11 March 2014 Last updated at 09:15
Malaysia Airlines MH370: Stolen passport 'no terror link'
A man travelling on a stolen passport on a missing Malaysian jet was a young Iranian who is not believed to have terrorist links, Malaysian police say.
They say the 19-year-old - named as Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad - was probably migrating to Germany.
Investigations are continuing into a second man using stolen documents.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing on Saturday, after taking off with 239 on board. The search has been widened.
Experts have said the presence of two people with stolen passports on a plane was a breach of security, but is relatively common in a region regarded as a hub for illegal migration.
Malaysia's police chief Inspector Gen Khalid Abu Bakar said the young Iranian was "not likely to be a member of a terrorist group", adding that the authorities were in contact with his mother in Germany, who had been expecting her son to arrive in Frankfurt.
Australian police declined to interview 'tortured' Sri Lankan asylum seeker
Exclusive: Cable from high commission in Colombo says AFP turned down offer to meet man repatriated from Christmas Island
The Australian federal police declined the opportunity to interview a Sri Lankan asylum seeker sent back from Christmas Island who alleged he had been “severely tortured” by local police on his return, a cable obtained under freedom of information laws has revealed.
The cable, sent to Canberra from the Australian high commission in Colombo in August 2010, states that the AFP did not interview the alleged torture victim so as to avoid interference with an investigation being conducted by the Sri Lankan police.
“In the interests of keeping our distance from the Sri Lankan investigation, we do not intend to take up the offer to meet with him,” the cable states.
Venezuela unrest plays out daily in posh district
By FRANK BAJAK
A squad of motorcycle-mounted police wheels into an intersection newly seized from student protesters in a barrage of tear gas in eastern Caracas' wealthy Chacao district, an important center of resistance to Venezuela's socialist-led government.
From a side street, a young man in a phosphorescent green hockey mask and a white T-shirt advances, his throwing hand sheathed in a fire-retardant glove for returning tear-gas canisters.
The young man struts and taunts the cops, accompanied by comrades behind a makeshift metal shield with "SOS" painted on it. Gunpowder charges explode near the police. The officers retreat. But the withdrawal is tactical. Seconds later, a different set of motorcycle police in body armor roars uphill into the intersection, giving chase. Startled parrots scatter from a tree.
UN report: N Korea circumventing sanctions |
Compiled by eight UN experts, the report says techniques include the use of N Korean embassies to smuggle weapons.
Last updated: 11 Mar 2014 08:17
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North Korea has developed sophisticated techniques to circumvent United Nations-imposed sanctions, including the suspected use of its embassies to facilitate an illegal trade in weapons, according to a UN report.
It said North Korea was also making use of more complicated financial countermeasures that made the isolated country's purchase of prohibited goods more difficult to track.
The report, compiled by a panel of eight UN experts, is part of an annual accounting of North Korea's compliance with layers of UN sanctions imposed in response to Pyongyang's banned nuclear and missile programmes.
The panel reports to the UN Security Council.
"From the incidents analysed in the period under review, the panel has found that [North Korea] makes increasing use of multiple and tiered circumvention techniques," a summary of the 127-page report said.
Syria's Children Suffering, Dying Three Years Into Conflict
BY ELIZABETH CHUCK
Three years of conflict are testing the resilience of Syrian children.
More than 5.5 million Syrian youth have been deprived of schools, food, medical attention, or a safe community to grow up in, according to UNICEF, which released sobering statistics on Syria's youngest victims days before the third anniversary of the crisis on March 15.
"The children of Syria's conflict cannot afford another year of conflict," states the UNICEF report, "Childhood Under Siege: How Three Years of Crisis in Syria Have Devastated a Generation."
This week, NBC News is featuring "Forgotten? Syria's Children of War." The live documentary will unfold on Tuesday and Wednesday, following the lives of Syrian children over 48 hours on NBCNews.com, TODAY and Nightly News.
Egyptian court orders release of Mubarak-era tycoon
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CAIRO — An Egyptian court ordered the release of one of the 2011 revolution’s most notorious villains Monday, while three of the uprising’s most prominent pro-democracy activists — now prisoners of Egypt’s military-backed government — appeared in a separate court alleging torture.
The two hearings underscored the remarkable reversals that have befallen some of the main players in Egypt’s 18-day revolt, which led to the ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
But many Egyptians who back the country’s military commander and likely presidential candidate, Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, don’t appear to mind. They say they’re ready to move on.
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