Six in The Morning Wednesday July 29

2,000 migrants try to storm Channel Tunnel in France to reach UK

By Margot Haddad and Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 0734 GMT (1434 HKT) July 29, 2015

About 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel through the French terminal near Calais on Monday night in an attempt to reach the UK, operator Eurotunnel said.

Some of the migrants were injured, Eurotunnel France spokesperson Cecile Carreras told CNN. French authorities and Eurotunnel personnel were able to enter the tunnel and intervene

The tunnel, also known as the Chunnel, runs 50 kilometers (31 miles) from a point near Calais, in northern France to Folkestone, in southeastern England.

British Home Secretary Theresa May said France and Great Britain agreed to work together "to return migrants, particularly to West Africa, to ensure that people see that making this journey does not lead to them coming to Europe and being able to settle in Europe."

Philippines bids to save Mary Jane Veloso from execution in Indonesia 

Woman who says she was duped into smuggling drugs was given last-minute reprieve from firing squad but remains on death row

Oliver Holmes in Bangkok and Carmela Fonbuena in Manila

Wednesday 29 July 2015 07.33 BST

Officials from the Philippines arrived in Indonesia on Wednesday to discuss a case against drug traffickers that they hope can prove that a Filipino former domestic worker was tricked into smuggling heroin and save her from a firing squad.

Mary Jane Veloso was given a temporary reprieve by Indonesian president Joko Widodo just hours before she was due to be executed in April. Eight men were killed by firing squad that day.

Her alleged trafficker had handed herself in to the police in Manila, and the Philippines president, Benigno Aquino, made a last-minute appeal on the basis that Veloso would be needed as a witness in the case against her alleged recruiter.

World internet use: 15 per cent of Americans remain offline

Poorer Americans are more likely not to use the internet

ROSE TROUP BUCHANAN 

 

 

Wednesday 29 July 2015

A staggering percentage of Americans still do not use the internet, new research has found.

While the number of US citizens online has dramatically increased since 2000, the data shows that 15 per cent still do not use the internet - approximately 47 million people.

Research indicates that individuals who do not use the internet correlate to a number of variables – including age, ethnicity and household income.

Broadly, the poorer the household the less likely its occupants are to use the internet. Online usage in households earning less than $30,000 annually are approximately eight time less likely than adults from more affluent households to use the internet.

World | Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:10am EDT

Pakistan police say kill leader of banned sectarian group

LAHORE, PAKISTAN | BY MUBASHER BUKHAR

Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on Wednesday in a shootout after gunmen attacked a police convoy and freed him as he was being moved, police said.

Malik Ishaq was on a U.S. list of terrorists and the group he founded has claimed responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of civilians, mostly minority Shi'ite Muslims.

He has faced several murder trials but always been acquitted after witnesses refused to testify. He was arrested again on Saturday, under a public order act, along with his two sons.

On Tuesday, police took Ishaq and the sons to an area near the Punjab province town of Muzaffargarh where they had seized an arms cache, to identify men they had detained on suspicion of being members of Ishaq's group.

What teenage refugees taught me about art

As a teen, Kate Hairsine hated school trips to art museums and talks on fusty paintings that bored her. But her eyes were opened when she saw young asylum-seekers cherish the kind of art that put her to sleep.

The group of young asylum-seekers sit attentively on folding chairs in front of a self-portrait painted by the 19th-century German artist Anselm Feuerbach. The oil painting hangs in a dimly-lit corner of a cavernous room dedicated to the artist and shows a middle-aged man sitting in a brown suit against a brown background.

It's exactly the kind of painting I would normally walk straight past without a second glance.

But today, I'm listening to a talk about the painting being given by art educator Petra Erler from the Karlsruhe State Art Gallery. And amazingly, the group of 14 young men discussing the self-portrait don't seem bored at all.

Uighur tensions hang over Turkish president's visit to China

July 29, 2015 - 5:32PM

Philip Wen

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Beijing on Tuesday eager to highlight trade and investment between the two countries – including the controversial purchase of a Chinese surface-to-air missile system.

But his visit risked being overshadowed by growing tensions over the diplomatic assistance Turkey is extending to China's ethnic Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim ethnic minority native to China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang.

A recent Reuters report kindled further tension over the highly sensitive issue, exposing the apparent practice of Turkish embassy officials in south-east Asia, particularly in Malaysia, to furnish Uighurs with travel documents allowing them to avoid deportation.