Philippines marks Typhoon Haiyan anniversary
Thousands still left homeless a year after deadly storm hit the country leaving close to 8,000 dead or missing.
Last updated: 08 Nov 2014 05:14
Thousands of residents carrying white balloons walked through Tacloban City in the central Philippines to mark the first anniversary since Typhoon Haiyan hit the area, and killed or left missing close to 8,000 people.
People from Leyte and Samar provinces started walking early on Saturday as part of the commemoration.
Residents chanted prayers, with some carrying lit candles, as they made their way along the once-damaged parts of Tacloban City, where more than 2,000 people were killed.
Fall of the Berlin Wall: Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon captured some of the most famous images of the city in 1989
Looking back on his childhood on his father's farm near Lyon, Raymond Depardon recalls his earliest contact with Germans – two soldiers working as farm labourers – as a harbinger of his future work.
In 1961, having moved to Paris to work for the small Dalmas agency, he was sent to Berlin to photograph the visit of Bobby Kennedy.
Speaking neither German nor English, he wandered into the French sector, to find himself sole press witness to the spectacle of a street divided down the pavement by the early prototype low brick structure surmounted with canvas sheeting to prevent the two sides from communicating.
Fukushima disaster site 'like a science fiction film'
Science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar has gained extensive access to Japan's battered Fukushima power plant. He speaks to DW about exploring radiation-contaminated zones, and how the cleanup has progressed so far.
The crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant is still recovering after an undersea quake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered the worst nuclear crisis in a generation. The plant suffered a meltdown at three of its six reactors, and site operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is still working to remove spent uranium fuel rods from the damaged structures. Concerns about radiation contamination mean access to the site has been tightly controlled, but recently a team, including science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar, was given extensive access.
DW: Mr Yogeshwar, can you describe what you saw when you arrived at the nuclear plant?
Ranga Yogeshwar: We all remember these dramatic pictures from the catastrophe back in 2011, and you can see the scars of this catastrophe. You can see buildings which are partially torn down, you can see how the tsunami devastated the area, the cooling systems, and so on. So it's a mixture of things which are old and on the other side, new constructions. Normally if you construct something new you first take away the debris. In Fukushima the debris are still there.
The Look of Silence: Joshua Oppenheimer's film confronts Indonesia's brutal past
November 8, 2014 - 6:39PM
Michael Bachelard
Indonesia correspondent for Fairfax Media
In Indonesia, 1 million people were hacked to death under the guise of ridding the country of communism. A new documentary talks to the murderers and their victims, and follows one man's confrontation with his brother's killers.
Jakarta: Two cups of human blood aday, taken from the severed neck of your dying victim and drunk from a glass, is enough to stave off the madness induced by participating in mass murder.
This, it seems, was popular wisdom among some of the squads of amateur assassins who rampaged around Indonesia in 1965, ordered by the army to slaughter at will to consolidate the rule of General Suharto.
Backlash to ICC trial? How Kenyan bill could clamp down on 'foreign influences'
Only a handful of Kenya's NGOs pushed for a trial of those thought to be behind the 2008 election violence. But their actions have boosted public support for putting limits on NGOs, something a proposed bill would do.
NAIROBI, Kenya — As a case centered on post-election violence in Kenya comes to a head at the International Criminal Court, the role Kenyan NGOs played in pushing for politicians – including President Uhuru Kenyatta – to be tried there is casting a chill over their future work.
Only a handful of Kenya's 8,500 registered NGOs pushed for a trial of those thought to be behind the 2008 election violence. But the actions of a few, combined with the sweeping tirades by Kenyatta supporters against this "evil society," is increasing public support for putting limits on NGOs. Now, a bill has been introduced that would require all Kenyan NGOs receiving more than 15 percent of their budget from non-Kenyan interests to register as foreign agents.
Remains could be those of 43 missing Mexican students
November 8, 2014 -- Updated 0740 GMT (1540 HKT)
The 43 Mexican students who disappeared in southern Mexico in September were abducted by police on order of a local mayor, and are believed to have been turned over to a gang that killed them and burned their bodies before throwing some remains in a river, the nation's attorney general said Friday.
This is the conclusion that investigators have reached, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said, though he cautioned that it cannot be known with certainty until DNA tests confirm the identities.
This will be a challenge, he said, as the badly burned fragments make it difficult to extract DNA.
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