15 May 2014 Last updated at 07:15
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Turkish mine disaster: Unions call protest strike
Trade unions in Turkey have announced a one-day strike in protest at the country's worst ever mine disaster which has claimed at least 282 lives.
Union officials said the recent privatisation of the mining sector had made working conditions more dangerous.
Three days of mourning for the victims began on Thursday.
Anger erupted against the government in several cities on Wednesday after the disaster in the western town of Soma on the previous day.
An explosion caused the pit to collapse while more than 700 miners were underground.
Government officials said 363 miners were rescued in the hours after the explosion, but no survivors have been brought out since dawn on Wednesday.
More than 20 dead as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam
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(Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed and rioters attacked Vietnam's biggest steel plant overnight as violent anti-China protests spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and newspapers said on Thursday.
A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed in the rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979.
"There were about a hundred people sent to the hospital last night. Many were Chinese. More are being sent to the hospital this morning," the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone.
Hitler's house 'to be migrant language school'
May 15, 2014 - 10:59AMJustin Huggler
Berlin: The house where Adolf Hitler was born could become a language school for immigrants, under plans being considered by the Austrian government.
From the outside, the former guesthouse at 15 Salzburger Vorstadt could be just another historic building fallen on hard times. The town where it lies, Braunau am Inn, is a tiny backwater near Linz. But on April 20 1889, Adolf Hitler was born here, and the debate over what to do with the house is so politically charged, it has gone all the way to the Austrian interior ministry. "For us, given the meaning this building has, it's important to use it in a way that benefits people," Alexander Marakovits, a spokesman for the ministry said.
Nigeria will not agree to prisoner swap with Boko Haram
Britain's top official for Africa, Mark Simmonds, said the Nigerian government made it clear they would not swap prisoners in exchange for more than 270 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic militant organization Boko Haram.
Nigeria's government is ruling out an exchange of more than 270 kidnapped schoolgirls for detained Islamic militants, Britain's top official for Africa said Wednesday.
President Goodluck Jonathan has "made it very clear that there will be no negotiation with Boko Haram that involves a swap of abducted schoolgirls for prisoners," Mark Simmonds, British foreign office minister, told journalists in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
But Nigeria's government will talk to the militants on reconciliation, Simmonds said, talking after a meeting with Jonathan.
"The point that also was made very clear to me is that the president was keen to continue and facilitate ongoing dialogue to find a structure and architecture of delivering lasting solution to the conflict and the cause of conflict in northern Nigeria," Simmonds said.What India can learn from China
May 15, 2014 -- Updated 0757 GMT (1557 HKT)
Hong Kong (CNN) -- I met an entrepreneur recently who was comparing doing business in Asia's two biggest countries. "When I'm in India," he said, "I spend the first 40 minutes of any meeting exchanging niceties. In the last five minutes, we get to business." What about China? "We do business for 40 minutes. Right at the end, we chit-chat for five."
It's only an anecdote, but the results seem to bear it out. China gets things done; India invents ways not to. China dazzles the world by hosting an impeccable Olympics; India struggles to complete basic infrastructure for the Commonwealth Games.
Perhaps that's why it's fascinating to watch the rise of India's Narendra Modi, the man many believe will be India's next Prime Minister. Modi's sales pitch is simple: he gets things done. For Indians, it's a seductive notion: Can India be like China?
Shot and Beaten: Two Journalists Released After Kidnap in Syria
Two journalists from Britain's The Times newspaper covering the Syrian civil war were kidnapped by a "rebel gang" and one of them was shot before members of an anti-extremist rebel group intervened and secured their release, the Times reported on Thursday.
Reporter Anthony Loyd was shot twice in the leg while being held captive and photographer Jack Hill suffered a severe beating after trying to escape, it said. The two, who had spent several days covering the restive city of Aleppo for the Times, were released on Wednesday after local commanders of the group Islamic Front intervened.
They later crossed into Turkey, the paper said. Loyd and Hill were kidnapped earlier in the day along with a local guide while heading from the northern Syrian town of Tall Rifat to Turkey after a "rebel gang" intercepted the vehicle in which they were traveling, the newspaper reported.
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