Reports: Boston bombing suspect detained |
Arrest report comes as police officer's shooting near MIT campus touches off firefight in US state of Massachusetts.
Last Modified: 19 Apr 2013 07:34
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Update
The suspect has been captured in a boat just a few blocks from where authorities first started searching in Watertown.
It's after midnight here in Japan any further updates will be posted in the morning.
An explosive device was found in the Charles gate neighborhood of Boston, but has been rendered safe by law enforcement.
Police have converged on a house in Watertown which is located just behind where the police had been examining a car which had been carjacked. The police are focused on a grey house and have used a loud hailer to ask who ever is in the house to surrender.
NBC News is reporting that both suspects are from Turkey and are legal residents of the United States
One suspect in the Boston Marathon blasts has been captured, the Boston Globe newspaper says quoting an official with knowledge of the investigation.
Another remains on the loose in Watertown, Massachusetts, after a firefight with police, the Boston Globereported on Friday, adding that authorities had established a 20-block perimeter as they searched for him.
Earlier on Thursday evening, a police officer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was killed at the school's Cambridge campus, touching off a manhunt in a community on edge just days after the Boston Marathon bombing.
Police descended on a vehicle in the neighbouring Watertown community later in the evening amid reports of gunfire and explosions, the ABC TV station in Boston reported.
One suspect was in police custody, local media reported.
Carbon bubble will plunge the world into another financial crisis – report
Trillions of dollars at risk as stock markets inflate value of fossil fuels that may have to remain buried forever, experts warn
The world could be heading for a major economic crisis as stock markets inflate an investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune of trillions of dollars, according to leading economists.
"The financial crisis has shown what happens when risks accumulate unnoticed," said Lord (Nicholas) Stern, a professor at the London School of Economics. He said the risk was "very big indeed" and that almost all investors and regulators were failing to address it.
The so-called "carbon bubble" is the result of an over-valuation of oil,coal and gas reserves held by fossil fuel companies. According to a report published on Friday, at least two-thirds of these reserves will have to remain underground if the world is to meet existing internationally agreed targets to avoid the threshold for "dangerous" climate change. If the agreements hold, these reserves will be in effect unburnable and so worthless – leading to massive market losses. But the stock markets are betting on countries' inaction on climate change.
SYRIA
UN Security Council reaches rare Syria agreement
Nearly 7 million people need humanitarian assistance in Syria, a UN official has said. The Security Council issued a unanimous non-binding statement condemning any efforts to hinder assistance to Syrians.
UN aid chief Valerie Amos said that of a population of 20.8 million, 6.8 million people need assistance. The 15-member Council responded with an unenforceable, non-binding message urging both the government and the opposition to cooperate with UN agencies.
"The needs are growing rapidly and are most severe in the conflict and opposition-controlled areas," Amos told the Security Council.
'Like 1930s Germany': Greek Far Right Gains Ground
By Manfred Ertel in Athens
Nowhere else in Europe are neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists profiting as greatly from the financial crisis as in Athens. As they terrorize the country with violence, the police stand back and prosecutors are powerless.
The Municipal Theater in Piraeus, Greece, was bathed in an eerie light, with yellow floodlights and red torches combining to illuminate the theater's neoclassical façade, which now served as the backdrop for a macabre spectacle: At least 1,000 neo-Nazis and their supporters had turned out for a march, and red flags bearing a large, black swastika-like symbol flew from the building's front steps.
Blighted lives of India's child coalminers
April 19, 2013 - 3:51PM
Ben Doherty
South Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
India has numerous laws to prevent children working in coal mines. Yet tens of thousands of them still do, in atrociously unsafe conditions.
LADRYMBAI, India: At first, Gayasuddin's voice is the only evidence he is down here.
Bouncing off the hard, wet walls and impossibly low ceiling of the tiny tunnel he mines, the sound of his labour reverberates 40 metres back to the pit.
This work is very dangerous. You worry about collapses, about dying. Sometimes people are trapped, and they can't get out.Gilla Rai, 15
A minute later, the pathetic light of his "safety lamp" — a household torch wrapped to his head with a bicycle inner tube — casts a feeble arc against the mine's dark, before, finally, he emerges, in torn clothes, filthy and dripping wet, dragging a wooden cart loaded with coal.
The high cost of repatriating loved ones after death
Many Zimbabwean nationals die in South Africa, but transporting them home for burial can cost up to thousands of Rands.
Mbongeni Nxumalo* (28) was found dead by a security guard outside his flat in Yeoville, Johannesburg, in February.
The guard said he had initially thought Nxumalo had passed out after a night of heavy drinking with friends. But after several hours he informed the family about their son's lifeless body. The family later learnt from a postmortem that Nxumalo had died from internal bleeding caused by severe assault.
His friends told family members that Nxumalo, a Zimbabwean national who had been living in South Africa for the past five years, was assaulted at a shebeen over non-payment of debts.
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