6 August 2014 Last updated at 07:14
Uighur people in Karamay appear to be the target of restrictions as unrest simmers in mainly Muslim Xinjiang region
"Thanks to God, thanks to life, because I didn't want to die without embracing him and soon I will be able to," the 83-year-old grandmother said at a news conference covered live on national TV. She has not yet met him.
Gaza conflict: Kerry urges broader Israel-Palestinian talks
US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Israel and the Palestinians to take advantage of the Gaza truce to move towards broader negotiations.
Mr Kerry told the BBC the situation could concentrate minds on the need to negotiate a two-state solution.
A 72-hour humanitarian truce is holding in Gaza, halting a four-week conflict that has claimed more than 1,900 lives.
Israel and the Palestinians have sent delegations to Cairo to discuss the possibility of a longer-term truce.
Mr Kerry, in a BBC interview, said the US fully supported Israel's right to defend itself against militant rocket attacks.
Chinese city bans Islamic beards, headwear and clothing on buses
Uighur people in Karamay appear to be the target of restrictions as unrest simmers in mainly Muslim Xinjiang region
A city in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region has banned people with large beards or Islamic clothing from travelling on public buses, state media said, prompting outrage from an overseas rights group.
Authorities in Karamay banned people wearing hijabs, niqabs, burqas or clothing with the Islamic star and crescent symbol from taking local buses, the Karamay Daily reported.
The ban also covered “large beards”, the paper said, adding: “Those who do not co-operate with inspection teams will be handled by police.”
Xinjiang, a resource-rich region that abuts central Asia, is the homeland of China’s mostly Muslim Uighur minority and has been hit by a wave of clashes between locals and security forces that have killed hundreds in the past year.
Putin orders retaliation against western sanctions
Moscow considering ban on western airlines using Russian airspace
Kathrin Hille and Courtney Weaver
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin ordered his government to draw up retaliatory measures as a riposte to western sanctions amid signs Moscow was considering a ban on western airlines using Russian airspace.
His pledge came amid renewed geopolitical tensions over Ukraine, with Moscow demanding “an international humanitarian mission” for the east of the country where Ukrainian forces are seeking to crush a pro-Russian rebellion.
Russia called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the issue. Kiev fears Moscow will invoke a humanitarian crisis to send in troops as peacekeepers.
Yunnan earthquake toll nears 600, as China's forsaken grieve for their dead
August 6, 2014 - 3:12PMPhilip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Longtoushan, Yunnan Province: The explosive crack of firecrackers has been resounding through the villages, but here they are being let off in grief rather than in celebration.
The death toll for the deadliest earthquake to hit China’s southwest Yunnan province in decades has climbed to 589. More than 328 are from the worst-hit Ludian County, where entire villages like Longtoushan have become uninhabitable; houses have been flattened, roads ruptured, drinking water compromised.
As emergency crews and the People’s Liberation Army work to clear roads, provide basic food and shelter and search for any trapped survivors, a growing count of bodies piled up at the front of the village when Fairfax Media visited Tuesday, waiting to be transported to town for cremation.Ebola health worker: 'Sierra Leone is not able to deal with this outbreak'
August 6, 2014 -- Updated 0459 GMT (1259 HKT)
One of the countries hard hit by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is not able to cope, a health worker said, calling on the international community to step up support.
Anja Wolz, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, spoke to CNN on Tuesday from an Ebola facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone.
"I think that the government and the ministry of health here in Sierra Leone is not able to deal with this outbreak. We need much more help from international organizations -- as WHO, as CDC, as other organizations -- to come to support the government," Wolz said.
"Still we have unsafe burials; people who are doing the burial without disinfection of the body; still we have patients who are hiding themselves; still we have patients or contacts of patients who are running away because they are afraid."
DNA test solves Argentina 'dirty war' riddle |
Symbol of struggle for victims of the 1976-83 dictatorship finds her grandson after 36 years.
Last updated: 06 Aug 2014 03:55
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The founder of Argentina's leading human rights group has said that she has found a grandson taken from her daughter while a prisoner of the military dictatorship in the 1970s, one of the long-unsolved mysteries from the "dirty war" era.
Surrounded by her large extended family, an emotional Estela Barnes de Carlotto, founder of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, announced on Monday that her long hunt for her grandchild had ended, while acknowledging other families are still searching for hundreds of children taken under similar circumstances.
"Thanks to God, thanks to life, because I didn't want to die without embracing him and soon I will be able to," the 83-year-old grandmother said at a news conference covered live on national TV. She has not yet met him.
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