21 November 2014 Last updated at 07:39
Rocks, fireworks and gasoline bombs thrown at officers as demonstrators press government to find 43 students
Barack Obama enforces US immigration overhaul
Millions of immigrants living illegally in the US will be allowed to apply for work permits under a major shake-up unveiled by President Barack Obama.
They include immigrants living in the US for five years who have children staying legally in the US.
Up to five million are expected to benefit from a reform package forced through using executive orders, which allow Mr Obama to bypass Congress.
Republicans have accused the president of an "illegal power-grab".
There are estimated to be 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.
Under Mr Obama's plan, undocumented parents of children who are US citizens or legal residents will be able to apply for work permits lasting three years.
Only parents who have lived in the US for five years will qualify - about four million people are estimated to fit this criterion.
Mexicans in biggest protest yet over missing students
Rocks, fireworks and gasoline bombs thrown at officers as demonstrators press government to find 43 students
Tens of thousands of people dressed in black have marched through Mexico City in the largest demonstration yet against the government’s response to the disappearance and probable massacre of 43 student teachers seven weeks ago.
The march was marked by an outbreak of violence as a small group of protesters clashed with riot police in the city’s central Zócalo plaza. Earlier ion Thursday there had been battles between police and protesters who were trying to blockade the airport.
The disturbances threatened to overshadow the overwhelmingly peaceful march, in which bubbling anger was channelled through noisy chants that drove home the depth of the growing political crisis facing President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Palestinian violence fuelled by frustration
Curbs on human rights are alienating the largely young dispossessed people
Michael Jansen
The recent rise in Palestinian attacks on Israelis reflects Palestinian frustration over the restrictive regime under which they live as well as the failure of negotiations to deliver an independent state.
The involvement of east Jerusalem Palestinians in violence is particularly worrisome for Israel because they carry identity cards granting them free access to all of Israel. Palestinians living in the West Bank are confined to that territory, and Gazans are trapped in the narrow coastal strip, unable to enter or exit via Israel or Egypt.
Tuesday’s attack on a synagogue in west Jerusalem by Palestinian cousins, Uday (22) and Ghassan Abu Jamal (27), in which they killed five Israelis has been characterised as an incident in a “religious war”. However, it can alternatively be viewed as a desperate – albeit unjustified and extreme – act by young men hemmed in by Israeli restrictions and regulations designed to encourage Palestinian migration from the holy city.
Snowden documents: Vodafone-bought firm helped GCHQ
Media reports indicate that a British cable firm now owned by Vodafone helped Britain's spy agency GCHQ eavesdrop on millions of Internet users. The reports cite documents released by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The revelations are the result of a joint investigation involving the Munich-based German national newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German public broadcasting stations WDR and NDR, as well as the British private television station Channel 4.
Previously unreleased documents examined by the journalists involved as well as experts consulted in the course of their investigation indicated that the British intelligence agency GCHQ was able to access underwater telecommunications cables owned by Cable & Wireless. It was purchased by Vodafone in 2012.
The reports said that Cable & Wireless was part of a GCHQ program known as "Mastering the Internet," in which private companies cooperated with British intelligence gatherers to help them tap into Internet traffic data.
Asylum seekers in Cambodia suffer extortion, discrimination, probe finds
November 21, 2014 - 4:38PMLindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
Bangkok: Cambodian authorities frequently extort money from asylum seekers living in the impoverished nation, according to an investigation that raises new concerns about Australia's plan to send refugees there.
Asylum seekers have also told of how they are targets of discrimination in the country, often paying inflated prices for food, work equipment and basic necessities because they are not Cambodian.
"There is a foreigner price and a local price," a refugee told Human Rights Watch investigators. "But we can't afford the foreigner price."
Kenya 'miracle healer' scandal hits deep faith in churches
An expose has raised a furor over a self-styled prophet's exploitation of poor people. While such cases are not new, this latest has prompted a sharp reaction.
NAIROBI, KENYA — He is a self-styled modern-day prophet, a "miracle healer" who has attracted thousands to his Nairobi "church" with claims of being able to cure everything from childlessness to HIV/AIDS.
But last month, the investigative news program "Inside Story" here exposed Victor Kanyari, who ran the Salvation Healing Ministry, as a charlatan. The program revealed elaborate playacting by Mr. Kanyari and a group of devoted followers who helped perpetuate his claims by making false testimonies and staging "healings" in front of the congregation.
Chinese state media give profs a chilling warning
By JACK CHANG
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Over two weeks, the state-owned Liaoning Daily newspaper sent reporters to sit in on dozens of university lectures all over the country looking for what the paper said were professors "being scornful of China."
During visits to more than 20 schools, the regional paper wrote last week, it found exactly what it said it was looking for: Some professors compared Chinese Communist Party co-founder Mao Zedong to ancient emperors, a blasphemy to party ideology upholding Mao as a break from the country's feudal past. Other scholars were caught pointing out the party's failures after taking power in 1949. Some repeatedly praised "Western" ideas such as a separation of powers in government.
"Dear teachers, because your profession demands something higher of you, and because of the solemnity and particularity of the university classroom, please do not speak this way about China!" implored the article, since widely distributed on social media throughout China.
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