South Korea president says ferry captain's actions were like 'murder'
Park Geun-hye says conduct was 'unfathomable' as four more officers are arrested and confirmed deaths rise to 64
South Korea's president has accused the captain of the ferry that sank last week of “murdering” more than 300 passengers, most of whom were teenagers on a school trip, as four more members of his crew were
detained on Monday.
Prosecutors said they would decide within 48 hours whether to request arrest warrants for two first mates, one second mate and a chief engineer who were aboard the Sewol when it listed and sank off South Korea’s south-west coast last Wednesday.
The ship’s captain, Lee Joon-seok, was arrested at the weekend along with two other officers. Lee, 69, faces five charges, including negligence and violations of maritime law, amid accusations that he abandoned the stricken vessel while hundreds of passengers were still
on board.
detained on Monday.
Prosecutors said they would decide within 48 hours whether to request arrest warrants for two first mates, one second mate and a chief engineer who were aboard the Sewol when it listed and sank off South Korea’s south-west coast last Wednesday.
The ship’s captain, Lee Joon-seok, was arrested at the weekend along with two other officers. Lee, 69, faces five charges, including negligence and violations of maritime law, amid accusations that he abandoned the stricken vessel while hundreds of passengers were still
on board.
Russia says Ukraine ‘crudely violating’ Geneva deal
Foreign minister condemns fatal gunfight in city controlled by pro-Russian separatists
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine today of violating an accord reached in Geneva last week aimed at averting a wider conflict between the two neighbours.
“Steps are being taken - above all by those who seized power in Kiev - not only that do not fulfil, but that crudely violate the Geneva agreement,” he said.
Lavrov also told a news conference that a deadly gunfight early on Sunday near the Ukrainian city of Slaviansk, which is controlled by pro-Russian separatists, was a crime and showed Kiev did not want to control “extremists”.
“The authorities are doing nothing, not even lifting a finger, to address the causes behind this deep internal crisis in Ukraine,” he said.
Booksellers claim to have found Shakespeare's annotated dictionary
April 21, 2014 - 5:16PM
Mark Tewfik
If it's real, it's the literary find of the century. New York antiquarian booksellers Daniel Wechsler and George Koppelman believe they have found William Shakespeare's annotated dictionary.
The book itself is John Baret's An Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionarie, published in 1580. It was listed on eBay in late April 2008. They placed a bid of $US4300 and got it for $US4050. Wechsler is unequivocal, "only $250 separated us from never having had this experience."
We know that Shakespeare had an eye out for unusual words - but we have only limited knowledge of where he went to find them.
Although unsigned, it contains thousands of annotations in a contemporary hand that point directly to the composition of some of Shakespeare's best known works, including Hamlet,Romeo and Juliet, and many of the sonnets. Wechsler and Koppelman have spent the past six years making sense of the annotations and building a case that it is Shakespeare's copy.
Japan PM makes offering to Yasukuni Shrine, angers China, South Korea
TOKYO
(Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine, seen by critics as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, angering both South Korea and China on Monday and putting regional ties under further strain.
Adding to unease in the region, a Chinese maritime court in Shanghai seized a ship on Saturday owned by Japanese shipping firm Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, a move that Japan warned could have an adverse impact on its businesses in China.
The court said the company had failed to pay compensation stemming from a wartime contractual obligation. China's Foreign Ministry said the disagreement was a normal commercial dispute.
Former army general favorite in Egyptian presidential race
Only two candidates will run in Egypt's upcoming presidential election, a leftist politician and the former army general who ousted Egypts first freely-elected president.
The former army general who toppled Egypt's first freely elected president will face a leftist politician in next month's presidential election, as they were the only candidates to enter before nominations closed, the committee organising the vote said.
The committee had received paperwork from former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and former parliamentarian and presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, it said at a news conference on Sunday, several hours after the deadline had passed.
The elections will be held in a barren political climate after the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak raised hopes of a robust democracy in the biggest Arab nation.
Neither candidate has outlined a strategy for tackling poverty, energy shortages and unemployment that afflict many of Egypt's 85 million people.
21 April 2014 Last updated at 06:31
Cubans trace roots to remote Sierra Leone village
For decades the Ganga-Longoba of Perico have been singing the same chants, a tradition passed down the generations.
But until recently this Afro-Cuban community knew little of the origin of the songs, or of their own ancestors.
Now, thanks to the work of an Australian academic, Cuba's Ganga believe their roots lie in a remote village in Sierra Leone from where it is thought their relatives were sold into slavery more than 170 years ago.
"When I first filmed the Ganga-Longoba, I believed their ceremonies were a mixture of many different ethnic groups," says historian Emma Christopher, of Sydney University.
"I had no idea that a large number of Ganga songs would come from just one village. I think that's extremely unusual," she says.
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