Ukraine protests continue in Kiev despite deal signed by President - but where is Viktor Yanukovych?
Demonstrators take control of government buildings in Kiev depite Friday's pact to restore 2004 constitutionNorth Korea rejects UN report on crimes against humanity as 'lies'
Foreign ministry says report accusing it of crimes as bad as the Nazis was ‘deliberately cooked up by hostile forces’
North Korea has rejected the findings of a United Nations panel that accused the state of crimes against humanity evoking Nazi-era atrocities, saying they were based on “lies and fabrications deliberately cooked up by hostile forces and riff-raffs”.
North Korean security chiefs and even the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, should face international prosecution for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings of its people, UN investigators said in a report on Monday.
The North’s foreign ministry said on Saturday it categorically rejected the report by the UN commission of inquiry, led by the retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, which it said was “set up the US and its satellite forces out of inveterate repugnance towards the DPRK [North Korea]”.
War veterans eye share of Tongaat Hulett plantation
Former freedom fighters in Zimbabwe demand their reward in the form of sugarcane plots.
After successfully campaigning for President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF, resulting in a controversial victory during last year's harmonised elections, it is now payback time as former freedom fighters demand their reward in the form of sugarcane plots.
The war veterans in Chiredzi, home to the country's sugar plantations, have asked government to give them a bigger share of the 10 000 hectares that may be expropriated from South African sugar milling giant Tongaat Hulett.
The veterans say they were promised the land during election campaigning last year and have met Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander General Constantine Chiwenga several times, when the issue has been discussed.
War veteran spokesperson Ezra Charinda, who is based in Chiredzi, confirmed having held a series of meetings with the army chief.
Venezuela's protests: The who, what, and why
Tensions abound in Venezuela's opposition – as well as within President Maduro's government. How are the protests playing out?
Below is a written interview I did with Isabel Fleck of Folha de Sao Paolo.
How do you feel about the last demonstrations in Venezuela and the government’s response?
The demonstrations began with students supporting Leopoldo López and Maria Corina Machado’s #lasalida mobilization. Ms. Machado and Mr. López do not agree with the opposition coalition’s (called the Mesa de la Unidad Democratica, or MUD) strategy of trying to grow their constituency through longer term groundwork, nor with their willingness to dialogue with the government in January.
They want a more aggressive and immediate strategy because they feel the situation is unsustainable and that in a couple years’ time there will not be enough democratic liberties for them to fight for power.
Militants turning to violence in Egypt; groups use Facebook to threaten police
McClatchy Foreign Staff
CAIRO — Islamist opponents of Egypt’s military-led government are increasingly embracing militant tactics to push back against the months-long crackdown that has seen 23,000 people arrested in the past seven months.
Some are joining extremist groups calling for jihad and some are establishing armed groups of their own. Others are turning to social media to advocate a new level of violence, calling for assassinations, kidnappings and the torching of police cars, on Facebook pages that quickly draw tens of thousands of “fans” in an eery echo of the way the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak began.
The Apollo of Gaza: One fisherman's amazing catch
A statue thought to be an ancient bronze of Apollo, Greek God of poetry and love, has dropped off the radar after being found in the sea off Gaza last summer and surfacing briefly on eBay. It is 2,500 years old and priceless.
Jawdat Abu Ghurab used to be a builder but in 2007 Israel restricted the delivery of building materials to the Gaza strip, so he became a fisherman like his father.
He only has a small boat so never goes out far, and catches only small fish. One day last August, though, the 29-year-old from Deir al-Balah ended up with a very different haul.
His uncle was also fishing that day, but gave up early. Ghurab kept going.
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