Second strong quake rocks Kumamoto area, killing at least 19
REUTERS, AFP-JIJI, KYODO
MASHIKI, KUMAMOTO PREF. – A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture early Saturday, killing at least 19 more people and bringing the total number of deaths since Thursday evening to 28. Scores have been injured and many buildings have been damaged or totally destroyed.
As reports came in of people trapped in collapsed buildings, fires and power outages, authorities warned of damage over a wide area.
The powerful shaking triggered a huge landslide that swept away homes and cut off a national highway in Minamiaso, and unlike the earlier quake which mostly affected old houses larger, on Saturday newer buildings were damaged and some were toppled across Kumamoto, the epicenter of the quakes. Local officials said Aso Ohashi bridge in the village had also collapsed.
Eyewitnesses to Kumamoto quakes on social media
Pope Francis arrives in Lesbos to highlight humanitarian crisis
Pope and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew to turn spotlight on Europe’s controversial deal with Turkey to end refugee crisis
Pope Francis, widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest defender of refugees, travelled to the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday morning to highlight the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Europe.
The Roman Catholic leader will spend five hours on the island with the Ecumenical head of world Orthodoxy, Patriarch Bartholomew I, and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymos II.
Imbued with added urgency on the frontline of the EU’s migrant emergency, the meeting is also being seen as a further warming of ties between the western and eastern branches of Christianity, almost 10 centuries after their bitter split in 1054.Murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni paid the ultimate price for his investigation into Al-Sisi’s Egypt
The Cambridge student had spotted that trade unionism is the greatest threat to dictatorship
We’ve all grown so used to the “Muslim terror” narratives of our favourite dictators – I’m talking about Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak and now, of course, Field Marshal-President al-Sissi of Egypt – that we’re in danger of believing them. The Muslim Brotherhood and its campaign of “terror” (in fact, Egypt’s violence has nothing to do with the Brotherhood) has allowed al-Sissi’s thugs to beat up, lock up, torture, murder and otherwise execute thousands of his people who object to his outrageous police state behaviour.
But the real danger to his regime – indeed, to the Egyptian governments under British rule, to Sadat and finally to Mubarak – always came from the secular, socialist opposition, symbolised by the country’s immensely brave, tough and independent trade union movements.
UN rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein blasts Trump for promoting bigotry, torture
Zeid Raad al-Hussein has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at US Republican front-runner Donald Trump. In a speech, the UN human rights chief accused the presidential candidate of promoting bigotry and torture.
The UN high commissioner for human rights took aim at US Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Friday, blasting the presidential candidate for promoting bigotry.
Zeid Raad al-Hussein made the remarks at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, the same city where Republicans will meet in July to nominate their party's presidential candidate.
"Bigotry is not proof of strong leadership. It is evidence of the lowest and most craven lack of faith in the principles that uphold a 'land of the free'," Zeid told students in a speech.
"Less than 150 miles away from where I speak, a front-running candidate to be president of this country declared, just a few months ago, his enthusiastic support for torture, [...] inflicting intolerable pain on people, in order to force them to deliver or invent information that they may not have," Zeid said.
EU preparing to deploy security mission in Libya, if requested
Robin Emmott
The European Union is signalling that it will consider moving security personnel into Libya to help stabilise the chaotic country if requested by a new U.N.-backed Libyan government, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters.
Impetus for the move comes in part from fears of an uncontrolled new tide of migrants into Italy from Libya unless law and order can be rebuilt soon in the North African state.
EU foreign and defence ministers will hold a special dinner on Monday in Luxembourg where they are expected to agree to look into police and border training missions for Libya, initially in Tripoli, where the new government is trying to establish itself.
"The EU stands ready to offer security sector support in response to possible (U.N.) Government of National Accord requests," ministers are expected to say, according to a draft statement prepared by diplomats that is still under discussion.
The deeper cost of the Panama Papers: angry publics and unbuilt schools
SHIFT IN THOUGHT
In the developing world, tax havens exact a high toll, literally taking the food out of people's mouths. The publication of the papers has galvanized public attention.
PARIS — The leaked “Panama Papers,” revealing the ownership of thousands of secret bank accounts, have thrown up juicy details about friends of Vladimir Putin’s, star international soccer players, and celebrity entertainers suspected of stashing theirMILLIONS
beyond the taxman’s reach.
beyond the taxman’s reach.
But the revelations have also drawn attention to much graver, real-world implications.
The global network of secretive tax havens are fueling angry political insurgencies in developed countries. And in the developing world, they are literally taking the food out of people's mouths.
No comments:
Post a Comment