7 October 2014 Last updated at 08:13
Ebola outbreak: Spain investigates new case
Investigations are under way at a hospital in Madrid after a Spanish nurse became the first person known to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus outside West Africa.
The nurse had treated two Spanish missionaries who died of the disease after being flown home from the region.
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has announced plans to screen passengers flying to the United States.
Some 3,400 people have died in the outbreak - mostly in West Africa.
The Spanish auxiliary nurse, a 40-year-old woman whose identity has not been revealed, was one of some 30 staff at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid who had been treating Spanish priests Manuel Garcia Viejo and Miguel Pajares, officials say.
Afghan Hazara asylum seekers to be forcibly deported from Australia
Refugee advocates say men would be at risk of persecution after two Hazaras with links to Australia were attacked by Taliban
At least seven Afghan Hazara asylum seekers are set to be forcibly deported from Australia, despite increasing violence against the ethnic minority in Afghanistan, and targeted attacks against those who have been in Australia.
The Hazaras, all men who were living in the community, have been “re-detained” by Australian authorities over the last four weeks, and have been moved to Wickham Point, outside of Darwin, ahead of their removal from Australia. It is not known when they will be deported.
Refugee campaign groups have called on immigration minister Scott Morrison to halt their deportation.
Australian climate sceptics in charge as bushfire season begins
Australia letter: prime minister has dismissed climate-change science as ‘crap’
Pádraig Collins
Australia’s bushfire season officially started last week, and after a warm, dry winter authorities are preparing for the worst. The national maximum temperature was up by 0.68 degrees across the country, and rainfall was 28 per cent below the long-term mean.
On Monday and Tuesday of last week, the temperature in Sydney rose to 35.5 degrees. It was the city’s hottest two consecutive September days on record.
Last year was Australia’s hottest on record, and five separate studies concluded that human-induced climate change was a contributing factor. It got so hot the bureau of meteorology had to add a new colour – bright purple – to the top of its temperature chart. Wildfires raged in New South Wales and Tasmania, and much of the country was in severe drought.
Systemic Shame: Germany's Woeful Asylum Infrastructure
Horrific images from a German asylum home have recently focused attention on the country's broken system for sheltering refugees. Political failures and climbing numbers have resulted in chaos -- and even the use of right-wing extremists as guards.
On a recent Thursday evening, in a refugee shelter in Bielefeld, facility manager Jürgen Beier stood in the entrance hall surrounded by people pulling wheeled suitcases, carrying plastic bags and clutching slips of paper in their hands. The scene was chaotic -- and indicated to Beier that one of the day's two planned events had taken place: The bus from Giessen had arrived with an additional 27 refugees that he had to find beds for.
The other event was supposed to be city hall's approval of a building permit. But that agenda item didn't come to pass, meaning that the construction machinery parked in front of the shelter would remain idle that day and the next. The foundation for the planned expansion, which would provide an additional 200 beds, will have to wait even though Beier badly needs the extra capacity. And the situation isn't likely to change anytime soon, with buses full of refugees arriving at his facility on a regular basis.
Mexico disarms police in Iguala after discovery of mass grave in search for students
October 7, 2014 - 4:04PM
Leticia Pineda
Iguala: Mexico's federal forces have taken over security and disarmed the entire municipal police force in a southern city after 43 students disappeared in what appears to be a gang-linked massacre involving police officers.
Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia, the national security commissioner, said the Iguala police officers would be sent to a military base to undergo evaluations while investigators checked whether their guns were used in any crimes.
The federal police's new paramilitary-like police took over public safety in the city while the army would guard Iguala's entrances in the violence-plagued southern state of Guerrero, he said.
7 October 2014 Last updated at 05:22
China media: 'Subsiding' Hong Kong protest
Chinese papers see the dwindling number of protesters as a win for the "mainstream society" in Hong Kong.
Representatives from Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement have agreed to hold formal talks with the government.
Pro-democracy activists are protesting at China's plans to vet candidates when Hong Kong holds elections in 2017, demanding that Beijing allow a fully free vote for the territory's leader.
As the protests entered their second week, crowds began to die down and civil servants returned to work on Monday.
State-run media outlets have been publishing reports and commentaries noting the "withdrawal" of the crowds and economic repercussions of the protest.
No comments:
Post a Comment