26 June 2014 Last updated at 08:29
Activists tell of 'being travelled' – sent on lavish trips, chaperoned by police – to keep them out of the government's way
Iraq confirms Syrian air strikes against Isis militants
The prime minister of Iraq has confirmed to BBC News that Syria carried out air strikes on militants inside Iraqi territory this week.
Nouri Maliki said Syrian fighter jets had bombed militant positions around the border town of Qaim on Tuesday.
While Iraq did not ask for the raid, he added, it "welcomed" any such strike against the Islamist group Isis.
Isis and its Sunni Muslim allies have seized large parts of Iraq this month including the second city, Mosul.
China sends dissidents on free holidays
Activists tell of 'being travelled' – sent on lavish trips, chaperoned by police – to keep them out of the government's way
As top Communist leaders gathered in Beijing the veteran Chinese political activist He Depu was obliged to leave town – on an all-expenses-paid holiday to the tropical island of Hainan, complete with police escorts.
It is an unusual method of muzzling dissent, but He is one of dozens of campaigners who rights groups say have been forced to take vacations – sometimes featuring luxurious hotels beside sun-drenched beaches, trips to tourist sites and lavish dinners – courtesy of the authorities.
It happens so often that dissidents have coined a phrase for it: "being travelled".
New species of mammal 'uncovered in Papua New Guinea' forest, scientists say
Lamu district governor arrested after Kenya coastal attacks
Kenyan police have arrested the governor of the coastal Lamu district in connection with three recent massacres in which over 60 people were killed, officers said.
Governor Issa Timamy was arrested late Wednesday in connection with last week's killings over two consecutive nights in the town of Mpeketoni and a nearby village that claimed nearly 60 lives. Another attack this week left at least five dead, officials said.
"The governor is in custody," Kenya's Criminal Investigations Department chief Ndegwa Muhoro said, adding the governor would appear in court later on Thursday.
"There are various charges lined up for him that are related to the attack," he said, without giving further details.
Fleeing Pakistanis crowd border towns, asking 'why weren't we warned?'
June 26, 2014 -- Updated 0727 GMT (1527 HKT)
The road to Bannu city in the northwest of Pakistan is a journey through the elements.
Harsh wind and rain make way for bursts of sunshine in June, a month of typically oppressive heat when illnesses such as diarrhea and typhoid are common, alongside the ever-looming specter of polio.
It is in this stifling heat that hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are fleeing their homes in North Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan, to Bannu and other neighboring regions. The mass exodus began after the Pakistani army launched a full scale offensive against militants on June 15 called Zarb e Azb, or "The Strike of The Prophet's Sword."
When Getting Photos Developed Leads to Trouble With the Law
First-time mom Shirley Saenz made a fateful decision four years ago: She walked into a drugstore near her Brooklyn, New York, home to print digital pictures of her 20-month-old son without his clothes.
The photos were graphic, revealing the boy’s bare buttocks. Saenz said she took them on the advice of her then-attorney to document the infant’s physical condition before dropping him off at his father’s home — and the troubling red swelling she claimed she found after getting him back.
She planned to print the photos, and believed that having hard evidence would support her case to cops that the boy appeared to be abused during visitations with his dad.
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