Israeli troops start deploying in cities after attacks
| War & Conflict, Middle East, Israel, Palestine
The Israeli government has ordered the deployment of hundreds of soldiers to cities across the country to help police combat a rise in stabbing attacks.
The army deployed six companies on Wednesday to the country's urban areas, two weeks since the latest tensions between Palestinians and Israelis turned violent.
The move is the first implementation of measures decided upon by Israel's security cabinet to combat a series of Palestinian shooting and stabbing attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.
The cabinet met late into the night and released details of the new measures early Wednesday morning.
Israel authorises police to seal off Palestinian areas of Jerusalem
Netanyahu’s office announces move as part of package of ‘aggressive’ measures to stem wave of violence that has left 37 dead
Israeli police will be authorised to seal off Palestinian areas of Jerusalem in response to continuing violence and attacks, part of a package of “aggressive” measures announced by the office of the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.
The controversial measure – approved by Netanyahu’s security cabinet – comes as the Israeli military announced it was preparing to deploy six companies of soldiers to reinforce police, also called for in the same meeting.
Announcing the measures early on Wednesday, Netanyahu’s office said he had ordered police to “impose a closure on, or to surround, centres of friction and incitement in Jerusalem, in accordance with security considerations”.
Vanuatu politicians guilty of corruption pardon themselves while president is away
Parliament speaker Marcellino Pipite and 13 other politicians were accused of accepting bribes of up to 1 million vatu to help overthrow the previous government
The South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has found itself in political chaos following an extraordinary few days in which 14 politicians were found guilty of corruption but were then pardoned by one of their own while the president was abroad.
The events have created a constitutional crisis for President Baldwin Lonsdale, who promised he would find a legal avenue to “clean up the mess.”
“Vanuatu's credibility has been tarnished throughout the world, and as head of state, I am deeply sorry to see this,” Lonsdale told reporters on Monday, according to the Vanuatu Daily Post.
Watchdog: Czech refugee camp offers 'worse conditions' than prisons
Migrants in a Czech refugee center were "debased in front of their children," according to human rights official Anna Sabatova. The conditions violate international conventions, she said after visiting the facility.
Czech human rights ombudsman Anna Sabatova decried the situation in Bela Jezova center on Tuesday, describing the plight of refugees detained in the European Union country.
"We are speaking about a former military facility that in many respects offers worse conditions than Czech prisons," Sabatova said.
The independent official, whose task is to monitor the government, complained that conditions in the facility were traumatizing children, and violated both the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights.
Locked behind a fence
Detaining children in the camp "defies our view of the Czech Republic as a civilized country," according to Sabatova.
'You are in danger. We are being monitored'
Philip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia: The knocking on the heavy-set steel door was coming from the inside, where a scared and desperate grandmother was trying to keep her teenage grandson - and us - out of harm's way.
"I'm giving you good advice – you are in danger," Tong Yanchun told me through the closed door. "We are being monitored."
The octogenarian's modest apartment in this small, quiet town in northern China had on Tuesday become a microcosm of the Chinese government's sweeping crackdown on the nation's human rights lawyers.Family friends have held grave concerns for the welfare of Ms Tong's grandson, Bao Zhuoxuan, who had been uncontactable since October 6, when an attempt to smuggle him out of the country failed after he was caught at a border town in Myanmar along with two human rights activists, Tang Zhishun and Xing Qingxian.
Professors' resistance to state textbook intensifies |
By Lee Kyung-min
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An increasing number of history professors are joining protests against the government's plan to publish a standardized history textbook, refusing to take part in the project.
Such a move may make it difficult for the government to secure enough scholars as authors. Concerns are also growing that the books may fail to guarantee a balanced view of history as the government pledges. All 13 history professors at Yonsei University issued a statement Tuesday, vowing not to participate as authors in what they call, "a move of shameless regression of democracy that goes against our conscience. |
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