Iraq protests: PM orders arrest of parliament protesters
Iraq's Prime Minister has ordered the arrest of Shia Muslim activists who stormed parliament in Baghdad on Saturday.
Supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr broke through barricades of the fortified Green Zone in protest against the deadlock in approving a new cabinet.
PM Haider al-Abadi said those who attacked police "and inflicted damage on public facilities" should be held.
A state of emergency was declared in Baghdad after the protests.
Security forces near the US embassy fired tear gas. Some protesters were seen striking MPs as they left or throwing objects at their cars.
Protesters set up camp outside the parliament on Saturday night after occupying the chamber, and many were still there on Sunday.
South Africa's EFF leader Julius Malema contests ruling politics
The leader of the leftist party has defended his comments on violence against the state. The EFF's tour-de-force rally shed light on South Africa's shifting political landscape as the ANC struggles for popular support.
Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), on Saturday told a stadium packed with over 40,000 supporters that the party was not promoting violence, but would defend itself against state violence.
"You say we promote violence (but) we are the most peaceful organization … Anyone who comes with violence, we will defend ourselves. We are not scared of war," Malema said, according to the South African periodical "Mail and Guardian."
The comments by the former leader of the African National Congress' (ANC) youth league came after the ruling party last Monday opened a criminal case against Malema over remarks he made during an interview with the Doha-based al-Jazeera news network.
Strategy of Terror: The Suicide Bombing Girls of Boko Haram
By Nicola Abé and Andy Spyra (Photos)The Nigerian military looks to be slowly gaining the upper hand in its fight against Boko Haram. But the Islamist terror group isn't going quietly and has begun using young girls as suicide bombers. We talked to some of those who escaped.
She awoke early in the morning. The baby, just a few weeks old, lay next to her breathing peacefully, his face pressed up against hers. Fatima* heard the voices of women approaching her hut before they came in, grabbed her by the wrists and dragged her outside. Fatima screamed, cried and kept stumbling to the ground.
She knew what these women wanted. She had seen how they had outfitted the other girls with suicide belts, how fighters had driven them to the outskirts of the city in pick-ups and how they had returned without the girls.
Women of Rembang put their feet down to save farms from cement factory
May 1, 2016 - 5:57PMJewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa
Rembang: It was a confronting image: nine middle-aged women with their feet planted in blocks of concrete staging a 36-hour protest outside the presidential palace in Jakarta.
In other circumstances it might have been a PR stunt, but to the farmers from Rembang in Central Java, some of whom sold chickens to bankroll the trip to the capital, it was an apt metaphor for their plight.
"No one was coaching us during that Jakarta trip," says Sukinah, a 40-year-old rice farmer from the village of Tegaldowo. "We were desperate, we see no other way. We need people to hear us."
Why are buildings in Kenya collapsing?
A six-story building collapsed Friday night in Nairobi, killing at least a dozen people. Several buildings in Kenya have collapsed in the past year. Why?
Another building collapsed Friday night in Nairobi, leaving at least 12 people dead and others injured or missing. Concerns about the safety of buildings are in the national spotlight yet again, only a year after eight buildings collapsed in Kenya.
The six-story building collapsed Friday following heavy rains, but experts say the underlying cause is poor construction, a problem reflected across the city and in many other parts of Kenya.
In Nairobi alone, only 42 percent of the cities building's are considered safe for inhabitants, according to a 2015 audit by Kenya’s National Construction Authority, the Daily Nation reported. The audit was commissioned after several buildings collapsed.Minamata patients speak out on anniversary of disease
Sunday marks 60 years since the Minamata disease, a neurological condition caused by toxic dumping, was discovered.
Harry Fawcett | | Health, Japan, Asia Pacific
Sunday marks 60 years since doctors in Japan discovered a neurological disease in the town of Minamata, caused by one of the world’s worst cases of toxic dumping.
In 1932, the Chisso Corporation, an integral part of the local economy for over a century, began to manufacture acetaldehyde, used to produce plastics, in their chemical plant in Minamata.
Mercury from the production process began to spill into the bay.
Inhabitants of Minamata started to show strange symptoms. They were shouting uncontrollably, slurring their speech or dropping their chopsticks at dinner.
As later got known, they were slowly being poisoned by mercury that found its way into their food.
The mercury was discharged for decades, continuing even after illness was linked to it.
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