Assad Moscow visit: Syria leader in surprise visit
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on an unannounced visit to Moscow.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Assad "came on a working visit to Moscow" on Tuesday evening and held talks with Mr Putin.
Russia began air strikes in Syria at the end of last month.
Moscow says it is targeting Islamic State and other militant groups fighting Mr Assad's government.
Mr Peskov told reporters that the two leaders had discussed the fight against what he called terrorist groups, the continuation of Russian air strikes and Syria's plans for its troops.
It was the first overseas visit made by Mr Assad since the civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Syrian state TV reports.
Netanyahu under fire for Palestinian grand mufti Hitler claim
Israeli PM accused of trivialising the Holocaust for saying grand mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler idea of exterminating Europe’s Jews
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has attracted a storm of criticism for an incendiary speech in which he accused the second world war Palestinian grand mufti of Jerusalem of “inspiring the Holocaust”.
The comments – made by Netanyahu in a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem in the context of the current violence between Israelis and Palestinians– were condemned as incorrect by historians and by Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog for trivialising the Holocaust.
On the Palestinian side senior official Saeb Erekat described the remarks as absolving Hitler.
In his speech Netanyahu purported to describe a meeting between Haj Amin al-Husseini and Hitler in November 1941.
'No Africans please', says Marrakech rental agent
If you’re black, it’s no easy task to rent an apartment in Morocco. Our Observer, a Senegalese student in Marrakech, sent us a recording of a call he made to a rental agent. The agent tells him very bluntly that the landlords he works for just won’t rent to black people.
Racism toward sub-Saharan Africans is a major problem in Morocco. Many of them come to Morocco to try to reach the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, in order to enter Europe. They face widespread racism and sometimes violence from locals, who accuse them of squatting in and damaging apartments. Last December, journalists from the FRANCE 24 Observers filmed a report in Boukhalef, a neighbourhood in Tangiers, on the tense cohabitation between Moroccans and African migrants.
Racism toward sub-Saharan Africans is a major problem in Morocco. Many of them come to Morocco to try to reach the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, in order to enter Europe. They face widespread racism and sometimes violence from locals, who accuse them of squatting in and damaging apartments. Last December, journalists from the FRANCE 24 Observers filmed a report in Boukhalef, a neighbourhood in Tangiers, on the tense cohabitation between Moroccans and African migrants.
Scandal wave a whack-a-mole challenge for Japan
Chris Cooper
Japan, a country that prides itself on propriety and order, has suddenly hit a season of corporate scandals.
An outbreak of mea culpa raises questions about what is happening in Japan and whether more scandals are on the way.
Three companies disclosed internal malfeasance in the space of 24 hours last week, including one that said one of its units tried to cover up the faulty construction of an apartment building that started to tilt and another that said one of its units falsified reports on the quality of rubber used in trains and ships.
The admissions came after Toshiba admitted to artificially inflating profits for almost seven years and Takata said it supplied faulty airbags that had led to the recall of more than 50 million vehicles.
Holy book desecration: Arrest of 2 Sikhs reveals conspiracy hatched in Australia, UAE
Punjab is on the boil again after a torn-up copy of Sri Guru Granth Sahib — Sikhism’s holy book — was found in the village of Bargari, near Kot Kapura in Faridkot district on October 12.
As protests continued for the ninth day, and more such cases were reported from other districts, the arrests of suspects pointed to an alleged conspiracy to set Punjab on fire.
The arrests of two brothers, Rupinder Singh and Jaswinder Singh of Panjgarayin village in Fardikot, on Tuesday over the Bargari incident revealed an Australian/UAE connection.
Police said the two were allegedly getting instructions and funding from handlers in Australia and Dubai (UAE) adding that they were in possession of phone transcripts to back their claim, Tribune reported.
Ahmed the clockmaker is moving to Qatar to study
Teenage student, who was arrested in Texas after taking a homemade clock to school, accepts scholarship offer in Doha.
21 Oct 2015 05:24 GMT
An American boy arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his Texas school, that was mistaken for a bomb, is moving to Qatar after accepting a scholarship offer to study there.
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed's family announced the move in a statement on Tuesday, a few hours after he was at the White House for an astronomy night hosted by President Barack Obama.
The bespectacled ninth-grader became a global sensation after his September arrest, which many believe was influenced by bias against his Muslim religion.
Mohamed accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation to study in its Young Innovators Programme.
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