9 May 2014 Last updated at 08:40
Exclusive: G7 leaders are expected to sign off on an 'emergency response plan' to assist Ukraine this winter if its neighbour restricts gas supplies
Despite its pledge to eliminate chemical weapons, the Assad regime is attacking towns and villages with chlorine gas bombs. SPIEGEL visited the communities hit by the most recent bombings to interview victims, doctors and eyewitnesses.
Usually, there is no big bang, just the sound of a minor detonation, sometimes even just the thud of an impact. Death comes quietly, as it did on the evening of April 21 in Telminnes.
“It’s a disgrace,” Mujica said of the detention camp recently, insisting Uruguay must assume responsibility in helping shut Guantánamo. “I’m doing this for humanity.”
Ukraine crisis: Russian victory parade buoyed by Crimea
Russia has held a huge parade to mark 69 years since the Soviets defeated the Nazis, amid a surge of patriotism over the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin told onlookers that the "iron will of the Soviet people" had saved Europe from slavery and vowed to defend the "motherland".
Unconfirmed reports say Mr Putin will visit a parade in Crimea later.
Festivities in Ukraine will be muted amid fears of provoking further violence in the south and east.
Moscow denies fomenting pro-Russian separatist unrest in Ukraine.
Mr Putin did not mention Ukraine in his speech.
He told the crowd that 9 May, known as Victory Day in Russia, was a "day of grief and eternal memory".
Bangkok protests call for dismissal of Thailand's caretaker government
Dismissal of prime minister fails to satisfy royalists who want reforms to rid politics of Shinawatras' influence
Thousands of Thai royalist protesters have fanned out across Bangkok to try to bring down a caretaker government after a court dismissed Yingluck Shinawatra from office as prime minister and an anti-graft agency indicted her for negligence.
The interim government is hoping to organise a 20 July election that it would probably win but the protesters want the government out, the election postponed and reforms brought in to end the influence of Yingluck's brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, speaking to supporters in a city park, urged them to rally outside parliament, the prime minister's offices and five television stations to prevent them being used by the government.
Ukraine crisis EXCLUSIVE: US and Europe planning to ‘cut off’ Russia’s gas supply
Exclusive: G7 leaders are expected to sign off on an 'emergency response plan' to assist Ukraine this winter if its neighbour restricts gas supplies
Assad's New Bomb: Syrian Regime Hasn't Abandoned Chemical Weapons
Despite its pledge to eliminate chemical weapons, the Assad regime is attacking towns and villages with chlorine gas bombs. SPIEGEL visited the communities hit by the most recent bombings to interview victims, doctors and eyewitnesses.
The green wheat fields shimmer in the late afternoon light as the wind slowly starts to pick up. A cloud of dust drifts by. This is good, says Abu Abdu, a farmer from the village of Telminnes, located deep in the south of Syria's Idlib province. Prior to the war, the evening wind had been an annoyance for the dust it kicked up. But these days, it is windless nights that people in the area despise. That's when air force helicopters come and the gas attacks take place. Often, they circle over the city before dropping their cargo.
Meet the monkeys keeping Chinese troops safe
May 9, 2014 -- Updated 0230 GMT (1030 HKT)
The Chinese air force have a new secret weapon: monkeys.
The People's Liberation Army Air Force has trained macaques to keep its troops safe by discouraging birds from nesting near the air force base, the PLA's website reported earlier this week.
The monkeys are used in an unidentified air force base in northern China, which is situated right on a major migratory route for birds.
When swarms of birds fly around the base, it poses a threat to military planes that are in mid-flight. The birds could potentially get sucked into plane engines, endangering the lives of both birds and pilots.Why did Uruguay agree to take in Guantánamo Bay detainees?
President Mujica said he would give refuge to five detainees from the controversial US detention camp. Uruguay may have foreign policy interests in scoring points with the US.
In recent years, small Uruguay has seized a large slice of the region’s attention. Foreign reporters clamor to interview President José Mujica at his austere farmhouse. International observers scrutinize his social reforms, including a ground-breaking marijuana legalization law. And now President Mujica, a former guerrilla, is turning heads by offering to take in Guantánamo Bay detainees.
Mujica has agreed to give refuge to five detainees, something that would make Uruguay the first country in South America to do so, should the United States accept the gesture.
Mujica has agreed to give refuge to five detainees, something that would make Uruguay the first country in South America to do so, should the United States accept the gesture.
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