Ansbach explosion: Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up in Germany
A failed Syrian asylum seeker has blown himself up and injured 12 other people with a backpack bomb near a festival in the south German town of Ansbach.
The state of Bavaria's interior minister said the 27-year-old man had detonated the device after being refused entry to the music festival.
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the venue after the explosion.
Bavaria has been on edge since a knife rampage on a train claimed by so-called Islamic State last Monday.
The Ansbach blast is reported to have happened at about 22:10 (20:10 GMT) outside the Eugens Weinstube bar in the centre of the town, which has a population of 40,000 and is home to a US military base.
Refugee camp company in Australia 'liable for crimes against humanity'
Directors and employers of Ferrovial told they risk prosecution over firm’s role at offshore detention sites
The company that has taken over the management of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime has been warned by international law experts that its employees could be liable for crimes against humanity.
Spanish infrastructure corporation Ferrovial, which is owned by one of the world’s richest families and the major stakeholder in Heathrow airport, has been warned by professors at Stanford Law School that its directors and employees risk prosecution under international law for supplying services to Australia’s camps on Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
“Based on our examination of the facts, it is possible that individual officers at Ferrovial might be exposed to criminal liability for crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute,” said Diala Shamas, a clinical supervising attorney at the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School.
We love to talk of terror – but after the Munich shooting, this hypocritical catch-all term has finally caught us out
How come a Muslim can be a terrorist in Europe but a mere ‘attacker’ in south-west Asia?
The frightful and bloody hours of Friday night and Saturday morning in Munich and Kabul – despite the 3,000 miles that separate the two cities – provided a highly instructive lesson in the semantics of horror and hypocrisy. I despair of that generic old hate-word, “terror”. It long ago became the punctuation mark and signature tune of every facile politician, policeman, journalist and think tank crank in the world.
Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Or terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist.
But from time to time, we trip up on this killer cliché, just as we did at the weekend. Here’s how it went. When first we heard that three armed men had gone on a “shooting spree” in Munich, the German cops and the lads and lassies of the BBC, CNN and Fox News fingered the “terror” lever. The Munich constabulary, we were informed, feared this was a “terrorist act”. The local police, the BBC told us, were engaged in an “anti-terror manhunt”.
Turkey issues arrest warrants for 42 journalists, local media say
Latest update : 2016-07-25
Turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for 42 journalists as part of the investigation into the failed coup aimed at toppling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, television news channels said Monday.
Among those targeted by the warrants was prominent journalist Nazli Ilicak, who was fired from the pro-government Sabah daily in 2013 for criticising ministers caught up in a corruption scandal, NTV and CNN-Turk said.
The government blamed the 2013 corruption scandal on the US-based clericFethullah Gulen, whom it also accuses of being behind the botched coup on July 15.
Xinhua, China’s news agency and ‘propaganda tool’
- Rezaul H Laskar, Hindustan Times |
- Updated: Jul 25, 2016 13:34 IST
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency is no stranger to controversy, having been accused by governments and journalistic bodies of spreading disinformation at the behest of the ruling Communist party, biased coverage and even espionage.
India last week expelled three Xinhua journalists by refusing to renew their visas to work in the country after they came under the “adverse attention of security agencies” for allegedly indulging in activities beyond their journalistic brief.
Xinhua (pronounced shing-hua) was formed in 1931 as the Red China agency, has nearly 110 bureaus worldwide and describes itself on its website as one of the world’s “most influential news portals”. In recent years, it has been increasingly cited as a news source for China and features regularly on Google News.
Iran destroys 100,000 'depraving' satellite dishes
Authorities say the banned satellite dishes are morally damaging, despite high-level calls for reform of the law.
Iranian authorities have destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers as part of a widespread crackdown against illegal devices they say "deviate morality and culture".
Most of these satellite channels not only weaken the foundation of families but also cause disruptions in children's education and children who are under the influence of satellite have improper behaviour.
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