Japan restarts first nuclear power plant amid protests after 2011 Fukushima disaster
Azerbaijani journalist dies after criticising footballer on Facebook
Player suspended by club during investigation into assault on reporter Rasim Aliyev who condemned his behaviour on social media
A journalist in Azerbaijan has died in hospital after being beaten up, apparently in response to a Facebook post about a footballer.
Rasim Aliyev died in hospital on Sunday morning after he was attacked by six men on Saturday night.
In an interview before he died, Aliyev claimed he had been invited to meet the football player he had criticised on Facebook. When he arrived at the appointed place, he was assaulted by six people.
But colleagues and rights activists warned that the football story could be a red herring, and pointed to a history of threats and intimidation against Aliyev and the broader climate of fear in Azerbaijan.
Opinion: Ferguson and the US since Wilson shot Brown
In the year since a white police officer killed an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, US racism has been on prominent display. What happened there has left a mark on the country and its president, Gero Schliess writes.
For a year now, Ferguson has served as shorthand for racial conflict in the United States. The death of teenager Michael Brown at the hands of police, and the protests that followed that death, not only changed the small working-class Missouri town, they changed the whole country.
Yes, black teens had been shot by police before. And racial conflicts were also a painful, open wound for which there seemed to be no relief.
Islamic State recruiters cause anguish in conservative Kurdish town
The suspects in two recent bombings in Turkey came from Adiyaman, where Islamic State recruiters had been active. Relatives of the suspects complain that police had failed to heed their warnings about the militants' tactics.
ADIYAMAN AND ISTANBUL, TURKEY — White-on-black Islamic calligraphy still adorns the establishment that the Islamic State used to recruit fighters and bombers in this town in southeast Turkey.
Known as the Islamic Tea House, it was a hub for bearded men in tunics, who lured young men for explosives training in Syria before complaints from the community led police to shut it down.
“It wasn’t exactly a tea house, but they did drink tea among themselves,” says Mahmoud Tunc, a chatty boy with a whisper of a mustache who works at a tiny tea shop across the street. “They were a carbon copy of the IS guys you see on social media. Even if you put a Quran in front of them, they wouldn’t read it. They would just parrot their stupid ideology. They were not harmful to us but they were very harmful to Adiyaman and Islam.”
Comrade capitalism: North Korea seeks investors for brewery
By James Pearson
For the boldest frontier market investor: North Korea is looking to raise $39 million from foreign investors to fund a new brewery in Wonsan, an eastern port city where leader Kim Jong Un has big development ambitions.
The isolated country recently announced more than 100 separate projects seeking foreign investment in the Wonsan-Kumgang Development Zone, a mountainous region where leader Kim keeps palaces and a summer residence.
"They're looking at this as a new East Asian business and tourism hub," said Michael Spavor, an independent consultant who is helping a Wonsan investment committee seek more than $150 million in foreign funds, including for the brewery.
Force-feeding concerns over Palestinian hunger striker
Prisoner Mohammed Allaan is moved to a different hospital in Israel, sparking concerns that he will be force-fed.
11 Aug 2015 06:37 GMT
Israel has moved a Palestinian prisoner, who has been on hunger strike for over 50 days, to a different hospital, according to officials, sparking concern that authorities are preparing to force-feed him.
Alleged Islamic Jihad member Mohammed Allaan, held without charge since November, was moved after doctors at his hospital in Beersheva objected to carrying out blood tests against his will, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said.
The advocacy group put the number of days Allaan has been on hunger strike at 54, but different numbers have been provided. He has only been drinking water throughout that time.
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