France Euro 2016: Hollande warns unions against disrupting tournament
French President Francois Hollande has warned against attempts to disrupt Euro 2016 with strike action, as the football tournament gets under way.
France has been in the grip of industrial action, mainly over reforms to labour law.
Train drivers are threatening to strike on a line serving the Stade de France in St Denis just outside Paris, where France play Romania in the first match.
Meanwhile, a brawl in Marseille led to two England fans being arrested.
Tear gas was fired and police in riot gear were on the streets after the incident outside a pub shortly before midnight on Thursday. England play Russia in the city on Saturday.
'Just not normal'
Football fans arriving in Paris and several other cities this week have been greeted by the sight and smell of uncollected rubbish sacks as trade unionists blockade incinerators.
Climate change breakthrough as Iceland turns carbon dioxide into snow
'Carbon capture is can contribute significantly to reducing carbon dioxide emissions'
A radical breakthrough in tackling climate change has been made after scientists found a rapid way to turn heat-trapping carbon-dioxide into rock.
The exclusive two year project, called CarbFix, pumped a carbon dioxide and water mix 540m underground into basalt rock at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland.
The acidic mixture dissolved the rocks' calcium magnesium and formed limestone, permanently and naturally trapping the gas, according to Juerg Matter of the University of Southampton and the lead author of a study detailing the experiment.
Food aid finally reaches Syria's Daraya
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent and UN have delivered food aid to the Damascus suburb of Daraya for the first time since the area came under siege in 2012. The aid convoy included medical equipment as well as food.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) said it delivered medical supplies and food as part of a relief effort coordinated with the United Nations. SARC said supplies arrived shortly before midnight on Thursday.
Government allows relief
The relief effort came a few hours after UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura announced that the Syrian government had agreed to allow aid into besieged areas.
Last month, key international power brokers demanded more access for humanitarian goods into Syria and said they would push for air drop of aid into besieged area if there were no progress on shipments on the ground.
But progress on the airlifts has been slow and many have not received aid. The UN prefers land convoys as they are easier and more cost effective.
Rwanda's Louise Mushikiwabo denies rights-abuse claims
Denying that government is intolerant of criticism, Louise Mushikiwabo says Rwanda "has its own way of doing things".
Rwanda's foreign minister has denied a wide range of allegations against her country, including human-rights abuses, suppression of press freedoms, and extrajudicial killings.
Taking to Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan on the show Upfront, Louise Mushikiwabo dismissed the claims brought forth by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders, and countries Rwanda is allied with on the government's intolerance for opposition voices and criticism.
"Let me put it this way: Rwanda, as any other country that I know of, has its own way of doing things," Mushikiwabo said in response to a remark that Rwanda seems to be on its own in defending itself.
First Chinese warship to skirt Senkakus triggers protest from Tokyo
BY AYAKO MIE
STAFF WRITER
Tokyo denounced Beijing on Thursday after a Chinese frigate entered a contiguous zone just outside Japanese territorial waters earlier in the day near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
The move comes amid mounting international pressure on China over its growing maritime assertiveness.
“Beijing’s action of sending a military ship for the first time would further escalate tensions unilaterally and we are gravely concerned about it,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference.
Violence plunged after he brought the arts to a Tijuana neighborhood
A PATH TO PROGRESS
Raúl Cárdenas Osuna has dedicated his life to creating social change through community-driven art initiatives. His outlook helped transform Camino Verde into a neighborhood of hope and promise.
TIJUANA, MEXICO — At the top of a hill in Camino Verde, a neighborhood long known for its gang turf wars and struggling families, sits a drab concrete-slab building.
It’s a substantive structure, which stands out in this community of informally built homes in Tijuana, Mexico. And that’s the whole idea.
“We built a bunker, and it changed everything,” says Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, an architect and artist who uses his hands – and cellphone photos – as he animatedly describes his work.
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