U.S. airstrikes hit ISIS inside Syria for first time
September 23, 2014 -- Updated 0558 GMT (1358 HKT)
American jets began bombing ISIS targets in Syria early Tuesday, raising U.S. involvement in the war-torn country and sending a forceful message to the terror group.
The airstrikes focused on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, a U.S. official told CNN, though other locations were hit as well.
At least 20 targets in an around Raqqa were hit, the opposition group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
They're the first strikes against the terror group inside the country since President Barack Obama's announcement this month that he was prepared to expand the American efforts beyond targets in Iraq.
All foreign partners participating in the strikes with the United States are Arab countries, a senior U.S. military official told CNN. Those nations are Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
Bollywood star and Indian newspaper in row over cleavage video
Deepika Padukone says she feels violated and is standing up for women, but Times of India accuses her of hypocrisy
One of India’s best-known actors has been accused of hypocrisy after she criticised the country’s best-selling English-language newspaper for drawing attention to her cleavage.
The Times of India tweeted a link to a video clip showing the chest and neck of Deepika Padukone, 28, shot from a high angle apparently by a press cameraman, to the 75,000 followers of its entertainment account. The tweet read: “OMG! Deepika Padukone’s cleavage show”. The video, reported to be a year old, was also posted on the newspaper’s entertainment site.
Padukone responded by tweeting to her own 7.5m followers: “YES! I am a woman. I have breasts AND a cleavage! You got a problem!!??”
The newspaper and Padukone have since traded accusations on social media, on television and in print. “I felt violated as a woman,” the former model told Bharka Dutt, one of India’s few leading female journalists on television.
Hong Kong students take protest to city’s chief executive
Young people staging demonstrations over failure to listen to requests from the public
A scuffle broke out in Hong Kong today as students took their pro-democracy protest to government headquarters and called on the city’s chief executive to honour his election promise of listening to the people.
About 20 students clashed with police when they pushed barriers and rushed to meet chief executive Leung Chun-ying as he stepped out to meet the crowd.
“Today, we bring a notebook and a pen to C.Y. Leung in hopes that he will honour the promise made during his election speech in which he vowed to listen to the people’s requests,” student leader Lester Shum said.
Mr Leung is expected to speak to the crowd later.
Europe's Original Sin: What Asylum Policy Says about the EU
European asylum policy is a messy compromise that has led to vast suffering on the EU's external borders. But having become used to our prosperity, we wouldn't have it any other way.
It's time to talk about asylum, about our European Union with its execrable policy based on deterrence, fortification and deportation. It's time to talk about the fact that people are starving, drowning and otherwise suffering on their way to our borders. And it's time to address the question as to why these things happen every day: today, tomorrow and the day after that.
We all like a drop of fine wine every now and then. German President Joachim Gauck, who recently spoke out in favor of a more humane asylum policy, is no different. Before he even became president, he used to drop by Berlin's café NÖ! every now and then for a glass of quality red. VW Golfs, too, are widely appreciated here in Germany.
Sierra Leone faces 'overflow' of Ebola dead as three-day curfew ends
September 23, 2014 - 2:36AMRod Mac Johnson
Millions of Sierra Leoneans emerged from their homes on Monday after a controversial nationwide lockdown during which scores of dead bodies and around 150 new cases of Ebola infections were uncovered.
The west African country had confined its six million people to their homes for 72 hours in a bid to stem a deadly outbreak that has claimed nearly 2800 lives there and in neighbouring Liberia and Guinea this year.
"We have an overflow of bodies which we still need to bury but this has been an everyday occurrence since the Ebola outbreak ... Now at least we have about 150 new cases," Steven Gaojia, head of the country's emergency operation centre, said late on Sunday.
Korea
Sep 23, '14
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South Korea stonewalls on the Sewol
By J J Suh
The Sewol, a South Korean passenger-cargo ferry that was carrying 476 people - including a group of high school students on a field trip to Jeju Island - capsized on April 16, 2014, and sank to the bottom of the sea off Korea's southern coast.
The Korean Coast Guard rescued most of the crew, including the captain, and some of the passengers. Before the Coast Guard or the Navy arrived on the scene, fishing boats and commercial vessels saved other passengers who happened to be on the deck or escaped soon after the capsizing. The rest were, unfortunately, trapped inside and sank together with the ferry. 294 were later
found dead, and 10 are still "missing" almost five months after their disappearance.
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