US election 2016: Clashes near Trump rally in California
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Hundreds of demonstrators have blocked traffic outside a venue in California where Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was holding a rally.
A police car had its windows smashed as Mr Trump spoke inside a hall in the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. Some 20 arrests were made.
Mr Trump has vowed to deport millions of illegal immigrants if he is elected US president in November.
He faces strong opposition in parts of California, particularly among Latinos.
California, the biggest prize for Republican candidates in the nomination race, holds its primaries on 7 June.
On Tuesday, Mr Trump called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after five new primary wins in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says WikiLeaks was reckless
Ex-Washington Post journalist says whistleblowing group should have protected intelligence officials’ identity when it released military files
WikiLeaks has been “reckless” by releasing classified information without trying to protect intelligence officials, according to one of the reporters who broke theWatergate scandal.
Carl Bernstein said the whistleblowing organisation, which has released millions of confidential documents including military operation records, had “done some very useful things” but also acted in a “careless” way.
The former Washington Post reporter, who helped expose the political scandal that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon as US president, also insisted that the best journalism was achieved by talking to people, and not through social media.
Isis in Iraq: Terror group are turning to fish farms and car dealerships to fund activities after losing territory
A report by the Iraqi judiciary says the group are finding new ways to pay their fighters after losing oil revenues
Isis has turned to running car dealerships and fish farms to offset their diminishing oil income, Iraqi authorities have said.
A report by Iraq’s central court of investigation in Baghdad said the terror group is increasingly using non-traditional means to pay their fighters and finance their activities as they are pushed out of the territory they once held.
Security experts once estimated that Isis’ annual income was around $2.9bn (£1.98bn) when they declared their caliphate in 2014.
At their height, the militants controlled one third of Iraq’s territory - including the second city Mosul - as well as large swathes of Syria, and received much of their income from oil and gas installations.
Dozens of police injured, scores arrested at French labour protests
Latest update : 2016-04-29
Two dozen police officers were injured Thursday, three of them seriously, as violence flared in mass protests across France against a hotly contested labour reform bill.
Security forces in Paris responded with tear gas as masked youths threw bottles and cobblestones, leaving three policemen with serious injuries, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, adding that 24 police were injured overall.
Clashes between police and protesters also erupted in the cities of Nantes, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse, with 124 people arrested nationwide, Cazeneuve said.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls strongly condemned the unrest, which he blamed on "an irresponsible minority". "They will be brought to justice. Support to the police," he wrote on Twitter.
Are 'democracy' and 'human rights' Western colonial exports? No. Here's why.
April 29, 2016 - 4:10PM
Loubna El Amine
Washington: In September 2014, students in Hong Kong gathered in a public square to protest some of the Beijing government's legislative initiatives. One of their slogans was "When dictatorship becomes a reality, revolution is a duty", which has been attributed to Victor Hugo.
During the Arab Spring, protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria raised such slogans as: "The people want the overthrow of the regime", "Bread, freedom, social justice" and "The revolution of dignity and freedom".
Some academics and public intellectuals who study non-Western societies, worried about imposing Western values, have expressed concern about the use of categories like human rights and liberal democracy. They have instead favoured drawing on non-Western societies' own intellectual traditions and lived experiences. Thus the academic debate about the form of government that China should adopt has focused on drawing from the ideals of Confucianism.
Will burning ivory help stop poaching? Kenya says yes.
The Kenyan government says that burning a large stockpile of ivory will show the world that it is committed to ending the ivory demand. But some advocates for elephants argue that destroying ivory only increases its value.
The Kenyan government wants to send a message to poachers and illegal smugglers of ivory. The way they plan to make their point is to set ablaze the largest stockpile of ivory in history, approximately 100 tons of elephant ivory, or 5 percent of the world’s ivory.
On April 30th, the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will start the fire at the Nairobi National park joined by a few head of states from the continent's elephant-ranging states, including Botswana, Gabon, and Zimbabwe.
By burning the ivory, Kenya hopes show the world its commitment to ending the ivory trade, a business that has lead to the killing of thousands of elephants. Every year about 20,000 to 35,000 of elephants are poached in Africa, driven by the growing demand for ivory around the globe, especially Asia. In Kenya alone, 164 elephants and 35 rhinos were killed in 2014, a drop from the 302 elephants and 59 rhinos that were killed in 2013.
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