World hates Obama: Trump

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has claimed countries are turning against the United States because "the world hates our president'.

Trump told supporters in Jonestown, Pennsylvania a "weak US" led by Barack Obama has caused the likes of the Philippines to abandon decades of close alliance in favour of China.

He said: "The world hates our president, The world hates us. You saw what happened with the Philippines after years and years and years.

"They're now looking to Russia and China, because they don't feel good about the weak America."

Obama cancelled a meeting with Rodrigo Duterte last month after the Philippines' controversial new president appeared to call him a "son of a whore".

On Thursday Duterte declared "America has lost" and he has called for closer links with Russia and China rather than the West.

Although Duterte later appeared to backtrack, saying it was not in his country's interests to completely cut ties with the US.

Meanwhile, a United Nations investigator on terrorism has accused Donald Trump of peddling "lies and xenophobia" with repeated attempts to link Syrian refugees and IS.

The Republican candidate has made the claim on numerous occasions and repeated the assertions during his third and final television debate with Hillary Clinton.

Trump claimed his rival was "taking in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who probably, in many cases - not probably - who are definitely, in many cases, IS-aligned".

Ben Emmerson, the UN's special rapporteur on the protection of human rights in counter-terrorism, said there was "almost no statistical support" for the Presidential candidate's claims.

Emmerson said Trump's comments were "one of the clearest examples", amounting to "the peddling of lies and xenophobia."

His report on the impact of counter-terrorism measures on the human rights of migrants and refugees has been presented to the UN General Assembly.

In another development, an envelope containing a white powdery substance was sent to Hillary Clinton's campaign offices in New York, though police initially ruled out any danger.