Hong Kong protests: violence flares again as activists reoccupy streets
Police make 26 arrests during clashes in Mongkok district but are forced into partial retreat by protesters
Riot police clashed violently with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday as demonstrators reoccupied a camp mostly cleared the previous day, leading to multiple arrests and jeopardising talks aimed at ending a political stalemate.
Police used batons and pepper spray against protesters shielding themselves with umbrellas on a normally busy main road in the bustling Mongkok district, but were forced into a partial retreat as the sun began to rise, to cheers from the crowd.
Activists rushed to rebuild makeshift barricades in an area police had opened to traffic 24 hours earlier, while thousands of others staged a sit-in at the protest camp that has existed for nearly three weeks, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.
Women in vanguard of Kurdish battle against IS and Syrian regime
Estimated 10,000 Kurdish women have joined peshmerga in battle
Stephen Starr
“Ahin” was just 20 years old when she joined the Kurdish peshmerga forces.
She had finished her baccalaureate exams in 2011 when protests against the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad began sweeping north through the country. Ahin, a nom de guerre, immediately joined demonstrations against the regime and within weeks became a member of Kurdish peshmerga, set up to protect communities from Syrian security forces in Kobani.
When regime forces withdrew from Kurdish towns and villages of northern Syria in the summer of 2012, the local communities got what they had craved for so long: an opportunity to govern themselves.
But now, two years on, a new, ghastly menace is at the gates.
Mexico: 'Politicians are involved in the massacre'
The disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico has led to mass protests against the government. Corruption expert Edgardo Buscaglia is calling for support from the international community.
Edgardo Buscaglia researches the impact of economics and law on the development of countries at Columbia University in New York. He is one of the most renowned experts on corruption and organized crime in Mexico. In an interview with DW, he spoke about political involvement in organized crime, a pact of impunity, and the duties of the international community.
DW: What can civil society in Mexico do to weaken the cartels?
Edgardo Buscaglia: It has to take to the streets and peacefully disrupt the economy. It has to force the government to rid Mexico of politicians who are linked to criminal groups, which partially operate under the guise of legal companies.
It's important that they do it peacefully. If you set fire to a government building, you give politicians reason to respond with repression.
Welcome to Baghdad, city of burnt trees and bravado
Paul McGeough
Chief foreign correspondent
Baghdad: Across the road from the burnt tree, a man sits in a high-backed chair – a white paste covers his dark-skinned face and a flame is burning in his left ear.
Asaad Matoori is 30, and he makes light of it all. He's in a barber's shop, undergoing a male beautification ritual, Baghdad style. "I'm getting ready to fight ISIS," he says, using one of several acronyms for the forces of the so-called Islamic State, now closing on the Iraqi capital.
Matoori is a Shiite from the southern port city of Basra who has signed on for training as a volunteer to fight alongside the Iraqi Army. The paste is a conventional face scrub; and the flaming paper "pencil" in his ear is a local procedure by which heat is transferred to his inner ear and the other end of the paper soaks up any melted earwax.
India Just Successfully Tested A Nuclear-Capable Cruise Missile
India has successfully conducted a test-launch of a nuclear-capable cruise missile that has a range of over 620 miles.
The Nirbhay subsonic cruise missile is India's first long-range missile to be built and designed inside the country. India's Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) claims that the missile launch was a massive success and that the missile will fill a critical role within India's defensive capabilities.
China Week: Confrontation, mainland-style
Convulsions in Hong Kong continue to reverberate through the politics of the mainland this week, even when Hong Kong is not the focus of the story.
Take two episodes in south-west China, for example.
While Hong Kong debated video showing a protester being kicked by police, a much more deadly confrontation exploded in a village in Yunnan. It was triggered by a long-running dispute over government efforts to confiscate land for a development project.
Police used tear gas and batons. Angry villagers then captured eight people involved in the development project, tied their hands and feet and set them on fire.
Authorities confirmed on Thursday that four had burned to death. Two more died from unspecified injuries and two villagers were also killed.
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