Afghan air strike: Kunduz MSF clinic workers killed
The medical charity MSF says at least three of its staff were killed in the Afghan city of Kunduz after a clinic was hit by an air strike on Saturday.
US forces were carrying out air strikes at the time. The Nato alliance has admitted the clinic may have been hit.
MSF says more than 30 staff are unaccounted for. The hospital had 105 patients at the time.
There has been intense fighting in Kunduz since Taliban fighters swept into the northern city on Monday.
It was the first major urban centre to fall to the Taliban in 14 years.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said its clinic was hit several times during "sustained bombing and was very badly damaged" at 02:10 local time (22:40 GMT) on Saturday.
A spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, Col Brian Tribus, said: "US forces conducted an air strike in Kunduz city at 02:15 (local time)... against individuals threatening the force.
"The strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility."
Anonymous hacktivist explains why group is targeting Saudi Arabian government
Anonymous, an international network of hackers, has been attacking official Saudi government websites. In an exclusive interview with DW, a group hacktivist explains why they have taken on Riyadh.
Almost as soon as Ali Mohammed al-Nimr's impending death sentence broke, Anonymous, a group of online hackers, vowed to take on the Saudi Arabian government.
The announcement was somewhat unusual for the group which is often perceived as focusing on campaigns of cyber security and espionage.
Seventeen-year-old al-Nimr, a Saudi Arabian national, was arrested in 2012 for his participation in the Arab Spring protests. A teenager at the time of his incarceration, al-Nimr claims to have been tortured during his three years of imprisonment. In May 2014, he was sentenced to death.
How Brazil is using solar power to rehabilitate prisoners
Aline Oliveira Souza
A woman in Brazil has launched solar power training courses in the country’s prisons, not only to boost Brazil’s green energy potential but also to help inmates reintegrate into society.
At the beginning of this year, the environmental NGO Greenpeace handpicked 30 people from across the country to be solar energy trainers. Among them was Aline Oliveira Souza, a young woman living in southeastern Brazil. In return, they pledged to set up green energy projects in their hometowns. "Most of them have already organised conferences and workshops to teach people how to cook using solar power, for example," says Barbara Rubim, a member of Greenpeace Brazil who helped train the 'solar multipliers', as they are called, that took part in the NGO's project. These trainers will then take their newfound skills to the country’s prisons to train inmates in turn.
23-year-old Aline Oliveira Souza is from Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais. She's currently studying to be an agricultural engineer.
I applied for Greenpeace's 'solar multipliers' project as soon as I heard about in January. I'm very interested in the issue of sustainable development. For me, this training programme was the ideal chance to learn more and then share that knowledge. It's important, because Brazil has the potential to produce huge amounts of solar power but it's a source of energy that remains largely untapped.
India's jobs shortage: PhDs, graduates among millions applying for menial jobs
Amrit Dhillon
New Delhi: In the Byzantine hierarchy of an Indian office, the "peon" is at the bottom of the pecking order, a dogsbody who runs errands, fetches water, makes tea, carries files from one department to another and stands up abruptly to salute anyone senior passing by.
Yet when the state government of Uttar Pradesh in north India advertised 368 peon vacancies last month, it was deluged by 2.3 million applications from young men desperate for the menial job.
Every month, about 1 million young Indians join the labour force which already has high levels of unemployment.
One of the applicants was Ashok Sethi, 25, whose father, Ramesh, works as a cook in the Indian capital.
"My son has an MSc in physics and has done a course in computers but he's been unemployed for two years. He's overqualified but it's a government job which is secure," Mr Sethi said.
Indonesia's dry-season forest fires could be worst on record, says NASA
Indonesian authorities are scrambling to respond after fires spewed haze across the country and blanketed parts of neighboring Malaysia and Singapore. Monsoon rains are due to arrive in the next month.
When Indonesian President Joko Widodo flew to Sumatra last week to check on the raging forest fires that have engulfed much of the island, the smoke was so thick his plane couldn’t land.
He was instead forced to fly back to the capital Jakarta, reports Bloomberg News.
For weeks, Malaysia, Singapore, and large parts of Indonesia have suffered from choking smoke generated by the fires, and tens of thousands of people have sought medical treatment for respiratory problems.
Forest fires have been a seasonal hazard for the past two decades, largely as the result of practices in the palm-oil industry. But this year's prolonged dry season, exacerbated by El Nino, has hampered efforts to extinguish the flames. Many of the fires have been started illegally to make room for palm oil plantations on ground once covered in dense forests and peat.
Nigeria ex-oil minister Alison-Madueke 'arrested in UK'
Diezani Alison-Madueke detained in London, source from Nigeria presidential circle and another with links to family say.
03 Oct 2015 02:33 GMT
Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been arrested in London, a source from Nigeria's presidential circle and another with links to her family has said.
Alison-Madueke was minister from 2010 until May 2015 under former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was defeated by Muhammadu Buhari at the polls in March.
Buhari took office in May promising to root out corruption in Africa's most populous country, where few benefit from the OPEC member's enormous energy resources.
In a short statement on its website, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) said its International Corruption Unit had arrested five people across London on suspicion of bribery and corruption offences on Friday, without naming the suspects.
Migrants try to enter Channel Tunnel, disrupt cross-channel trains
LONDON
Around 200 migrants tried to get into the Channel Tunnel in France overnight, clashing with staff and police and forcing the suspension of rail services, a spokesman for Eurotunnel (GETP.PA) said.
The disruption was the latest in a series of incidents involving migrants who are camped around the northern French port of Calais in the hope of reaching Britain.
A spokesman for Eurotunnel said around 200 migrants broke into its French terminal and got onto the tracks. Their effort was coordinated and highly organized, forcing the company to call for police reinforcements, he said.
Eurotunnel services for passengers and freight were suspended, and while trains have started running again they are likely to proceed slowly through the Calais area, disrupting normal timetables, he said.
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