Migrant crisis: Dozens reach Croatia as Hungary border sealed
The first group of migrants has reached Croatia - a new route to northern European Union countries, a day after Hungary sealed its border with Serbia.
About 150 migrants crossed into the EU country from neighbouring Serbia.
Croatia says it is ready to receive them "or direct" them to where they want to go. Many migrants - mainly Syrian - are hoping to reach Germany.
New border restrictions and a row over allocating migrants have shown bitter divisions in Europe over the crisis.
Hundreds of migrants remain stranded outside or in makeshift tents close to the Serbian border with Hungary.
On Tuesday, Hungary declared a state of emergency in the area, with hundreds of army and police deployed to enforce new laws making it an offence to breach a razor-wire border fence.
Guyana protests against Spanish street names in Google Maps
Prime minister calls for explanation after Google appears to adopt names used by neighbour and territorial rival Venezuela
A centuries-old territorial dispute in South America has taken a technological turn after anglophone Guyana decried Google Maps’ Spanish-language labelling of street names in a region claimed by neighbouring Venezuela.
The contended English-speaking area, which encompasses two-thirds of Guyanaand effectively functions as part of the former British colony, is at the heart of the longstanding dispute, recently revived after an oil discovery off its shores.
Roads in the sparsely populated jungle region are known locally by English monikers, but some appear with entirely different Spanish-language names on Google’s map service.
14-year-old Muslim schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed arrested after taking homemade clock to school
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Beware the fake migrant images shared online
The arrival of tens of thousands of migrants in Europe has prompted an avalanche of false information and fake images posted on social media, often by far-right Internet users. They aim to use whatever means they can to convince people that these migrants should not be welcomed. FRANCE 24 's Observers debunk a few of these lies.
Ultra-conservative websites like Fdesouche, Dreuz.info, and the Observateurs.ch (not to be confused with FRANCE 24’s Observers) are using social media to push their anti-immigration views with false information. Here are just a few of the methods they have used over the past days.
Conspiracy theory: “The picture of Aylan Kurdi was staged to sway public opinion”
Aylan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian boy, drowned along with his mother and brother after their boat sank during their journey from Turkey to Greece. The photo of his body, which washed up on a Turkish beach, prompted an international outcry. But some Internet users think it was staged. According to several websites with close ties to extremist groups, the police – who took the photo – moved Aylan’s body to a more “photogenic” spot on the beach. As proof, they share this photo, in which a police officer squats above the body of a child. They claim this child is Aylan, before his body was moved.
Racially charged rally comes face to face with police in Kuala Lumpur
Lindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday in a rally seen as promoting Malay supremacy in the multi-racial nation.
Senior political figures and opposition parties voiced concern the rally could inflame racial tensions at a time when Prime Minister Najib Razak is under intense pressure to resign over an alleged corruption scandal.
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi warned protesters not to display banners or posters that touched on racial sensitivities and to avoid racial slurs.
After initially saying the rally was for "Malay dignity", organisers changed the theme to a rally for "Citizens' Unity" following fierce criticism, including from within the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the party which has ruled the country for six decades.The yakuza: Inside Japan's murky criminal underworld
Last month, Japan's largest crime group, the Yamaguchi-gumi, split into two main factions, potentially creating a gang war that may ultimately involve all 21 designated crime groups in Japan.
The new group, which was formally created in early September, is calling themselves the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi and is already setting up alliances with other organized crime groups. The National Police Agency says they have had an emergency meeting to discuss how to handle the crisis, and police nationwide are on alert.
In the Japanese underworld, the 21 other organized crime groups are trying to decide which way the wind blows and who to align themselves with. The last split in the Yamaguchi-gumi, which began in 1984, resulted in several years of epic warfare marked with assassinations, attempted bombings and gun battles that terrified and enthralled the nation.
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