24 November 2013 Last updated at 00:11 GMT
In August 2012, police shot 34 strikers dead in the bloodiest crackdown since the end of apartheid. Now new evidence shows meetings between police and employees of mine owner Lonmin in the crucial days before the killings
Syria conflict: Children 'targeted by snipers'
More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says.
Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank says.
The report says the majority of children have been killed by bombs or shells in their own neighbourhoods.
It wants fighters trained in how not to put civilians' lives at risk.
'Plea to all sides'
Their report, Stolen Futures - the Hidden Toll of Child Casualties in Syria, examines data from the start of the conflict in March 2011 to August 2013.
Of the 11,420 victims aged 17 and under, 389 were killed by sniper fire.
Some 764 were summarily executed, and more than 100 - including infants - were tortured, the report says.
The British mine owners, the police and South Africa's day of blood
In August 2012, police shot 34 strikers dead in the bloodiest crackdown since the end of apartheid. Now new evidence shows meetings between police and employees of mine owner Lonmin in the crucial days before the killings
On 16 August 2012 the summertime sun streamed through the leafy canopy of Green Park and into the windows of the Belgravia headquarters of platinum mine company Lonmin plc. But 5,500 miles away there was a chill in the air as the company's biggest South African mine became a frenzy of activity.
Striking workers had gathered for the eighth day in a row at the Marikana mine, while media crews watched from nearby. Four thousand rounds of live ammunition were delivered and ambulances rolled ominously into place. As the cameras flashed, Zukiswa Mbombo, police chief of North West province, announced: "Today is D-day: we are ending this matter."
By nightfall, 34 striking miners had been shot dead and 78 wounded in the bloodiest security crackdown since the end of apartheid.
Cardboard Boxes That Look Like David Cameron: BuzzFeed - the website changing the way the world consumes news
You can laugh all you like at its lists – 15 Most Inspiring Moustaches In the Animal Kingdom – but BuzzFeed is deadly serious, says Tim Walker. The website recorded 85 million visitors in one recent month
1. Languages
The realisation of BuzzFeed’s ambitions will depend in part upon its latest venture: in October, the site launched French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese home pages, offering not only non-English captions for cat gifs, but also – it hopes – a more local sense of humour. The posts will be crowd-sourced from English language students, who will translate each post as part of their coursework, using an app called Duolingo.
2. Investigative journalism
BuzzFeed is also building a formidable team of traditional journalists. One of its latest high-profile hires is Mark Schoofs, formerly a foreign correspondent with The Wall Street Journal.Schoofs will lead a new team of six BuzzFeed investigative reporters. “We plan to mix BuzzFeed’s energy, ambition and grasp of the social web with the best traditions of American investigative reporting,” he said.
In Venezuela, opposition rallies against Maduro
Thousands have marched in Venezuela to pressure President Nicolas Maduro's government before December 8 local elections. At a rally in Caracas, opposition leader Henrique Capriles denounced the arrest of an aide.
On Saturday, Capriles told more than 3,000 people that agents arrested his aide overnight. The government made no official comment on the fate of Alejandro Silva, whose whereabouts remain unknown. However, Tourism Minister Andres Izarra wrote on Twitter that authorities had detained one of the "fascist henchmen" under Capriles.
"Maduro, don't be a coward! ... You want to put me in prison, come for me! I'm not afraid," Capriles said in Caracas to cheers, many wearing the blue, yellow and red of the Venezuelan flag.
The vote for control of 335 municipalities represents the president's first major test since he defeated Capriles to win the April election following the death of Hugo Chavez. The coalition led by Capriles hopes to get the combined majority of votes nationwide with a strong showing in large metropolitan areas such as the capital, where the faction currently holds just one of the five electoral districts.
Thousands in Pakistan Protest American Drone Strikes
By SALMAN MASOOD and IHSANULLAH TIPU MEHSUD
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Thousands of people gathered Saturday in the northwestern city Peshawar to protest American drone strikes inside Pakistani territory and vowed to stop NATO supply trucks unless the attacks stopped.
The protest rally was organized by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the political party of the opposition leader Imran Khan, an outspoken critic of American drone strikes and the Pakistani military’s presence in the country’s border areas, where Taliban and Al Qaeda militants have long found a haven.
Addressing 10,000 to 13,000 flag-waving party workers and supporters from two allied political parties, Mr. Khan accused the United States of sabotaging peace talks with the Taliban. “There can be no peace unless drones are stopped,” he said.
Jeremy Scahill: From pursuing Washington over its secret war on terror to becoming a rebel fighter in the global war against journalism
Jeremy Scahill has been dubbed a “one-man truth squad”. The American journalist has spent more than a decade reporting on what he describes as the “so-called war on terror,” from countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia. Attentive readers will have already worked out he is no friend of the White House.
He has received death threats, and his computer has been hacked. Chilling warnings have even come from high up in President Barack Obama’s administration. Why? He has never minced his words. “We are making more new enemies across the world than we are killing actual terrorists,” he tells me. “I think there will be blowback.”
But the 39-year-old is moving out of the shadows and on to British cinema screens this week, as his new award-winning film Dirty Wars, an adaptation of his second book, is released.
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