Brazil crisis: Rousseff loses lower house impeachment vote
- 18 April 2016
- Latin America & Caribbean
Brazil's lower house has voted to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts.
The "yes" camp comfortably won the required two-thirds majority, after a lengthy session in the capital.
The motion will now go to the upper house, the Senate, which is expected to suspend Ms Rousseff next month while it carries out a formal trial.
She denies tampering with the accounts to help secure her re-election in 2014.
Her supporters describe the vote as a "coup against democracy" and the ruling Workers' Party has promised to continue its fight to defend her "in the streets and in the Senate".
But Ms Rousseff is an unpopular leader in a country facing a severe economic crisis, the BBC's Wyre Davis reports from Brazil.
Home Office deports three times more teenagers to war-torn countries than previously admitted
Exclusive: Hundreds who came to the UK as children were sent back as soon as they turned 18
The Government has deported three times as many teenagers to countries ravaged by war and poverty than ministers have previously admitted, figures seen by The Independent reveal.
Charities and politicians have warned the “life or death” decisions of whether to deport young people are being mishandled by a “callous” Home Office without a grip on the facts.
Despite spending their formative years in Britain, children granted temporary leave to remain in the UK as asylum seekers are often sent back to a country they have not lived in for years when they turn 18.
South Korea says North 'preparing for new nuclear test'
South Korean President Park Guen-hye has confirmed that North Korea is readying a new nuclear test despite strict UN sanctions. The announcement follows reports of increased activity at the North's nuclear test site.
Following various intelligence reports, South Korean officials warned on Monday that North Korea is probably preparing another nuclear test.
"Signs that it is preparing a fifth nuclear test have recently been detected," the South's President Guen-hye Park said during a cabinet meeting.
Although she did not give concrete examples of what points to a possible nuclear test, Park ordered the military to be prepared to deal with provocations from Pyongyang.
The US and South Korean authorities detected two to three times more personnel and vehicle activity at the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site, reported South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Monday.
Chinese school uses students as 'human shield' against angry villagers
The administration of one of China’s top art schools is embroiled in a land dispute with locals. When they started construction on the contested site, villagers came to protest and the tensions soon boiled over into veritable clashes with security forces. Several teachers and administrators suspected it might be tense, so they cancelled classes and called in reinforcements... students enrolled in the school.
On the evening of April 10, students at Hebei Fine Arts Academy in Xinle City, in Hebei Province, said they received messages from their teachers saying that their classes were suspended for the next day but that they should assemble on the campus at 7am, wearing sports clothes. They weren’t given any kind of explanation and at least one media outlet alleged students were told they would be “punished” if they didn’t attend. Some thought that they might be participating in a tree-planting project on the campus, which received worldwide attention for a school building that resembles Hogwarts.
Bahria Town Karachi: Greed unlimited
How land authorities and Bahria Town (Pvt) Ltd colluded in violating multiple laws to facilitate a massive land grab.
FAHIM ZAMAN | NAZIHA SYED ALI
KARACHI: There’s Bollywood music blaring from somewhere. The tables at an outdoor tea stall are packed and waiters rush back and forth with steaming cups in hand. A corncob seller does brisk business at his pushcart. The street is full of cars and people. Every evening, this section of Tauheed Commercial in Defence Housing Authority Phase V throbs with activity, with the anticipation of making an overnight profit. It is aCASINO
of sorts – except that instead of roulette and blackjack, it is a game of real estate that is creating the buzz. The name of that real estate: Bahria Town Karachi (BTK), a sprawling, upmarket gated community being constructed off the Super Highway in the outer reaches of Pakistan’s largest city.
of sorts – except that instead of roulette and blackjack, it is a game of real estate that is creating the buzz. The name of that real estate: Bahria Town Karachi (BTK), a sprawling, upmarket gated community being constructed off the Super Highway in the outer reaches of Pakistan’s largest city.
Scores of real estate agencies line two or three streets in Tauheed Commercial, almost all of them emblazoned with the Bahria Town Ltd logo. Many among them are authorised dealers for Bahria Town real estate.
Ecuador and Japan earthquakes: Are they related?
Updated 1009 GMT (1709 HKT) April 18, 2016
But three recent earthquakes -- on Thursday and Saturday morning in Japan and Saturday night in Ecuador -- have gotten lots of attention because of the great destruction.
Here are five things to know about those quakes.
1. Are the Ecuador and Japan earthquakes related?
It's way too early to tell, said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
"It's one day after the Ecuador earthquake and two days after the Japanese earthquake, so no real research has been done on these quakes as far as they're being connected," he said Sunday.
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