Obama on Trump: unfit for 7-Eleven Barack Obama said the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is unfit "for a job at 7-Eleven", let alone the presidency, as he assailed Trump over remarks about sexually assaulting women. "You just have to be a decent human being to say that's not right," he told supporters at a rally in North Carolina. The president also mocked Republicans who rebuked Trump's comments but continued to endorse his candidacy. "You can't repeatedly denounce what is said by someone and then say but I'm still going to endorse him to be the most powerful person on the planet and to put them in charge." Obama savages Trump over groping boast and urges party to abandon him Clinton accuses WikiLeaks Hillary Clinton's campaign fired back on Tuesday as WikiLeaks released a new tranche of hacked emails from the account of its chairman, John Podesta, calling the website a "propaganda arm of the Russian government". More than 2,000 emails, disclosed on Monday, included messages relaying concerns by Chelsea Clinton over potential conflicts of interest for the family's foundation. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov told CNN that accusations that Russia was behind the DNC hack were "flattering but ridiculous". Clinton campaign dubs WikiLeaks 'Russian propaganda' after latest hack North Carolina flooding worsens The death toll from Hurricane Matthew in the United States climbed again on Tuesday, as officials warned of a continuing threat from floodwaters still rising in several areas of North Carolina. Overnight, four more people were reported killed in the state, Governor Pat McCrory announced, bring the total to 14. One victim was shot dead late on Monday after a "confrontation" involving a state trooper. Hurricane Matthew, which has killed at least 1,000 people in Haiti and left a million vulnerable to cholera, has now accounted for at least 33 deaths in the US, including 12 in Florida, three each in South Carolina and Georgia and one in Virginia. Hurricane Matthew's US death toll rises to 33 as flooding chaos continues Russia rejects 'hysteria' over Aleppo bombing Moscow has responded forcefully to accusations that is was involved in an attack on an aid convoy in Syria last month, as intense violence in Aleppo continued. "There were no Russian planes in the area of the aid convoy to Aleppo. That is a fact," ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement. He said allegations by the British foreign minister, Boris Johnson, that Russia should be investigated for war crimes in Aleppo were "Russophobic hysteria". Russia scorns Boris Johnson's 'hysteria' as bombs hammer Aleppo Bernie Sanders backs brother in UK contest Bernie Sanders, the former candidate to be Democratic nominee for US president, has released a video backing his brother Larry to take David Cameron's parliamentary seat. While US presidential hopefuls do not often intervene in British regional elections, Sanders recommended his brother as a "very, very caring human being". He continued: "I do not know a heck of a lot about British politics … but I do know a lot about my brother, Larry Sanders." Bernie Sanders endorses his brother in race to replace David Cameron San Francisco's tent cities under threat A tent on a sidewalk is the only place thousands of San Franciscans have to call home. But if a few of the city's tech billionaires and millionaires have their way, even that shelter could be taken away. Sequoia Capital's chairman, Michael Moritz, tech angel investor Ron Conway and hedge-fund investor William Oberndorf have donated $49,999 apiece to a divisive ballot measure intended to clear San Francisco's streets of homeless encampments, according to campaign filings. Wealthy San Francisco tech investors bankroll bid to ban homeless camps The world's toughest exam For two days in early June every year, China comes to a standstill as high school students who are about to graduate take their college entrance exams. Literally the "higher examination", the gaokao is a national event on a par with a public holiday, but much less fun. A high or low mark determines life opportunities and earning potential. That score is the most important number of any Chinese child's life, the culmination of years of schooling, memorisation and constant stress. Is China's gaokao the world's toughest school exam? In case you missed it … With greater oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, Venezuela should be at least moderately prosperous. Instead, it has the world's fastest-contracting economy, the second highest murder rate, inflation heading towards 1,000% and shortages of food and medicine that have pushed the poorest members of its 30 million population to the edge of a humanitarian abyss. Latin America correspondent Jonathan Watts travelled 870 miles across the country from the Amazonian border with Brazil to the capital, Caracas to get a snapshot of a country in crisis. Venezuela on the brink: a journey through a country in crisis | 
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Donald Trump looks out over the crowd during a rally at Pier Park Amphitheater in Panama City Beach, Florida, on Tuesday. Photograph: Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images 
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