Today In World News: November 10, 2017

Today In World News:

Courtesy of Fortune.com

• Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into an alleged plot involving former national security adviser Michael Flynn to kidnap a Muslim cleric living in the U.S. to Turkey in exchange for as much as $15 million.

• A man deliberately drove his car into a group of people outside a school near Toulouse in southern France, injuring three Chinese students.

• Hezbollah’s leader said that Saudi Arabia had declared war on Lebanon and his Iran-backed group, accusing Riyadh of detaining Saad al-Hariri and forcing him to resign as Lebanon’s prime minister to destabilize the country.

• 18 militiamen are on trial in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on charges of raping 46 children.

• A Hezbollah-run media unit said the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported to have been in the Syrian town of Albu Kamal during the Syrian army and its allies’ operation to clear it.

• The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Islamic State has taken back control of half of the Syrian town of Albu Kamal.

• President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case and was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has now been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote who approved him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.

• French President Emmanuel Macron held hastily scheduled talks in Riyadh with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, notably over Lebanon and Yemen.

• The Saudi-led military coalition fighting against Yemen’s Houthi movement reopened a land border crossing, partly easing a blockade imposed, but aid agencies warned of famine and a health catastrophe if other ports stay shut.

• Russia’s parliament warned some U.S. and other foreign media could be declared “foreign agents” and obliged to regularly declare full details of their funding, finances and staffing.

• While establishment Republicans suggested Alabama Senate candidate, Roy Moore should quit the race, many others are standing by him a day after he was accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl while he was 32-years-old . 

• Police in Hyderabad have banned begging and started rounding up homeless people before the start of a business summit featuring Ivanka Trump.

• Promising to put “America first” in his trade practices, President Donald Trump used a speech in Vietnam Friday to denounce multi-nation agreements embraced by the region and deliver what appeared to be a rebuke to China.