Israel limits access to al-Aqsa compound after attacks
Israeli police install metal detectors around the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem as city braces for protests.
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Israel has imposed fresh restrictions on Palestinian entry to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem following a spate of attacks against Israelis.
In addition to extending a ban for men under the age of 45 who want to pray at the mosque on Friday, Israeli police have installed metal detectors at several entrances to Jerusalem's Old City.
Thousands of police officers were also deployed across the city.
"Police have made security assessments for Friday prayers and have added many metal detectors and extra checkpoints throughout the Old City, and will continue to closely monitor Arab neighbourhoods," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told local media.
The restrictions come a day after at least eight Israelis were injured in four separate stabbing attacks.
Smoking set to kill one in three young Chinese men as country faces 'epidemic'
Tobacco will kill two million Chinese by 2030, The Lancet says, and total is set to reach three million by 2050 without government action
Smoking will kill about two million Chinese in 2030, double the 2010 toll, according to researchers who warned of a “growing epidemic of premature death” in the world’s most populous nation.
On current trends, one in three young Chinese men will be killed by tobacco, the team wrote in The Lancet medical journal. Among women, though, there were fewer smokers and fewer deaths.
“About two-thirds of young Chinese men become cigarette smokers, and most start before they are 20. Unless they stop, about half of them will eventually be killed by their habit,” said the article’s co-author Zhengming Chen from Oxford University.
China consumes over a third of the world’s cigarettes, and has a sixth of the global smoking death toll.
Iranian commander Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani killed by Isis while advising Syrian regime
Iran is supporting President Bashar al-Assad's regime in the Syrain civil war
An Iranian military commander has been killed in Syria while advising President Bashar al-Assad’s army.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said that Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani was killed by Isis militants on the outskirts of Aleppo city on Thursday night.
He was part of Tehran’s work offering the Syrian regime “military advice in its fight against terrorist groups”, Iranian state media said.
Brig Gen Hamedani was reportedly overseeing the Quds Force, a special forces unit fighting rebels in Syria that has been declared a terrorist organisation by the US.
Who was the man Turkish police dragged through the streets?
Video of a Turkish police car dragging a Kurdish militant's dead body through the streets has caused outrage on social media networks. The footage was shot in the southeastern city of Sirnak, where bloody clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels have been going on for several weeks.
The video has provoked revulsion amongst the country's Kurdish community after it was shared on social media networks on Sunday. The man seen in the grisly footage, Haci Lokman Birlik, is believed to have been fighting in the ranks of the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), a group of militant youths affiliated with the separatist PKK party. Ferhat Encu, a representative of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Sirnak, told FRANCE 24 that Birlik was executed following clashes between the YDG-H and Turkish security forces.
"Instead of taking him to a hospital, they executed him"
"It happened last Saturday at about 1:30am [Editor's note: October 3]. During the clashes, Birlik was injured in the leg. The police stopped him, and instead of taking him to a hospital, they executed him. Then, they criss-crossed the city streets with his dead body tied to the back of their vehicle, as you can see in the video. It's the first time that we've seen this type of incident in Sirnak. I think the police officers did this because they were convinced that they'd never have to answer for it [Editor's note: The footage appears to have been filmed by someone riding in the same vehicle, meaning they were likely a Turkish police officer]. "
Israelis and Palestinians turn their eyes to Jerusalem after a bloody week
Ruth Pollard
Middle East Correspondent
Beirut: An Israeli army watchtower and an imposing concrete security wall dominate the skyline from Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp.
The narrow streets of the overcrowded camp - home to around 4700 Palestinian refugees from areas around Jerusalem and Hebron - have this week once again been scorched by burning tyres and littered with tear gas canisters, sound grenades, rubber bullets and at least one casing from the 0.22-calibre bullets soldiers from the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) fire at its protesters.
It was one of these bullets that killed 13-year-old Abdel Rahman Shadi as he walked home from school through a protest in Aida on Monday, in an incident the IDF has since described as a mistake.
That Aida is just one of many flashpoints for clashes between Palestinian protesters and the IDF is a measure of how fragile the security situation is in the occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
You can't go home again: Rebuilding lives after Fukushima
Updated 0049 GMT (0749 HKT) October 9, 2015
Standing in the middle of a deserted street in the middle of a deserted town is a "very strange feeling," says Guillaume Bression, a journalist and cameraman based in Tokyo.
It's a feeling Bression and his creative partner, Carlos Ayesta, have experienced several times in the as-yet uninhabited areas surrounding Fukushima.
In the silence and emptiness, surrounded by the slowly decaying familiarities of modern Japanese life, there is an unshakable feeling of loss, abandonment and melancholy.
The two photojournalists and documentarians have made multiple trips to the area since the towns and cities surrounding Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Dai-ichi and Dai-ni reactors were evacuated after the 2011 meltdown.
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