UN: Over 700 refugees feared drowned off Italy
UN refugee agency says hundreds of refugees may have died in three shipwrecks south of Italy in recent days.
The UN refugee agency says over 700 refugees may have drowned in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days.
Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for UNHCR, told The Associated Press news agency by phone on Sunday that an estimated 100 people were missing from a smugglers' boat that capsized on Wednesday.
She said about 550 others were missing from a boat that capsized on Thursday morning.
Refugees said that boat, which was carrying about 670 people, didn not have an engine and was being towed by another smuggling boat before it capsized.
Poor polls, scandal, a cussed rival … how it’s all going wrong for Hillary Clinton
She was expected to be the clear frontrunner for the presidency. But after a terrible week, Hillary Clinton is still trading blows with Bernie Sanders as the Donald Trump menace grows
The week that Donald Trump finally sealed the Republican presidential nomination ought to have been a triumphant one for Hillary Clinton. With a final few delegates nudging him past the official finishing line on Thursday, here at last was the candidate that Democrats always dreamed of running against: unpopular, undisciplined and ostensibly unelectable in November’s general election.
Yet in the Alice in Wonderland world of American politics in 2016, nothing is what it seems. Clinton supporters would instead have to stomach six impossible things before the week was out.
The first was the sight of the former secretary of state falling behind her Republican opponent in an average of national opinion polls. Though by a wafer-thin – and probably temporary – margin, the breaching of this symbolic threshold could yet become self-fulfilling if it normalises the once unthinkable prospect of a Trump-themed White House.
Rojda Felat: The feminist taking on Isis
'We are not weak any more. Women are playing a vital role in leading and managing the society'
A Kurdish woman who has been fighting extremists for three years is spearheading the assault on Isis’ self-declared Syrian capital, Raqqa.
Rojda Felat is the joint commander of an offensive by Kurdish and Syrian rebels on the city - which has been the de-facto capital of the so-called Islamic State since 2014.
In her thirties, she heads the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) made up of around 15,000 Kurdish and Arab fighters, who receive training and support from the US-led coalition. Their aim is to “liberate Syrians from Isis oppression”.
“The Raqqa Liberation Brigade and Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) forces will accompany SFD during the campaign,” Commander Felat said in a statement.
Australian police break up clash between nationalists and anti-racism group
Latest update : 2016-05-29
Australian police used pepper spray to break up clashes between right-wing nationalists and anti-racism protesters on the streets of Melbourne on Saturday as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said eliminating racism was still a “work in progress”.
The United Patriots Front (UPF) organised a “Stop the Far Left” rally while anti-racism protesters marched under the banner “Moreland says No to Racism”, in reference to a Melbourne district.
Fears of young Australian Muslims being inspired by militants such as Islamic State and travelling to fight in Iraq and Syria have underpinned support for right-wing groups like UPF and Reclaim Australia.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott made blocking migrants trying to reach Australia by boat a key plank of his victorious election campaign in 2013.
Racist ad row: Chinese company blames foreign media
Shanghai Leishang Cosmetics says sorry for harm caused by foreign media's "over-amplification" of ad.
A Chinese detergent maker has blamed foreign media for whipping up controversy over an ad in which a black man "washed" by its product was transformed into an Asian man.
Shanghai Leishang Cosmetics apologised and said it strongly condemned racial discrimination but it pointed the finger at news reports for overblowing the ad, which first appeared on Chinese social media in March.
The company pulled it, though, after the clip went viral this week and drew both outrage and scores of media reports outside the country.
France's socialist president is taking a very not socialist approach to fixing the unemployment crisis
Updated by Tara Golshan
While not a shocking statement — striking is seemingly as synonymous with French culture as the stereotypical image of a cigarette-wielding Frenchman in stripes and a beret — these strikes, over a proposal to reform the nation's labor laws, have brought France to a near standstill.
In a country where nuclear power production runs 75 percent of the electricity, nearly 16 of the 18 plants are said to be affected by the strikes, the BBC reported. 40 percent of the country's gas stations have almost depleted their fuel supply because of strikes at six of France's eight major oil refineries. Roads and highways and tunnels have been blocked; there are no newspapers on the stands as printers and distributers have ceased production. And the labor unions are showing no sign of backing down.
It's a fight over labor laws — and one that isn't remotely new.
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