One of two suspects charged with the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, Zaur Dadayev, confessed under duress, a member of Russia's Human Rights Council says.
Andrei Babushkin, who visited Mr Dadayev on Tuesday, says he saw "numerous wounds" on his body, suggesting he had been tortured.
The suspect himself said he was tied up for two days with a bag over his head.
He says he only confessed so a friend arrested with him would be freed.
"There are reasons to believe Zaur Dadayev confessed under torture," Mr Babushkin said after a delegation visited the suspect in prison.
Mr Dadayev told the visitors he was mistreated in the two days after his capture in Chechnya on Saturday.
Tony Abbott head desk photo: After his latest gaffe, this picture sums up the world's reaction to the Australian Prime Minister
Mr Abbott said living in the rural communities of their ancestors was a 'lifestyle choice' for indigenous people
From saying virginity is “the greatest gift” a woman can give to joking on camera that “s*** happens” about the death of an Australian soldier, Tony Abbott is no stranger to making monumental gaffes.
So after he called indigenous people living in low-income rural communities a “lifestyle choice” on Tuesday, this picture more or less sums up the response of the rest of the world when he starts speaking.
The image was taken on what the Prime Minister himself described as a “terrific morning” at Seaforth Public School in Sydney, and according to Buzzfeed News came as Mr Abbott delivered a particularly long answer to the question: “What happens when people don’t agree with your point of view?”
Japan remembers Fukushima disaster victims four years on
On the fourth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Japan has remembered the thousands who lost their lives. The quake-tsunami disaster sparked a nuclear crisis which has left the country at odds over nuclear power.
Following the wail of tsunami alarm sirens at 2:46 p.m. (0546 UTC), the exact moment a 9.0-magnitude undersea quake hit the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, a moment of silence fell across Japan on Wednesday.
Citizens held remembrance ceremonies in towns and cities around the devastated area on Japan's northeast coast, with victims and volunteers seen joining hands in prayer or bowing their heads during the national minute of silence.
In Japan's capital, Tokyo, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko also led tributes to those who died in Japan's worst peace-time disaster.
"We can never forget the image of the terrifying tsunami we saw on television that day," Akihito said at the ceremony.
Oskar Schindler's papers in legal battle
Jonah Mandel
Jerusalem:Forty years after his death, a legal battle is playing out over documents belonging to Oskar Schindler, including personal copies of the lists of Jews he saved from the Holocaust.
The case, which is expected to go to court in Jerusalem next month, sheds unusual light on Schindler's personal life after he saved some 1200 Jews from the Nazis during World War II, and the battles over his estate.
It also raises questions about the ownership rights of documents that once belonged to important figures like Schindler -- whose personal papers have in the past turned up at auction.
The case has been brought by Erika Rosenberg, an Argentinian woman, who is suing Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum over a suitcase containing thousands of Schindler's documents.
National security? China ready to slam door on foreign NGOs.
New law would allow Beijing to filter out foreign funding of groups that support free expression and civil society.
BEIJING — After years of operating in a precarious legal limbo, foreign non-governmental organizations in China are facing a moment of truth that could force many of them to close their doors.
The Chinese government is drafting a new foreign NGO law that is widely expected to make work more difficult, if not impossible, for many of the 6,000 overseas non-profits that operate here in a broad range of fields from education and the environment to HIV-Aids and legal education.
Under the new law, foreign non-profits would not be allowed to open more than one office, or to raise funds locally, or be allowed to fund projects deemed counter to what is being called “Chinese society’s moral customs," according to excerpts seen by The Christian Science Monitor of the still unpublished bill.
Colombia to temporarily halt bombing of FARC rebels
President Juan Manuel Santos says the country's armed forces will cease raids against the group for one month.
Colombia's armed forces will halt bombing raids against FARC rebels for one month, President Juan Manuel Santos said, in recognition of the unilateral ceasefire declared by the guerrillas, who are in peace talks with the government.
"In regards to the indefinite, unilateral ceasefire declared by the FARC on December 18, we must recognise that they have fulfilled it," Santos said in a televised address on Tuesday.
"For this reason, and to propel the de-escalation of the conflict, I have decided to order the defense ministry and the leaders of the armed forces to cease bombardments over FARC camps for one month," Santos added.
Ceasing aerial raids, which have been the military's most lethal means of attacking the FARC, could possibly be extended if the rebels continue to hold to their ceasefire, said Santos. But he also warned that the military would not shy away from engaging the guerrillas in combat or resuming aerial raids should civilians be threatened or if the FARC resumed hostilities.
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