2 April 2014 Last updated at 09:00
No reduction
He noted that Nato saw no major reduction in military threat from Russia on Ukraine’s eastern frontier. Moscow said this week it had pulled back a battalion from the region – between 300 and 1,200 men.
Over 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were sentenced to death last week in the small Egyptian city of Minya. But what really happened? A visit to the town reveals the vast divide in Egyptian society.
Tamam heads up a team of attorneys that represented around 100 of the 529 defendants in the "Minya trial." Last week, every single one of them was sentenced to death, a collective penalty handed down after just one-and-a-half days. It is an Egyptian record.
Chile declares disaster in quake-hit regions
Chile has declared two northern regions hit by a 8.2 magnitude earthquake to be disaster areas.
At least five people are known to have died and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated.
The quake struck at 20:46 local time (23:46 GMT) about 86km (52 miles) north-west of the mining area of Iquique, the US Geological Survey said.
Waves of up to 2.1m (6ft) have hit some areas and there have been power cuts, fires and landslides.
The government said the declaration of a disaster in the regions of Tarapaca, Arica and Parinacota was aimed at "avoiding instances of looting and disorder".
President Michelle Bachelet said the country had "faced the emergency well" and called on those in affected regions "to keep calm and follow instructions from the authorities".
She is due to visit the affected areas later on Wednesday.
Prison break
Chilean TV broadcast pictures of traffic jams as people tried to head for safer areas.
Nato calls halt to civilian and military co-operation with Russia over crisis
Moscow hikes Ukraine’s gas price as Kiev moves to disarm groups
Daniel McLaughlin
Nato has suspended co-operation with Russia over its annexation of Crimea and its build-up of forces on Ukraine’s border, which the military alliance says still represents a threat to the country. Nato foreign ministers decided yesterday to halt “all practical civilian and military co-operation” with Moscow, as it cranked up further pressure on Kiev by sharply hiking gas prices.
“Russia has undermined the principles on which our partnership is built, and has breached its own international commitments. So we cannot go on doing business as usual,” said Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
No reduction
He noted that Nato saw no major reduction in military threat from Russia on Ukraine’s eastern frontier. Moscow said this week it had pulled back a battalion from the region – between 300 and 1,200 men.
529 Steps Back: Egyptian Death Sentences Reveal Deep Societal Rift
Over 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were sentenced to death last week in the small Egyptian city of Minya. But what really happened? A visit to the town reveals the vast divide in Egyptian society.
It is 10 p.m. Both windows in lawyer Hussein Ali Tamam's office, located on the first floor of a building on Saa Square, are open. A warm evening breeze is ruffling the papers on his desk, where Tamam is sitting behind a pile of books and file folders. Tamam, a gangly 46-year-old, is considered to be one of the most experienced defense attorneys in Minya, a town on the Nile River in Egypt. But he looks stressed as he alternately reads, writes and smokes. Mostly, though, he is trying to calm himself down. He just suffered the largest defeat of his life.
Rising Japanese scientist faked heralded stem cell research, lab says
April 2, 2014 - 7:52AMTerrence McCoy
In her short scientific career, the trajectory of Haruko Obokata was meteoric. Before the 30-year-old was 20, she was accepted into the science department at Tokyo's Waseda University where the admittance board placed great importance on a candidate's aspirations.
Then she studied at Harvard University in what was supposed to be a half-year program, but advisers were so impressed with her research, they asked her stay longer.
It was there that she would come up with an idea that would come to define her – in ways good and bad. The research was called STAP – "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency" – which unveiled a new way to grow tissue. "I think about my research all day long, including when I am taking a bath and when I am on a date with my boyfriend," Obokata told the Asahi Shimbun.
Last January, just three years after Obokata earned her PhD, she published what appeared to be her groundbreaking research in the scientific journal Nature.
Kenya police arrest more than 650 after bomb blasts
Kenyan police have arrested more than 650 suspects a day after six people were killed in bomb attacks in Nairobi.
Kenyan police have arrested more than 650 suspects a day after six people were killed in bomb attacks in the capital Nairobi, the interior minister said on Tuesday, in a crackdown on suspected Islamist insurgents.
"This act of cowardice perpetrated against innocent and peace-loving Kenyans who were going about their normal activities is barbaric," said Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku.
"So far 657 suspects have been apprehended," he added.
Kenyan police regularly arrest scores of people after similar attacks in sweeping security operations, but later release most after questioning.
The three blasts on Monday evening targeted two small restaurants and a local clinic in a particularly densely populated area of Eastleigh, an area often known as Little Mogadishu because of its predominantly Somali population.
After two decades in prison limbo, released Palestinian rebuilds his life
Khaled Asakreh was released seven months ago, after 22 years in an Israeli prison. Another batch of veteran Palestinian prisoners is awaiting release as part of John Kerry's peace efforts.
Seven months after Palestinian prisoner Khaled Asakreh’s welcome-home luncheon, when a steady stream of everyone from relatives to Palestinian Authority officials stopped by to heartily congratulate him, life is quieter.
When visitors arrive on a recent evening, he is alone – a rarity for any Palestinian – in his gleaming new home, courtesy of the Palestinian Authority's strong financial support for prisoners. He has two TVs and four rooms of brand-new furniture all to himself, accompanied only by half a dozen plaques commemorating the 22 years he spent in prison. Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian fighter turned peacemaker, gazes out from one in the dining room.
But soon there will be another addition: a wife. His fiancée, recommended by sisters-in-law after Mr. Asakreh tired of women chasing his perceived wealth, is everything he wanted: educated, mature, “and of course cute.”
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