War with Isis: Islamic militants have army of 200,000, claims senior Kurdish leader
Pussy Riot: ‘When friendly people like us become enemies of the state, it is very strange’
Masha and Nadia, fearless leaders of the radical feminist group whose name president Vladimir Putin refuses to utter, have thrown themselves back into political activism since their release from a penal colony last December. In their most revealing interview to date, Pussy Riot’s daring duo take Carole Cadwalladr on a three-day adventure around Moscow
Nadia is explaining how Masha succeeded in getting the authorities to allow them both to have the books they wanted in jail. “I like theoretical books and they couldn’t provide them for me and they refused to allow people from outside to send me books. Until, after four months, Masha pushed the prison administration to give us the books because she fucked with their brains.”
Is that Masha’s special skill? Fucking with people’s brains?
“Yes!” says Masha. And her eyes light up and she enunciates the English words carefully: “I’m a fucking brains person.”
And then they both collapse with laughter.
What’s the secret of it, I ask her, when she’s recovered.
FIFA turbulence intensifies, Rauball moots UEFA split
How do you recover transparency when all about you are crying "foul"? For FIFA, the answer is to commission an independent legal report, and then to withhold it. A top German football official is by no means impressed.
The president of the German Football League (DFL), Reinhard Rauball, told Kicker on Saturday that world governing body FIFA must release the full investigative report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, to be held in Russia and Qatar.
FIFA released a shorter, 42-page report by German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, the chairman of the ethic committee's adjudicatory chamber, on Thursday. At the time, Eckert declared that the "assessment of the 2018/2022 World Cup bidding process is therefore closed."
Within hours, however, prosecutor Michael Garcia - commissioned by FIFA as the independent investigator into the issue - lambasted the official version of his original investigation, saying it was based on "materially incomplete and erroneous" interpretations of his own findings. Garcia has lodged a complaint at FIFA's Appeal Committee asking for his report to be released in full.
Hong Kong student activists blocked from flying to Beijing to press free election case
November 16, 2014 - 11:41AMChris Buckley and Alan Wong
Three student leaders who want to talk directly to Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang have been prevented from boarding a plane.
Hong Kong: A group of pro-democracy activists from Hong Kong were prevented on Saturday from boarding a flight to Beijing, where they had hoped to lobby the Chinese government to heed their calls for free elections.
The plan by the three activists, leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, to talk directly to Prime Minister Li Keqiang and other officials had been certain to be rejected by the Chinese government.
But the attempt to fly to Beijing represented another round in a battle of images and rhetoric that has pitted the protesters against the Hong Kong government and Beijing.
Myanmar: Rohingya not welcome
Everyone you talk to from this country's Rohingya minority knows someone who attempted the dangerous and illegal journey by sea: a relative, neighbor or friend.
In recent weeks, the United Nations says there has been a surge of boat people, hundreds of Rohingya cramming into small boats and leaving on a daily basis. They surrender themselves to human traffickers waiting in cargo ships at sea, who then charge extortionate prices with the promise to smuggle passengers to Malaysia.
At a little fishing port outside the provincial capital of Sittwe, carpenters building wooden boats explained how the system works.
"Fifty to 60 people fit into a boat like this," said Mahmud Yacoub, who squatted barefoot clutching a hammer in the skeleton of new wooden vessel about 20 feet long. "The travelers are mixed: men, women and children. It is dangerous and very expensive."
The 13-year-old girl beguiling Thailand with her songs
One of the more incongruous covers of Passenger's worldwide hit Let Her Go is likely to be the one performed by a 13-year-old child of Burmese migrants while strumming her guitar deep in Thailand's Kanchanaburi province.
Jasmin is the daughter of ethnic Karen migrants who left Myanmar, also called Burma, in the 1980s to seek a better life across the border.
She has become well known in Thailand for her musical talent.
People started to notice her when the video of her playing the guitar and singing a song called "Cocktail" in Thai got more than a million hits.
Since then, she has been contacted by national television stations in Thailand and featured in a number of programmes on different channels.
"I was so excited and also very happy that people recognised me. People ask to take pictures with me," Jasmin said.
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