Rousseff impeachment: Brazil Senate in marathon debate
Brazil's Senate is debating whether President Dilma Rousseff should face a full impeachment trial.
The majority of the senators have already said they will vote against the president.
If this is confirmed in a vote to be held later, Ms Rousseff will be automatically suspended from office.
She is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014, which she denies.
Ms Rousseff made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to stop proceedings, but the move was rejected.
What's happening now?
A lengthy debate is under way which precedes the actual vote. The Senate session opened more than 19 hours ago.
Air pollution rising at an 'alarming rate' in world's cities
Outdoor pollution has risen 8% in five years with fast-growing cities in the developing world worst affected, WHO data shows
Outdoor air pollution has grown 8% globally in the past five years, with billions of people around the world now exposed to dangerous air, according to new data from more than 3,000 cities compiled by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
While all regions are affected, fast-growing cities in the Middle East, south-east Asia and the western Pacific are the most impacted with many showing pollution levels at five to 10 times above WHO recommended levels.
Refugee crisis: War and disaster internally displaces a record 40.8m people around the world, says report
Number is 'highest figure ever recorded' - and nearly a quarter are those escaping war and conflict
War, violence and natural disasters have forced a record number of people from their homes with the number of internally displaced refugees now at 40.8m, a new report has revealed.
The study by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (DMC) found that an average of 66,000 people a day fled their homes in 2015.
The NRC Secretary, General Jan Egeland, said it was the "highest figure ever record".
"It is the equivalent of the combined populations of New York City, London, Paris and Cairo grabbing what they can carry, often in a state of panic, and setting out on a journey filled with uncertainty", he added.
“We aren’t just pirates, refugees, and terrorists”: The stories behind everyday Somalis
A young Somali woman decides to adopt a baby abandoned on her doorstep, despite her family’s objections. A grandmother works in construction to support her family. A blind girl wants the world to know that she knows what it feels like to fall in love. These are just some of the people that two young Somalis have encountered while compiling the project “Somali Faces”. They want to show that Somalis are not all “pirates, terrorists and refugees”, like they feel they are represented in the media.
If you scan a list of the most recent articles written about Somalia by the Reuters news agency, this is what you’d read about.
- A people-smuggling ring in Italy taking advantage of Somali migrants
- A Somali immigrant in the US accused of supporting the Islamic State jihadist group
- A deadly attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu by militants from the al-Qaeda-aligned Al Shabaab group
- A Kenyan refugee camp full of Somalis that may be closed
- The risk of famine when food aid runs out
What will it take to stop sexism in French politics?
May 12, 2016 - 4:47PMAngela Charlton
Paris: Grabbing breasts, tweaking thong underwear, hitting a female aide in the face - top French politicians stand accused of all this and more, in a wave of allegations emerging that have women asking: How do we make it stop?
In 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn's scandals exposed widespread sexism in French politics, prompting uproar and hope among feminists for a new era. And in 2016? Little has changed, activists say. On Wednesday they held a protest outside Parliament to say enough is enough.
What prompted the renewed anger were recent media reports and a book, L'Elysee off, which allege misconduct by two government ministers and a deputy parliament speaker. The accusations pose yet another problem for President Francois Hollande's embattled government.N. Korean families plead for return of restaurant workers who defected
Updated 0711 GMT (1511 HKT) May 12, 2016
In April, news of a spectacular defection rippled through the media. Most of the serving staff of a North Korean restaurant in Ningbo, China, had defected en masse.
Twelve young North Korean women who worked at the restaurant and a male restaurant manager arrived in the South Korean capital.
For Seoul, it was a propaganda bonanza; for Pyongyang, a huge embarrassment. The North Korean Red Cross was quick to challenge South Korea's version of events, calling the defections instead "a mass abduction."
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