UN: Cargo ship that came to help may have caused migrant boat to capsize
Updated 0932 GMT (1632 HKT) April 21, 2015
The boat that sank in the Mediterranean over the weekend with hundreds of migrants on board may have capsized after being touched or swamped by a cargo ship that came to its aid, a U.N. official said.
Carlotta Asami, a spokeswoman for the United Nations' refugee agency, made the comments to CNN early Tuesday after she and two of her colleagues had spoken to multiple survivors from the disaster who arrived in Catania, Italy.
"They say that there was a point in which they were very close and probably what happened is that, you know, a big ship creating a big wave -- they were approaching in a very strong manner and they lost balance," Asami said.
Mob attacks Bangladesh opposition leader during election rally
Khaleda Zia is apparently shot at as she travels in bullet-proof car in Dhaka
Police in Bangladesh are investigating a mob attack on the car of Bangladesh’s main opposition leader on Monday, during which gun shots were reportedly fired.
Attackers armed with iron rods surrounded the car of Khaleda Zia during an election rally and then shot at it as the vehicle sped away, officials said.
Footage and photographs from local media showed a group of men striking vehicles in Zia’s motorcade with rods and wooden staves.
The 69-year-old former prime minister was unhurt but the attack highlighted tensions in the politically unstable south Asian country where Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has intensified protests aimed at forcing the prime minister, sheikh Hasina, to quit and hold a new national election after a disputed 2014 poll.
Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi jailed for 20 years over death of protesters
Tuesday’s verdict is the first to be delivered against the former president, who faces several other trials along with of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
From Deepwater to Chernobyl: counting the casualties
When environmental disasters occur, it's difficult to quantify the human health impacts. From corporations withholding information to pinning down cause and effect, victims face an uphill battle on accountability.
Five years ago Monday (20.04.2015), the Gulf of Mexico was hit by what President Obama called the worst environmental disaster in United States history. An explosion at the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig left 11 people dead.
Beaches, wetlands and estuaries were inundated with oil, contaminating habitats and killing marine life, including record numbers of dolphins, fish and seabirds.
And now, locals say the human death toll could be rising as a result of the chemicals used in the cleanup.
"I started getting calls from the wives of men who were responding on the boats," said Marylee Orr of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN). "They were saying that their husbands were very nauseated when they were out there - that they would get dizziness, chest pains, vomiting, diarrhea."
South Korean PM Lee Wan-koo resigns as bribery scandal snowballs
April 21, 2015 - 4:54PMChoe Sang-hun
Seoul: Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo of South Korea has offered to resign over a snowballing bribery scandal, dealing a blow to President Park Geun-hye, whose government has already been rocked by a ferry disaster.
Mr Lee has been under mounting pressure from within Ms Park's governing Saenuri Party, as well as from the opposition, to step down after an allegation emerged this month that he took 30 million won ($36,000) in illegal cash donations from a South Korean businessman in 2013.
The businessman, Sung Wan-jong, hanged himself from a tree on April 9, the day he was scheduled to appear before a court to fight attempts by prosecutors to arrest him on corruption charges. He was the first target in the Park government's widening investigation into corruption allegations that were said to have taken place under her predecessor, Lee Myung-bak.
Xenophobic killing in South African township caught by photographer
Updated 0838 GMT (1538 HKT) April 21, 2015
He checked the series of stills on his camera. It was then that photographer James Oatway realized the entire attack had taken less than two minutes.
It was the morning after a night of unrest in Johannesburg's Alexandra Township that saw foreign-owned shops looted and destroyed.
Mozambican Emmanuel Sithole was walking down a street when four South Africans surrounded him. Sithole pleaded for mercy, but it was already too late. The attackers bludgeoned him with a wrench, stabbed him with knives, all in broad daylight. And Oatway had captured it all on his camera.
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