EgyptAir hijack: Most passengers freed at Larnaca airport
- 29 March 2016
- Middle East
Most of the passengers on board a hijacked Egyptian airliner that was forced to divert to Cyprus have been freed, the airline says.
EgyptAir Flight MS181 was taken over after a passenger said he was wearing an explosives belt.
Reports say the lone hijacker wants to talk to his estranged Cypriot wife, who is now on the way to the airport.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades told reporters the hijack was not a terrorist incident.
EgyptAir said negotiations at Larnaca airport had resulted in the release of all those on board, apart from the crew and four foreign passengers.
More people have subsequently been seen leaving the aircraft. It remains unclear precisely how many people are still on board.
China accuses Japan of threatening Pacific peace with military law
Claims follows passing of law allowing Japanese troops to fight on foreign soil for first time since end of second world war
China has accused Japan’s “warlord” prime minister, Shinzo Abe, of threatening peace in the region, following the enactment on Tuesday of controversial laws allowing Japanese troops to fight on foreign soil for the first time since the end of the second world war.
The security laws, which were passed last September after chaotic scenes in parliament, reinterpret the country’s pacifist constitution to enable Japan to exercise collective self-defence – or coming to the aid of the US and other allies – in overseas conflicts.
German rail operator introduces women-only train carriages in wake of spate of sex attacks
A German rail operator has introduced women-only carriages to some of its trains following a spate of violent sex attacks as the reason..
The move, which comes days after the first suspect of the Cologne sex attacks was charged with a sex crime, has been exploited by right wing activists as an example of how migrants are changing life in Europe.
However, the company introducing the changes, Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn, has denied the new carriages are linked to fears stemming from the Cologne attacks.
They say the measures are intended to encourage a safer atmosphere for all female travellers in general.
Lahore bombing: What's wrong with Pakistan?
Pakistan has been shaken by a suicide blast in the eastern city of Lahore and a violent right-wing protest in the capital Islamabad. Where is country headed? Analysts say this is likely just a taste of what's to come.
The two events simultaneously unfolded in Pakistan on Sunday, March 27. A suicide bomber belonging to a Pakistani Taliban group targeted a public park in the eastern city of Lahore killing at least 65 people, mostly women and children. The militant Jamaat-ul-Ahrar organization said its target was Christians who were celebrating Easter in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park. It was not the first time the South Asian country's minority community has been attacked.
On the same day, thousands of supporters of Mumtaz Qadri, an extremist who was hanged last month for killing a former provincial governor, stormed the capital Islamabad and clashed with police outside of parliament. They were protesting against Qadri's execution and demanding the imposition of the Shariah law in the capital. The situation became so volatile that the government had to seek the military's help to control right-wing extremists, who have now staged a sit-in outside the parliament.
China on strike
Updated 0157 GMT (0857 HKT) March 29, 2016
China's workers have driven the explosive growth of its economy in recent decades. Now, with record numbers of strikes across the country, the government views them as an existential threat, and it may just be right.
The eight migrant workers gazed out at the crowd as the verdict was read out.
Flanked by two guards apiece and watched over by armed police they listened as the judge sentenced them to between six and eight months in prison.
Their crime: protesting for unpaid wages.
The scene looked like something out of the Cultural Revolution.
Hundreds of local residents massed in the public square, under banners denouncing the "crime of severely obstructing social-administrative order" and urging people to pursue "rational efforts in seeking unpaid wages", as judges and prosecutors gave those gathered what they called an "education in the law," according to state media.
An artist tries to create a beautiful image for food waste
RETHINKING STANDARDS
Aliza Eliazarov’s tableaux of rescued food highlight just how much Americans waste. Some of her projects, displayed for passersby, have encouraged them to think more about the subject.
In Jean-François Millet’s 1857 painting “The Gleaners,” three women make their way through a cornfield to pick what harvesters have left behind, collecting and eventually making use of what would otherwise be wasted. It’s a piece of art notable for its dignified representation of peasant life, free, as the Musée d’Orsay notes, “of any hint of miserabilism.” In the food world, it’s also notable for being one of – if not the – most famous depictions of food rescue.
Contemporary Brooklyn artist Aliza Eliazarov is a modern food rescue artist working in the old traditions. Arranging loaves of day-old bread and bruised basil found on the sidewalks outside bakeries and markets at closing time in a style befitting 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings, she too is attempting to elevate the ordinary.
Brazil's Rousseff faces impeachment, coalition collapse
Second impeachment case filed against President Rousseff for obstructing justice as PMDB prepares to leave coalition.
A legal request has been filed to impeach Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff for obstructing justice and fiscal accounting tricks, the second one against the leader politically embattled by her own government.
The request, filed by the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) on Monday, also involved Rousseff granting international football body FIFA tax-exempt status during the 2014 World Cup.
In reaction to the claims, Tourism Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves turned in a resignation letter on the same day, becoming the first minister from the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) to declare leaving Rousseff's government.
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