Aid eludes many Philippine storm survivors |
Almost a week after Typhoon Haiyan struck, supplies of food, water and medical kits remain frustratingly out of reach.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines are still in desperate need of help, almost a week after Typhoon Haiyan hit.
Emergency supplies of food, water and medical kits are ready to be delivered but they remain frustratingly out of the survivors' reach.
Valerie Amos, the UN humanitarian chief, says the situation will get better, but Al Jazeera's Marga Ortigas, reporting from Tacloban on Thursday, said that for many residents, the only option was to leave.
Desperate residents are clamouring to leave the hard-hit coastal city, jostling and begging for seats on scarce flights. Philippines Airlines said it was operating six flights a day, each with 75 seats.
French PM condemns ‘racist, unbearable and scandalous’ attack on justice minister
Right-wing magazine cover compares minister to a monkey
Lara Marlowe
French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has filed a lawsuit against the extreme right-wing publication Minute for “racist insults”. If convicted, its editors could in theory be sentenced to six months in prison and fined €22,500.
The magazine’s cover, published yesterday, showed the justice minister Christiane Taubira with the caption: “Clever as a monkey, Taubira gets the banana back.”
(In French slang, “to have the banana” means to be happy and smiling.)
Ayrault said he “condemn[ed] with utmost force the racist, unbearable and scandalous attacks” against Taubira, adding that he supports her “more than ever”
Brazil exhumes former President Goulart as part of probe into 'Condor' era
Brazil has exhumed the remains of Joao Goulart to determine if he died by poisoning. Authorities suspect the former president was murdered in exile in Argentina during a military crackdown known as Operation Condor.
Brazilian authorities exhumed Goulart's remains under police guard at a cemetery at Sao Borja, near the border with Argentina, about 600 kilometers (400 miles) from the southern city of Porto Alegre on Thursday.
To avoid the local summer heat, the exhumation took place just after dawn also in the presence of Argentine and Uruguayan experts.
"This is a historic moment," said Brazilian Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo, who referred to documents suggesting that Goulart could have been murdered.
"Every democratic nation must preserve the truth," Cardozo said.
China's new national security committee to blend domestic, foreign duties
November 14, 2013 - 10:04AMJane Perlez
China's new national security committee will apparently differ from the National Security Council in Washington, on which it is modelled, in one crucial aspect: The Chinese version will have dual duties with responsibility over domestic security as well as foreign policy, Chinese experts say.
That means the new body will deal with cybersecurity, relations with Tibet and unrest in Xinjiang province, where a restive Uighur population feels increasingly pressed by the ethnic Han majority, said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing and an occasional adviser to the government.
"In China, the security question is largely domestic: cyber, Xinjiang and Tibet," Mr Shi said.
The focus will be on foreign policy with a considerable domestic component that will call for the Public Security Bureau to participate on the committee when it discusses matters of internal security, he said.
Long jail terms for Egypt's pro-Morsi protesters
A group of 12 supporters of overthrown president Mohamed Morsi have been sentenced to 17 years in prison for taking part in a violent protest.
An Egyptian court sentenced 12 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to 17 years in prison on Wednesday for taking part in a violent protest, state media reported.
The protesters were convicted by an Egyptian court of attacking the headquarters of the Islamic Al-Azhar institution during a demonstration, the official Mena news agency reported on Wednesday.
The men were arrested after protesters in October tried to storm al-Azhar's offices, which supported the military's overthrow of Morsi.
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement said on its website all those sentenced were students at al-Azhar's university.
Why Israel wants more Arab women earning a paycheck
Less than 25 percent of Israeli Arab women are formally employed. Economists are warning they could become a major economic burden if they aren't integrated into the workforce.
The low-profile Alfanar employment center sits on the margins of this Arab town in northern Israel, but on a recent morning it was buzzing with a gaggle of job interviewees and computer trainees. Nearly all were women with stories like Arab-Israeli Hanady Diab, who said she was looking to find a job after taking a five-year break to raise her daughter.
"I’ve been married with a child. Now that’s she’s six years old, I want to work again," says Ms. Diab in broken Hebrew she waits to interview for a position in a local fish factory. "I’ve been looking for a long time."
That's no simple prospect. Within Israel’s Arab minority, which makes up a fifth of the total population, between 20 and 25 percent of women have jobs. Economists inside and out of the government fear that Arab underemployment, particularly among women, threatens Israel’s ballyhooed start-up economy with a rising welfare burden and a widening social gap.
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