Syria war: 'Chlorine' attack video moves UN to tears
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Members of the UN Security Council were moved to tears after they were shown a video of an apparent chlorine gas attack in north-west Syria last month.
The footage shows the unsuccessful attempts of doctors to revive three children all aged under four.
US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power described the meeting as "very emotional" and said those responsible will be held accountable.
The Syrian government denies it was responsible for the attack in Idlib.
Syrian doctors, confirming what activists reported after the attack on 16 March, told the UN Security Council that helicopters were heard flying above the village of Sarmin.
Xenophobia in South Africa: 'They beat my husband with sticks and took everything'
For many Africans, South Africa represents a land of opportunity and a haven of tolerance, but a wave of violence has tarnished this image and sent foreigners fleeing for safety
They came to South Africa in search of a better life and, for a while, found the promised land. Fungai Chopo got work as a builder, his wife, Memory, was hired as a maid, and they shared a decent house with their two children. The hunger, joblessness and poverty of their home in Zimbabwe was banished.
This week all that changed for the Chopos and for many like them. One night just before midnight around 15 men burst into the family home, clubbed Fungai until he bled, threatened to kill the family and stole all they had, including the HIV medication that keeps Memory alive.
Now the Chopos are among roughly 3,500 immigrants sleeping rough in crowded tents in heavily guarded transit camps not in a Congolese or South Sudanese warzone but in 21st-century South Africa.
Proposed Australian immigration powers would allow guards 'to beat asylum seekers to death' in detention centres'
Gao Yu's lawyer: 'We cannot accept this ruling'
A Beijing court has sentenced Chinese journalist and DW correspondent Gao Yu to seven years in prison after accusing her of leaking state secrets - a ruling Gao is unwilling to accept, her lawyer Mo Shaoping tells DW.
Gao Yu, whose trial was largely held behind closed doors, was convicted on Friday, April 17, of leaking state secrets to foreign contacts.
Her arrest in April last year was made on the grounds that she had passed on "a highly confidential document," known as Document No. 9, to a "source outside the country."
In this document, the Communist Party of China identifies potential threats, and calls for strict ideological controls. During the court proceedings, DW Director General Peter Limbourg strongly criticized that the way the Chinese government treated the 71-year-old journalist.
Having worked for DW, among other places, Gao had already spent a total of seven years in prison in the 1990s, also on charges of stealing state secrets.
Alan Morison Thailand defamation case draws criticism from Human Rights Watch
April 17, 2015 - 2:51PMLindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
When Associated Press revealed last month that thousands of foreign workers were enslaved on fishing boats sending catches through Thailand to the world's fish markets, the country's military ruler pledged to prosecute those responsible amid an outcry in the United States from the seafood and retail industries.
"If they still continue to exploit their fellow human beings they should not be given any licences to operate businesses in Thailand and they must receive the punishment they deserve," said junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha.
Seafood processed in Thai factories is a multibillion-dollar industry and one of the country's top export earners.
In wake of Argentine prosecutor's death, a tangled web of questions
Alberto Nisman, who died in January in an apparent murder, was investigating a high-level political conspiracy involving Iran and a 1994 terror attack on a Jewish center. Critics have assailed the prosecutor's case and questioned his probity.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — A series of revelations have jolted supporters of the dead prosecutor who accused Argentine President Cristina Kirchner of conspiring to cover up the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here.
Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead at home with a single bullet in his temple on Jan. 18. That same day he was due to testify in Congress about his investigation into President Kirchner’s dealings with Iran, which had been accused of plotting the 1994 attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, or AMIA. His death – initially called a suicide – stoked conspiracy theories and has dented Argentines’ already low confidence in their institutions and leaders.
Now an apparent smear campaign against Nisman has cast a shadow over his character and his allegiances. Adding to the swirl of claims and counterclaims, his former wife said Wednesday that she had found Nisman's own gun in a storage area and that this supported the theory that it wasn't a suicide.
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