--- title: October 9th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 14 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/4960885/october-9th-2017-vol-190-no-14-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/ og:title: October 9th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 14 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. 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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb40291b017f0e34/6988dfbb8fd2ee3c713590d4/hk_g1500refugees_final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Back to the vault # October 9, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 14October 9, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 14  Issue name October 9th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 14 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific Issue date October 9, 2017 Location Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific Related categories [World](/vault/subject/world/) [Europe](/vault/subject/europe/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents EntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### 16 TV Shows That Deserve a Second Chance This Fall [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Exudes Quiet Courage in _Stronger_ [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _Lucky_ Is a Sublime Farewell to Harry Dean Stanton [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: _American Made_ Lets a Smug Tom Cruise Just Be Tom Cruise [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### All Happy Families, Alike ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### The 'Super-Malaria' on the Rise In Southeast Asia ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### The Real 'Special Snowflakes' In Campus Free-Speech Debates [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Ellen Pao Has Some Sage Advice for Dealing With Sexism [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Paradise Lost: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Utopian Novels Why all the doom and gloom? [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Hey! You! Get Off of My Cloud! And Other Tales from the Family-Data-Sharing Economy 'I'm not sure Apple is improving my life by making me feel so old and uncool' ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### An Unlikely Salesman for the Republican Party's Tax Plan [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Trump's Travel Ban Might Escape Judgment ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Inside Donald Trump’s Latest Battle Against the NFL A deliberately provocative President picks his latest fight over free speech in sports [U.S.](/section/us/) ### How the U.S. Turned Its Back on Puerto Rico Puerto Rico was wrecked by Hurricane Maria, then ignored by the mainland [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Can Computers Fix Gerrymandering? ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Promised Land Is Angela Merkel's Germany really the paradise refugees believe it to be? [World](/section/world/) ### Saudi Women In the Driver's Seat [World](/section/world/) ### Yes, Merkel Won Again. But the Fires of European Populism Are Still Raging [World](/section/world/) ### Switzerland's New Medical Drones [World](/section/world/) ### What Really Worries South Koreans: Trump [World](/section/world/) ### For the Record (28 Sep 2017) [World](/section/world/) ### What You Said About ... (28 Sep 2017) [World](/section/world/) ### Milestones (28 Sep 2017) [World](/section/world/) ### This Just In (28 Sep 2017) ### Others ### ### [The Real Reason Airplanes Still Have AshtraysWe all know smoking in the air is banned, so what gives?](/4919780/airplanes-smoking-tray-ashtrays-airlines/) ### ### ### ### October 9th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 14 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"October 9th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 14 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific","item":"https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/4960885/october-9th-2017-vol-190-no-14-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/"}]}]} ```