UN says turning migrants away 'won't work'
The UN high commissioner for refugees says the migrants crisis is now a global phenomenon and that simply turning them away "won't work".
Filippo Grandi told the BBC that more nations had to help the "few countries" shouldering the burden, by increasing both funding and resettlement.
He said that, last year, fewer than 1% of 20 million refugees had been resettled in another nation.
More are fleeing conflict and hardship than at any other time in history.
Mr Grandi was speaking to the BBC during a day of special live coverage examining how an age of unprecedented mobility is shaping our world.
Later, the UN refugee agency's special envoy, Angelina Jolie-Pitt, will deliver a keynote speech, in which she will warn about the "fear of uncontrolled migration" and how it has "given space, and a false air of legitimacy, to those who promote a politics of fear and separation".
Philippines president-elect Rodrigo Duterte vows to bring back death penalty and shoot to kill powers
He said he preferred hanging to firing squads because he does not want to waste bullets
Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to introduce public executions by hanging and give police shoot to kill powers.
In his first comments to reporters since winning a landslide election victory on 9 May, Mr Duterte, 71 said: "What I will do is urge Congress to restore [the] death penalty by hanging."
He said he preferred to administer the death penalty by hanging rather than firing squads, because he does not want to waste bullets and considers snapping the spine with a noose more humane.
Conservative Polish activists call for near-total ban on abortions
Polish anti-abortion groups have marched in support of severe restrictions on pregnancy terminations. Supported by government and church, already deeply conservative abortion laws could become even more so.
Anti-abortion activists plan to table a citizen's bill in parliament that would make abortions legal only when necessary to save a woman's life.
A petition to oblige parliament to go ahead with such legislation requires 100,000 signatures to be examined by parliament.
The organizers of Sunday's marches said they will continue their signature-gathering drive up to the end of June.
Going even further
Along with Ireland and Northern Ireland, Poland already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. The present law - adopted in 1993 - stipulates a ban on abortion except in cases of pregnancies that result from rape or incest, pose a health risk to the mother or where the fetus is severely deformed.
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Iran arrests eight in crackdown on Instagram modelling
Iran has arrested eight people for working in "un-Islamic" online modelling networks, particularly on Instagram, the head of Tehran's cybercrimes court said on state television.
The arrests were made under a two-year-old sting operation named "Spider II", targeting among others models who post photos online without the hijab covering the hair that is compulsory for women in public in Iran since its 1979 Islamic revolution.
It identified 170 people running online Instagram pages -- 59 photographers and makeup artists, 58 models, 51 fashion salon managers and designers, and two active institutions, according to a statement from the special court.
'Honor killings': Why Pakistan must act against this brutality
Updated 0142 GMT (0942 HKT) May 16, 2016
The savage murder of a young girl at the hands of her own family and community made headlines last month for the sheer scale of its pre-mediated brutality.
Fifteen-year-old Ambreen was drugged, strangled and then burnt to death, shocking even a country used to 25 years of debating such "honor killings."
Ambreen's supposed crime was heartbreakingly common and quite universal in its teenage impulse. Like millions of young girls, she had re-framed her limited autonomy by secretly furthering the course of another's love.
No one will know whether she ever imagined the terrible risk to her life.
Venezuela's Maduro threatens to jail factory owners
Factories in Venezuela are struggling due to the country's economic views, while Maduro's government struggles to retain power.
President Nicolas Maduro threatened Saturday to take over idle factories and jail their owners following a decree granting him expanded powers to act in the face of a deep economic crisis.
Maduro's remarks came as Venezuela's opposition warned the embattled leader that if he tries to block an attempt to hold a recall referendum, society could "explode."
Speaking to supporters in the capital, Caracas, the president ordered "all actions to recover the production apparatus, which is being paralyzed by the bourgeoisie."
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