Pakistan jails 10 for Malala attack
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A court in north-west Pakistan has jailed 10 men for life for the 2012 gun attack on education activist Malala Yousafzai, media reports say.
Ms Yousafzai, who was 15 at the time, was shot in the head on board her school bus in the Swat valley.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her campaign for children's rights.
The authorities say the 10 men are members of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP).
'Am I being executed?' Brazilian killed by Indonesia unaware until end, says priest
Priest who counselled Rodrigo Gularte – who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – says he tried in vain for three days to to explain to the inmate he was about to die
A Brazilian man executed by firing squad along with seven other prisoners inIndonesia on Wednesday had no idea he was about to be killed until his final minutes, the priest who counselled him has said.
He also revealed that Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino woman who won a dramatic reprieve, had been aware a new suspect in her case had surrendered to police but was only removed from the prison about an hour before the killings.
Rodrigo Gularte, 42, was shot dead alongside seven others, including four Nigerians, two Australians and an Indonesian, for smuggling cocaine into Indonesia in 2004.
Doctors had diagnosed the Brazilian with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. A second diagnosis, commissioned by Indonesia’s attorney general, has not been made public.
Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: The Emirates' out-of-sight migrant workers helping to build the dream projects of its rulers
Over two million labourers have come from the poorest countries in South Asia. While activists decry the conditions in which they're forced to live, others claim the arrangement is clear from the outset. In the second part of his special report, Robert Fisk visits the workers' camp at Saadiyat Island
It’s not a labour camp. No such words would soil the lips of the men from the Abu Dhabi Tourism Development and INVESTMENT
Company. No, it’s the “Saadiyat ACCOMMODATION Village”. For here, 7,500 men from the poorest countries of southern Asia – from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines – live and sleep in apparently Utopian comfort when they are not labouring under the Gulf sun on the cultural dream projects of Abu Dhabi’s rulers: the Louvre Museum and the Guggenheim, and the vast emporium built to hold the art treasures of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan at the Zayed National Museum.
Company. No, it’s the “Saadiyat ACCOMMODATION Village”. For here, 7,500 men from the poorest countries of southern Asia – from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines – live and sleep in apparently Utopian comfort when they are not labouring under the Gulf sun on the cultural dream projects of Abu Dhabi’s rulers: the Louvre Museum and the Guggenheim, and the vast emporium built to hold the art treasures of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan at the Zayed National Museum.Satellite images suggest North Korean reactor may be operational
A reactor regarded as North Korea's main source of material for nuclear bombs, may be working again at low power or intermittently, a US think tank has said. Various experts have warned about Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal.
At full power, the five-megawatt reactor at North Korean Yongbyon complex can yield six kilos (13 pounds) of plutonium a year, which is enough for one nuclear bomb.
Satellite images of the complex, taken between January and April, show several "signatures" of low-level activity, experts from the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security said Thursday.
The signs include irregular snow melting patterns that indicate the inside of the building may have been hot. The experts also highlighted images of a weak stream of warm water being discharged from the reactor, as well as what appeared to be steam from the turbine building.
While the images "do not show clear evidence that the reactor has resumed full power operation," the US think tank said the pictures did suggest the reactor "may be operating at low power or operating intermittently."
As refugees set to arrive for resettling, Cambodians keep leaving
April 30, 2015 - 4:55PMLindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
- UN refugee agency wants no part of Cambodia resettlement
- Refugees volunteer to be flown to Cambodia for resettlement 'in a safe country'
Bangkok: Tens of thousands of Cambodians are paying to be smuggled into other south-east Asian countries to work illegally, as Australia prepares to send refugees to their country from Nauru.
A new United Nations report says criminal gangs are using south-east Asia as a source and destination for illegal labour but the workers have little ability to assert their basic rights and become vulnerable to abuse, trafficking and exploitation.
"Cambodia is predominantly a source country for irregular migrants who move independently with aid of smugglers to Thailand and Malaysia," said the report by the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Haunted by genocide that killed an estimated 1.7 million people in the 1970s and plagued by poverty, corruption and human rights abuses, Cambodia has up to 55,000 of its nationals smuggled into Thailand each year, the report says.
The illegal Cambodian migrants are mainly male, from poor rural communities aged between 17 and 35, it says.
Danish crew safe aboard Iran-seized ship
The Danish shipping crew aboard the Maersk Tigris is reportedly safe and 'in good spirits' a day after Iranian authorities sized the vessel in the Persian Gulf. The United States has sent military vessels to monitor the situation.
COPENHAGEN/LONDON/NEW YORK — Iran's foreign minister told a New York City audience on Wednesday that Tehran respects freedom of navigation in the Gulf, a day after Iranian patrol boats seized a Danish container ship in one of the world's busiest oil shipping lanes.
"The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation," Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said during a discussion hosted by New York University's Center on International Cooperation and the think tank New America. "For us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must."
Danish shipping company Maersk said the crew of the Maersk Tigris was safe and "in good spirits." Iranian authorities seized the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, spurring the United States to send military vessels to monitor the situation.
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