Baton Rouge shootings: Gunman's videos show anger at police
The man identified as the killer of three US police officers in Baton Rouge had posted videos complaining at police treatment of African Americans and urging them to "fight back".
One of Gavin Long's videos stresses he is not linked to any group but is "affiliated with justice".
The ex-Marine, 29, was killed by police during the attack on Sunday morning.
Tension has been high since police shot dead a black man in Baton Rouge two weeks ago.
That death - and a second police shooting in Minnesota - sparked protests across the United States and triggered a revenge attack by a black army veteran who shot dead five officers in the city of Dallas.
Will the Olympics offer Brazil a way out of crisis or add to its burden?
With three weeks to go until the opening ceremony, Rio de Janeiro is desperate for an uplift – and fearful of what will happen when the athletes leaveJonathan Watts and Bruce Douglas in Rio de Janeiro
As dusk falls over Copacabana beach, Ubira Santos, a 63-year-old sand sculptor, relaxes with a few friends on deckchairs in front of one of his distinctive creations.
A handful of extraordinarily callipygian sand-women lie prone, as if sunning their backs, beneath a gnome-sized statue of Christ the Redeemer, with one reaching up to embrace his feet.
Back in 2013, during the pope’s visit to Rio de Janeiro, when millions of Catholics gathered on the beach, Santos covered up their outsize bottoms, “out of respect”, he says. For the Olympics next month, he is planning to add a boxer and a couple of wrestlers to the sculpture, but he has no plans to abandon his sand goddesses.
Inside the ghettos, Muslims are fed up with being blamed for the violence of others because of a shared religion
Disaffected young Muslims in Nice insist they share nothing in common with Lahouaiej Bouhlel but they rail against the humiliations they regularly endure because of their religion
“I knew as soon as it happened that they would blame Muslims, say terrorists are behind it, we are used to that now; we expect nothing else from the authorities here,” declared Rachid, standing at a street corner with a group of young men. “They humiliate us and then they are surprised when there is violence.”
There were nods and murmurs of agreement among his friends gathered in a circle. Young Frenchmen, Muslims, who see the French state as an enemy, feel alienated from the rest of French society and see nothing but a bleak future of strife ahead.
The half-dozen in the group, aged between 18 and 23, were speaking in the Abbatoir district, not far from where Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a 19-tonne truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, killing 84 people, 10 of them children
Kashmir violence — Omar Abdullah interview: ‘It has been building up to this’
Former Jammu Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah on the violent protests across the Valley after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.
Written by Sushant Singh | New Delhi | Updated: July 18, 2016 10:07 am
The origins of the Kashmir problem are political, and the solutions will have to be the same, former chief minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah tells Sushant Singh as the violent protests after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander carry on across the Valley.
Excerpts from the interview:
Q: How bad is the situation in Kashmir? What led to it?
Omar Abdullah: This is one of our worst periods in the last decade or so — certainly after the twin summers of 2008 and 2010. What led to it, that is fairly obvious – one of the two things happened: either the state government and its various intelligence wings completely failed to assess the fallout of Burhan Wani’s death; or having assessed it properly, they failed to put into place adequate measures to deal with the fallout.
Oxfam: Poorest nations shouldering responsibility for world's refugees
Updated 0536 GMT (1336 HKT) July 18, 2016
The world's six wealthiest countries host less than 9% of the world's refugees, according to a new Oxfam report.
While the United States, China, Japan, Germany, France and UK make up more than half the global economy, last year they only hosted 2.1 million refugees and asylum seekers -- just 8.88% of the world's total, the aid organization said in its report released Monday.
Germany takes the largest share of refugees among the world's richest countries (around 700,000), with the remaining 1.4 million split between the other five nations.Pakistanis on Qandeel Baloch: The problem is society
Pakistanis express sorrow and anger after social media star is killed by her brother, but some condemn her lifestyle.
by
Alia Chughtai
Interactive Journalist
The murder of Pakistani social media sensation, Qandeel Baloch, by her own brother has angered millions of Pakistanis, while others have celebrated her death on account of her rebellious, provocative, and what some considered unIslamic statements in the largely conservative nation.
The 26-year-old was found dead in her family home, having been strangled by her brother, Waseem, who later said he had "no regrets" and killed his famous sister to preserve the family's "honour".
As in life, Baloch has polarised the nation in her death. Many condemned the killing outright, others said she had it coming, and some said while she should not have been killed, they could understand the brother's motive.
The media has been blamed for sensationalising the details of her personal life, thus increasing the "shame" factor upon her family, as many called for an anti-honour killing bill to be implemented.
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