Kenya al-Shabab: Five in custody after Garissa massacre
- 4 April 2015
Five people are in custody following the al-Shabab attack in eastern Kenya on Thursday which left almost 150 people dead, officials say.
Some of the suspects were arrested while trying to flee to neighbouring Somalia, the internal security ministry said.
At least 148 people - mostly students - were killed when gunmen attacked a university campus in Garissa.
Al-Shabab has since PLEDGED
a "long, gruesome war" against Kenya.
a "long, gruesome war" against Kenya.
The militant group said its attacks were in retaliation for acts by Kenya's security forces, who are part of the African Union's mission in Somalia against al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab was also blamed for the Westgate Mall attack in the capital Nairobi in 2013, in which 67 people died.
Police in neighbouring Uganda say they have received information suggesting a similar attack is being planned there.
Migrant workers building UAE cultural hub 'treated like battery hens'
TRADE unions and artists say workers at Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi are subject to segregation, curfew and monitoring by security guards
TRADE unions and artists have condemned the conditions faced by migrant workers building a £17bn cultural hub in the United Arab Emirates, including new branches of the Louvre and the Guggenheim museums, as akin to an open prison.
unions and artists have condemned the conditions faced by migrant workers building a £17bn cultural hub in the United Arab Emirates, including new branches of the Louvre and the Guggenheim museums, as akin to an open prison.
The International TRADE Union Confederation (ITUC) and Gulf Labor, a coalition of international artists, said the several thousand workers in the official labour camp on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi were subject to segregation, a 10pm curfew and monitoring by security guards, and could only enter or leave on authorised buses.
Union Confederation (ITUC) and Gulf Labor, a coalition of international artists, said the several thousand workers in the official labour camp on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi were subject to segregation, a 10pm curfew and monitoring by security guards, and could only enter or leave on authorised buses.
The researchers found that thousands more Saadiyat workers living in camps elsewhere in the UAE, which they also visited in March, endured similar restrictions.
Al Shabaab says it is planning further attacks in Kenya
Somali militant group behind attack on Garissa University College which killed 148 people
Somali militants on Saturday threatened to stage more bloody attacks on Kenya after the group’s fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university on Thursday.
Four masked al Shabaab gunmen went on a killing spree in a pre-dawn raid, hunting down and executing students in a college campus in Garissa, a northeastern town about 200km from the Somali border.
The al-Qaeda aligned group said the attack was retribution for Kenya’s presence in Somalia and mistreatment of Muslims within Kenya.
'Reclaim Australia' rallies draw hundreds of supporters, opponents
Amid fears of "Islamic State" jihadists, a group known as "Reclaim Australia" has rallied its supporters across Australia to condemn Islamist extremism. But counter demonstrators say the movement is anti-Muslim.
Anti-Islamist demonstrations took place in some 16 Australian cities on Saturday. Many participants donned Australian flags and carried signs that ranged from "One Country One People One Law for All" to Our laws, our values" to "No Sharia Law" and "Boycott Halal."
Billed as patriotic rallies "organised by ordinary Australia, for ordinary Australians," the movement seeks to "stop halal tax, sharia law [and] Islamisation," according to its official Facebook page. However, opponents of the campaign - led in part by a group called "No ROOM for Racism" - accuse Reclaim Australia of racism and being anti-Muslim.
for Racism" - accuse Reclaim Australia of racism and being anti-Muslim.
It was not immediately clear how many people each rally and counterrally drew. According to figures from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), at least 500 demonstrators took to the streets in Sydney, with a smaller turnout reported in other locations, such as Tasmania.
Chinese police take away, detain 50 after protests in Beijing, Guangdong
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Police in China's capital and in southern Guangdong have detained or taken away more than 50 people after two separate protests, police and state news agency Xinhua said.
Guangdong police arrested 22 people after demonstrators forced their way into a high-speed rail station in a protest about land and housing issues, Xinhua reported late on Friday.
In a separate incident in Beijing on Saturday, police took more than 30 people to hospital after they consumed pesticide during a "lie-in" protest on a shopping street near the center of the capital, city police said in a statement.
The statement said the protesters were taxi drivers from the far northern province of Heilongjiang.
North Korea warns abduction talks on the rocks
KYODO, STAFF REPORT
BEIJING – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday slammed a notification FROM NORTH KOREA the previous day that it might suspend bilateral negotiations on the abduction issue.
the previous day that it might suspend bilateral negotiations on the abduction issue.
“North Korea filed a protest (with Japan) yesterday. We cannot accept it at all,” Abe said in a meeting with the abductees’ relatives. “We will approach (the abduction issue) with a firm stance.”
The meeting came a day after North Korea notified Japan through diplomatic channels in Beijing that bilateral talks are facing difficulties. North Korea also criticized Japan for condemning its human rights record.
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