India Kolkata flyover collapse: Hope fading for survivors
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Hopes of finding more survivors trapped under a collapsed flyover are fading in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta).
Rescuers have worked through the night in the Girish Park area, where the bypass was under construction when it collapsed suddenly on Thursday afternoon.
At least 23 people were killed and scores were injured.
The 2km-long (1.2 mile) flyover started construction in 2009 and missed several deadlines for completion.
Officials said more than 90 people have been rescued, some of whom are in hospital in a critical condition.
"Many of the people rescued have been seriously injured," police chief Ajay Tyagi told the Reuters news agency.
"Many could still be buried below the debris."
'Not fit to lead': letter attacking Xi Jinping sparks witch hunt in Beijing
An anonymous, online call for the president to quit has sparked a furious manhunt for its author, betraying paranoia at the top of the Communist party
It wasn’t a very long letter - the equivalent of about 920 words in English and it appeared only briefly on a Chinese website.
But its content was potentially incendiary. It called for president Xi Jinping to resign.
Many China watchers initially dismissed it as a prank, as opposed to a sign of real dissension within the ruling Communist party.
But only a few weeks later, the mysterious letter has taken on a life of its own – largely because of the government’s outsized reaction to it.
State security agents have detained more than two dozen people thought linked to the letter’s distribution. They scrubbed the Chinese internet of all search terms related to it. They have also detained and harassed family members of exiled Chinese journalist who have commented on the letter, and even tried to get one of those commentaries retracted by a German newspaper.
Libyan unity government moves to assert power in Tripoli
Latest update : 2016-04-01
Libya's unity government received a boost to its authority Thursday, as 10 cities formerly under control of a rival militia-backed Tripoli body pledged support to the newly arrived prime minister-designate.
The arrival of UN-backed Fayez al-Sarraj at a naval base on Wednesday drew fury from the non-recognised authority in charge of Tripoli, which demanded he leave or surrender.
But 10 coastal cities in the west of the country called on all Libyans to "support the national unity government" in a major blow to the unrecognised authority that is refusing to give up power.
The announcement came in a statement on the official Facebook page of the Sabratha municipality, which also asked the government to "put an immediate end to all armed conflicts across Libya".
Gunmen stormed the headquarters of a Libyan television station overnight, apparently in support of the new government, but the capital appeared calm on Thursday.
Brazil Supreme Court takes over probe into ex-president Lula da Silva
Brazil's Supreme Court will continue to oversee a corruption investigation involving former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva instead of returning the case back to a judgemhe accuses of unfairly targeting him.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's Supreme Court handed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a victory on Thursday, ruling against returning a corruption investigation involving the ex-leader back to a judge he accuses of unfairly targeting him.
Brazil's highest court voted 8-2 to take over the case, effectively removing the probe into Silva from Judge Sergio Moro, the lower court magistrate spearheading a corruption case centered on state-run oil company Petrobras.
Moro, a judge from the provincial backwater of Curitiba, has risen to prominence over the past two years while presiding over the Petrobras investigation that has ensnared some of Brazil's richest businessmen and top public figures from across the political spectrum.
Myanmar's shame: Living inside Rohingya ghettos
Updated 0307 GMT (1007 HKT) April 1, 2016
As the sun creeps closer towards its midday peak, the inhabitants of Dar Paing camp move out to the dusty streets to escape the oppressive heat of their single room dormitories.
This is home to thousands of Rohingya Muslims, a stateless people not recognized nor wanted by Myanmar's government.
Located near Sittwe, in the country's western Rakhine state, the camp is alive with sounds -- children recite verses at a makeshift school, while fruit sellers entice customers to their sparse but colorful stalls. But this buzz masks the harsh reality for many people here.
Foreign Money Is Flowing Into U.S. Elections, Alito’s Lying Lips Notwithstanding
IN HIS 2010 State of the Union address, Barack Obama attacked the then-new Citizens United Supreme Court decision for making it possible for U.S. elections to be bankrolled by “foreign entities.”
Justice Samuel Alito, part of the Citizens United majority, was in the audience, and shook his head and seemed to mouth “not true.”
But a member of the Federal Election Commission sounded the alarm Wednesday, explaining that it is indeed true — and quixotically calling on her chronically deadlocked colleagues to make it stop.
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