Paris attacks: what we know so far
A state of emergency has been declared in France, after at least 120 people are killed in a series of terrorist attacks across Paris- A state of emergency has been declared across France, after at least 120 people are feared killed in terrorist attacks around Paris. A further 200 people are injured, 80 of them seriously.
- Eight assailants involved have been killed, seven of them in suicide bombings, a French prosecutor has said. But police are still hunting accomplices. Witnesses to one shooting said police told them at least one attacker was still loose.
- Shootings and explosions are reported in six locations across the city, including restaurants, the Bataclan concert hall and the Stade de France in northern Paris, where two suicide attacks and a bombing have taken place as the national team played Germany in a friendly football match.
Opinion: We can't let the terrorists win
Early signs suggest that the murderers behind the devastating Paris attacks were Islamist extremists. It's time for the civilized world to get an anti-terrorism plan, says DW's Bernd Riegert.
France gets attacked. Europe is shocked. The cowardly terrorists' goal isn't just to target victims at random. Their goal is also to target us. All of humanity, as American President Barack Obama put it.
We can only watch - stunned and angry - at how the terrorists are able to unleash violence centered on one particular area and kill indiscriminately. France, Europe and the world must now rise up as one and strike back. The obviously Islamist, violent criminals must be combated with every means possible. The people behind these heinous murderers, be they in Syria, Iraq or somewhere else, must be found and eliminated as quickly as possible. The so-called "Islamic State" (IS) hasn't just declared war on France; it has declared war on all free people.
DEBUNKED 11/13/2015Daily Mirror runs baseless claim of IS group massacre of children
British tabloid the Daily Mirror recently ran an article saying that the Islamic State (IS) group had butchered 200 Syrian children, based on claims by “campaigners”. However, the article’s author did not investigate these claims, which FRANCE 24's Observers believe to be false. Here’s why:
On Monday, the Mirror published an article that included a heavily-blurred video, explaining that the footage was too horrifying to be shown in full. The article’s author wrote that the footage was at least a year old, and described those executed in the video – who are blurred – as juveniles. He explained that the unverified video had been widely shared on social networks this week.
Contacted by FRANCE 24, the author of the Daily Mirror article explained that his description of the victims as juveniles was based on the claims of a single Internet user, who shared the video on Facebook on November 4. The journalist said that this anti-IS activist, who is listed as living in Aden, Yemen, was his only source and that he didn’t know her. He said he tried to contact her, but she did not reply. Although he had no other sources to corroborate the Internet user’s claim, he said his editors decided to publish the article anyway. “It’s the news desk that takes the decision to publish, not me," he said. “You surely know how difficult it is to verify these things.”
Brazilian prosecutors seek $360 million after BHP-Vale's Samarco dam failure
November 14, 2015 - 6:48PMDavid Biller and Andrew Willis
Rio de Janeiro: Prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais intend to demand that a mining joint venture between BHP Billiton and Vale pay compensation of about R$1 billion ($360 million) for damages after tailings dams burst, unleashing a torrent into the valley below.
The compensation package, which Samarco Mineracao can negotiate, is based on preliminary analysis and would provide aid to victims of the November 5 disaster and fund environmental restoration work, prosecutor Guilherme de Sa Meneghin said in an interview. There's consensus that there was some kind of failure in the construction or operation of the dams, though it's too early to say if there was negligence, De Sa said. A report is due in 30 days.
Rescue workers have scrambled to help victims after tailings from the burst dams flattened homes and vegetation in what's been called the worst environmental disaster in Minas Gerais history. At least nine people died, with 19 others missing, Melbourne-based BHP said on Friday in a statement. Tailings have travelled as far as 440 kilometres downstream, affecting 11 communities, it said.Philanthropist couple expand its refugee rescue mission to Aegean, Asia
Christopher and Regina Catrambone set up the Migrant Offshore Aid Station to save refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Now they are expanding their efforts.
LONDON — A Malta-based rescue mission for drowning migrants, set up by a couple of wealthy philanthropists, is expanding its operations to the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, crossed by thousands of migrants every day.
"We are expanding thanks to the overwhelming support we have received from all over the world in the past months," Christopher Catrambone, co-founder of Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), told the Times of Malta.
European Union leaders began a two-day migration summit in Malta Nov. 11, their latest effort to cope with the biggest influx of migrants since World War II. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) expects 1 million migrants to reach Europe this year.
Hollywood chases the Bollywood dream
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Ironically, while Bollywood has borrowed and even copied unashamedly from Hollywood, American movie mughuls have not been able to penetrate, what they consider their last bastion, Indian cinema industry. Whose defiance and steadfastness have while perplexing the Americans, evoked a sense of admiration.
India is a complex country all right whose dress and food habits have remained singularly Indian. Despite a fondness for hotdogs, burgers and Coke, an overwhelming majority of the citizens still have their own brand of food. Most women do not turn up in business suits or jeans, but in traditional sari or salwar-kameez.
Likewise, home-grown Indian cinema continues to rule the roost at the boxoffice, and in spite of concerted efforts by Hollywood, Bollywood has firmly barricaded itself from the onslaught. This even after Hollywood tried a Trojan War tactics. The industry dubbed its films in Hindi, in Tamil, in Telugu — which are some of the biggest movie industries in the nation of 1.3 billion people –but to no avail. Hollywood failed here.
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