Japanese law could send soldiers to fight abroad for first time in 70 years
Thousands of protesters demonstrate against legislation introduced by the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, chanting ‘No war, no killing’
Japan’s lower house of parliament has approved legislation that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since the second world war, despite thousands of protesters overnight chanting and holding up placards reading “No War, No Killing”.
A lower house panel approval on Wednesday of the unpopular bills, which would drop a ban on collective self-defence or fighting to defend a friendly country like the United States, sparked a huge demonstration and more are planned.
The protest was reminiscent of those that toppled prime minister Shinzo Abe’s grandfather from the premiership 55 years ago after he rammed a revised US-Japan security pact through parliament.
Angela Merkel makes Palestinian girl facing deportation from Germany cry on television
Saudi woman films surreal pursuit by religious police
Saudi Arabia's notorious religious police are used to getting their way in shopping centres, never hesitating to sharply rebuke women who they believe aren't dressed "appropriately". But last Monday, agents found themselves face to face with a woman who made sure she had the last word.
The incident took place in Riyadh's Nakheel Mall shopping centre. A woman was shopping with her husband when she was stopped by "muttawa" agents – a term used to designate the religious police. The officers then asked her to leave because her outfit was too "provocative".
But instead of letting herself get pushed around, she pulled her mobile phone from her pocket and began filming the agents.
The young woman doesn't appear on any of the videos that she uploaded, but in Saudi Arabia, women don't have the right to leave their homes without wearing full-body niqabs that only leave slits for the eyes. They also have to wear gloves.
For the next few hours, the woman films her bizarre pursuit by agents through aisles in the shopping centre. She has given an account of her ordeal by posting a series of short video clips to Twitter.
As Mexico tightens southern border, migrants confront new threats
Deportations and detentions of migrants have risen sharply since Plan Frontera Sur was launched a year ago. Many say the effort is working, but rights groups worry that migrants are taking greater risks.
MEXICO CITY AND TENOSIQUE, MEXICO — When Walter migrated from coastal Honduras to the United States six years ago, the trip was “uneventful,” he says.
He rode a bus across Guatemala, hopped freight trains most of the way through Mexico, and crossed into the United States, where for years he supported his extended family back home through construction work.
To be sure, the journey wasn’t safe or easy. But after returning to Honduras to tend to a family emergency, Walter realized a lot had changed on the migratory path.
“I was robbed, I was beat up. Someone pointed a gun at me and shot, but thank God, it didn’t go off,” he says by telephone from Honduras, where he’s struggled to find work. Walter has tried returning to the US three times this year – and he’s been deported each time, he says.Egypt to ease penalty for journalists in draft law
Journalists would be fined, rather than jailed, for contradicting government reports on "terrorist" attacks.
| Politics, Human Rights, Middle East, Egypt
Egypt's cabinet has amended a draft counter-terrorism law so that journalists would be fined, rather than jailed, for reports that contradicted the authorities' version of any "terrorist" attack, the state news agency reported.
The cabinet spokesman told state news agency MENA on Thursday that the article had been amended to replace the jail time with a fine of between $25,000 and $65,000.
The bill, which sets up new courts for terrorism trials, was proposed after Egypt's top prosecutor died in a car bombing, and 17 members of the security forces were killed by fighters in the Sinai Peninsula.
Fifa corruption: Swiss extradite first official to US
- 16 July 2015
- Europe
A Fifa official detained in a raid in Switzerland has been extradited to the US, Swiss authorities say.
The unnamed man was one of seven football officials held on corruption charges in Switzerland on 27 May.
He was taken to New York by a three-man police escort on Wednesday, the Swiss Justice Department says.
The person was not named, but earlier reports said Cayman Islands official Jeffrey Webb had waived his right to fight the American extradition request.
Mr Webb, 50, is the former president of the Central and North American football federation, Concacaf, and is a Fifa vice-president.
He is accused of accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights.
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