The Baton Rouge photograph that everyone is talking about
Updated 0637 GMT (1437 HKT) July 11, 2016
Will this be the photograph that symbolizes this past week's protests?
An image of what appears to be a woman's peaceful resistance to police is garnering plenty of attention online.
Shot by Jonathan Bachman for Reuters, the photograph shows a black woman in profile, standing in the middle of the street as two police officers in riot gear seem to be preparing to arrest her in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
People are already calling the photograph iconic on social media.
"Jeez. Just wow," Bob De Jonge wrote on Twitter.
'I got too rich in North Korea and had to fake my own death' – a defector's story
zhon Khen-mu tells RFE/RL why building a booming business ultimately drove him to flee, leaving his family behind
Dzhon Khen-mu’s decision to fake his own death and escape North Koreaall began with a box of popular local herbs.
Working as a hotel manager in the capital, Pyongyang, he was one of the few North Koreans allowed to be in close contact with foreign guests who were on state-sanctioned visits.
One day, he gave a Japanese visitor a box of ginseng as a gift, who in turn gave hima $300 tip – an act of generosity that would change his life for ever, he explains from South Korea, where he has lived since 2003.
Commercial activity is prohibited by North Korea’s collectivist leadership. But in the 1990s, as famine killed hundreds of thousands of people, a thriving black market emerged. By 2004, North Korea’s first industrial park had opened and authorities started to allowed citizens to slowly engage in business.
Lack of trust stops Muslim parents telling police about children travelling to Syria, research finds
'We need to educate them not to travel there in the first place. If I told the police they would then arrest me and my children,' one parent said
Lack of trust in the police means Muslim parents are reluctant to report any signs of radicalisation among their children, a study suggests.
The research, published in the journal Ethnic and Radical Studies, found Muslim parents view the police with caution and would not speak out if their children travelled to Syria.
As many as 800 people from the UK have travelled to support orfight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, according to police. Around 300 have since returned.
Embassies evacuate as violence worsens in South Sudan
Embassies have begun evacuating non-essential staff as violence continues to grow in South Sudan. Fighting continues to rage between troops loyal to the president and vice president sparking fears of civil war.
Heavy fighting erupted again in South Sudan's capital on Monday a day after the UN Security Council told the warring factions to settle their differences peacefully after days of violence that have left scores dead.
That hasn't happened and the United States, Canada, Japan and other foreign governments have begun emptying their diplomatic mission of non-essential staff.
The US State condemned reports that civilian sites had been attacked in the latest bout of violence which has killed at least 270 people and threatens to further devolve into chaos.
"We're extremely worried about what appears to be the lack of command and control over the troops," US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said shortly before the Security Council briefing.
Kashmir crisis: Rajnath Singh dials Sonia Gandhi, Omar Abdullah; appeals for peace
Sonia Gandhi, on Monday, expressed deep anguish at the loss of innocent lives in the violent clashes in parts of Kashmir Valley in the past few days.
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: July 11, 2016 1:12 pm
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday spoke to Congress President Sonia Gandhi as well as former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on the on-going crisis in Kashmir, news agency PTI reported.
Sonia, on Monday, expressed deep anguish at the loss of innocent lives in the clashes in parts of Kashmir Valley in the past few days.
“There can be no compromise on matters relating to national security and terrorism must be dealt with firmly and forcefully,” Sonia said in a statement released by the party.
The Congress party president further added: “Even so, the death of so many of our citizens and attack on security forces is very painful. The political process has made many gains in J&K over the last two decades particulatly and these must not get lost. I appeal to my brothers and sisters in the Valley to allow political parties to find durable and enduring ways of fulfilling their aspirations meaningfully in a peaceful and democratic manner.”
Japan's ruling bloc wins landslide in upper house election
By Linda Sieg and Minami Funakoshi,Reuters
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory on Sunday in an election for parliament's upper house, despite concerns about his economic policies and plans to revise the nation’s post-war pacifist constitution for the first time.
Final counts showed Abe's coalition, like-minded parties and independents had won the two-thirds "super majority" needed to try to revise the constitution's restraints on the military, a step that could strain ties with China, where memories of Japan's past militarism run deep.
Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) fell one short of winning a simple majority, which would have increased its clout within the coalition. Earlier projections had shown it was within their grasp for the first time since 1989.
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