Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof 'wanted to ignite civil war'
Roommate says 21-year-old had been ‘planning something like that for six months’ after massacre that killed nine black churchgoers in South Carolina
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The 21-year-old accused of killing nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, had been “planning something like that for six months”, his roommate has revealed, as friends recalled Dylann Roof’s tirades against African Americans “taking over the world” and his desire to ignite “a civil war”.
The killings have sent shockwaves across the US, as the nation confronts a breaking point over race and gun violence following yet another mass shooting. Hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects outside the Emanuel AME Church – the scene of the shooting – on Thursday evening, with more prayer services held throughout Charleston.
A day after the massacre – labelled a “hate crime” by South Carolina police – aportrait of Roof as an apparently committed racist is building from interviews with associates of the young man, shown in Facebook photos wearing a jacket bearing the flags of the former white-racist regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia.
Fukushima operator 'knew of need to protect against tsunami but did not act'
Revelation casts doubt on Tepco’s claim that it had taken every possible action to protect the plant which suffered meltdown in 2011 disasterJustin McCurry in Nagasaki
The operator of Japan’s ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was aware of the need to improve the facility’s defences against tsunami more than two years before the March 2011 disaster but failed to take action, according to an internal company document.
The revelation casts doubt on claims by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) that it had done everything possible to protect the plant, which suffered a triple meltdown after being struck by a towering tsunami.
The nuclear accident, the world’s worst since Chernobyl 25 years earlier, caused massive radiation leaks and forced the evacuation of more than 150,000 people, most of whom have yet to return to their homes.
Madrid mayor straight into crisis over offensive tweets
Guillermo Zapata wrote tweets in 2011 mocking victims of Holocaust and Eta
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The honeymoon period for Madrid’s new mayor, Manuela Carmena, lasted only a few hours.
Ms Carmena (71), who took office on Saturday as the head of the Ahora Madrid leftist platform, ended a quarter century of conservative government in the Spanish capital.
But by Sunday she faced her first crisis, as it emerged that one of her councillors, Guillermo Zapata (35), had written offensive tweets in 2011 making fun of victims of the Holocaust and Basque terrorist group Eta.
On Monday she responded to the ensuing outrage by removing him as head of culture in the City Hall, though she kept him on as a member of her team.
The past has also come back to bite Ms Carmena with the revelation that her spokeswoman in City Hall, Rita Maestre, faces legal proceedings due to her part in a demonstration against the Catholic Church in 2011.
Kurdish forces deny claims of abuse in towns they liberate from IS
June 19, 2015 - 5:57PM
Ruth Pollard
Middle East Correspondent
Akcakale, Turkey: The people of Tel Abyad know what it is to bend to the political will of the day.
In the last three years they have been ruled by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Free Syrian Army, al-Qaeda's Nusra Front, the Islamists of Ahrar al-Sham, the Islamic State and now the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
"For me it doesn't matter," says taxi driver Sami Masto as he waits at the baking hot Turkish-Syrian border to see if he will be allowed to cross back into Tel Abyad now the Kurdish forces have pushed out Islamic State fighters. "I go to my work and I go home to my family. I just want to live."
"Life under [IS] was OK, they had nothing to do with us, they left us alone . . . it will be the same with the Kurds."
Not everyone is so sure.
Why China restricts fasting by Xinjiang Muslims during Ramadan
Civil servants, students, and teachers in China's far-western Xinjiang Province have been prevented from fasting during the Islamic holy month.
In an attempt to clamp down on religious expression, China has restricted fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in the Xinjiang region, which is largely Muslim.
China has banned civil servants, students, and teachers in the far west region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open,Agence France-Presse reported on Thursday.
A notice posted last week on the website of the state Food and Drug Administration in Jinghe county stated that “food service workplaces will operate normal hours during Ramadan."
India’s Myanmar operation sends unpleasant message to neighbors
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The Indian army’s raid on another country’s territory to destroy rebel camps and the consequent chest-thumping by its ministers and a section of the media have further strained the country’s relations with Pakistan
Ever since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India in May 2014, relations between India and Pakistan, never too good, have further strained. Though Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attended Narendra Modi’s inauguration, it is no secret that the present New Delhi regime has a sharply-felt hostility towards Pakistan, a sentiment which is perhaps fully reciprocated.
Recently, the Indian army claimed a rather successful punitive expedition into Myanmar territory against the militants led by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland’s Khaplang group (NSCN-K) which had ambushed a military convoy in the tiny border state of Manipur on June 4, 2015 killing 18 soldiers and injuring 11 others.
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