Turkey coup attempt: Erdogan 'snatch squad' soldiers captured
A group of soldiers suspected of trying to seize the president during Turkey's failed coup attempt two weeks ago has been captured near Marmaris.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on holiday at the south-western resort on the night of the coup, but fled before his hotel was raided.
Special forces located the fugitives in a forested area, reports say.
Since the failed putsch Mr Erdogan has cracked down on those suspected of being linked to the coup.
Tens of thousands of people have been detained or dismissed or suspended from roles in the military, judiciary, civil service and education.
Brexit: Surge in anti-immigrant hate crime in areas that voted to leave EU
Police statistics show hate crimes to have tripled in some of the most Eurosceptic parts of Britain
The surge in anti-immigrant hate crimes seen after the EU referendum was particularly intense in areas of the country that strongly voted Leave, an investigation by The Independent has found.
Disturbing new figures drawn directly from local police forces’ databases show consistent doubling and tripling of relevant hate crimes in the most Eurosceptic parts of Britain. They go even further than the average 57 per cent nationwide increase in hate crimes reported by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) in the aftermath of the referendum.
The statistics, obtained under freedom of information rules, come as the Home Secretary Amber Rudd announces that Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) will look at how officers respond to reports of such crimes.
Tokyo elects first female governor as it prepares for 2020 Olympics
Latest update : 2016-08-01
Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first woman governor on Sunday, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city’s preparations to host the 2020 summer Olympic Games.
Yuriko Koike, Japan’s first female defence minister, beat former bureaucrat and fellow member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party Hiroya Masuda, as well as liberal journalist Shuntaro Torigoe, according to an exit poll by public broadcaster NHK.
Koike, 64, angered the Tokyo branch of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party by not getting its approval before announcing her candidacy for city governor. The LDP instead drafted Masuda, 64, who once served as governor of a rural prefecture.
They came to Kenya as refugees -- and they left as Olympians
Updated 0703 GMT (1503 HKT) August 1, 2016
It's early morning in the Ngong Hills, on the edge of the Great Rift Valley, and a group of athletes huddle together in prayer in tracksuits and long pants. It's notoriously chilly this time of year.
The runners set off from their camp, a converted orphanage, at a modest pace, hopping over puddles and dodging boda boda bikes.
Ngong is a haven for Kenyan runners, the most storied middle-distance champions on the planet, and it's not unusual to bump into an Olympian on the dirt roads here.
But these runners are refugees. They have no flag or country. They fled war and famine -- overcoming enormous odds to be contenders for the world's biggest stage at the Rio Olympics.
Trafficked workers in India band together in hope of breaking ugly cycle
PATH TO PROGRESS
One group is making headway by helping former slaves demand enforcement of labor protection laws and social welfare entitlements that are often ignored.
Mahindar Vanvasi wasn’t thinking about running away when he and his wife first started work at a brick kiln near this sacred city in northern India four months ago. The owner had given them a 10,000-rupee advance, about $150, and promised a weekly allowance of 1,000 rupees. He said he’d pay them the rest at the end of the season. In return, they molded bricks for up to 18 hours a day, six days a week. It was hard work for little money, but nothing they hadn’t experienced before.
Then, after four weeks, the owner stopped paying them. Mr. Vanvasi complained to the kiln’s supervisor, who threatened to beat him if he mentioned it again. Vanvasi got the message. He quietly returned to work for another three months.
The final straw came when the owner refused to allow him to return to his home village to attend an annual Hindu festival. On the night of April 13, he escaped with a friend on a stolen bicycle. They rode four hours to their home village, where they sought help from a local activist and went into hiding.
NEW DOCUMENTARY PIERCES THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN SUICIDE BOMBERS
Murtaza Hussain
IN A SCENE FROM Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal’s new documentary Dugma: The Button, Abu Qaswara, a would-be suicide bomber, describes the sense of exhilaration he felt during an aborted suicide attack against a Syrian army checkpoint. “These were the happiest [moments] I’ve had in 32 years. If anyone had felt exactly what I felt at that moment, Muslims would want to go through the same feeling and non-Muslims would convert just to experience it,” he enthuses to the camera, visibly elated by his attempted self-immolation.
Abu Qaswara’s attack failed after his vehicle was blocked by obstacles on the road placed by the Syrian military. But speaking shortly after he returned from his mission, it was clear that his brush with death had filled him with euphoria. “It was a feeling more than you can imagine,” he says. “Something I cannot describe, it cannot be described.”
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