North Korea launches missile from submarine, South Korea says
Updated 1026 GMT (1726 HKT) April 24, 2016
North Korea fired what is believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said Saturday.
The missile was fired at 6:30 p.m. Saturday (5:30 a.m. ET), South Korean officials said, and appears to have flown about 30 km (about 19 miles) -- well short of the 300 km (roughly 186 miles) that would be considered a successful test.
North Korean state news agency KCNA claimed the launch was successful, and said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "guided on the spot the underwater test-fire of strategic submarine ballistic missile."
The 'Freital Group': German Prosecutors Go After Right-Wing Terrorism
By Steffen WinterLocal prosecutors in a German state believed a group had sought to intimidate refugees. But federal prosecutors have now taken over the case, accusing members of being part of a far-right terror cell that may have been out to kill.
Terror can be terribly banal. For example when people with screen names like Ninepin Karl, Gypsy Philli, Cookie, Buddy, Riot-Rico and Cuckoo join forces to fire off Dum Bum-brand fireworks in the middle of the night. Or when they complain in a chat service called Kakao Talk that they are having trouble getting ahold of the fruit.
But terror can also be terribly concrete -- if you know, for example, that "fruit" is a code word for "explosives." And when you realize that an elderly care worker, two bus drivers, a railway trainee, a warehouse worker and an unemployed person were preparing to launch a wave of right-wing terror attacks across Saxony.
Footage of torture implicates Mexican army and police
Javier Enríquez Sam
Footage recentlySHARED ONLINE
shows a young woman being tortured during an interrogation by Mexican soldiers and police. They threaten and insult her, suffocate her and perform a mock execution. Widespread condemnation of the acts forced the authorities to release an apology, but for our Observer, this isn’t enough. She says use of torture is becoming more common. The young woman sits on the ground. Her sobs can be heard despite the yellow plastic bag tied over her face. Another woman, crouching beside the prisoner in military fatigues, begins to pull the prisoner’s hair. That’s just the beginning of this four-minute long video. The soldier then puts a gun to the prisoner’s temple. The prisoner starts screaming. Finally, the soldier removes the plastic bag.
The respite is short however, because a policewoman quickly puts another plastic bag over the victim’s face.
The prisoner chokes and screams. The policewoman puts a hand over her mouth. She waits 20 seconds before removing the plastic bag.
TTP claims assassination of PTI minority MPA in Buner
AFP | ALI AKBAR
SWAT: Sardar Soran Singh, special assistant to chief minister KP on minorities’ affairs and an MPA, was gunned down in a targeted attack near Pir Baba in Buner district on Friday.
“Gunmen riding on two motorbikes came in front of the car and started indiscriminate firing which killed the minister on the spot,” Khalid Hamadani, district police chief told AFP.
He was shifted to the hospital immediately after the incident, where he succumbed to his wounds.
"Soran Singh was shot in the head and eye," Pir Baba SHO Mir Ghazab confirmed.
What Brazil's impeachment process says about its Christian faiths
SHIFTS IN THOUGHT
The speaker of Brazil's lower house is Pentecostal, and he leads other Evangelical legislators in the charge to impeach Brazil's president, showing a coming-of-age for Evangelicals in a traditionally Catholic country.
The vote by Brazil's lower legislative house on April 17, did more than give the country's Senate the opportunity to impeach the president. As the country swirls with questions about corruption, economics, and the summer Olympics, the political move highlights a shift for global Christianity.
Brazil, the world's second-largest Christian country, is not as Catholic as it used to be.
The impeachment was led by the speaker of Brazil's lower legislative house, Pentecostal Christian Eduardo Cunha, Reuters reported. The political move shows Evangelical influence is rising inside a Catholic country, which could prove a bellwether for a larger shift toward less traditional forms of Christianity.
South Africa's Julius Malema warns Zuma government
South African opposition politician warns of severe consequences if the government continues to use force on protesters.
Politics, South Africa, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema
South African politician Julius Malema says the opposition "will run out of patience very soon and we will remove this government through the barrel of a gun" if the ruling African National Congress (ANC) continues to respond violently to peaceful protests.
Malema is the commander-in-chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters, an opposition party he founded in 2013 after being expelled from the ANC, where he had served as president of the Youth League.
The exchange, in Sunday's episode of Talk To Al Jazeera, began when Jonah Hull asked Malema how far he was willing to go in his "war" against President Jacob Zuma and reminded him of his 2014 threat to make the entire Gauteng province ungovernable.
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