Egypt: global outcry steps up pressure on US to suspend aid to military
White House 'watching' as state of emergency called and Mohamed ElBaradei resigns in protest against killings
The United States has led a chorus of international concern aboutEgypt's crackdown on demonstrators, publicly condemning the violence that resulted in the worst loss of life on a single day since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi last month.
The White House said "the world is watching" after a day on which at least 278 people were killed. But there was still no sign that the US was prepared to characterise Morsi's removal by the army as a coup – which would trigger an automatic congressional ban on $1.3bn in annual aid to the powerful Egyptian military.
"The violence will only make it more difficult to move Egypt forward on a path to lasting stability and democracy and runs directly counter to the pledges by the interim government to pursue reconciliation," said spokesman Josh Earnest.
Dutch police concern at tourists on drugs jumping from buildings
Amsterdam authorities urged to act after spate of incidents this summer
Peter Cluskey
Police in Amsterdam, where “soft” drugs can be purchased legally in more than 200 “coffee shops”, have urged the city authorities to do more to prevent young foreign tourists jumping from hotel windows and being seriously injured or killed.
It is the first time the police have raised the issue with City Hall, and it follows a spate of incidents this summer in which tourists under the influence of various types of drugs have been jumping from windows and balconies at the rate of more than one a month.
The most recent incident was less than a fortnight ago when a Swiss man (22) was seriously hurt when he leapt from the window of his room at a hotel on Kloveniersburgwal. He has since been flown home to Switzerland for treatment.
Central African Republic on brink of collapse: U.N.
By Michelle Nichols
(Reuters) - The Central African Republic is on the brink of collapse and the crisis is threatening to spread beyond its borders, senior U.N. officials said on Wednesday as they urged the Security Council to help fund and support an African Union peacekeeping force.
The landlocked former French colony - one of the poorest places on earth - has been plunged into chaos since the Seleka rebels seized power from President Francois Bozize four months ago, triggering a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Africa.
The African Union this month rolled an existing 1,100-strong regional peacekeeping mission, known as MICOPAX, into a new, larger AU peacekeeping force.
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Thaksin as peacemaker in south Thailand
By Jason Johnson
PATTANI - An uptick in killings, bombings, and arson attacks during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan has dashed hopes that a declared ceasefire between Thailand's state security forces and insurgents would temporarily end the violence that has engulfed the country's predominantly Malay-Muslim far south region for nearly a decade.
The rebel Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) group announced in a YouTube clip posted on August 6 that it had abandoned the temporary ceasefire and dialogue due to the government's failure to respond to five core demands, including state recognition of BRN as a liberation movement rather than separatist group, allowances for foreign observers at future talks, elevation of
Malaysia's brokerage role from "facilitator" to "mediator," and the release of prisoners and lifting of arrest warrants for all suspects in security-related cases in the region.
Egypt's violence fells cameraman and writers
Among the scores killed in Wednesday's attacks were three journalists: a veteran cameraman for Britain's Sky News; a journalist for the XPRESS and a writer for Egypt's AlAkhbar. Several others were injured.
Media watchdogs urged Egypt to investigate all attacks on journalists and to hold those responsible to account, condemning the casualties that occurred after riot police backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers and helicopters swept away two encampments of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Scores of people were killed in the violence nationwide.
Sky news said Mick Deane, 61, was shot and wounded while covering the violent breakup of protest camps in the capital, Cairo. It said he was treated for his injuries but died soon after. The rest of the Sky crew was unhurt.Last reel: The death of the drive-in cinema?
Nestled in a mountain valley on the border between the states of Vermont and New Hampshire, the half-century-old Fairlee Drive-in cinema is in danger of going out of business. It is a threat that drive-ins across the US face as new technology puts this most American night out at risk.
On a typical Friday afternoon in the tiny town of Fairlee, Vermont, you can usually find Peter Trapp huddled in a cement bunker in the middle of a rolling field.
He is busy splicing together the five reels of 35mm film that have just arrived in the mail.
It is a ritual that he has engaged in every summer since 2003, when his family bought the drive-in that he went to as a boy at summer camp in the 1960s.
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