Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: 36 dead and more than 140 hurt
A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk international airport has killed 36 people and injured more than 140 others, officials say.
Three attackers began shooting inside and outside the terminal late on Tuesday and blew themselves up after police fired at them, officials say.
PM Binali Yildirim said early signs pointed to so-called Islamic State but no-one has so far admitted the attack.
Recent bombings have been linked to either IS or Kurdish separatists.
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Tuesday's attack looked like a major co-ordinated assault, says the BBC's Mark Lowen.
Ataturk airport has long been seen as a vulnerable target, our Turkey correspondent adds, reporting from a plane stuck on the tarmac in Istanbul.
There are X-ray scanners at the entrance to the terminal but security checks for cars are limited.
India's supreme court refuses to hear challenge to law against gay sex
Setback for gay community, which argued that penal code undermined their rights by failing to protect sexual preferences
India’s supreme court has refused to hear a petition challenging a law criminalising gay sex, in a setback for activists battling in the country’s courts to get the ban overturned.
A number of well-known lesbian, gay and bisexual Indians had argued that section 377 of India’s penal code, which prohibits “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal”, undermined their fundamental rights by failing to protect their sexual preferences.
“The supreme court refused to hear the matter and asked the petitioners to approach the chief justice of India,” said Arvind Dattar, a lawyer for one of the petitioners.
Turkey questions international reaction to Istanbul airport terror attack
Some world leaders have condemned the suspected Isis bombings – but Turkish president suggests response has been muted
The Turkish president has urged the world to take a stronger stance in response to terrorism after a triple suicide bombing killed dozens of people at the Ataturk international airport in Istanbul.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the rest of the world to see the target could have been “London, Berlin, Chicago”, amid suggestions the international response had been muted.
World leaders have written to condemn the attacks on Twitter, and the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the perpetrators of the “terrorist attack” must be brought to justice.
But others suggested the reaction would have been far greater if the incident had taken place in a similarly bustling transport hub in western Europe.
Why Belarusians are getting naked at work
Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko made a cringeworthy slip of the tongue when he asked citizens to “undress” at work in a recent speech. Unfortunately for Lukashenko, no one is going to forget his words anytime soon, especially as Belarusians have decided to rub it in a little bit by taking his advice literally.
While giving a speech at a forum on innovation and new information technologies on June 23, Lukashenko declared: “We must, in short, undress and work". What he apparently meant to say was “We must, in short, develop and work”. In Belarusian, the words “undress” and “develop” sound alike.
Since then, Belarusians have posted dozens of photos showing themselves naked at their workplace: be it at a desk, behind an industrial oven in a restaurant kitchen or even on a construction site. This tongue-in-cheek campaign was launched on Friday, June 24 (the day after the president’s fateful words) under the hashtag #getnakedandwork (#раздеватьсяиработать).
Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle
June 29, 2016 - 1:43PMJoshua Partlow
Caracas: In the darkness the warehouse looks like any other, a metal-roofed hangar next to a clattering overpass, with homeless people sleeping nearby in the shadows.
But inside, workers quietly unload black plastic crates filled with merchandise so valuable that mobs have looted delivery vehicles, shot up the windshields of trucks and hurled a rock into one driver's eye. Soldiers and police milling around the loading depots give this neighbourhood the feel of a military garrison.
"It's just cheese," said Juan Urrea, a 29-year-old driver, as workers unloaded thousands of pounds of white Venezuelan queso from his delivery truck. "I've never seen anything like this before."
The fight for food has begun in Venezuela. On any day, in cities across this increasingly desperate nation, crowds form to sack supermarkets. Protesters take to the streets to decry the sky-rocketing prices and dwindling supplies of basic goods. The wealthy improvise, some shopping online for food that arrives from Miami. Middle-class families make do with less: coffee without milk, sardines instead of beef, two daily meals instead of three. The poor are stripping mangos off the trees and struggling to survive.
Retired Israeli security experts' plan challenges Netanyahu
The Commanders for Israel's Security, an alliance of former top security commanders, have cautioned Israel to change course to avoid intensifying conflict with other countries and Palestinians.
Long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a potentially formidable challenge to his hard-line rule — not from Israel's civilian politicians but instead from its revered security establishment.
An extraordinary array of former top commanders are criticizing Netanyahu in increasingly urgent terms, accusing him of mishandling the Palestinian issue and allying with extremists bent on dismantling Israel's democracy.
On Tuesday, a group representing more than 200 retired leaders in Israel's military, police, Mossad spy service and Shin Bet security agency presented a plan to help end the half-century occupation of the Palestinians through unilateral steps, including disavowing claims to over 90 percent of the West Bank and freezing Jewish settlement construction in such areas.
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