Migrant crisis: Hungary train stand-off enters second day
A tense stand-off between police and migrants on a train in Hungary is continuing into a second day.
On Thursday, police let the migrants board the train in Budapest but then tried to force them off at a refugee camp to the west of the capital.
Hungarian MPs face a key vote later on whether to tighten border controls as migrants try to pass through to their preferred destination, Germany.
Three other European meetings on Friday will discuss the migrant crisis.
Members of the European Commission are also flying to the Greek island of Kos to examine the difficulties caused by the large numbers of refugees and migrants landing there.
Opinion: African migrants - payback time?
Just as Europeans migrated overseas in the past, so are Africans now migrating to Europe. In this guest commentary, the head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa Carlos Lopes draws parallels between the two episodes.
Since the beginning of this year a relentless flow of images from the Italian island of Lampedusa, the city of Calais where the Eurotunnel starts, Bodrum in Turkey, the eastern islands of Greece, or the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco, are invading television screens and media outlets. They portray massive-scale attempts by desperate souls trying to reach European countries. The EU commissioner in charge of migration declared this month this is the worst migrant crisis since World War II. Is it?
Maybe for Western Europe it is perceived as such, but it is not. Understanding why is important, because more is coming.
Forget warlords – meet Afghanistan's 'Art Lords'
Omaid Sharifi
They’re all over Kabul – big concrete blast walls, meant to protect government buildings and other important sites from exploding bombs. Lately, some of them have been adorned with giant, watchful eyes and the inscription: “We’re watching you.”
The images are the work of three friends who call themselves the 'Art Lords' and with the help of passersby, they have painted dozens of murals on blast walls across the Afghan capital.
When you hear about Afghanistan, you hear so much about warlords. So we thought, we’ll be the positive lords!
Our government, international organisations, and all of Afghanistan’s powerful people have made themselves safe inside these blast walls. Ordinary citizens, meanwhile, walk around the streets and see these ugly walls everywhere, walls that don’t protect them. For us, Kabul looks like a prison. So we decided we could at least put some colours on these walls, and at the same time, try to get some messages across.
No more shotgun weddings: Jordan cracks down
Celebratory gunshots have long been a familiar sound at Jordanian weddings. But the death of a young boy last month has turned public opinion against the tradition.
AMMAN, JORDAN — The familiar cracking of gunshots echoes though the lively summer nights here in Jordan’s capital.
But rather than a sign of crime or war, the sound of gunfire has long been a staple at celebrations across the country. It’s a sign of someone’s wedding, graduation, or even promotion. But under new regulations that aim to stamp out the practice, Jordanian grooms now face jail time for the decades-old tradition.
Public opinion turned against the practice in mid-August, when a shooting accident in the northern city of Irbid left a young boy dead. In a video that went viral on YouTube, a man is seen at a wedding reloading and firing his handgun. He attempts to reload the gun a second time, with the barrel aimed downwards towards the crowd. A bullet suddenly discharges and a six-year-old boy standing nearby crumples to the ground.
New North Korea: Short skirts and synthesizers?
Updated 0124 GMT (0824 HKT) September 4, 2015
The young women step across the stage, wielding their violins like weapons, their gem-laden high heels reflecting the overhead stage lights against the black stage. The 20-something-year-old songstresses bear all the markings of your average pop music girl band, down to their fitted outfits and perfectly coiffed tresses.
But their lyrics reveal how the band, Moranbong, is not any bubble gum music group.
"How can he be so kind," the ladies sweetly croon about their repressive dictator, Kim Jong Un. "His smile is so warm and sweet. I have no choice but to be taken by him and his warm heart."
DRC's 'Terminator' tells ICC he protected civilians
Militia leader Bosco Ntaganda, accused of war crimes, tells court he was a professional soldier trying to restore peace.
04 Sep 2015 06:24 GMT
A rebel leader known as "The Terminator" has told judges trying him at the International Criminal Court in The Hague that he was a professional soldier who never attacked civilians and tried to restore peace during a brutal conflict in eastern Congo.
"I have never attacked civilians," Bosco Ntaganda said on Thursday, the second day of his trial on 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"I have always protected them," he added during a nine-minute speech to the court. "I have been described as The Terminator, as an infamous killer, but that is not me."
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