26 August 2014 Last updated at 08:24
Family of Hamako Watanabe, who fled nuclear disaster and later doused herself in petrol, successfully sue plant operator Tepco
The world took notice when the Yazidis needed help. But since June, a Turkmen city in northern Iraq has been under siege by the Islamic State. The death toll continues to mount but, thus far, the people of Amirli have been left to fight the IS on their own.
Dr. Khaldoun Mahmoud speaks extremely rapidly, and with good reason. There is only a single place remaining in the northern Iraqi town of Amirli where he still has a modicum of mobile phone reception: at the helicopter landing pad above the village. And with every call, he is risking his life. Fighters from the Islamic State (IS) have surrounded the town and are just one kilometer away.
Captured Russian troops 'in Ukraine by accident'
Russia says that a group Russian military personnel who were captured in eastern Ukraine had crossed the border by mistake.
Ukraine said 10 paratroopers had been captured and has released video interviews of some of the men. One is quoted as saying "this is not our war".
The incident comes ahead of a key meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents.
Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Putin are at a summit in Minsk in Belarus.
A Russian defence ministry source was quoted by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti as saying: "The soldiers really did participate in a patrol of a section of the Russian-Ukrainian border, crossed it by accident on an unmarked section, and as far as we understand showed no resistance to the armed forces of Ukraine when they were detained."
Fukushima suicide victim's family wins damages
Family of Hamako Watanabe, who fled nuclear disaster and later doused herself in petrol, successfully sue plant operator Tepco
The family of a Japanese woman who fatally set herself on fire after being forced to flee the nuclear disaster at Fukushima has been awarded nearly £285,000 in damages, according to reports.
It was the first time that the operator of the stricken plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), has been ordered to pay compensation for a suicide linked to the 2011 nuclear disaster.
A 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake triggered a massive tsunami that swamped cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant inJapan's north-east, sparking the worst atomic accident in a generation. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated around the plant amid fears of rising radiation.
Spanish mayor compared to Hitler over immigrant claims
Javier Maroto accused of stirring up tensions by saying North Africans abuse system
Guy Hedgecoe
The mayor of a town in northern Spain has been accused of racism and even of aping Hitler, after he claimed that immigrants are sponging off the state.
Javier Maroto, of the conservative Popular Party (PP), has been known for his tough stance on immigration ever since becoming mayor of the Basque city of Vitoria in 2011. However, in recent weeks he has been even more outspoken, targeting North Africans in particular.
“A majority of some communities – Moroccans and Algerians to be precise – live off our land, especially the social support that we all pay for,” he told reporters earlier this month. “I know it’s not politically correct to say so, but as it’s so obvious I’m saying it so that things change and improve.”
Forgotten in Iraq: Besieged City Faces Destruction by the Islamic State
By Christoph Reuter and Jacob RussellThe world took notice when the Yazidis needed help. But since June, a Turkmen city in northern Iraq has been under siege by the Islamic State. The death toll continues to mount but, thus far, the people of Amirli have been left to fight the IS on their own.
"Every day I receive about 100 patients. Every day there is shelling. Some of the injuries are very complicated, legs amputated, head wounds. But I don't have the materials to provide serious treatment. There are cases where I have put patients on the helicopter alive and they die when they get to Baghdad."
'You are all pagans and we will kill you': Boko Haram leader claims Nigerian town is ruled by Islamic law
August 26, 2014 - 3:29PMIsaac Abrak
Abuja: The leader of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters now ruled the captured north-eastern town of Gwoza "by Islamic law", in the first video to state a territorial claim in more than five years of violent insurrection. His message also contained taunts for Western governments and compared democracy to incest.
However, the Nigerian military denied Boko Haram had taken control of the town.
Abubakar Shekau, who leads the insurgents, said in a video that the group would enforce Islamic law in Gwoza, a town of about 250,000 people, in Borno state, about 850 kilometres north-east of the capital, Abuja.
His forces have killed thousands since launching an uprising in 2009, and are seen as the biggest security threat to the continent's leading energy producer. Banned in Beijing: China shutters film festival just before opening night
The director of the annual Beijing Independent Film Festival was jailed and forced to promise not to open the festival. The move comes as social media, arts, and religion are increasingly restricted.
BEIJING — The closing of an independent film festival on the outskirts ofBeijing before it ever opened adds to an intensified campaign in China against activity not considered in line with orthodox party thinking under President Xi Jinping. The broadening range of targets including legal aid, social media, arts, civil society, and Christian churches.
Organizers were to open the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival on Saturday in Songzhuang, a Beijing suburb. The event is considered by artists to be one few chances to see new avant-garde work created outside government controls.
But Chinese directors, filmmakers, and journalists were blocked from entering the area by squads of non-uniformed men who said they were from out of town.
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