North Korea Defence Chief Hyon Yong-chol 'executed'
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North Korea's Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol has been executed for showing disloyalty to leader Kim Jong-un, South Korea's spy agency has told parliament.
MPs were told Mr Hyon was killed on 30 April by anti-aircraft fire in front of an audience of hundreds, the Yonhap news agency reports.
It said Mr Hyon had fallen asleep during an event attended by Kim Jong-un and had not carried out instructions.
The news comes weeks after the reported execution of 15 senior officials.
Among them were two vice ministers who had challenged Mr Kim over his policies and members of an orchestra, the South's National Intelligence Agency (NIS) said at the time.
Chinese police order Yining residents to hand in passports in latest crackdown
Amnesty International says passport seizures in Yili prefecture are part of wider curb on freedom of movement of ethnic Uighurs
A district of 5 million people in China’s restive far west has demanded residents hand in their passports to the police for indefinite safekeeping, the latest government crackdown in an area where Beijing has declared a “people’s war” on violent separatists.
A notice posted in Yining city, nearly 2,000 miles west of Beijing and near the country’s border with Kazakhstan, said all passports should be surrendered by 15 May.
“Those who do not hand in their passports on time will be reported to the entry and exit bureau and, according to the relevant regulations, their passports will cancelled,” the memo from a local police station said.
Gunmen open fire on bus killing 43 passengers in Pakistan
International Criminal Court could investigate Islamic State attrocities in Libya
May 13, 2015 - 4:22PM
Michelle Nichols
New York: The International Criminal Court can investigate alleged crimes by Islamic State militants in Libya, but it is first up to individual states to prosecute their citizens accused of offences, The Hague-based court's prosecutor said on Tuesday.
The United Nations Security Council asked the court in 2011 to investigate crimes committed since the start of an uprising the same year that led to the fall of leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya has since descended into chaos, with two competing governments backed by militia brigades scrambling for control of the oil-producing country and creating havens for Islamist militants and traffickers.
Why Uruguay took six Guantanamo detainees but isn't considering more
Uruguay prides itself on being a beacon of tolerance and stability in the region. But recent protests by ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees could put future placements at risk.
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY — On a riverfront promenade in sleepy Montevideo, Abu Wa'el Dhiab crouches next to a baby carriage and smiles. His friend Ali Husein Shaaban snaps pictures with a new smartphone while the baby’s mother works against the language barrier to try and cheerfully chat with the two Syrians.
It’s a stark contrast to just a few months ago when these men were inmates at the world’s highest security prison at Guantanamo Bay.
In 2014, Uruguay agreed to take in six newly-released Guantanamo Bay prisoners, the first South American country to do so.
Japan animator Miyazaki backs anti-US base fund
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Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki on Wednesday threw his weight behind a fund aimed at blocking a controversial plan to move a US military base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
Miyazaki, whose intricately-drawn stories have captured imaginations around the world, became a key figure in the Henoko Fund, which was launched in the Okinawan capital of Naha, local assemblyman Yonekichi Shinzato told AFP.
"The fund is aimed at supporting -- both mentally and physically -- anti-US base activists with the goal of blocking the construction of a new base in Henoko... and removing the Futenma base and relocating outside Okinawa," Shinzato said.
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