Ebola virus outbreak: 'Five people infected every hour' in Sierra Leone
Five people are being infected with the deadly Ebola virus every hour in Sierra Leone as the outbreak continues to outstrip health supplies, a leading charity has warned.
An estimated 765 new cases were reported in Sierra Leone last week alone, but there are only 327 beds for Ebola patients in the country.
Save the Children said “untold numbers” of children are dying anonymously at home or in the streets, meaning the scale of the problem is massively under-reported.
More than 7,100 people have contracted the virus in West Africa and more than 3,300 have died after contracting it, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Sierra Leone and Liberia have been among the West African countries worst hit by the outbreak.
Hong Kong protesters demand Leung Chun-ying resigns as city leader
October 2, 2014 - 2:27PM
Philip Wen China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Hong Kong: Threatening to escalate protests
dramatically, pro-democracy student demonstrators encircling the offices
of Hong Kong's leader Leung Chun-ying have delivered an ultimatum for
him to resign by midnight Thursday.
As crowds swelled for the sixth straight night, student
leaders said they would occupy government buildings across the city if
their demands were not met. Thousands were circling government
headquarters by Thursday morning.
"You thought you can rule this place," said Alex Chow,
secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, in front of
a cheering crowd late on Wednesday. "If you don't respond to the demand
of the Hong Kong people, we will paralyse the government."
No systematic ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, claims Karadzic
Five-year trial of former Serb leader comes to an end
Julian Borger
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
has told a war crimes trial there was no systematic “ethnic cleansing”
of the territory under his control during the Bosnian conflict.
Mr
Karadzic made the dramatic claim in The Hague, at the end of a
five-year trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. The biggest
war crimes trial in Europe since the Nuremberg tribunal for Nazi
atrocities.
Taking advantage of his last
opportunity to make a public declaration before a verdict is reached, Mr
Karadzic portrayed himself as innocent, and said the court was a
politically- inspired western creation that was biased against Serbs.
The Sand Thieves: World's Beaches Become Victims of Construction Boom
Sand is becoming so scarce that stealing it has become an
attractive business model. With residential towers rising ever higher
and development continuing apace in Asia and Africa, demand for the
finite resource is insatiable.
It's during the few hours when the sea retreats and reveals its
underlying treasure that the people come. At first they appear like
ants, small dots on the mountain slope, but the group, perhaps 100,
quickly draws closer. The men carry shovels, and the women, buckets.
They've come to steal Cape Verde's sand.
A young man jumps into the ocean and wades a few meters out. The water
rises up to his chest. He dives under, and when he returns to the
surface, his sludgy bounty drips from his shovel.
He energetically shovels the mass into a bucket held by a woman waiting
next to him. As she lifts the heavy bucket onto her head, she pauses for
a moment, closing her eyes. A wave hits from behind and rolls over her.
Once it passes, she clenches her teeth as she wades back to shore.
Mexico snares high profile drug boss Beltran Leyva
The detention of Hector Beltran Leyva, one of the highest profile Mexican drug bosses, marks another victory for President Nieto. The arrest will likely be a serious blow to the Beltran Leyva drug cartel.
Mexico City — Hector Beltran Leyva, head of a family crime syndicate that waged a bloody conflict in Mexico with a former ally, drug kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, was captured on Wednesday, an interior ministry source said.
The snaring of the boss of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel is likely a serious blow to the gang, which has been substantially weakened since its founding by a group of brothers who gave the outfit its name and split from Guzman, accusing him of betraying them.
There were few details available about the circumstances of the detention of Beltran Leyva, one of the highest profile Mexican drug bosses still at large. Officials said tests were being carried out to confirm his identity.
The snaring of the boss of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel is likely a serious blow to the gang, which has been substantially weakened since its founding by a group of brothers who gave the outfit its name and split from Guzman, accusing him of betraying them.
There were few details available about the circumstances of the detention of Beltran Leyva, one of the highest profile Mexican drug bosses still at large. Officials said tests were being carried out to confirm his identity.
Long fight for Denmark mosque rages on |
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Despite 14-year struggle for a new mosque in the second-largest city, new roadblocks are erected at every turn.
Simon Hooper
Last updated: 02 Oct 2014 09:04
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Aarhus, Denmark -
Muslims living in one of Denmark's most deprived housing projects say
they are being marginalised and made to feel unwelcome in their own
community amid fears that their 14-year fight for a mosque could be
derailed by political wrangling over an ambitious regeneration plan for
the area.
Residents in Gellerup, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark's second city, have been campaigning since 2000 for the right to build a mosque in their neighbourhood. They say it would serve not only the needs of a growing Muslim population but also as a "beacon of hope", a bulwark against extremism and a symbol of their acceptance as Danish citizens.
But their aspirations have been repeatedly stalled by political opposition to the project. Now those behind the latest proposal say that promises made by politicians and city officials that a fresh application to buy land for a mosque would be treated favourably have been broken following objections by right-wing parties on the local council.
Residents in Gellerup, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark's second city, have been campaigning since 2000 for the right to build a mosque in their neighbourhood. They say it would serve not only the needs of a growing Muslim population but also as a "beacon of hope", a bulwark against extremism and a symbol of their acceptance as Danish citizens.
But their aspirations have been repeatedly stalled by political opposition to the project. Now those behind the latest proposal say that promises made by politicians and city officials that a fresh application to buy land for a mosque would be treated favourably have been broken following objections by right-wing parties on the local council.
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