Argentina coast guard sinks Chinese trawler fishing illegally
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Argentina’s coast guard has sunk a Chinese trawler that was fishing illegally within the nation’s territorial waters, officials from the South American country said on Tuesday, marking a first test of relations between President Mauricio Macri and Beijing.
A coast guard vessel pursued the fishing vessel Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 toward international waters in a high-seas chase on Monday, firing warning shots across the Chinese boat’s bow as it attempted to raise the crew by radio.
“On several occasions, the offending ship performed maneuvers designed to force a collision with the coast guard, putting at risk not only its own crew but coast guard personnel, who were then ordered to shoot parts of the vessel,” the coast guard said in a statement.
The press has become too free for the government of Malaysia
The threat of being accused of sedition and possible jail time has succeeded: people are shutting up and our independent news site has shut down
The news portal The Malaysian Insider went offline on the first minute of 15 March 2016 – the Ides of March. With that, 59 staffers, including me, lost our jobs. And Malaysia lost another source of independent news.
The closure was ostensibly due to an inability to secure a deal with potential suitors and to stem losses that rose to RM10m (US$2.4m) in the 20 months it was held by the Edge Media Group
But it came nearly three weeks after the internet regulator – the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) – issued a block order against us over a report that claimed the local anti-graft agency had sufficient evidence of a criminal charge against the prime minister Najib Razak, although the country’s attorney-general had cleared him of wrongdoing.
Pregnant woman’s shock death puts Cameroon’s healthcare under spotlight
Many contributors have sent us a particularly shocking video that has sparked an uproar in Cameroon. The footage was shot in a hospital in Douala on the morning of March 13. The pregnant woman and her family were turned away, because a doctor said she was dead. Her sister, who said she thought that she “still felt the babies moving”, decided to try to save the unborn twins by slicing open her sister’s belly with a blade, right in front of the hospital.
The babies, however, had already died.
We decided not to publish the graphic video, which has sparked a wave of anger across Cameroon. The day after the video was published, several hundred people gathered in front of the hospital to protest Cameroon’s failing healthcare system.
The family of the victim, Monique Koumate, told local press that Monique was still alive when they got to the emergency room. They claim that the real reason doctors refused to see her was because the family didn’t have enough money to pay the hospital fees. The family state that they begged the medical staff to take her, but in vain.
China opens tsunami alert centre in South China Sea
March 16, 2016 - 4:27PMShao Xiaoyi
China has set up a tsunami alert centre in the South China Sea, the head of the country's maritime regulator said on Wednesday, in Beijing's latest effort to bolster its jurisdiction in the disputed waters.
China claims most of the energy-rich waters through which about $7 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
The United States has voiced concerns about China's assertive pursuit of territory in one of the world's busiest trade routes.
The tsunami alert centre was under construction, but had already begun initial operations, Wang Hong, the chief of the State Oceanic Administration told reporters on the sidelines of China's annual meeting of Parliament.
ISRAEL SEIZES LAND IN OCCUPIED WEST BANK
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Israel has appropriated large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho, Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday.
Israel's Peace Now movement, which tracks and opposes Israeli settlement in territory captured in a 1967 war, said the reported seizure of 579 acres (234 hectares) represented the largest land confiscation in the West Bank in recent years.
The group said plans for expanding nearby Jewish settlements and building tourism and other commercial facilities in the area were already on Israel's drawing board.
Government should have detained al-Bashir, South African high court rules
The court's ruling means that anyone facing similar charges won’t be able to set foot in South Africa without being arrested.
The South African Supreme court has upheld a high court decision issued last year, ruling that the government should have arrested Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir.
Pretoria is obligated to issue warrants of arrests for leaders and others facing criminal charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Supreme Court said.
The South African government failed to arrest Mr. al-Bashir during his visit, forcing the high court to issue an emergency order for his arrest, but al-Bashir exited the country before the order was issued. Invoking diplomatic immunity as a serving head of state, the government asked the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to overturn the ruling, but the court called the failure to arrest the Sudanese president “unlawful” and “inconsistent” with the country’s obligation, as a signatory of the ICC, Deutsche Welle reports.
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