Brazil crisis: Rousseff tells BBC she will fight on
Brazil's beleaguered President Dilma Rousseff has told the BBC she is an "innocent victim" and she will fight on as possible impeachment looms.
She vowed to "keep fighting... to come back to government if the impeachment request is accepted".
Ms Rousseff is accused of manipulating government accounts, which she denies.
The Senate will decide whether to start an impeachment trial next week. If that happens she will be suspended from office for 180 days.
Recent polls conducted by Brazil's major newspapers suggest that a majority of the 81 senators will vote in favour of the trial.
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Quarter of child refugees arriving in EU travelled without parents
Almost 368,000 minors sought asylum in Europe last year, the majority Syrian, Afghan or Iraqi
A quarter of all child refugees who arrived in Europe last year – almost 100,000 under-18s – travelled without parents or guardians and are now “geographically orphaned”, presenting a huge challenge to authorities in their adopted countries.
A total of 1.2 million people sought asylum in the EU in 2015, 30% of whom – almost 368,000 – were minors. The number of children arriving in Europe last year was two-and-half times that recorded a year earlier, and almost five times as many as in 2012.
But the most staggering statistic is that a quarter of the young arrivals were unaccompanied. In all, 88,695 children completed the dangerous journey without their parents – an average of 10 arriving every hour.
Fort McMurray wildfires: State of emergency declared in Alberta as out of control wildfire threatens to destroy city
No injuries or fire related fatalities have been reported
Alberta has declared a state of emergency as crews frantically held back wind-whipped wildfires that have already torched 1,600 homes and other buildings in Canada's main oil sands city of Fort McMurray, forcing more than 80,000 residents to flee.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said fire had destroyed or damaged an estimated 1,600 structures. Flames are being kept from the downtown area thanks to the "herculean"' efforts of firefighters, said Scott Long of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency. No injuries or fire related fatalities have been reported.
The fire appeared near the airport late Wednesday where crews were onsite. All commercial flights in and out of Fort McMurray have been suspended.
Video: Brawl breaks out at Turkish parliament
This footage of a full-on brawl wasn’t filmed in a unsavoury bar... it was filmed in the Turkish parliament. On one side were deputies from Turkey’s ruling party, the AKP. On the other side were deputies from the pro-Kurdish opposition group HDP. And they both threw a lot of punches.
On April 29, a parliamentary commission was supposed to debate a government proposal to put an end to parliamentary impunity. Currently, deputies can’t be prosecuted.
But the law is controversial because, were this change to pass, several deputies from the opposition HDP party would face charges of "openly instigating people to hatred and hostility" and "being a member of an armed terrorist organisation." Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the founder of the AKP, has accused the HDP of being a branch of Kurdish militant group PKK, which is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. The HDP denies these accusations. Moreover, they find it unjust that they'd be stripped of their impunity, but AKP members facing allegations of corruption would not be stripped of theirs.
On April 29, a parliamentary commission was supposed to debate a government proposal to put an end to parliamentary impunity. Currently, deputies can’t be prosecuted.
But the law is controversial because, were this change to pass, several deputies from the opposition HDP party would face charges of "openly instigating people to hatred and hostility" and "being a member of an armed terrorist organisation." Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the founder of the AKP, has accused the HDP of being a branch of Kurdish militant group PKK, which is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. The HDP denies these accusations. Moreover, they find it unjust that they'd be stripped of their impunity, but AKP members facing allegations of corruption would not be stripped of theirs.
ABBOTTABAD: The chilling murder of a 16-year-old girl set on fire in Galyat's Makool village has been linked to the orders given by a local jirga last week, police said Thursday.
Abbottabad police said a 15-member jirga called by the Makool village councillor Pervez ordered for the deceased, Amber, to be set on fire as punishment for helping her friend escape the village to marry of her free will. Thirteen members have been arrested.
When the jirga ended after a six-hour meeting on April 28, the girl was taken from her home to an abandoned house where she was drugged, killed, and placed in the backseat of a parked van. The van was then doused with petrol and set on fire.
FIFA REPLAYS ITS MISTAKES IN QATAR AS HUMAN COST OF THE 2022 WORLD CUP CLIMBS HIGHER
BY MINKY WORDEN
With six years to go until the opening whistle of the 2022 World Cup, preparations are moving at a feverish pace here in Qatar and will soon reach peak construction.
With a dozen stadiums to be constructed or revamped, Qatar’s World Cup, with an estimated $200 billion in infrastructure, will be the most expensive ever. The human cost is already the steepest ever, and unless FIFA and Qatar take urgent steps to reform now, risks climbing even higher.
The problem is that the stadiums, transit and infrastructure for the World Cup are being built not by the few hundred thousand citizens of this tiny but oil-wealthy emirate, but by the one million migrant workers who came here to discover that they are working in unsafe conditions—and that they can’t leave without the approval of their employers.
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