Iran nuclear talks: Obama hails 'historic' agreement
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President Obama has hailed a deal restricting Iran's nuclear programme as a "historic understanding" which, if implemented, will make the world safer.
The framework agreement, struck after intensive talks, aims to prevent Tehran making a nuclear weapon in exchange for phased sanction relief.
Iran and the six world powers involved must now finalise the deal.
Iranians have been celebrating in the streets but Israel says the deal threatens its survival.
"This will be a long-term deal, that addresses each path to a potential Iranian nuclear bomb," the US President said in a statement after the deal was announced.
"If Iran cheats, the world will know it," he said, adding that the agreement was based not on trust but on "unprecedented verification". He said that if the deal is finalised, "we will be able to resolve one of the greatest threats to our security, and to do so peacefully".
Paris supermarket hostages sue media over live coverage
Lawyer alleges TV broadcasts ‘tantamount to goading someone to commit a crime’
The coverage by French media lacked basic precautions when they broadcast images from the siege when Amedy Coulibaly held several hostage in the supermarket, says one lawyer.
Six people who hid in a supermarket refrigerator during January’s Islamist attacks in Paris have sued French media for broadcasting their location live during the siege.
Images broadcast from the scene on January 9th, when gunman Amedy Coulibaly stormed into the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket, killing four and taking others hostage, “lacked the most basic precautions” and endangered those still alive inside, said the lawyer representing the group, Patrick Klugman.
Mr Klugman singled out French 24-hour news channel BFMTV, which revealed live on air that the group - including a three-year-old child and a one-month-old baby - was hiding from Coulibaly in the cold ROOM
, where they were taken by one of the supermarket’s employees.
, where they were taken by one of the supermarket’s employees.Malaysian cartoonist charged with 'record' number of sedition charges
A Malaysian cartoonist faces more than 40 years in prison after being charged with several counts of sedition. Known as Zunar, he has appealed for support in what he's called a politically motivated case.
A Malaysian cartoonist famous for ridiculing the country's ruling coalition has been charged with a record nine counts of sedition over tweets criticizing the judiciary.
Zulkiflee Anwar Alhaque, better known as Zunar (pictured above), faces up to 43 years in jail if found guilty on all nine charges.
Sedition is defined as the crime of saying, writing, or carrying out other actions that encourage people to disobey their government.
Venezuela: Why a government petition against US sanctions has some shaking
In 2003, the opposition signed a petition to recall Chávez, but many later faced government repercussions. Now, a similar idea has been proposed for Venezuelans who don't sign a petition against US sanctions - and people are falling in line.
A few years ago, Hugo Chávez enacted one of his most vile yet brutally effective political strategies: the Lista Tascón.
When the opposition began collecting signatures to recall his mandate in 2003, Chávez demanded that each and every signature be counted and verified by the Electoral Council, the CNE. They proceeded to do just that, with the CNE even asking people whose signature was in doubt to come and verify it was actually theirs.
The whole process took months of political and bureaucratic wrangling, and it was a brutally efffective stalling tactic. But the biggest effect of this move was to allow the government to make a digital version of the list, one that Chávez subsequently used to punish his opponents.
Indonesia to send home enslaved fishermen
Government moves to return foreigners home after investigative report reveals forced labour in seafood industry.
03 Apr 2015 06:57 GMT
The Indonesian government says it is moving foreign fishermen from an isolated island where slavery in the fishing industry was exposed last week by an Associated Press investigation, out of concern for their safety.
The director general of Indonesia's Marine Resources and Fisheries Surveillance initially told a group of about 20 Burmese men he would move them from Benjina village to neighbouring Tual island for their safety following interviews with officials on Friday.
However, as news spread that men were getting to leave the island, hundreds of others, from countries including Myanmar and Cambodia, started filing in from all over and sitting on the floor.
Machiavelli, Public Service, And The End Of Jon Stewart
"Public service" is not something that usually comes to mind when Machiavelli's name comes up. The thinker who established the notion that "the end" (the preservation of political power) justifies "the means" (a ruler, Machiavelli says, has to learn how "not to be good") has come to stand for cynicism, a politics ungrounded in any recognizable morality, and self-preservation at all costs.
And yet both his life and work offer something deeper, if considered in anything but the most superficial of ways. As important, some of what Machiavelli has to teach us harmonizes with a new desire among young people to think differently about government, service, and public institutions.
And yet both his life and work offer something deeper, if considered in anything but the most superficial of ways. As important, some of what Machiavelli has to teach us harmonizes with a new desire among young people to think differently about government, service, and public institutions.
To take the last first: of all the reactions to Jon Stewart's impending departure from his sixteen-year tenure at The Daily Show, perhaps the most interesting came from Jamelle Bouie.
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