Apple supplier Foxconn says it can handle any trade-tension fallout

BEIJING—Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple Inc.’s iPhones in China, is prepared to deal with risks stemming from the trade dispute between the U.S. and China, executives said Tuesday.

Though clients including Apple AAPL, +1.28%  and China’s Huawei Technologies Co. have made some changes to their orders, Foxconn 2354, +0.32% faces limited impact from such moves, said Young Liu, the head of Foxconn’s semiconductor business group, at an investors’ conference.

Both technology companies have been caught up in the trade tensions between the U.S. and China.

Should Apple need to move its supply chain, Foxconn could do so quickly and expand production at any of its sites outside mainland China, Liu said at the conference, which took place at Foxconn’s headquarters near Taipei. Foxconn relies on Apple for about 50% of its revenue, analysts have said.

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Quebrantos: Art tribute to Colombia's murdered community leaders

One of the most influential Latin American artists has created a major installation mourning murdered community leaders.

Quebrantos, or Shattered – the word also means sadness, sorrow, and loss – is the name of a new art installation in Colombia’s capital.

Its creator, Doris Salcedo, wants to highlight the killing of community leaders, often by illegal mining companies, criminal gangs or paramilitaries.

Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampetti reports from Bogota, Colombia.

UK PM candidate Harper asks Johnson: Why won't you answer questions?

LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) – Mark Harper, one of the candidates vying to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May, said rival Boris Johnson should answer questions in public.

“All candidates in this race owe the public clear answers,” Harper said of Johnson. “If you’ve got nothing to hide you won’t mind answering questions.”

He said he would seek a new Brexit deal and could not promise the exit would happen by Oct. 31. (Reporting by William James; writing by Michael Holden; editing by Stephen Addison)

Reviving a dying language on South Korea's Jeju island

Community tries to keep ancient dialect alive as population shrinks and ages.

The isolated islanders of Jeju in South Korea developed their own distinct dialect over time, but that language is now threatened by a dwindling population and ageing speakers.

But the local government has now come up with a number of schemes that just might work, aimed at injecting new life into an old way of speaking.

Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Jeju Island, South Korea.

Facebook Watch Sets Premiere Dates For ‘Sorry For Your Loss’, ‘Five Points’, The New ‘Human Discoveries’, ‘Limetown’, & More

Facebook Watch has announced its programming slate for summer and fall and set premiere dates, including the new toon comedy Human Discoveries, featuring Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick, and Limetown, the podcast-turned-series starring Jessica Biel

Also among the four new series and five returning shows getting dates are the Elizabeth Olsen dark comedy Sorry for Your Loss and the Kerry Washington-led drama Five Points, both of which will be their second seasons. See the full list of premieres below.

Facebook Watch boasts 720 million monthly and 140 million dailys users who spend at least a minute on the video platform, spending 26-plus minutes on average. It said last month that MTV’sThe Real World, its reboot of the seminal reality series, will bow oin June 13.

Here are the new premiere dates for Facebook Watch series through mid-October:

July 16
Human Discoveries (series premiere)

August 5
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August 11
Curse of Akakor (series premiere)

August 18
Ball in the Family (Season 5)

August 20
Huda Boss (Season 2)

October 1
Sorry for Your Loss (Season 2)

October 11
The Birch (series premiere)

October 16
Limetown (series premiere)

Model town for migration in Italy takes new turn

A town in Italy which once welcomed migrants now doesn’t with League Party’s rise.

A small town in Italy’s south which once put out the welcome mat for migrants and refugees has now withdrawn it.

Its former mayor who championed these policies as part of a plan to boost its shrinking population is now being investigated for aiding illegal migration.

And its new mayor is from Italy’s anti-immigration party, the League.

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Leader say Brexit shows Scotland must chart a new path

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks during an event in Brussels Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is in Brussels Tuesday to meet with European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Brexit and the "horror show" of the British government leadership contest are signs that Scotland needs to chart a different future path, probably outside the United Kingdom.

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Sturgeon said Tuesday that "increasingly, Scotland and the U.K. are on different political paths. We have to confront whether the better response to that is to have the ability to be independent and shape our own future."

Speaking to European Union experts and journalists at the European Policy Centre think-tank in Brussels, she said "the people of Scotland have to have a choice before it's too late to stop the damage of Brexit being done."

Sturgeon held talks with EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and was due to meet later with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.