Revealed: how the world turned its back on rape victims of Congo
A year ago a global summit hosted by Angelina Jolie and William Hague vowed to end army sexual violence in Africa. But women are still threatened and funds are drying upMark Townsend in Minova
On an imposing hill above the town of Minova, at the end of a trail down which rivulets of rainwater run past tarpaulin-tented homes, a small women’s refuge can be found.
Here, groups of women silently till the land. Others stare warily over Lake Kivu towards the distant mountains, waiting for news of the fighting.
Three years have passed since a column of Congolese soldiers entered Minova after being defeated and ousted by M23 rebels from the nearby city of Goma. Many were drunk, firing their guns in frustration towards the sky, but mostly they were humiliated. Over the next three days they took their defeat out on the women and girls of Minova.
Syrian civil war: Jabhat al-Nusra's massacre of Druze villagers shows the group is just as nasty as Isis
The incident last week suggests that the US have let the al-Qaeda affiliate off lightlyHealth |
Hospital at center of South Korea's MERS suspends services; seven new cases
SEOUL |
A South Korean hospital suspended most services on Sunday after being identified as the epicenter of the spread of a deadly respiratory disease that has killed 15 people since being diagnosed in the country nearly four weeks ago.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called an emergency meeting for Tuesday on South Korea's "large and complex" outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the biggest outside Saudi Arabia, where it was first identified in humans in 2012.
MERS was diagnosed in South Korea on May 20 in a businessman who had returned from a trip to the Middle East and has spread through hospitals.
It has stirred fears of a repeat of a 2002-2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which began in China and killed about 800 people globally.
Could 'Jurassic World' become reality?
Hollywood has turned the idea of de-extinction into blockbusters, with the newest dinosaur movie just around the corner. But some scientists say creating new dino-like animals could be reality - someday.
"Welcome to Jurassic Park!" These words, spoken by Richard Attenborough's character John Hammond, set in motion a great adventure for millions of moviegoers when Steven Spielberg's blockbuster "Jurassic Park" was released in 1993. All over the world, the movie about a dinosaur theme park gone horribly wrong sparked fantasies about bringing the giants back from extinction.
The June release of "Jurassic World," the fourth film in the series, will likely restart dinosaur mania. But is the idea of de-extinction really just a crazy movie plot - or could T-Rex and Brontosaurus one day roam the earth again?
Mosquitoes won't be helpful
To get the elephant in the room out of the way first: engineering dinosaurs the way fictional scientists did it in "Jurassic Park" is mere science-fiction right now. Pulling dino-blood and DNA from ancient mosquitoes preserved in amber "won't work," said paleontology professor Jes Rust of Bonn University.
US policeman who shot dead Tamir 'acted out of fear'
Report finds no hard proof that officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice ordered him to raise his hands before opening fire.
| War & Conflict, Politics, US & Canada, United States
Investigators have found no hard evidence a Cleveland police officer who fatally shot a 12-year-old black boy carrying a pellet gun ordered him to raise his hands before opening fire.
Documents released on Saturday by the prosecutor handling the racially charged case detail the moments before the brief, deadly encounter - and how the responding officers seemed almost shell-shocked as Tamir Rice lay dying outside a recreation centre.
Cleveland police have said the officer who fired the fatal shot, Timothy Loehmann, told Tamir three times to put his hands up, then opened fire when the boy reached for the pellet gun tucked in his waistband.
Nicaragua canal protest: Thousands oppose Atlantic-Pacific plan
- 14 June 2015
- Latin America & Caribbean
Thousands of Nicaraguans have held a protest against the planned construction of a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The $50bn (£32bn) scheme, being built by a Chinese firm, will be longer, deeper and wider than the Panama Canal.
But the demonstrators fear it will have huge environmental costs and force thousands off their land.
Nicaragua's government says the canal will bring vital investment to one of Central America's poorest countries.
Some among the protesters, who were mostly farmers, accused President Daniel Ortega of selling Nicaragua to the Chinese.
Initial site work began last December, with completion due in five years.
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