Paris attacks: Brussels on highest terror alert
Belgium has raised its terror alert in the Brussels region to the highest level, warning of a "very serious" and "imminent" threat.
The metro system will be closed till Sunday, and the public has been warned to avoid crowds, including shopping centres and concerts, a statement said.
The warning for the rest of Belgium stays at a lower level - still serious.
Brussels was home to some of the suspected Paris attackers who killed 130 people last week.
One of those being sought, Salah Abdeslam, is believed to have gone back to Belgium.
Turkish police say they have arrested a Belgian man of Moroccan descent on suspicion that he scouted out sites in Paris, Turkish news agencies report.
The Belgian authorities have so far charged three people with involvement in the attacks, which Islamic State said it carried out.
They have also recommended that large events, including football matches, be cancelled.
Holocaust documents trove unearthed in Budapest apartment
More than 6,000 historically valuable documents, long thought destroyed during the war, found hidden in wall cavity by couple renovating apartment
Saturday 21 November 2015 05.20 GMT
A vast and historically valuable trove of Holocaust-era documents, long thought destroyed during the second world war, has been found hidden in a wall cavity by a couple renovating their Budapest apartment.
The haul of 6,300 documents are from a 1944 census that was a precursor to the intended liquidation of the Hungarian capital’s 200,000 Jews in Nazi death camps.
Brigitte Berdefy, co-owner of the apartment overlooking Hungary’s parliament, said in August a worker detected paper after jamming a screwdriver through a crack in the wall.
“We thought we’d ruined the neighbour’s wallpaper,” Berdefy said.
WPP: World's largest advertising company accused of 'whitewashing' Egypt's human rights record
Exclusive: Firm described how it organised conference which distracted media from reporting 'negative' news
The world’s largest advertising company has been accused of “whitewashing” Egypt’s record on human rights after describing how it organised a major economics conference which distracted the global media from reporting “negative” news about the country.
WPP, the UK-based multinational communications firm founded by Sir Martin Sorrell, played a key role in the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC), which was attended by 30 heads of state and featured addresses from high profile speakers including Tony Blair.
According to a “case study” document published on WPP’s website, the conference resulted in the successful “rebranding” of Egypt and built confidence in the regime of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who rose to power following the army’s overthrow of Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
21 November 2015 - 09H45
Mob torches factory in Pakistan following blasphemy accusation
LAHORE (PAKISTAN) (AFP) An angry mob in Pakistan's Punjab province torched a factory after one of its employees was accused of committing blasphemy, police officials said on Saturday.
Hundreds of people surrounded a chipboard factory in Jehlum city on Friday night and set the facility ablaze after reports surfaced that one employee had allegedly desecrated the Koran.
"The incident took place after we arrested the head of security at the factory, Qamar Ahmed Tahir, for complaints that he ordered the burning of Korans," Adnan Malik, a senior police official in the area, told AFP.
Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, an Islamic republic of some 200 million, where even unproven allegations frequently stir mob violence and lynchings.
Critics including European governments say the country's blasphemy laws are often misused to settle personal scores.
A tale of two friends: One makes it to Syria, the other cools his heels in jail
The story of Haja Fakkrudeen and his friend Gul Mohamed Maracachi Maraicar, who is in jail, is demonstrative of the way the IS ideology has seeped across the world.
The two grew up at Parangipettai in Cuddalore district, and attended the local government higher secondary school before joining New College, Chennai, for graduation.
Several years later in Singapore, the friends met again, to engage in a passionate discussion on the alleged grievances of Muslims. One of them is now in an Indian jail, while the other is somewhere in Syria, probably fighting for the Islamic State.
The story of the Singapore passport-holder Haja Fakkrudeen, who is now believed to be in Syria, and his friend Gul Mohamed Maracachi Maraicar, who is in jail, is demonstrative of the way the IS ideology has seeped across the world,
through social media and as a response to local grievances.
Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time
Updated by Dylan Matthews
This Wednesday, a group of Princeton students stormed the offices of president Christopher Eisgruber to demand that Woodrow Wilson's name be removed from all programs and buildings at the university. That's a big ask. Princeton has an entire school — the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs — named after Wilson, who served as university president from 1902 to 1910, before his time in the White House. It also has Wilson College, a residential college for undergrads.
So far, the university is standing firm, insisting that, in the Associated Press's words, "it is important to weigh Wilson's racism, and how bad it was, with the contributions he made to the nation." And outside of Princeton, the incident is being seized upon as yet another example of campus PC run amok:
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