Ben Moon of Exeter are in line to play in a Test for the first time, with the New Zealand-born back-row Brad Shields also on course for a Twickenham debut. Chris Ashton and Manu Tuilagi are poised for their first Test involvements since 2014 and 2016 respectively but there is no room for the 33-year-old Brown, who has never previously been dropped by Jones when fully fit.

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Emotions raw but Leicester decide match at Cardiff will go ahead

• Leicester feel an away game is best way to restore normality
• Book of condolence honours Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha

Leicester have made the difficult decision to play their Premier League game at Cardiff on Saturday, following the death of their chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others in the helicopter crash at the King Power Stadium.

A minute’s silence will be observed before kick-off at Cardiff and the players will wear black armbands in honour of those who died when a private helicopter carrying Vichai, two members of his staff and two flight crew came down and exploded after Leicester’s match against West Ham.

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Doctor Who Treated HIV-Positive Patients Honored After Dying In Pittsburgh Synagogue

Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz once helped a man get through the "most terrifying and

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The synagogue massacre was actually in Mister Rogers's neighborhood. What would he say?

Karen Struble Myers of the Fred Rogers Center reflected on what Rogers's message for America would be in the aftermath of the shooting in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh, where lived in and filmed his famous TV show.

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Who is Gab founder Andrew Torba?

The murder of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday has brought new attention to Gab, the social media service created by Andrew Torba that bills itself as pro-free speech and serves as a gathering place for white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other extremist figures online, and counted among its users suspected gunman Robert Bowers.

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Rabbi cites Jesus in prayer for synagogue victims with Pence

WASHINGTON (AP) — A rabbi invited to pray at a Michigan campaign stop with Vice President Mike Pence for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre referenced "Jesus the Messiah" at the event.

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Trump blames 'Fake News Media' for 'division and hatred'

The president called for capital punishment for Pittsburgh shooting suspect.

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GOP State Senate Contender Accused Of Sending Anti-Semitic Mailer

A Connecticut Republican running for a seat in the state Senate faced charges

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Turkey presses Saudi to say who sent Khashoggi killers: Erdogan

Saudi prosecutor Saud Al Mojeb held talks with Istanbul's prosecutor on Monday and Tuesday about Khashoggi's death in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, which has escalated into a crisis for the world's top oil exporter. Riyadh at first denied any knowledge of, or role in, his disappearance four weeks ago but Mojeb has contradicted those statements, saying the killing of Khashoggi, a critic of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was premeditated. The case has put into focus the West's close relationship with Saudi Arabia - a major arms buyer and lynchpin of Washington's regional plans to contain Iran - given the widespread scepticism over its initial response.

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Correction: Shooting-Synagogue-The Latest story

PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a story Oct. 29 about developments in the aftermath of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, The Associated Press erroneously reported the professional position of Cecil and David Rosenthal's sister. She is state Rep. Dan Frankel's former chief of staff, not his current chief of staff.

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10 Things to Know for Today

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

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Democrats Are Going Bland To Beat Scott Walker — And It Might Just Work

MILWAUKEE -- On back-to-back days last week, some of the most exciting

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Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Shreds Trump Proposal To End Birthright Citizenship

George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, co-

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'Project Gold' Porsche becomes most expensive 993 Turbo ever

Porsche's first factory restomod has sold for over $3 million at RM Sotheby’s Porsche 70th Anniversary auction, making it the most expensive 993 Turbo ever

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UN rights chief wants 'international experts' to help probe Khashoggi hit

The UN rights chief called Tuesday for "international experts" to help investigate the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and called on Riyadh to reveal the whereabouts of his body. "For an investigation to be carried out free of any appearance of political considerations, the involvement of international experts, with full access to evidence and witnesses, would be highly desirable," Michelle Bachelet said in a statement. Khashoggi, a 59-year-old Saudi journalist and Washington Post contributor, was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork ahead of his upcoming wedding.