Ukraine crisis: Russians to rally in Moscow to mark 'coup'
Russian government supporters are to rally in the capital Moscow and other parts of the country to mark the first anniversary of what they view as the "coup" in neighbouring Ukraine.
Russia's state media are promoting the event under the slogan "We won't forget! We won't forgive!"
Ukraine's protests ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
Russia has since annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and is accused of backing rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government, Western leaders and Nato say there is clear evidence that Russia is helping the rebels with heavy weapons and soldiers. Independent experts echo that accusation. Moscow denies it, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are "volunteers".
U.N. moves closer to revealing list of suspected war criminals in Syria
Updated 0514 GMT (1314 HKT) February 21, 2015
Saying war crimes have been committed on a massive scale in Syria, members of a United Nations commission indicated Friday they may soon publish a list of people suspected of atrocities during the protracted civil war.
Four lists have already been compiled but have been kept secret because the alleged perpetrators should be given due process, said Vitit Muntarbhorn, a member of the U.N. commission of inquiry on Syria. A new list would consolidate the first four, he said.
"We are also considering today, this month and next month, the pros and cons of whether or not to release the list," he said.
Cuban expats see either heartbreak or hope in Obama’s diplomatic gambit
Memories of the Castro revolution have never faded away in Key West
Jennifer Hough
He was just 10 years old when he left in 1959, but Tony Yaniz still has vivid memories ofCuba: the stunning architecture of old Havana, the iconic Malecón (seawall), a bustling city with parks and trees, and the lush greenness of Pinar del Rio, Cuba’s western tobacco- growing province.
Sitting in his office, in Key West, Florida, 90 miles (140km) across the Straits of Florida to Cuba, Yaniz, now 64, recalls his mother asking, as they prepared to depart in the wake of the Fidel Castro-led revolution, “Should we bring the photos and jewellery?”
“No,” replied his father, a journalist. “This guy won’t last six months.”
Yaniz, today a Key West city commissioner and one of the town’s most vocal Cuban-American politicians, cried when he heard president Barack Obama’s pledge to restore diplomatic relations, after 54 years.
'Fertility tourism' struck down by Thai lawmakers. Why now?
The case of 'Baby Gammy' involving an Australian couple, and a 'baby factory' case where a Japanese businessman fathered 16 children, brought a public outcry.
Thailand’s military-dominated parliament has passed a law banning foreigners from paying Thai women to be surrogates, which threatens to push the country’s booming fertility tourism industry underground. The move follows a string of scandals involving Australians and Japanese who HIRED
Thai women to carry fetuses to term.
Thai women to carry fetuses to term.
The new law actually prohibits all commercial surrogacy in Thailand, but seems especially aimed at stopping local women from becoming "the wombs of the world," National Legislative Assembly member Wanlop Tangkananurak told The Associated Press on Friday.
But critics warn that the commercial surrogacy ban will only create a black market for the practice, making it harder for couples to access quality physicians and medical care.
France asks US internet giants to 'help fight terror'
Google, Facebook, Twitter asked to immediately remove "extremist propaganda" when French authorities alert them to it.
21 Feb 2015 08:07 GMT
France has asked Google, Facebook and Twitter to work directly with French officials during investigations and to immediately remove extremist propaganda when authorities alert them to it, the French interior minister has said.
Bernard Cazeneuve told journalists that he had made the request to the giant internet firms during a one-day visit to San Francisco and Silicon Valley on Friday.
"We emphasised that when an investigation is under way we don't want to go through the usual government to government channels, which can take so long," said the interior minister after a meeting with representatives from the US tech giants.
Bernard Cazeneuve told journalists that he had made the request to the giant internet firms during a one-day visit to San Francisco and Silicon Valley on Friday.
"We emphasised that when an investigation is under way we don't want to go through the usual government to government channels, which can take so long," said the interior minister after a meeting with representatives from the US tech giants.
"It's important to have full cooperation and quick reaction,'' he added.
39 Hours Inside The Biggest Human Migration On Earth
Looking across this sea of anxious faces, it’s easy to forget this is a holiday. Knotted brows frame weary eyes in a crowd as deep as a football field, all of them waiting to catch a train out of Beijing.
The mass exodus from China's cities is the roaring crescendo leading up to Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it’s known in the country. On paper the holiday can be equated to Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's rolled into one, but on the ground the holiday unfolds on an entirely different scale.
The mass exodus from China's cities is the roaring crescendo leading up to Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it’s known in the country. On paper the holiday can be equated to Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's rolled into one, but on the ground the holiday unfolds on an entirely different scale.
Spring Festival is a crater in the middle of China’s calendar, a multi-week event when factories, schools and offices are shut down, and the country’s 30-year urbanization drive is jolted into reverse. Tradition dictates that all Chinese return to their hometowns during Spring Festival, spurring the largest human migration on Earth. Chinese New Year is the chance for migrant workers who have been grinding out 60-hour weeks in the city to show off their EARNINGS AT HOME, and for grandparents still tilling the soil to size up their collegiate grandchildren.
On Monday alone, two days before New Year's Eve, China saw roughly 80 million departures by train, bus, boat and plane. That’s equivalent to every single resident of California, New York and Florida skipping town on the same day.
, and for grandparents still tilling the soil to size up their collegiate grandchildren.On Monday alone, two days before New Year's Eve, China saw roughly 80 million departures by train, bus, boat and plane. That’s equivalent to every single resident of California, New York and Florida skipping town on the same day.
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