Sweden to expel up to 80,000 rejected asylum seekers
Interior minister Anders Ygeman tells Swedish media of plan to use charter flights to repatriate thousands amid toughening of immigration rules
Sweden is preparing to expel up to 80,000 asylum seekers who arrived in 2015 and whose applications had been rejected, interior minister Anders Ygeman has said.
“We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000,” the minister was quoted as saying by Swedish media, adding that the government had asked the police and authorities in charge of migrants to organise their expulsion.
Ygeman told newspaper Dagens Industri that since about 45% of asylum applications are currently rejected, the country must get ready to send back tens of thousands of the 163,000 who sought shelter in Sweden last year.
Police abuse video sparks fury amid Haiti’s election crisis
OBSERVERS
A video showing two people being abused by police officers in Haiti has sparked fury in the country, which is already caught up in an ever-worsening electoral crisis. In the video, officers force one of the victims to pull down his trousers and count the number of times they whip him.
The Caribbean island nation of Haiti is currently embroiled in an election crisis. The second round of the presidential elections, initially planned for Sunday, January 24, were cancelled due to security concerns after violent protests swept the country. Demonstrators took to the streets to denounce alleged irregularities in the first round. They accuse the current president, Michel Martelly, of having manipulated the numbers and staging “an electoral coup”.
The footage of several Haitian police officers abusing two young men inflamed an already angry nation. The video showed the police officers stomping on the two victims, who are lying on the ground. While one of them is forced to pull down his trousers an officers say that they are going to give him 50 lashes and that he has to count, without making a mistake. If the man makes a mistake, the lashes wil start all over again.
The unknown 1975 Pak-India War
NADEEM F. PARACHA
Everyone knows about the 1965 and 1971 wars between India and Pakistan. But only a handful of folk are aware of a unique war between the two countries which took place in 1975.
Alas, fresh evidence is emerging confirming that indeed, this war did take place, but was kept a secret by the governments of both the countries.
Famous Indian scientist, Professor Narayan G. Harikishan, has claimed that the 1975 war was neither won by India nor Pakistan, but by Cambodia.
And, this is why it was kept secret.
He made this startling claim at last month’s All India Science Convention in New Delhi.
Speaking to leading scientists from all over India, the professor made a presentation in which he exhibited photographs of saucer-shaped objects over Lahore and Delhi during the peak of the war.Children urge Australia to free them from Nauru island 'prison
Updated 0337 GMT (1137 HKT) January 28, 2016
At just 10 years old, Mizba Ahmed and her family fled persecution in Myanmar.
Boarding a smuggler's boat bound for Australia, she never imagined that instead of finding a better life, she'd end up spending 18 months in detention on the isolated Pacific island of Nauru.
"Nauru is the worst place I've ever seen for children," the 12-year old said.
Mizba Ahmed
Dozens of children like Mizba have been held for months, or even years, at an Australian-backed refugee processing center on Nauru, a tiny island measuring just 21 square kilometers or eight square miles.
The Zika Virus Could Take a Huge Toll in the Americas
Laurie GarrettSenior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
An African virus that historically rarely infected people is spreading in the Americas, apparently causing the babies of infected mothers to be born with deformed heads. The Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes and spreads when the insects bite. And though it appeared in the Americas just nine months ago in the Easter Islands off Chile, the World Health Organization said it will soon spread to almost all countries in the Americas, including to the United States.
In 2014, Brazilian health officials reported 147 cases of babies born with shrunken skulls: it was microcephaly, a congenital deformation of the skull that compresses the infants' brains. In 2015, the number jumped to nearly 4,000 microcephaly cases reported in the country.
The world of Nigeria's sex-trafficking 'Air Lords'
Last year, the BBC's Sam Piranty was given access by the Catalan police, Mossos D'Esquadra, to an investigation into a Nigerian sex-trafficking gang. He spoke to traffickers and women rescued from sexual slavery before filming an early morning raid in November, which led to 23 arrests. He also discovered that the gang is now using London as a gateway into Europe.
It's 08:00 in the Catalan Police Headquarters on the outskirts of Barcelona and Xavi Cortes, head of the anti-trafficking unit, waits patiently for his 22 teams to confirm they are in position. Finally, he gives the order.
Two-hundred-and-fifty officers quietly climb out of their police vans. Single file, each team approaches a residential building watched by a few surprised neighbours.
On reaching the door, one of the masked police officers uses his fingers to count down. Three, two, one. The door is knocked down, the silence shattered, the officers rush inside.
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