21 July 2014 Last updated at 08:56
MH17 plane crash: Dutch reach bodies in east Ukraine
Dutch PM Mark Rutte says experts have arrived in Torez in Ukraine, where the remains of victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash are being stored.
The three Dutch forensic scientists are aiming to start work on identifying the 196 bodies stored there on trains.
Pressure is growing on pro-Russian rebels to allow experts to the crash site some 15km (9 miles) away.
The US says there is growing evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of the plane last week.
All 298 people on flight MH17 died when it was reportedly hit by a missile.
Israel denies capture of soldier in Gaza |
Diplomat dismisses claims that a soldier was captured during overnight fighting, as Palestinian death toll passes 500.
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Israel has denied that one of its soldiers had been captured by Hamas in overnight fighting, as the death toll in the Gaza Strip passed 500, the Gaza health ministry said.
Al-Qassam brigades, Hamas' armed wing, said Israeli soldier Shaul Aron was captured late on Sunday, but Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the UN dismissed the claim, saying that "those rumours were untrue".
Osama Hamdan, a Hamas leader and spokesman, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli soldier had been captured: "Al-Qassam declared all the information about the military operations. When we said we captured the soldier, it's true and everyone has to deal with that as true."
Apartheid legacy deeply rooted as focus turns to land restitution in South Africa
Progress on reform slow as landowners and state trade blame for delays
Bill Corcoran
South Africa’s picturesque landscape is about to take centre stage in the country’s efforts to address one of the worst legacies of apartheid: the forced and illegal removal of millions of black people from their land.
Tackling the issue of land restitution has been one of South Africa’s biggest post-apartheid challenges, but progress has been painfully slow, with white landowners and the state blaming each other for the delays.
But the African National Congress-led government intends changing this situation by introducing a range of new land policies to speed up the process.
Crowded out by hipsters, Berlin's elderly keep smiling
The Berlin they grew up in was completely different, run by either the Nazis or the communists. As the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood now gentrifies, DW's Leah McDonnell speaks with those who were there first.
Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood is strewn with WiFi-equipped coffee shops, Montessori pre-schools, om-infused yoga studios, and organic grocery stores. Sleekly designed bikes and baby buggies crowd the sidewalks, while compact, low-emissions vehicles line the streets of renovated, turn-of-the-century houses.
Prenzlauer Berg is Germany's hipster hub, a trendy metropolitan mecca for wealthy urban dwellers from all over the world. But it hasn't always been that way.
Up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Prenzlauer Berg was just another inconspicuous district of East Berlin. It was home to working-class Berliners living hard, simple lives, submitting to their war-torn destinies and adhering to the dictates of the East German regime.
Tunisia shuts 'unlicensed' media outlets |
TV channel and radio station accused of serving as 'platforms for jihad' as country mourns deaths of 15 soldiers. |
Tunisia has closed a satellite television channel and a radio station for promoting "jihad", a few days after armed fighters killed 15 soldiers, according to the government statement.
The decision came after fighters on Wednesday attacked two army posts in the remote Mount Chaambi region near the Algerian border, killing 15 soldiers in the worst attack in the Tunisian army's history.
The statement from the office of Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said on Sunday that the authorities had decided to shut down Nour FM radio and Al-Insen satellite channel.
The government said "the immediate closure of the unlicensed" media outlets came after they "turned into platforms for takfiris and jihad".
'We Will Fight': Keystone XL Pipeline Foes Fear Worst for Water Supply
E ditor's note: This story is one in a series on a crisis in America's Breadbasket – the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer and its effects on a region that helps feed the world. Read the previous installmentshere and here.
IDEAL, South Dakota – Facing the sunrise on a frigid morning, Rosebud Sioux tribal leader Royal Yellow Hawk offered an ancient prayer in song, his voice periodically muffled by the whistling prairie wind. Behind Yellow Hawk was a cinematic scene from another century: 30-foot-tall tipis arranged in a half circle, quickly brightening in the morning light.
This tipi encampment was erected this spring to be a visible and ongoing embodiment of opposition to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, which, if constructed, would hug the reservation’s territory in transporting diluted bitumen oil 1,179-miles from Canada’s tar sands to Steele City, Nebraska.
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