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Fifteen in court over disaster in which more than 300 people died, most of them schoolchildren, amid chaotic evacuation
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Fresh gun battle near Karachi airport
A fierce gun battle has erupted close to Pakistan's busiest airport in the city of Karachi, a day after militants stormed one of its terminals.
Local media say gunmen have attacked a training camp of the airport security forces. It is not clear if there are any casualties.
Flights have once again been suspended at the airport, officials say.
The Taliban gun and bomb attack on the airport's cargo terminal left at least 38 dead, including the attackers.
It appears as if this latest attack is focused upon a hostel housing the airport security forces.
South Korean ferry crew on trial
Fifteen in court over disaster in which more than 300 people died, most of them schoolchildren, amid chaotic evacuation
Fifteen crew of a South Korean ferry that sank in April with the death of more than 300 people, mostly children, have gone on trial on charges ranging from negligence to homicide, with angry and grieving relatives of the dead packing the courtroom.
Most of the passengers were children from the same school on a field trip who stayed in their cabins as instructed while surviving crew members, including the captain, were caught on video abandoning the Sewol.
Mourning family members packed the court in Gwangju, the closest city to the scene of the disaster, as the 15 were led in and seated in two rows of benches.Questions remain despite Politkovskaya murder convictions
Despite the long prison sentences handed down in the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial, it's still unclear who ordered her killing. The high-profile Russian journalist was an outspoken critic of the Kremlin.
Anna Politkovskaya worked for many years for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Now her colleagues there are insisting that the investigation into her death must continue until it establishes who ordered the killing.
Politkovskaya's children, Ilya and Vera, are making the same demand. But this is precisely where the investigators keep running into difficulties.
On Monday (09.06.2014), a Moscow court found five people guilty of carrying out the murder. They were given severe prison sentences: life imprisonment for Rustam Makhmudov, who is believed to have pulled the trigger; 14 years in a labor camp for his brother Dzhabrail, and 12 years for another brother, Ibragim.
'Another 20 women kidnapped' in north Nigeria |
Women reportedly kidnapped from nomadic settlement near Chibok town where hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted.
Last updated: 10 Jun 2014 09:03
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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the rebel group abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in April.
Alhaji Tar, a member of a vigilante group set up to resist Boko Haram's attacks, told the Associated Press news agency that the men arrived at noon on Thursday in the Garkin Fulani settlement and forced the women to enter their vehicles at gunpoint.
Tar said they drove away to an unknown location in the remote stretch of Borno state.
He said the group also took three young men who tried to stop the kidnapping.
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Japan to China: Let's Talk Regional Peace, but Meanwhile We Will Arm Our Neighbors
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe's declaration of aid for Asian countries, coupled with offers to sit down for talks with China, is a major step that could well offer a pathway to new stability in the region's seas -- if China will respond better than its bluster at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue, the Asia Security Summit in Singapore.
Abe was specific in his offers to China: Words, not conflict; operate the 2007 agreement he sought between Japan and China for maritime and air communications to avoid miscalculations; start now to create a roadmap for success at next year's important East Asia Summit, its 10th anniversary and a key time for progress; publicly disclose each step in military budgets so that they can be cross-checked, because "sunshine is the best disinfectant."
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