West rejects Russia push against Turkey over Syria
Paris rejects Russian UN draft resolution to end Turkish cross-border shelling in Syria, as US gives Ankara its backing.
| Middle East, Turkey, Syria, Russia, War & Conflict
Western powers have rejected a proposed UN resolution drawn up by Russia that demanded the immediate halt of cross-border shelling by the Turkish army into Syria.
The Russian draft presented at an emergency security council meeting on Friday sought to "cease any actions that undermine Syria's sovereignty".
When asked whethere he supported the move, France's UN ambassador Francois Delattre replied, "the short answer is no", the Associated Press news agency reported.
Delattre said the current military escalation is "the direct result of the brutal offensive in the north of Syria led by the Syrian regime and its allies."
The French UN representaive added Russia must understand that its support for Syria's President Bashar Assad is "a dead end that could be extremely dangerous."
Post-war Iraq: 'Everybody is corrupt, from top to bottom. Including me'
A corrupt political class has led a 13-year pillage on public money in the pursuit of power. As oil prices fall, further jeopardising the country’s revenues, there is little hope that governance will improveMartin Chulov in Baghdad
Iraq’s anti-corruption chief sat in his office, waving his hands in exasperation. “There is no solution,” he said. “Everybody is corrupt, from the top of society to the bottom. Everyone. Including me.”
Coming at the start of a conversation about Iraq’s ailing governance, and what was being done to turn things around, Mishan al-Jabouri’s admission was jarring. “At least I am honest about it,” he shrugged. “I was offered $5m by someone to stop investigating him. I took it, and continued prosecuting him anyway.”
Jabouri heads one of two anti-graft agencies tasked with protecting public monies in post-war Iraq. Both have more work than they can ever hope to deal with – even if they wanted to.
'Shameful' video of mob blocking a refugee bus in Germany sparks outrage
German officials have condemned a recent video depicting a screaming mob of anti-migrant protesters blocking a bus full of refugees. Another video shows a scared child being dragged off the bus by a police officer.
A viral video showing a blockade of xenophobic protesters stopping a bus carrying refugees in the eastern German state of Saxony, sparked outrage on Friday.
The glowing sign on the front of the bus roughly translates to "pleasures of travel," and is starkly contrasted with the terrified faces of the migrant passengers. The video showed women and children crying as the protesters chanted "We are the people!" and "Go home!" in German.
Saxony police spokesman Rafael Scholz said the protest occurred late Thursday in Clausnitz, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Dresden. Around 100 people took part in the protest and hindered the bus from arriving at a local refugee shelter.Uber defies Bali ban, offers free car rides and chopper trips
February 20, 2016 - 3:16PMJewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa
Bali: Renegade ride-sharing service Uber is not only defying a ban on its cars in Bali but has upped the ante by offering helicopter rides on the resort island.
Days after Bali's Transportation Department banned Uber on January 21, the app-enabled service was offering free car trips from February 8 to 14 within the capital, Denpasar.
The head of Bali's transportation department, Standly Suwandhi, admitted the department was struggling to enforce the ban.
"Since we don't know which cars Uber utilises … we might pretend to be clients, order an Uber ride and then catch them," Mr Standly told Fairfax Media.
Read DOJ's motion to compel Apple to crack the San Bernardino iPhone
Frustrated by Apple's refusal to comply with a court order demanding it help the FBI access the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, the Justice Department filed a new motion on Friday to force the company to act.
Frustrated by Apple's refusal to comply with a court order demanding it help the FBI access the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters, the Justice Department upped the ante Friday.
Prosecutors filed a new motion asking a federal judge to force the tech company to immediately unlock the device.
"The urgency of this investigation requires this motion now that Apple has made its intention not to comply patently clear," prosecutors wrote in the motion to compel. "This aspect of the investigation into the December 2, 2015 terrorist attack must move forward."
Read the full Justice Department motion to compel.In a big win for the government, a Riverside, Calif., magistrate judge on Tuesday ordered Apple to write new software to get around built-in security features on the iPhone of the slain attacker who, with his wife, killed 14 people in the shooting that officials say was inspired by the Islamic State. Doing so could allow the FBI to crack the phone’s password faster.
Arab in Israeli parliament sparks outcry for defending Palestinian attacks
JERUSALEM — Hanin Zoabi , an Israeli Arab, believes Israeli Jews are colonialists who stole Palestinian land. She makes no distinction between the recent deaths of Israeli civilians and their attackers, calling both “victims of the Israeli occupation .”
Those are typical views of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza , as well as some Arab citizens of Israel like Zoabi. But for her to make such comments strikes many Jews as incendiary — because she is also a member of Israel's parliament , the Knesset.
Zoabi's verbal attacks have sparked questions among Jews here about her loyalty to Israel — as well as the loyalty of the other 16 Israeli Arabs in the Knesset — at a time when Israel is confronting months of attacks on Jews by Palestinians.
“The main criminal here is the occupation, the oppression of the 
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