UK police investigate machete murder |
Cameron to make statement and government security council to meet after killing near barracks in South London.
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British police are investigating the murder of a man who was attacked with a machete near an army base in South London.
The victim was hacked to death with a machete-style knife in the Woolwich district in the southeast of the British capital on Wednesday before the attackers were shot by police.
Video footage filmed by an onlooker and broadcast by Britain's ITV news channel showed a man with hands covered in blood and holding a bloodied meat cleaver and a knife.
"I apologise that women had to witness this today but in our lands, our women have to see the same," he said. "You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."
Swedish riots rage for fourth night
Police attacked and cars torched in Stockholm suburbs as unrest sparked by long-term youth unemployment and poverty spreads
Hundreds of youth have burned down a restaurant, set fire to more than 340 cars and attacked police during a fourth night of rioting in the suburbs of the Swedish capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers.
Violence spread across Stockholm on Wednesday, as large numbers of young people rampaged through the suburbs, throwing stones, breaking windows and destroying cars. Police in the southern city of Malmo said two cars had been set ablaze.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Amnesty International: refugees, migrants face rights challenges
Amnesty International has released its annual report assessing human rights around the world. In this year's report Amnesty says refugees and migrants in crisis areas were particularly vulnerable for human rights abuses.
The report, which covers 2012 and was released late on Wednesday at the Amnesty International headquarters in London, said that at the start of last year 12 million people were stateless, while 15 million people worldwide are currently registered as refugees. The report added that an additional 214 million migrants live without protection of their home state or their host state.
Amnesty says these refugees, migrants, and displaced citizens, often victims of conflict or persecution, face a situation where their human rights are routinely denied or ignored.
Child rape case sparks outrage in Malaysia
May 23, 2013 - 10:54AM
Lindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
A 40 year-old Muslim man charged with raping a 12 year-old girl and marrying her in Malaysia says he sees nothing wrong with his actions under sharia or Islamic law.
"There are many cases of men marrying underage girls," restaurant owner Ruduan Masmud told reporters.
"I do not see how my case can be any different," adding it was "suka sama suka" or mutual consent acceptable under sharia law.
In a case that has outraged rights activists Mr Masmud, a father of four from his first wife, allegedly raped the girl inside a car parked by a road in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the Borneo state of Sabah, on February 16.
Sorry BBC, it's blacks who have no future in South Africa
Don't be surprised if you see poor whites; poverty is no longer legislated. But black South Africans still live on the brink, writes Khaya Dlanga.
Sorry BBC, white South Africans are here to stay.
This past Sunday, the BBC's website asked a question which was disguised as a statement as one read further on: "Do white South Africans have a future?"
The report, which appears as a video and written articleon the broadcaster's website, claims only certain white South Africans have a future in the country.
"The people who are suffering now are the weakest and most vulnerable members of the white community," it reads.
A FARC rebel in Colombia explains why he wanted out
He knew a year ago that the rebel group was a lost cause, but he bided his time. Now he watches his back.
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
BOGOTA, Colombia — Leftist rebel Reinel Usuga surrendered this month because he was afraid of dying in battle and being buried in an unmarked grave even as rebel leaders negotiate a possible peace agreement that would make such a death pointless — perhaps even absurd.
But Usuga, 30, a squad commander with the 57th Front Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, said in an interview days after his surrender that another issue irked him: The apparent "comfort" of rebel leaders negotiating in Cuba was an irritating juxtaposition to the everyday risks he and his comrades were facing in the jungle.
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